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She spoke decisively, sometimes even in a peremptory tone

Hers is extremely tragic poetry, not only in subject matter—this is not big news,especially in the Russian realm—but in her language, her prosody

Another advantage of those voiced intrusions is to provide a kind of beat or a caesura in the ongoing narrative.

Pound made his diachronic and intercultural world

Even though others had been breaking ground, I had a longer backward reach. After all, I had had a quarter of a century novitiate.