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«My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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decline, English language, give and take, interviewed, interviewing, interviews, off-hand, offhand, opposition, oral, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, The Decline, the English, The Interview
«GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.Habeam, geographer of wide reknown, Native of Abu-Keber's ancient town, In passing thence along the river Zam To the adjacent village of Xelam, Bewildered by the multitude of roads, Got lost, lived long on migratory toads, Then from exposure miserably died, And grateful travelers bewailed their guide. --Henry Haukhorn»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ABU, adjacent, bewailed, bewildered, geographer, geographers, Henry, in passing, migratory, miserably, off-hand, offhand, roads, toads
«If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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despotic, divinities, enchain, enchained, enchains, end point, handedness, in play, maltreated, off-hand, one species, sacrificial, toys