Thanks to blogs and burgeoning user content platforms, ( "the pullulation of commentary," as MacDonald puts it), everyone today is a critic. From Wordnik.com. [Amateurism, the Internet and Literary Criticism: by Nigel Beale] Reference
To begin with, have you remarked that pullulation of new idioms used by Norpois which, exhausted by daily use — for really he is indefatigable and I believe the death of my Aunt Ville-parisis gave him a second youth — are immediately replaced by others that are in general use. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
The one chiefly noticed by contemporaries was the pullulation of new sects. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Reformation] Reference
The approaches to the monorail station were black with the ant-like pullulation of lower-caste activity. From Wordnik.com. [Brave New World]
By the time she was six, we were living in a catastrophe of cerise, a riot of rosiness, a pullulation of pinkness. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Physics cannot account for that minute motion and pullulation in the earth's crust of which human affairs are a portion. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
It must be admitted that this city, with its starved professional classes, its lavish governmental display, and its pullulation of an exploiting class, sometimes presents an unattractive appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V] Reference
Another glacial period or an overwhelming catastrophe of cosmic origin may fortunately, at some distant epoch, check the blind process of destruction of natural things and the insane pullulation of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
The extension of the old vessels seems rather a consequence than a cause of the germination, or pullulation, of these new ones; for the old vessels may be enlarged, and excited with unusual energy, without any production of new ones, as in the blush of shame or of anger. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
I like pullulation; everything ought to increase and multiply as hard as it can. ". From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
The identity furnished by this place is all the more symbolic (named) because, in spite of the inequality of its citizens’ positions and profits, there is only a pullulation of passer-by, a network of residences temporarily appropriated by pedestrian traffic, a shuffling among pretenses of the proper, a universe of rented spaces haunted by a nowhere or by dreamed-of places. From Wordnik.com. [spinhandspun designs] Reference
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