phrasemongering

In the words of a murderous phrasemongering tyrant, "Let a thousand flowers blossom."

Thoughts On Genre 2: On Litarary Fiction, As If There Could Be Any Other Kind Sean Craven 2009

In the words of a murderous phrasemongering tyrant, "Let a thousand flowers blossom."

Archive 2009-01-25 Sean Craven 2009

And this glorious and most human and most historical of poets, without whom our very conception of human development would have ever been imperfect, this manliest and truest and widest of romancers we neglect for some hothouse hybrid of psychological analysis, for the wretched imitators of Balzac and the jackanapes phrasemongering of some Osric of the day, who assures us that Scott is an absolute Philistine.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Various 1885

They mixed denunciations of the British colonial past and socialistic phrasemongering with the reactionary perspective of transforming the island into a Sinhala Buddhist state at the expense of the Tamil and Muslim minorities.

unknown title 2009