locus classicus
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Origin of locus classicus
Latin: classical place
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Samuel R. Delany’s “Dhalgren” is perhaps the most famous recent example, but the locus classicus remains David Lindsay’s “A Voyage to Arcturus.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021
In 2003, as an actual politician, Johnson disavowed this insight into his behavior as a young man: “I think my essay remains the locus classicus of the English genre of bogus self-deprecation.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2019
The locus classicus of this method was a recording of a blunt call between State Department official Toria Nuland and the American ambassador to Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2016
Perhaps the locus classicus is the 1977 movie Looking for Mr Goodbar, written and directed by Richard Brooks.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2015
The expression “wisdom,” as it is employed in the locus classicus, Prov. viii., connotes the contents of the Divine reason—His conscious life, out of which created things emerge.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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