2. "The only word for this is 'transplendent'" — the Shelley Duvall character in "Annie Hall."
ADDED: This rhetoric is really a form of hyperbole. Surely there are other words... or what's a thesaurus for? I do think this device can be used well, but it can also be pretty silly. You can back yourself into a corner with a promise you can't keep, as in the perennially hilarious:
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I'll play. My one word for the current SCOTUS is "unsteady," despite CJ Roberts' single minded dedication to making the court appear steady and surefooted.
Justice Roberts: We are SCOTUS Bob-Omb and we are here to make Progressives think about words and get sad and stuff.
Electric.
Resplendent.
"Plastics"
Semantic.
Perhaps the world is transplendent enough for now and we need to tone it down a bit.
didactic.
If liberals held the majority, the NYT would use words like bold, daring, or brave.
The character’s name was Pam. And the word is “Cromulent”.
Constitutional.
Original
Oh geez, she died. Type 1 Diabetes. Altman's Three Women was one of the most prescient descriptions of the effect of feminism on non-elite women. I would watch it again but an hardly stand to. Those pre-made canned shrimp cocktails ...
Altman is the most understanding director of the effects of the so-called sexual revolution on women's lives.
Remedial.
Soviet Democratic = the only thing that comes to mind when I think of the Weed poison that is the NYT
A state or process of divergence from splendent.
The only word I have for this kind of stuff is "codswallop".
Juxtaposition.
The word I’d use to this emerging concise style of Althouse post. The import is implicit in the comparison, like the hypocrisy revealed in the “kneeling” one yesterday.
Don't call a 'transplendent' splendid. That would be deadnaming, which is the worst thing that you could do to a transplenedent person... short of killing them.
Radioactive. That's when a radio star asks for more money in the year 2025.
Divided.
Subtitles.
There is only one word to describe Althouse's list-of-2 type of post: dualistastic.
NYeT? Fishy.
Justice Roberts: We are SCOTUS Bob-Omb and we are here to make Progressives think about words and get sad and stuff.
i have Now Decided, that we NEED Envy Adams on the Supreme Court.. Or possibly Knives Chau
America is...
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
The whole point of America is that it can’t be described by a single word. I’m sure some would say ‘freedom’ but it depends what part of the country you live in.
Althouse's sunrise pictures are Mendotalitarian.
The added Biden clip takes the post out of Althouse’s dualistastic category, and puts it in droolistastic column.
its a perfectly cromulent word,
One word: Lame.
n.n said...
"America is...
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
Every time I see XPO Logistics rolling down the interstates, I sing, "supercalifragilisticXPOLogistics." Then the missus gives me the side eye.
Bird
I am reliably informed by the Beatles that the word is "love."
"One word? Why must we be so reductionist? I wrote 2,000 words, and you tell me to pick one.
I’ll say the word is “excuse.”"
NYT (free link) opinion page discussion about Kamala Harris' book because it opens with "I need a one-word reaction on what you two thought of the book." and I decided to share because it was on theme.
Covfefe?
when district lawyers refuse to read the law, much less enforce it, it all ends up at the Supremes,
baghdadbob said...
I am reliably informed by the Beatles that the word is "love."
9/30/25, 9:37 AM
And I've been told by ZZ Top that the word is "thunderbird".
"America is a nation that can be defined in a single word: IwasinthefootfootexcusemethefoothillsoftheHimalayaswithXiJinpingtravelingwithhimwe'vetraveled17,000mileswhenIwasvicepresident.”
They only word for that is "supercalifragelisticexpialidocious." Or maybe "trunalimunumaprzure."
Finished.
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