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Pat pat pat with the dishcloth.
Pat, pat, pat.
In large part it is what Jon Chait calls the "repetitive drone of elite sentiment", in which the usual suspects pat each other and themselves on the back, with never a skeptical question.
Until last week, the prevailing sentiment was that the ACC was best served by standing pat at 12 members — Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.
While I wholeheartedly endorse Viorst's circle-of-life sentiment, I find the tone of her book cloying and its dénouement pat.
Too pat.
So he's pat, pat, patting her.
PAT: Yes.
Right sentiment.
No sentiment?
It is pat.
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