From Christopher Ricks’s 1964 review of Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media:
The style is a viscous fog.
From the 2003 MIT Press anthology The New Media Reader:
Christopher Ricks, in a typical reply, wrote that “the style is a vicious fog.”
From Google, 2014:
…and of course if you search for the original term the first link is now to this page.
…and of course if you search for the original term the first link is now to this page.
I wonder why? Because it is the newest occurrence on the Net?
It reflects Google’s aesthetic judgment on my own prose, I think.
Talkin’ ’bout degeneration…
Did you say This tile is a vicious dog?