Just as industrial society was imagined as a well-functioning machine, instrumentarian society is imagined as a human simulation of machine learning systems: a confluent hive mind in which each element learns and operates in concert with every other element.

… Cynthia's shining orb was made / Heav'n to clear when day did close ….

The melodies are unaffected, almost stoic; there’s a kind of nonidiomatic breeze blowing through them.

The schoolboy unshouldered his backpack.