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Once in Caesar's camp, he is full of distress as good as self-castigation, vowing, "I'll not quarrel thee."
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Once in Caesar's camp, he is full of distress as good as self-castigation, vowing, "I'll not quarrel thee."
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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Instead of self-castigation while multitasking, I seek to discover a meditative state while ensconced in it.
Robyn Okrant: Multitasking and the Modern Woman Robyn Okrant 2010
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Instead of self-castigation while multitasking, I seek to discover a meditative state while ensconced in it.
Robyn Okrant: Multitasking and the Modern Woman Robyn Okrant 2010
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Instead of self-castigation while multitasking, I seek to discover a meditative state while ensconced in it.
Robyn Okrant: Multitasking and the Modern Woman Robyn Okrant 2010
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“But without my overtures, you could have showered and slept without all that self-castigation.”
Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010
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“But without my overtures, you could have showered and slept without all that self-castigation.”
Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010
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“But without my overtures, you could have showered and slept without all that self-castigation.”
Entice Me at Twilight Shayla Black 2010
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Golding's constant self-castigation seems hardly justified by the sporadic incidents of drunken abusiveness Carey records, or a few seamy sexual affairs in his youth, but this intelligent, elegantly written and deeply empathetic biography reminds us that the factual basis of a writer's neuroses is less important than the imaginative use he makes of them.
"William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies'," by John Carey Wendy Smith 2010
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Instead of self-castigation while multitasking, I seek to discover a meditative state while ensconced in it.
Robyn Okrant: Multitasking and the Modern Woman Robyn Okrant 2010
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