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  • It ends with a long and rebarbatively abstract epilogue, the tenth installment of a sequence of similar disquisitions on the 'Disintegration of Values' which sadly weaken the impact and hardly clarify the significance of the third part of the trilogy.

    Uttering the Unutterable Enright, D.J. 1966

  • Thus, all such groups are rebarbatively authoritarian, execrably violent, devoid of human empathy or emotions, suppressive, ostentatious, trenchant and often murderous.

    Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Samuel Vaknin

  • Thus, all such groups are rebarbatively authoritarian, execrably violent, devoid of human empathy or emotions, suppressive, ostentatious, trenchant and often murderous.

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  • But it’s such a famous play, the most famous play of all; and there are so many layers upon layers of critical interpretation wrapped around it, much of it rebarbatively difficult, that I don’t know where to start.

    Hamlet, advise Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • But it’s such a famous play, the most famous play of all; and there are so many layers upon layers of critical interpretation wrapped around it, much of it rebarbatively difficult, that I don’t know where to start.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

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