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Then there's the whole area of pride and/or shame in local identity, which can cause a speaker to speak either a flowery and overformal standard or an exaggerated and forcedly quaint local variety.
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Adams went east, young man, full of ambition, only to find his western photographs rejected as idealized, overformal, inhuman, and socially irrelevant.
Ansel Adams at 100 2002
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Adams went east, young man, full of ambition, only to find his western photographs rejected as idealized, overformal, inhuman, and socially irrelevant.
Ansel Adams at 100 2002
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