Sometimes we come across writing that fills us with admiration. Here’s a sentence that grabbed me today. It’s by Maureen Dowd, in a dispatch from South by Southwest:
I needed someone like Toby to help me cut through the verbal clutter and Panglossian spin in a world where celebrities are “influencers,” people are “users,” news is “content,” “platforms” are not shoes, the “Deep Web” is no place for Charlotte, and virtual reality trumps plain old reality.