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Swiftian

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Swiftian [ˈswɪftɪən]
adj
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) of, relating to, or reminiscent of Jonathan Swift, the Anglo-Irish satirist and churchman (1667-1745)


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At this point the body of evidence drawn from research into positivity and happiness is too vast, too long-standing, and too persuasive to be dismissed with a Swiftian savaging.
There is nothing ordinary about this unreflecting moment; the man, Tom Brodzinski, is holidaying with his family in a distant, unnamed country which conflates aspects of Australia and present-day Iraq into a Swiftian land, alien in ways Tom could not have imagined.
EILEEN BATTERS BY, IRIS H TIMES, 4/14/01 "Anyone familiar with the area of India known to Narayan and his readers as Malgudi will recognise it as a sort of Swiftian flying island, landing and folding itself into the landscape of the Chelsea Hotel, New York, as into Mysore and Madras.
 
 
 
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