potboiler, impregnable, send up, Separation of powers. separation of church and state. riffing on an earlier speaker’s mention of Jacqueline Susann’s potboiler. with its enthusiastically self-pleasuring main character — “she said, ‘I think he’s very talented but I wouldn’t want to shake his hand.’”

“I want to remind people in the room who might not remember that ‘Valley of the Dolls’ was published in the same publishing season as Philip Roth’s ‘Portnoy’s Complaint,’” he said, riffing on an earlier speaker’s mention of Jacqueline Susann’s potboiler. “And when Jacqueline Susann was asked what she thought about Philip Roth’s great novel” — with its enthusiastically self-pleasuring main character — “she said, ‘I think he’s very talented but I wouldn’t want to shake his hand.’”

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The former vice president is expected to invoke the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause, which was intended to protect the separation of powers.

“The wall between state and church”, Justice Hugo Black wrote in Everson v Board of Education, a case from 1947, “must be kept high and impregnable”

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John Scalzi's new novel is a sci-fi send-up of the standard diplomacy potboiler.

"Separation of church and state" is a phrase used by Thomas Jefferson and others expressing an understanding of the intent and function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

The intent of this clause was to limit the power of the Federal Government in regard to religion thus ensuring freedom of religion in the United States of America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States

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Separation of powers refers to the division of a state's government into "branches", each with separate, independent powers and responsibilities, ...
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riff

/rɪf/

noun

1. a short repeated phrase in popular music and jazz, typically used as an introduction or refrain in a song.

   "a brilliant guitar riff"

verb

1. play riffs.

   "the other horns would be riffing behind him"

impregnable

ɪmˈprɛɡnəb(ə)l/

adjective

1. (of a fortified position) unable to be captured or broken into.

   "a massive and impregnable fortress"

   • unable to be defeated or overcome.

     "Liverpool used their good fortune to forge an impregnable lead"

   
   

potboiler
noun [C] DISAPPROVING 金めあての文学［美術］作品（を作る人）.
an artistic work, usually of low quality, that has been created quickly just to earn money:
Her most recent potboiler was one of last year's bestselling paperbacks.


send up
1. Put in prison, as in He'll be sent up for at least ten years. [Mid-1800s]
2. Cause to rise, as in The emissions sent up by that factory are clearly poisonous. [Late 1500s]
3. Satirize, make a parody of, as in This playwright has a genius for sending up suburban life. [First half of 1900s]
4. send up a trial balloon. See trial balloon. )

Foretelling a Flamboyant Future, but Rooted in Operatic Tradition
By BERNARD HOLLAND
This impregnable Puccini potboiler, dressed up in Anthony Minghella’s gorgeous pageantlike production, returned to the house on Monday.