Meaning of sottisier | Babel Free

Definitions

A compilation of banal, hackneyed, or otherwise objectionable snippets of text from various authors.

uncommon

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Examples

“I had intended to provide⟳ the book derisively with an appendix, vermiform. Papa Flaubert compiled a sottisier, I also compiled a sottisier. I do not yield⟳ a jot in my belief that such compilations are useful, I concede that there may be no need⟳ of reprinting mine at this moment. At any rate the snippets are there on file⟳.”

“Frequently he brought his points home with topical allusions: timely newspaper clippings or public utterances, constituting a sort⟳ of sottisier or scrapbook of contemporary fatuities.”

“Suppose⟳ a serious literary critic were to write⟳ about Hollywood autobiographies: “Niven experiences life as an imprisoning reality of personal experience⟳, plus mythopoeic elements, a vast sottisier in the tradition of Jessel's This way, Miss⟳.[…]”

“The sottisier, which is a rich one, is drawn almost entirely from books and articles by French left-wing intellectuals about the Third World, mostly written during the sixties and seventies, but with some examples from the present⟳ decade.”

“In the Israeli press⟳, a constant feature is a sottisier of what the official Arab publications, including school textbooks, say⟳ about the eternal iniquity of the Jewish race⟳ and the holy necessity to eradicate it from the face⟳ of the Earth.”

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