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travesties 42 quirk 42 metanarrative 42 poignancy 42 parallels 42 mordantly 42 perversity 42 strangeness 42 complexities 42 conundrums 42 contradictory impulses 42 boneheadedness 42 perils 42 fascinations 42 deceits 42 dualities 42 poetic justice 42 legacies 42 aphorism 42 subplots 41 dubiousness 41 morality tales 41 corollaries 41 metaphors 41 simplicities 41 ponderousness 41 saddest 41 duplicities 41 symbolism 41 gobsmackingly 41 peccadillos 41 salient characteristic 41 paradoxical 41 unbearable lightness 41 factoid 41 dysfunctionalities 41 nefariousness 41 ghastliness 41 travails 41 overtones 41 timeless fable 41 pathos 41 eerie parallels 41 idiosyncrasies 41 triviality 41 trenchant 41 upshot 41 allegories 41 sentimental hogwash 41 poignance 41 unspeakably sad 41 happenstances 41 humor pathos 41 perversities 41 contradiction 41 poignant 41 improbabilities 41 discontents 41 disillusionments 41 corollary 40 Orwellian doublespeak 40 coinages 40 inconstancy 40 pointlessness 40 peculiarly 40 fascinating 40 bugaboos 40 hellishness 40 Inescapably 40 historical analogies 40 moments 40 darker undercurrents 40 clichés 40 peculiarities 40 aspect 40 soaringly 40 counterexample 40 undercurrents 40 mutual incomprehension 40 inherent contradictions 40 unfairnesses 40 immutable truths 40 sagas 40 inconvenient truth 40 joylessness 40 besetting sin 40 foolishness 40 downfalls 40 richly satisfying 40 quandaries 40 preoccupations 40 poignantly 40 endlessness 40 wry humor 40 upshots 40 inextricable link 40 uncanny parallels 40 counterexamples 40 realities 40 vicissitudes 40 unabashedly sentimental 40 perplexities 40 slyer 39 twists 39 revisionist histories 39 duplicity 39 tragicomic 39 fatuity 39 downsides 39 philosopher Hannah Arendt 39 pitfalls 39 subversiveness 39 perfidies 39 dilemma 39 cliches 39 Ali Rmeity 39 familial dysfunction 39 meta narrative 39 knee slapper 39 relative insignificance 39 doublethink 39 vexations 39 argues persuasively 39 ruefulness 39 analogies 39 machinations 39 convolutions 39 foible 39 famous aphorism 39 prose stylist 39 conflations 39 absurdist humor 39 amazements 39 facet 39 indirectness 39 anecdote 39 triumphs 39 astonishments 39 stupidities 39 bleakly funny 39 mendacity 39 intellectual vacuity 39 tragicomedy 39 human frailty 39 denouements 39 faint echoes 39 fallacy 39 contemporary resonances 39 hyperboles 39 watch prepone 39 ironic twist 39 insiderism 39 misnomers 39 inescapability 39 inexorable logic 39 wimpiness 39 mordant humor 39 biblical allusions 39 familial strife 39 trickeries 39 archaisms 38 satire 38 nuances 38 Brookhiser 38 preoccupation 38 sidedness 38 ham handedness 38 child's eye view 38 insubstantiality 38 memento mori 38 chroniclers 38 tragi comedy 38 strangely unsatisfying 38 revisionism 38 Sophoclean 38 dramatis personae 38 enigmas 38 improbability 38 socioeconomic inequality 38 conundrum 38 existential dread 38 triumphalist rhetoric 38 sheer nastiness 38 haphazardness 38 encomia 38 wrenchingly 38 disarmingly funny 38 mundanity 38 Kafka esque nightmare 38 racial undercurrents 38 horribleness 38 unseriousness 38 dishonesties 38 existential dilemma 38 simile 38 philo Semitism 38 hollowness 38 Faustian bargains 38 effluvia 38 Nixonland 38 pluses 38 déja vu 38 intellectual pretensions 38 speciousness 38 twist 38 mawkishly 38 ridiculousness 38 uncomfortable truths 38 grippingly 38 similarities 38 justly famous 38 self referentiality 38 paean 38 felicitous phrase 38 cavils 38 unspoken truths 38 stark realities 38 inescapable 38 intimations 38 disingenuousness 38 prevarications 38 elisions 38 malapropism 38 lowlights 38 predicament 38 clichs 38 unsolved mysteries 38 belabors 38 schadenfreude 38 cliché 38 defining characteristics 38 futilities 38 Plot twists 38 ludicrousness 38 Kilroy Was 38 overly moralistic 38 darker recesses 38 silliness 38 cruelest ironies 38 predicaments 