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Akdom Posted 17 years ago
"The public has to be reduced to their proper state of apathy and obidience, and driven from the public arena, if democray is to survive in the appropriate sense, with the speicalized class, the cool observers, smart guys, technocratic and policy arena intellectuals doing our jobs in the intersts of the poepl who have real power."
"in the appropriate sense"
1. What does it mean? I can't grasp the meaning 100%. I'm guessing he meant: these people only want democracy to exist in the way which they, themselves, consider is right, fit, and appropriate. (I am aware this is said in an ironic tone.)
2. I found it appears in many scholarly, academic materials like the following provided examples, and I find them vague as well. So here is my question: can you teach me a "plain term" with which I can use interchangablely in similar context?
They are categorical, and consequently they describe actual events, in the appropriate sense of "event."
A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay. It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art. This is surely Huxley's best book.
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"in the appropriate sense"
"The public has to be reduced to their proper state of apathy and obidience, and driven from the public arena, if democray is to survive in the appropriate sense, with the speicalized class, the cool observers, smart guys, technocratic and policy arena intellectuals doing our jobs in the intersts of the poepl who have real power."
"in the appropriate sense"
1. What does it mean? I can't grasp the meaning 100%. I'm guessing he meant: these people only want democracy to exist in the way which they, themselves, consider is right, fit, and appropriate. (I am aware this is said in an ironic tone.)
2. I found it appears in many scholarly, academic materials like the following provided examples, and I find them vague as well. So here is my question: can you teach me a "plain term" with which I can use interchangablely in similar context?
They are categorical, and consequently they describe actual events, in the appropriate sense of "event."
A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay. It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art. This is surely Huxley's best book.
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), but 'in an/the appropriate sense' is not idiomatic-- it just highly collocates-- so it can be replaced with, for instance, 'in a fit manner', 'with a proper interpretation', etc.
- ), but 'in an/the appropriate sense' is not idiomatic-- it just highly collocates-- so it can be replaced with, for instance, 'in a fit manner', 'with a proper interpretation', etc.
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As you have noted, it can be used sincerely or ironically (as can most English comments!), but 'in an/the appropriate sense' is not idiomatic-- it just highly collocates-- so it can be replaced with, for instance, 'in a fit manner', 'with a proper interpretation', etc.
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