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  • Today "That Championship Season," which is now being revived on Broadway for the first time, looks like what it is, a quasipolitical cartoon whose smugness stinks like dime-store perfume.

    Men Dating Themselves Terry Teachout 2011

  • The Journal's Global View columnist, Bret Stephens, found Michael Young's "The Ghosts of Martyrs Square" a "luminous" book shedding light on the past five y ears in Lebanon, when the country's fortunes have been held captive by the quasipolitical terrorist organization Hezbollah.

    Year in Reviews: Books Our Critics Loved Mark Lasswell 2010

  • Investors well aware of Gazprom's quasipolitical profile might shrug, pointing to the sheer size of its energy reserves and existing dominance of Europe's natural-gas supply.

    Gazprom's Weakness: Burning Through Cash 2009

  • Lately market strategists have had to become quasipolitical scientists.

    Help Wanted: 2009

  • Much of this fervent anthropomorphism may be traced to the Hegelianism of Feuerbach and others whom nihilists like Turgeniev had studied in Germany; some of it was elaborated upon a quasipolitical basis, as if God were a sort of Czar.

    Dostoievsky's Mystical Terror 1918

  • However, there is a person where I work who has repeatedly lied about having been in a relationship with me for the quasipolitical street-cred of having dated a trans woman, uses that supposed history to get herself, as a straight woman, status in the queer community, and–this is the part that doesn’t neatly translate over–publically outs me, despite my requests to the contrary and risks to my job, every time she does this.

    The Non-Trans Privilege Checklist 2006

  • An immigration service, there was even a quasipolitical philosophical theory that went with it, one of Carlstein’s.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • An immigration service, there was even a quasipolitical philosophical theory that went with it, one of Carlstein’s.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

  • An immigration service, there was even a quasipolitical philosophical theory that went with it, one of Carlstein’s.

    Walls of Silence Philip Jolowicz 2002

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