Day 1,582: inflection, wrangling

On October 20th President Joe Biden called this “an inflection point”.

Look, for example, at Turkey’s games over Sweden’s membership of nato, seemingly resolved this week after 17 months of tiresome wrangling.

American power: indispensable or ineffective?

Artwork of the day 
Expulsion of the Money-changers
Giotto
Original Title: Cacciata dei cambiavalute
Date: c.1304 - c.1306
Style: Proto Renaissance
Series: Scenes from the Life of Christ
Genre: religious painting
Media: fresco
Location: Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua, Italy
Dimensions: 200 x 185 cm

Word of the day 
inflection: a change in or addition to the form of a word that shows a change in the way it is used in sentences 
wrangling: arguments, especially ones that continue for a long time 

Quote of the day
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendos
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”
― Wallace Stevens