38 shrewd observer 38 glaring contradictions 38 maddeningly unpredictable 38 virtues 38 felicities 38 momentousness 38 perfidy 38 discomfiting 38 heretical notion 37 lunacies 37 ephemerality 37 treacheries 37 universal truths 37 leitmotifs 37 platitude 37 threnody 37 bumblings 37 rhapsodies 37 smug complacency 37 disappointments 37 astute observer 37 dysfunctionality 37 poetic symmetry 37 limning 37 Tila Tequila cuz 37 conflation 37 tragedians 37 nuance 37 idiocy 37 historiographical 37 prodigality 37 unknowability 37 bon mot 37 foppery 37 evils 37 microcosm 37 self mythologising 37 anecdotage 37 unreality 37 grim realities 37 understatements 37 harsh realities 37 sturm und drang 37 inconvenient truths 37 venality 37 sheer strangeness 37 aspects 37 puzzlements 37 horrors 37 imbroglios 37 elision 37 dialectic 37 boringness 37 indignities 37 eccentricities 37 bitingly 37 polemic 37 Cherrie disappearance 37 illogicality 37 juxtapositions 37 tribulations 37 epiphanies 37 instructive 37 harsh realties 37 cringeworthy moments 37 everydayness 37 darkest eras 37 naiveté 37 artful dodging 37 mysteries 37 eminently readable 37 unimportance 37 cruelties 37 soupçon 37 Wildean 37 mischance 37 fascinatingly 37 hideousness 37 turnabouts 37 grimness 37 fictionalisation 37 strangest 37 Therein lay 37 boundlessness 37 soullessness 37 tenuousness 37 mythologizing 37 tidbit 37 maddening 37 fact 37 paeans 37 sidelight 37 precariousness 37 masterstrokes 37 problems besetting 37 inestimably 37 gallows humor 37 monstrousness 37 overarching themes 37 satires 37 mawkish sentimentality 37 Borgesian 37 complicating factor 37 novelist Margaret Drabble 37 intellectual snobbery 37 irreverent sarcastic 37 delightfulness 37 society doyenne 37 compellingly 37 ambivalence 37 flaws 37 incidental pleasures 37 poet Christina Rossetti 37 cultural homogeneity 37 caveat 37 tawdriness 37 recurring themes 37 irrationalities 37 acters 37 profundities 37 misgovernment 37 thing 37 existential musings 37 Anti Intellectualism 37 hallowing 37 intrigues 37 existential angst 37 thematic threads 37 naivete 36 Roiphe 36 stumblings 36 enfolds 36 simplemindedness 36 sheer pointlessness 36 achingly funny 36 quibbles 36 shortcomings 36 self delusion 36 apercus 36 tautologies 36 cluelessness 36 cri de coeur 36 therein lies 36 charlatanry 36 silver lining 36 morality tale 36 quiddity 36 misfortunes 36 naïvety 36 Rechy 36 muses 36 enduring legacies 36 misapprehensions 36 disquisition 36 Horatio Alger myth 36 epigraph 36 tragedies 36 grotesquerie 36 Blumner 36 closest approximation 36 myths 36 doubly ironic 36 Therein lies 36 http:/www.NewsAndOpinion.com 36 evocation 36 paradoxically 36 irreconcilable contradictions 36 interstices 36 subplot 36 inextricably entangled 36 fragility 36 excrescence 36 supposes 36 fawning adulation 36 strange coincidences 36 cultural signifiers 36 vicissitude 36 Youthful optimism 36 feelingly 36 imperatives 36 subtextual 36 woes besetting 36 besetting 36 wickedly satirical 36 lyrical prose 36 hagiographies 36 sly satire 36 Yiddish proverb 36 anecdotes 36 obsessions 36 nonissues 36 masterpiece Las Meninas 36 moral dilemmas 36 prose stylists 36 dark underbelly 36 ugly underbelly 36 incuriosity 36 epiphanic 36 psychodrama 36 authorial voice 36 begats 36 aperçu 36 salutary tale 36 sinister undertones 36 inarguably 36 unsentimental portrait 36 sentimentalism 36 frailties 36 Yedidyah 36 puniness 36 curmudgeonliness 36 implausibilities 36 gripping tale 36 scathingly funny 36 critic Kenneth Tynan 36 catchwords 36 vividly 36 ambivalences 36 elide 36 Horatio Alger tale 36 joyousness 36 inexorability 36 overdetermined 36 astutely observed 36 trenchant critique 36 fallibilities 36 Judy VonStein 36 subversions 36 fondest recollections 36 Contradictions 36 cautionary tale 36 cross culturalism 36 wonders 36 parables 36 inevitability 36 juxtapositioning 36 manoeuvrings 36 tsuris 36 pretzel logic 36 