“’Do you know who I am?’ suggests self-preening, a public sort of dismissal”
“Do you know who I am?” suggests self-preening, a public sort of dismissal. It...
Tag Archives: Phrases
“In a world where the selfie has become our dominant art form, tautological phrases like ‘You do you’ and its tribe provide a philosophical scaffolding for our ever-evolving, ever more complicated narcissism”
You’ve…come across that expression’s siblings, like the defensive, arms-crossed “Haters gonna hate” or the...
“Something interesting happens when a word that suggests action is applied to beauty: It recasts beauty as something that can be done, pulled off — not just possessed”
It’s perhaps our first untroubled word for human beauty, free of the whiff of...
“Classify your antagonists as haters, however, and your flaws are absolved by their greater sin of envy”
Haters hate; that’s them doing them. No matter how saintly you are, the kittens...
“While the word “tautophrase” didn’t take off, the phenomenon it described blossomed, abetted by hip-hop”
While the word “tautophrase” didn’t take off, the phenomenon it described blossomed, abetted by...