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  • The taste of the sincere expresses itself more in blame of Tartufferie than in praise of virtue.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • The taste of the sincere expresses itself more in blame of Tartufferie than in praise of virtue.

    THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

  • Far better to be read by Texas redneck conservatives than the taffee Tartufferie of the "Left" in the Anglosphere state that seems destined to sink the most in the next year.

    Limited, Inc. 2008

  • Malcolm McDowell (also the star of A Clockwork Orange — another 60s-era movie that takes on the modern Tartufferie about violence) and his band of unhappy and ironical school-mates rise up against their sadistic boarding-school masters (you really can’t do better than England for representing sanctimony, self-satisfaction, and sadomasochism) and … shoot them … shoot them dead.

    R for Revolution Wolff, Michael 2006

  • Malcolm McDowell (also the star of A Clockwork Orange — another 60s-era movie that takes on the modern Tartufferie about violence) and his band of unhappy and ironical school-mates rise up against their sadistic boarding-school masters (you really can’t do better than England for representing sanctimony, self-satisfaction, and sadomasochism) and … shoot them … shoot them dead.

    R for Revolution Wolff, Michael 2006

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