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schlemiel

She was also a transcendent schlemiel.

—p.229 Bad Friday (219) by George Steiner
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approbatory

this young Jew of the French para-Marxist left came to make a series of approbatory comments on Hitler

—p.222 Bad Friday (219) by George Steiner
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via dolorosa

Thomas Nevin gives only a summary sketch of this via dolorosa.

—p.221 Bad Friday (219) by George Steiner
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recondite

the truly great scholar becomes as one with his material, however abstruse, however, recondite

—p.208 The Friend of a Friend (208) by George Steiner
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dowser

Like a dowser, he senses the significant deeps underneath the long-trodden surface.

—p.208 The Friend of a Friend (208) by George Steiner
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