Listening to this dismissal of his work, [Tennessee] Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay.”

Synchronically, we are dealing here with the simultaneous multilingual interplay of polynymy (involving several similar forms) and polysemy (involving several connected meanings).

The reformulation of the problematic of political theology in the form of stasiology is significant, for it points to the severing of the political from the question of the state, or the loss of the state's monopoly on the political.

Soon we arrived at the Beijing Hotel—within shouting distance of the now infamous Tienanmen Square.