misty eyed nostalgia 36 Bushworld 36 Have witticism 36 ressentiment 36 Edmund Muskie Hubert Humphrey 36 roman clef 36 instructively 36 darkly ironic 36 ironic detachment 36 Yeats poem 36 biting satire 36 directorial flourishes 36 snobberies 36 worlds colliding 36 neatly encapsulates 36 Anti intellectualism 36 metier 36 meta ness 36 celebrification 36 aptly 36 morbidly fascinating 36 grandiloquence 36 swooningly 36 non sequitur 36 mirabile dictu 36 notable exception 36 absurdism 36 drearily familiar 36 Red herrings 36 dimmest bulb 36 incredulousness 36 cognitive dissonance 36 vivid illustration 36 insidiousness 36 hyperbole 36 pitfall 36 imponderable 36 coincidence 36 satirical wit 36 phantasms 36 disjuncture 36 drawbacks 36 benefactions 36 Utopianism 36 Bright Sided 36 drab dour 36 wryness 36 intersectionality 36 messiness 36 whoppers 36 dialectics 36 darker underbelly 36 perceptively 36 archetypally 36 repressiveness 36 murderousness 36 decidedly unfunny 36 hath wrought 36 limitlessness 36 capriciousness 36 naïvete 36 pithy observations 36 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 36 idiosyncrasy 36 triteness 36 ineptitudes 36 suffuses 36 utter hypocrisy 36 ultimately unsatisfying 36 ironically 36 unflinching portrayal 35 paraphrase Shakespeare 35 corrosively 35 populist demagoguery 35 engrossing tale 35 bittersweetness 35 muddle headedness 35 preposterousness 35 exhaustively documented 35 Hobbesian nightmare 35 quotable quote 35 deliciously ironic 35 homo eroticism 35 providential 35 daffiness 35 sheer absurdity 35 factoids 35 strange juxtapositions 35 apocryphal tales 35 frailities 35 philosophical musings 35 therein lays 35 quip 35 evocations 35 simplifiers 35 drollery 35 comeuppances 35 examples 35 banalities 35 mundane minutiae 35 inhumanity 35 shamefulness 35 Anglophilia 35 seemingly insoluble 35 evanescence 35 Ford Madox Ford 35 Carlo Gesualdo 35 miscomprehension 35 whited sepulcher 35 peccadillo 35 seamy underside 35 odd juxtapositions 35 Yiddishisms 35 detractions 35 complicities 35 movable feast 35 circularity 35 naive idealism 35 poetic prose 35 salutory 35 inelegance 35 sneering condescension 35 ruminations 35 Mordden 35 philosophical musing 35 Conradian 35 ideological zealotry 35 casuistry 35 diabolism 35 visceral revulsion 35 concision 35 sarcasm 35 denoument 35 bitterly resentful 35 axioms 35 amply illustrates 35 deliriously funny 35 Crony capitalism 35 uncanny similarities 35 incommensurability 35 rawest form 35 Shakespearian proportions 35 marvels 35 discomfiture 35 wistfulness 35 philosophizing 35 prefiguring 35 Unintended consequences 35 metaphysical musings 35 imperfection 35 glorifications 35 ghoulishness 35 sexual peccadilloes 35 glaring contradiction 35 claptrap 35 deceptions 35 salaciousness 35 scathingly 35 vacillations 35 Christine Gaugler head 35 serendipities 35 rhetorical sleight 35 Thereby hangs 35 elides 35 succinctly captures 35 imperial arrogance 35 sociological experiment 35 malaises 35 self interestedness 35 apt summation 35 seething discontent 35 Orwellian newspeak 35 annoyances 35 meta narratives 35 bitter internecine 35 minutiae 35 Obsidian Wings 35 materialism consumerism 35 Michael Herr Dispatches 35 myth 35 humourist 35 intractability 35 Nussimbaum 35 erudite playful 35 wry witty 35 grubbiness 35 blithe assumption 35 sophistries 35 undertones 35 darkly amusing 35 royalism 35 fictions 35 barrenness 35 acidly funny 35 midst 35 inconsequence 35 enlightenments 35 wincingly 35 toweringly 35 flourishes 35 resonances 35 mordant wit 35 nowhereland 35 deftly captures 35 Daniel Henninger 35 ironic juxtaposition 35 conflicting emotions 35 orotund 35 intriguing subplots 35 upmanship 35 oddest 35 peculiar 35 Isn t 35 plentitude 35 Homeric epic 35 inanities 35 pretensions 35 specter haunting 35 Gopnik 35 humorlessness 35 rhetorician 35 fictionalization 35 internecine wars 35 blackly 35 Abrahamic religion 35 