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pleonasm
ease up on academic pleonasms, e.g., "employ" vs. "use", "explicate" vs. "explain",
this just felt like the author jerking off about feedback he had gotten
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so shit-scared of moralizing
[...] For her first grad seminar in American modernism [...] building a thesis from her marginalia in As I Lay Dying ("SUFFOCATING IN PERSPECTIVE"). Contemporary writers were so shit-scared of moralizing that they delegated to their poor characters the responsibility for conveying their philosoph…
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abjure
Abjuring friendship, Linda had plowed through the English major requirements in two years.
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sfumato
Like every day before, the weather was keen blue, dusty sunlight throwing a sfumato over everything.
if only the rest of the book had been written like this
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