(Image source) olla podrida sententious gnomic Pirandello Only four things! Either I’ve gotten smarter since Finishing the Hat, or Sondheim has taken pity on his less-educated readers. I’m happy to know the word sententious now. To think I’ve been sententious AND gnomic all my life and didn’t have the right vocabulary with which to […]
A Partial List of Words and Phrases I Had to Look Up While Reading “Finishing the Hat” by Stephen Sondheim
(Image source) uxorious bathetic homiletic explication de mortuis nil nisi bonum compos mentis stultifying sine qua non exegesis interstices mise en scene superannuated This list could also be titled “Words I Look Up Every Six Months, Dagnabbit” or “Words One Never Uses as an Elementary School Teacher.” Can you use them all in one cohesive […]