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It is a very late entry in the long European tradition of the novel as a quasi-philosophical essay in disguise.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2019

After a bit of quasi-philosophical opening narration that recalls “Blood Simple,” Keating bounces between the mayhem out in the wilderness and flashbacks to what led the characters into Wyatt’s trap.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2016

Handey is best known as the writer and performer of “Deep Thoughts,” a series of quasi-philosophical cracked aphorisms that ran on “Saturday Night Live” from 1991 to 1998.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2013

And we had a quasi-philosophical argument about it.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2013

Here we have the quasi-philosophical theory, from which the patristic conception is derived.

From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by O'Brien, George