It possesses the rare quality of being

[Reading_Comprehensio]

It possesses the rare quality of being as it were interjected into the midst of antagonistic forces, which in turn implies a whole body of social and aesthetic structures whose innermost meaning must be the administration of energy.

What does the bold part in the above sentence suggest?

[Dozy]

“as it were” is an expression indicating that a word, phrase, description, etc. – in this case “interjected into the midst of antagonistic forces” – is used loosely or inexactly, e.g. to give an impression of meaning, rather than precisely or literally.