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adj. - In the manner of the Irish poet and dramatist.

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  • And Raine really does have the Yeatsian skill of mythologising his own story against a no-less mythologised picture of his own times.
  • But if it doesn't, and a Yeatsian anarchy continues to be loosed upon the financial system, investors should expect some drastic responses from the government.
  • Still, regardless of your political persuasion, it's been hard to escape that Yeatsian "things falling apart" feeling over the last couple of years, hasn't it?
  • Also, interestingly, this is a very Yeatsian exercise: nobody was more into talking endlessly about how he thought the universe worked on a spiritual level than WB.
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