Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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censorious

he could be captious, censorious, bullying

—p.329 Packing My Father-in-Law's Library (327) by James Wood
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mediated

a fairly familiar postmodern defence of poetry: We are all trapped in modes of inauthenticity, all of us mediated by discourses more powerful than the mere individual's

—p.325 Life's White Machine: Ben Lerner (320) by James Wood
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rictus

he is sure that he is not attractive enough for his surroundings, and thus 'sets' his face into an interesting rictus

—p.322 Life's White Machine: Ben Lerner (320) by James Wood
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fustian

It does a writer as talented as Hollinghurst few favours to be fossicking in fustian in this way

—p.309 English Muddle: Alan Hollinghurst (307) by James Wood
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fossick

It does a writer as talented as Hollinghurst few favours to be fossicking in fustian in this way

—p.309 English Muddle: Alan Hollinghurst (307) by James Wood
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