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Or the New York Times’s Ezra Klein, that harbinger of the obvious becoming sayable to liberals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The problem isn’t that all this isn’t true; it’s that these and many other “insights” into music and culture are not only sayable but have been said, very often and more persuasively.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2020
With seemingly the entire state on high alert, literally waiting to see which way the wind would blow, the idea of the California Dream felt utterly exhausted, ironic, sayable only between air quotes.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
There is not only courage in refusing the very idea of forbidden statements, but also a radical brilliance in saying what you have been told not to say in order to make it sayable.
From Slate ● May 6, 2015
Everything sayable had been said times out of number.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.
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