COMMENT 6

160. Etcing irony and poetic justice.

161 Provocative, yet stimulating .

162 The tone of the prose is lyrical ( might be set to music and sung .elegiac (poetry expressing sorrow for past events . Satirical m and narrative

163 Ludicrously artificial.

164 It is euphoric ( a feeling of well-being elation)

Pleasurable, but dispensable..

165. It is highly controversial, profoundly disturbing.

166 It is a cavalier (disdainful offhand lack of respect fir ) treatment of etc .

157 A convoluted (involved intricate, many folds ,) adulatory,

Excessive flattery, praise, )

158 Irritatingly thin, spare and etc, . as though X were giving us the least possible news omitting the real etc.

159 A rationalized ( cause something to -seem - reasonable) version of et,, gar fetched >

160 The tone is dry and urbane,( polite, finished, suave )

161. Parts of this etc. are tedious, far fetched and though weighed down with lengthy true , etc, ring to them etc.

162 For, example, X urges that etc. and sounds like a preacher etc.

163 The poems with little emotional content.

164. One minor cavil ( To raise trivial objections ) one may raise is the presence of etc etc.

165 It is written in a somewhat turgid (` excessively embellished. Bombastic, pompous, language )style.

166, The research is prodigious, ( extraordinary in bulk, enormous, unusual ) the tone is indignant ( as if insulted )

167 For all of its needless prolixity (verbosity long, drawn out, needless , extended, One-mindedness ) it is an acceptable explanation of etc.

168. A rather nauseating (sickening as with disgust ) account of the sordid ( dirty, filthy, wretched squalid, ) affairs of etc.

169 A pathetic ( sad, moving marked be sorrow) with a etc. narrative theme and some suspense .

170 A etc of intellectual poverty >

171 A scurrilous, ( vulgar, evil. As false charges, counter charges) acrimonious attack on etc.

172. A stogy, ( slow. Plodding, boring drab , dowdy old fashioned. ) , pedantic, ( academic. Bookish, learned ) and… irrelevant ,

173Sheer vituperation, ( berate severely scold abuse censure )

176 The plot is spare, precise on certain details, but vague on others. Altogether too gentle in tone,

177 Vague , ( not clearly expressed, not precise ) abstract, (difficult to understand, apart from ,fact ) and polemical (controversial, hostile dispute refure )

178’ It is disturbing, , at times irritating, but an enormously important work :

179 An error-ridden, skeletal discussion of etc.

180. Is irresponsibly written, , improbable and disturbing

181. Superficial, ill-founded without much basis in fact.