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Why did you choose two pompous, straight, white ultranerds for your subjects?
The inevitable old chestnuts are here-- infer/imply , appraise/ apprise , etc.--but most of the 250 or so entries in these 70-odd pages deal with matters of style, word selection, and the avoidance of pompous or meaningless clichés.
But the Starr quote cited doesn't seem particularly pompous.
(Chatterbox would prefer not to invoke the phrase "intellectual dishonesty," because it's pompous and falsely suggests that only intellectuals can be intellectually dishonest.
The other half of Washington finds the idea of Wise-Men-to-the-rescue pompous, patronizing, and undemocratic.