herostratically

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of herostratically.
   alt-of
2. To an extent that attains infamy; infamously.
   not-comparable
3. In a manner using any means necessary.
   not-comparable

Examples

“It is precisely the same mode of thought, as lay⟳ behind Germany's herostratically notorious act of war when she marched through Belgium for the reason⟳, as she said, that France had planned to march⟳ through it if she did not.”

“This is just another piece of common sense⟳ about philosophy, the one to which the pragmatists herostratically sacrificed everything else.”

“The directions followed by the apologists for modern monopoly capitalism are quite varied. An important place⟳ therein is occupied by the so-called theory of “democratization of capital.” This theory is by no means a new one. It was advanced by the revisionists at the very dawn of imperialism. Its most complete⟳ presentation was that of E[duard] Bernstein in his Herostratically notorious prerequisites for socialism, as V[ladimir] I[lyich] Lenin called them.”

“What else does [David] Salle do in his parasitism of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, or similarly, does Julian Schnabel in his of Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys, but declare⟳ their supermanneristic Herostratism? Their punishment is that they know⟳ their art is not as heroic – as much of a “breakthrough” – as that of the artists they Herostratically appropriate.”

“He saw⟳ him on TV. The policeman. Harry Hole. Hole was being interviewed because he had hunted down a serial killer in Australia. And Mathias was reminded of Gert Rafto’s advice: ‘Not on my beat⟳.’ He also recalled, however, the satisfaction of having taken the life of the hunter. The feeling of supremacy. The feeling of power. Nothing later had quite compared with the murder⟳ of the police officer. And this Herostratically famous Hole appeared to have⟳ something of Rafto about him, some of the same offhandedness and anger.”

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