And, after uttering the witty bit of vranyo, Gogol repaired the social lie at once by concluding Nevsky Prospekt with the admonition: Oh, do not trust that Nevsky Prospekt! ... the devil himself lights the street lamps to show everything in false colors.

From his vantage point close to the ground, Ollie watched the chairlegs bend in a toony manner as they struggled […]

Eclectic and sophisticated are hence coded as negative traits–so cool equaling not so cool–putting Swift in seemed lockstep with the anti-intellectual sentiment that's led to the astonishing 21st-Century Bubbafication of the Republican Party.

In vain for Hellebore the patient cries / And fees the doctor; but too late is wise