He denounced puritanism, which he defined as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy".
He called haiku "pops," which he defined as "short 3-line pomes".
One reader (@JamesElliott8) proposed "aibohphobia," which he defined as the fear of palindromes.
He wanted an end to capitalism, which he defined as a money value system alone, without people's values included.
In a subtle re-branding exercise he declared instead for "liberal internationalism", which he defined in the following way.
He called his religious beliefs "cosmist," which he defined as believing in God's love permeating the whole universe.
Mr. Whitman emphasized that any securities he buys must also be safe, which he defined as "financially strong".
He helped to create the Moral Majority, which he defined as "pro-life, pro-family, pro-morality and pro-American".
His writings include the first "Surrealist Manifesto" ("Manifeste du surréalisme") of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
Ryan dismissed Nehlen's support as coming from "this alt-right crowd," which he defined as a bloc that is separate from the conservative Republican mainstream.
His art, which he defined as the capacity to make readers hear, feel and see, was able to capture the contradictions within empires and the resistance to them.
