Whenever I read an essay by Conrad Black, I have to reach for my dictionary at least a half a dozen times! His most recent rant in the National Post ranks near or at the top of his worst bafflegab (or best depending on your point of view I suppose) ever published. Here’s a sampling:
“…….the deep, thick, serried ranks of militant scepticism……….Rome’s ghastly, tenebrous, saturnine magisterium………Germanic, authoritarian, sophistical, pompous, superstitious and curial…………a rag-tag of sacerdotal perverts.”
I like to learn a new word every day, but I get a headache after wading through Black’s incessant use of flowery language. His style is best reserved for academia of the PHD stratosphere. You would have thought that a couple years exposure to the “common man” would have knocked some sense into his cranium. Apparently it has only served to further distance him from the general population, prison or otherwise. What an elitist, pompous goof!
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