Imperial loyalty often rests on sensibilities beyond their authors’ words

Evidence

Sometimes these sentiments depended on inchoate sensibilities, what Raymond Williams saw as beyond the semantic availability of their authors. They shaped what people were disposed to do, were inclined to believe, thought they could intuit, or could choose to ignore. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1369

Categorization

• XREF: Raymond Williams’ structures of feeling — connects to the book’s own genealogical commitment to joining structures of feeling with structures of force in paragraph 1368.