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[It] is so pious--especially in its impiety--so pleased with itself and so besotted with the sound of its own voice that even the tritest fancies get a free pass.
Static was a verbal alchemist, taking what could have been the tritest sentiments and handling them with the deftest touch, rendering them ephemeral with melody.
So much theological writing has been intent upon regaining intellectual respectability by rejecting rhetoric in order to be rigorous--or by lapsing into persuasion's tritest forms to reassure itself that it could still move people to tears.
 
 
 
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