collocation

“Regasification units are necessary in this context in Italy, but we believe that its collocation in a different place and in a different way would represent a much lighter burden for other communities than it is for us here.”

“Regasification units are necessary in this context in Italy, but we believe that its collocation in a different place and in a different way would represent a much lighter burden for other communities than it is for us here.”

The risk of these writers’ style, with their short chapters and darting insights, is randomness, and sometimes this book, whatever its thematic claims, seems to consist of what has come under the author’s eye, an arbitrary collocation.

The collocation of them is not unusual.

Seeing as “toxic” is Oxford Dictionary’s 2018 word of the year – its second most-frequent collocation is, of course, “toxic masculinity” – it makes sense that the year’s most thoughtful consideration of the subject can be found in Burning, the South Korean director Lee Chang-Dong’s psychological thriller that turns the love triangle of Jules and Jim on its head.