29 June 2015

• Prodigious: Extra ordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force etc. 
• The book, at once complex and endlessly available for revisits, allows the mind to achieve an act of prodigious control. (Tim Parks- Paris Review) 
• Thrall: A person who is morally or mentally enslaved by some power, influence, or the like
• Rather than submitting ourselves to a stream of information, in thrall to each precarious moment of a single reading, we can gradually come to possess, indeed memorize, the work outside time. (Tim Parks- Paris Review)
• Piketty, who separated from the mother of his daughters some years ago and recently married Julia Cage, a 31-year-old French economist whom he met at the Paris School of Economics, is not in thrall to money. (Anne-Sylvaine Chassany-FT) 
• Tenet: Any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma etc. especially one held true by members of a profession, group, or movement
• Data is another key tenet of what's make our decision making so successful. (John Kaplan in McKinsey & Company)