palindromic?

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

Sophie Harrison, review of Peter Nadas's Fire and Knowledge, NYT Book
Review, 9/7/07, p. 19:

No one writes a palindromic phrase like Nadas.  On writing: "The
ideal literary sentence may be born of imagination or experience, but
it must gauge its imagination within its experience and its
experience within its imagination."

further examples follow -- of chiastic phrases, not palindromic
ones.  chiasmus and palindromes both involve reversals, but in
different ways.

it looks like harrison reached into her stock of technical terms and
pulled out a wrong (but semantically related) one.

arnold

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