The 150 year sentence for Super-Con-Artist Bernard Madoff is a wonderful example of HYPERBOLE (obvious exaggeration) because the 71 year old financier is unlikely to live long enough to serve more than a small fraction of that sentence. This draconian sentence certainly sends a message about the court’s reaction to his MERCENARY (motivated by [...]
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One of my friends on facebook recently commented on an article which then led me to explore a new website: visualthesaurus.com - check it out! One of my all-time favorite essays, George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language,” was just mentioned by Scott Horton (columnist & lawyer) on NPR in a discussion of the current torture controversy. Horton was focusing on the insidious misuse of language to obscure or equivocate. Anyone interested in the political power of language should read [...] |
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