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  • Mr. Hawkes is a particularly unspiteful Trofimov, who simply observes that progress is inevitable, rather than glorying in what it will do to the family, and Ms. Hall is a businesslike Varya-without-tears.

    Disposable Fashion as Permanent Art 2009

  • But it always comes back -- the memory of his innumerable acts of kindness, of his efficiency, of his unspiteful tongue.

    The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1906

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