dimwittedness 35 savage satire 35 bracingly honest 35 Racial inequality 35 similarites 35 ineffectuality 35 crudities 35 eerie similarities 35 moral quandaries 35 Absurdity 35 fable 35 inverted snobbery 35 memorable moments 35 columnist Maureen Dowd 35 endearing qualities 35 witticism 35 romanticism 35 Salil da 35 quoted Wang Xingang 35 quandary 35 desideratum 35 Some perennial puzzlers 35 pathetic fallacy 35 asininity 35 agonizing coda 35 eureka moments 35 mortifying moments 35 shameless hypocrisy 35 excursus 35 bitterness 35 Gary Younge 35 muckraking journalism 35 ominous foreshadowing 35 Nixon Agonistes 35 romantic fable 35 unkindest 35 Cusk 35 malignant narcissism 35 denouement 35 self pity 35 irritations 35 dispiritingly 35 clichÈ 35 Embarrassments 35 shapelessness 35 mischievousness 35 sheer chutzpah 35 nexis 35 depressingly 35 theirs Inciarte 35 inexactitude 35 fictionalizing 35 trenchantly 35 discordant notes 35 nostalgic yearning 35 paranoid conspiracy theories 35 wonkery 35 shortcoming 35 dopiness 35 audaciousness 35 weltanschauung 35 wretchedness 35 willful amnesia 35 satisfactions 35 callowness 35 credulously 35 Moral ambiguity 35 cliche 35 ingeniously 35 Crap Archivist brings 35 ordinariness 35 irrationality 35 internecine rivalries 35 sheer impossibility 35 fuckups 35 vaguest hint 35 idée fixe 35 turmoils 35 Oversimplifying 35 uncanniness 35 knowingness 35 Buy Charles Memminger 35 tendentiousness 35 flapdoodle 35 maundering 35 Geoffrey Wheatcroft 35 innkeeper sheltering refugees 35 sanctimony 35 sly humor 35 fickleness 35 delightfully wicked 35 jarring juxtapositions 35 Revisionist history 35 acerbically 34 simpleness 34 cloying sentimentality 34 illuminatingly 34 towering intellects 34 Continetti 34 stylistic influences 34 idiocracy 34 ingenuousness 34 paraphrase 34 blissfully unaffected 34 rumination 34 intertextual 34 arguably 34 feminist theorists 34 Religious fanaticism 34 crises afflicting 34 utter hopelessness 34 existential quandaries 34 pseudo intellectualism 34 Seinfeldian 34 conspiratorial theories 34 malapropisms 34 naïveté 34 Wieseltier 34 obfuscations 34 self deluding 34 facedness 34 interpenetration 34 snobbism 34 unfairness 34 emotional catharsis 34 briefness 34 apparent contradiction 34 shameless exploitation 34 bizarre twists 34 felicitously 34 journalistic malfeasance 34 injustice perpetrated 34 contrariness 34 sown distrust 34 hagiographical 34 lesser evilism 34 ungraspable 34 mordant 34 rediscoveries 34 challenges 34 shortsightedness 34 wishfulness 34 Gallows humor 34 unrealism 34 Bildungsroman 34 imperial splendor 34 galling 34 enmeshed 34 dualism 34 vaunting ambition 34 truth 34 satirist PJ O'Rourke 34 petty resentments 34 complication 34 inadequacies 34 vagaries 34 self recrimination 34 tropes 34 excruciatingly 34 writes movingly 34 ineffably sad 34 moral repugnance 34 ponderings 34 deadpan wit 34 homoerotic subtext 34 strange quirk 34 sidesplitting comedy 34 obscurities 34 indeterminacy 34 stupidity 34 goddamned 34 phantasmagoria 34 vapidness 34 blither 34 terrors 34 self referential jokes 34 ugliest chapters 34 screamingly funny 34 cantankerousness 34 evocative prose 34 euphemisms 34 scarcely conceivable 34 touchstones 34 fons et 34 internecine squabbling 34 reckonings 34 vibrantly alive 34 bombast 34 similarity 34 frankest 34 sentimentalist 34 Ten Cent Plague 34 imperial overstretch 34 post-#/# paranoia 34 post-#/# hysteria 34 implication 34 Quibbles 34 strangely endearing 34 poignantly captures 34 tidbits 34 saving grace 34 undeniably 34 genocidal anti Semitism 34 fecklessness 34 cock ups 34 statesman Edmund Burke 34 excitements 34 interesting sidelight 34 hubris 34 smoky aromas 34 awfulness 34 Shakespearean tragedy 34 stylistic tics 34 longueur 34 proximate causes 34 Lesser Evil 34 common denominator 34 illusional 34 acerbity 34 farces 34 apologists 34 ineffably 34 refreshingly devoid 34 postmodern pastiche 34 niceties