That is very important, because if he does not define them he is just dealing in a lot of persiflage.
Everything that has been said except persiflage will be reported on and considered.
Tribuson is equally skilled in the application of postmodernist techniques: persiflage, quotes, intertextuality, autoreference, metatextuality etc.
He went straight into the attack and talked about the whole of the retirement pension without any persiflage.
All that has been said about the old-age pensioners was just airy persiflage.
Was it an act of negligence by the parliamentary draftsmen to put in mere verbiage and persiflage — something wholly unnecessary and meaningless?
It is not a matter for persiflage.
This is a bit of persiflage, a bit of camouflage.
