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pugilistic
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

this pugilistic confidence is surely misplaced

never really knew what this word meant even though I've definitely seen it before

—p.82 Edmund Wilson (64) by James Wood
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expiate

his passionate and expiatory nature

quoting Edmund Wilson

—p.80 Edmund Wilson (64) missing author
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dappled

leave them in a dapple of ambiguity rather than drag them out into any prematurely decisive light of judgment

beautiful

—p.80 Edmund Wilson (64) by James Wood
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approbatory

I am guilty of its every stricture and I take an extraordinary delight in its considered approbation

quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald

—p.74 Edmund Wilson (64) by James Wood
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Stéphane Mallarmé

this would enable him to trace a line from the aestheticism of Mallarmé and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam to Proust

—p.74 Edmund Wilson (64) by James Wood
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