This week, a movie review in The New York Times astonished me with the assertion that a particular movie "packs profound gravitas". Somehow the expression does not carry conviction.
Then on Friday, a summary of a new book referred to "the enduring chill" that Biden loyalists cast over the Democratic Party. After thinking about this for a moment, I checked my copy of Flannery O'Connor's Collected Stories, and indeed "The Enduring Chill" is one. Did the writer use the expression from an old memory of the story? There is nothing in the story that at all bears on intimidation of a political party.
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