The New York Times notes that this was an example of Lichtenstein's ability to "glorify the American woman by giving innocuous images of her generic concocted self and her roiling emotions such blazing formal power".
That self-regarding doctrine, concocted by Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle back when W. was still merely a presidential gleam in Karl Rove's eye, preaches preventive pre-emptive preternatural pre-eminence.
The dispute has taken on an especially bitter cast over the past two years, with the chairman of Swiss Re, Jacques E. Dubois, portraying Mr. Silverstein as a rapacious developer who concocted a "self-motivated hoax" in an attempt to grab an insurance windfall.
The whole thing, including the protests, was "strained, self-conscious, artificially contrived," and "concocted".
Marlene Wagman-Geller, a self-declared bibliophile, has, instead, concocted a grotesquely salacious mishmash of biographical rumour and speculation: lit crit from the school of Hello! magazine.
What a come-down for gadgetry, & how inspiring to our selves, that the space age, that concocted future of ours, should be compelled to find its safety in the same cushioned haven sought by sorrowing children, and happy ones, too.
With the help of a machinist, and using a formula he concocted for a stiff, self-lubricating plastic, Fenelon built a crude prototype of the gear and found that the torque required to push the window was half of what the old design required.
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There was the age of sumptuous self-indulgence: shampoos made of mink oil, soaps concocted from coconut, bath gels in multiple fragrances and hues.
This is where grand satire on the order of Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club" is needed; that was a novel whose cast of homicidal men concocted a testosterone-driven Newspeak out of self-mutilation, cancer support groups and, when necessary, explosives.
Entrepreneur, salesman and self-taught "mad chemist," he sold cleaning solvents he concocted himself.
