Sentences in review

"Over the past three decades, grosso modo discourses of militancy in AFNs in the US have been superseded by more circumspect, incrementalist narratives of change, better adapted to hegemonic notions of the market and consumer choice promulgated by the dominant neoliberal political economy."

Well duh.

[AFN = alternative food network]

[this sentence = let's see how it stacks up against this series of sentences]

Overall, I give it 1 star out of 5. Fearless syllable/word ratio, daring use of Italian ("roughly," I'm told by Webster), but not nearly enough acronyms.

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