“... something Macri, Bullrich et al see as preferable to the continuation of Kirchnerismo. They may be betting that Milei’s need for their support will enable them to temper his more extreme ideas. Though Milei’s coalition, La Libertad Avanza, gained 34 congressional deputies and eight senate seats in the October elections, it remains far short of a ...”

“... than three or four million years. As Greenwalt puts it, ‘protein sequences from really deep time may occasionally make it into the pages of the New York Times, but they do not appear in textbooks.’It may not be possible to ‘de-extinct’ whole organisms, but researchers have been able to resurrect individual proteins ...”

“... out of oblivion.In Penelope Fitzgerald’s last novel, Offshore, the wide distribution of which may have had the fortuitous effect of sending up the price of de Morgan tiles, two rather forward little girls conspired to fish two out of Battersea Reach, when the tide was down and the afternoon sun level enough to cause them to glitter. They sold the ...”

“... the random Ethiope innately repulsive, unworthy of the bright jewel in his or her ear.This may not be the way the image has always worked in practice, however, given that Romeo and Juliet is a play in which dark night is the time of love, garish day the time of destructive violence. Juliet will soon be begging the fiery-footed steeds of the sun to ...”

“... and ‘coherence’ – are, in Thomas Kuhn’s sense, incommensurable. One marker may prize originality or inventiveness; another may be a stickler for accuracy. It’s largely a matter of temperament. More authoritarian personalities may be inclined to emphasise the ...”

“... response. To his ‘Hermaphrodite in show, in deed a monster,/As by thy words and works all men may conster,’ she shot back: ‘Hermaphrodite in sense, in art a monster,/As by your railing rhymes the world may conster.’ Scott-Baumann cites this exchange as proof that feminine rhyme was used when talking about gender ...”

“... while treating intellect as a barrier to faith. Ruth worries that, given her shortcomings, she may never marry. A brother can ask permission to begin correspondence with a baptised sister, but all ‘licit courtship’ is mediated by the elders. Since there are fewer men than women in the Brotherhood, the elders decide who will remain ...”

“... young girls, stupid cows or furry little animals. Living on a farm, he should know.Of course, he may spend his days at a word-processor while gleaming machines suck milk from the family’s dairy herd. But we are, I think, being asked to accept his rural credentials as some kind of authentication of the fictions. Further, there’s a sense that part of the ...”

“... world is clasped in their tenacious tendrils and covered with your verdant love. In the end you may even shed all sense of separate selfhood as you learn, with Spinoza or Hegel, that there is no true identity short of an all-encompassing God. Charity, it appears, begins in your own mind. We all started out, as Freud put it, with a cheerful ...”

“... expulsion orders, 25 registration orders and ten prohibition orders were made, and by the end of May 1940, a total of 167 expulsion orders had been made, statistics which ignore the substantial emigration of the Irish from Britain following the Act. Originally due to expire on 28 July 1941, it was kept in force until the end of that year under wartime powers ...”

“... lines, property. His pillow-talk with Anne Hathaway, Emilia Lanier or Mr W. H., interesting as it may have been, was not recorded. If you want to discuss Shakespeare, you have to depend on reading and seeing his work. Not so with Brecht. Not only did he write a great deal of commentary himself. All those who knew him well were impressed, and by now almost ...”

“... possess one’s soul in silence.’ She wrote this in the diary she began when she was 40, so it may be that her memory was coloured by the experiences of adult life. But when she was 17, William, on an expedition in Brazil, sent his love to Henry and Alice and asked: ‘Does the latter continue to wish she was dead?’ It ...”

“... a bottom-up view of human society depicted through a representative socially low figure. Then you may think: aw, come off it. Read what it says on the label and stop being so darned clever: you can’t take the pastor out of pastoral without collapsing it into all things.Empson’s belief in the plurality of diverse elements within texts and within societies ...”

“... does not argue for a return to the old English system; he accepts that ‘two-sided partisanship may indeed have been better than one-sided partisanship’; but he advocates a resumption of the search for the truth – whatever that signifies – by means of a modern inquisitorial system. The suggestion that modern inquisitorial procedures are superior to ...”

“... of social benefit with the minimum of economic disturbance.’ The carefully balanced antitheses may come over a little too rhetorically now, but they encapsulate exactly what many in the Labour Party would have agreed that they had in mind. The third principle was the protection of the legitimate interests of organised labour in the face of the traditional ...”