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James Wood
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Anna Karenina and characterization
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elegiac
(en)
relating to or characteristic of an elegy.
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Bellow is using detail not to persuade us of the existence of something but almost the opposite - to confirm its absence. Realism is elegiac, a branch of consciousness
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Bellow is using detail not to persuade us of the existence of something but almost the opposite - to confirm its absence. Realism is elegiac, a branch of consciousness
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sybaritic
(en)
fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent (derives from the Greek city Sybaris)
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his body: simple, broad, sybaritic, and rather too light-footed
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his body: simple, broad, sybaritic, and rather too light-footed
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ratiocination
(en)
(noun) the process of exact thinking; reasoning / (noun) a reasoned train of thought
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