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This work was Parkes' magisterial Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West , a book that at last stripped the cloak of anonymity from the important work of commas, periods, dashes, colons, semicolons, and countless other full- and part-time functionaries.
Almost magisterial, almost artistic, is the way this sentence begins to go haywire with the words "the miniseries of which"--and yet not.
His ministry's motto was: "É conomie et culture--même combat ." So he launched what historian Marc Fumaroli, in his magisterial L'État Culturel, calls "a strategy of opinion intoxication."
The Weekly Standard 's John Podhoretz compares Horowitz's conversion to conservatism to Whittaker Chambers' magisterial tale of apostasy, Witness . Leftists dismiss the book as score-settling and name-calling.
Robert W. Burchfield, the longtime editor of the Oxford English Dictionary , treats the phrase with magisterial derision in The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (1996)--he dismisses it as "one of the ignoble clichés introduced into the language in the 20c.
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