Out of this lifeless mass has already grown an
excrescent power, which tends to realize all the dangers that can be apprehended from a defective construction of the supreme government of the Union.
("Deceit" outputs from an ingeniously creative reading by John of my 1977 text "What Lingers On (, when the Song is Ended".) But I think this is another
excrescent virtualizing device, a symptom of the core recognition/cognition problem: is identity contingent on identification?
(Among his other accomplishments is the assemblage of an "
excrescent" collection of Hawaiian leisure shirts, according to the OpenCola Web site.)
The basic tenet was that the servicing of the building should be part of and contribute to the design of the building rather than comprising
excrescent accessories that detract from it.
Doran's staging was elegantly uncluttered with excessive movement or
excrescent business.
For example, in Bugau [mandok] 'roast (chicken)' but [manok] 'chicken'; whereas in Mualang [manok] 'roast (a chicken)', without the phonetic realization of the stop/d/, contrasts with [mano[eta]k] 'chicken' marked by the presence of nasalization and an
excrescent nasal consonant before final k.
Even more than Wells, Disch stresses the total indifference of the aliens to the monuments of human civilization,
excrescent 'artifacts' they are capable of wiping away as casually as a farmer uproots weeds; as one character bitterly muses:
There's an additional gripe, that the very details that make a building come alive for the casual visitor - the historical connections, the people who lived there, its use and contents - are matters of
excrescent irrelevance to Pevsner.
Oddity is no part of solid artistic development; however beautiful or impressive, it is rather an
excrescent outgrowth, bound to prove abortive, and at the same time to sap life from the parent stock which without it might grow more loftily and strongly.
Yet in fact that Latin phrase, its own reflexivity foiled by an
excrescent "n," manifests in Horse Latitudes a problem with language that is also a problem in war and in love: embeddedness.
He became so weak that he had to be carried behind on a stretcher, and died a few days later, just as the expedition entered the Tibetan village of Kampa Dzong, where the team caught their first sight of Everest ('A prodigious white fang
excrescent from the jaw of the world,' Mallory wrote).
