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abnegation
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

he seems, self-abnegatingly, to want to taste the sweat on the meat, as a salty political reminder.

on Orwell talking about chefs touching the steak being served to the patrons

—p.217 George Orwell's Very English Revolution (204) by James Wood
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bucolic

the old bucolic town of Lower Binfield has unattractively expanded after the First World War and has 'spread like gravy over a tablecloth'.

—p.213 George Orwell's Very English Revolution (204) by James Wood
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pugilistic

His nicely pugilistic essay on Tolstoy's hatred of King Lear

—p.208 George Orwell's Very English Revolution (204) by James Wood
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hermeneutic

all these improbabilities have been neatly made sense of, have been made hermeneutically legible

—p.186 Containment: Trauma and Manipulation in Ian McEwan (180) by James Wood
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abnegation

The priests I knew practised self-abnegation but perfected a quiet dance of ego.

—p.160 Marilynne Robinson (160) by James Wood
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