conceptualist

idol type

dispatch massive forces

dispatch reinforcements

optimists

send one's representative (to)

unconventional and self-indulgent old-style intellectual

promoter of retrogression

cross over to the opposition

romances; novels characterized by cloying over use of mandarin ducks and butterflies to indicate loving couples, popular in China around the 1920s

school that advocates art for art's sake

commit crack troops to action

evangelical church

set a spy on sb