Thanks for that nascent input deconstructing Pitt's overweening style. His mixed metaphors, while seeking to cement their ascendancy, do after a fashion collapse under their own weight. Redundant and repetitive noun and/or verb combines all the while are allowed to flower and flourish. There are cracks in the underpinnings of whole swaths of the veneer with each passing paragraph. The line of demarcation has been crossed, on an epic scale. Under the banner of "academic prose," a banner unfurled to mesmerize the DUmmie populace, this avatar of bloviation has attached himself umbilically to a college-sophomore style of writing that has long been the sharp saber piercing the eye of every term-paper reader across the width and breadth of the footholds and strongholds of academia. Pitt's turgid history is written in goo. DUmmies always embarrass themselves. Always.
What a perfectly delightful description!