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I am sorry to say that, though Arndt is no great poet and that his effort to stick to the rhyme scheme sometimes leads him to a certain farfetchedness, his version is, in general, much closer to Onegin than any of the others I have sampled and is likely to give the reader a better idea of what the poem sounds like in Russian than Nabokov's so tortured version.
The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov Wilson, Edmund 1965
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And that is where the film begins to lose its reason and common sense, and tangles itself into a web of farfetchedness:
Paste Magazine 2010
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The farfetchedness of this story, plus the fact that no local veterans’ organization, the VFW, or the American Legion had any record of a Peter Patrick Francis Walsh, did not deter Dominici.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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