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I watched one as he got ready to leave and was struck by the fact that the usual bearing of White House personnel in these crisis call/dinner party situations-studiously serious, a tad self-important, unconcealably proud to be called to duty while the rest of us wallow in our meal, an ever so slightly perceptible swagger to the exiting stride from the party-all this was totally absent.
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The room was unconcealably poor: the little faded "relics," the high-stocked ancestral silhouettes, the steel-engravings after Raphael and Correggio, grouped in a vain attempt to hide the most obvious stains on the wall-paper, served only to accentuate the contrast of a past evidently diversified by foreign travel and the enjoyment of the arts.
The Rembrandt 1900
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It was bad enough to have no motor of her own, to be avowedly dependent on "lifts," openly and unconcealably in quest of them, and perpetually plotting to provoke their offer (she did so hate to be seen in a cab!) but to miss them, as often as not, because of the remoteness of her destination, emphasized the hateful sense of being "out of things."
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899
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If they avoided a question it was obviously, unconcealably because the question was disagreeable.
The Greater Inclination Edith Wharton 1899
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The room was unconcealably poor: the little faded "relics," the high-stocked ancestral silhouettes, the steel-engravings after Raphael and Correggio, grouped in a vain attempt to hide the most obvious stains on the wall-paper, served only to accentuate the contrast of a past evidently diversified by foreign travel and the enjoyment of the arts.
Crucial Instances Edith Wharton 1899
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