How To Use persiflage In A Sentence
- 'persiflage'; for silent gesticulations, which you would be most inclined to, would not be sufficient: something must be said, but that something, when analyzed, must amount to nothing. Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
- These are the sort of longings lying semidormant in the heart of a man busy in the stratagems and persiflage of the art market. Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books
- The valve that kept us free of metaphysical persiflage, kept us sane and focused on what was really important in life. DEAD LINES
- Jeering at the White Logic, I go out to join my guests at table, and with assumed seriousness to discuss the current magazines and the silly doings of the world's day, whipping every trick and ruse of controversy through all the paces of paradox and persiflage. Chapter 37
- All clearly intended to be repellent, and, sadly, achieving its aim, in what seemed -- as it was meant to be -- an endless barrage of persiflage, bad poetry, and egotism, in which I, like the character played with immaculate restraint by David Hyde Pierce, cringed and prayed for flight. Gwen Davis: La Bete
- It is a note of ironic persiflage which is plainly indicated to the reader. The Youth of Goethe
- These two words connote at once a corporeal indwelling of the Divine (a Divine madness which is necessary for the making of sagacious, artistic utterance), and an empty, arrogant persiflage (as in being puffed up, or ‘blowing hot air’).
- He was not one to mince matters, nor did he wrap up inconvenient topics in persiflage.
- Fabulous diction, excellent vocabulary, I'm inspired to add "propitious" and "persiflage" into my daily rhetoric. Easter Away!
- When they look at academic discourse they see only persiflage: fancy words, convoluted syntax, and the pretentious invocation of authority.