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Without sufficient eloquence, it’s a strategy likely to misfire into tendentiousness.

E. M. Forster’s classic Aspects of the Novel (1927) talks about this dimensional declension of characters from flat to round.

'Meretricious. That's the word I'd use, if asked.'

'Meretricious. That's the word I'd use, if asked.'

He is a man of about forty, Jewish, American, pleasant-looking, a bit of a paterfamilias.