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and the consultant chimed in with her helpful exegesis: urban geometrics ...romantic florals ...timeless elegance ...flamboyant flash ...and even though I'd kept saying sure, that one's fine, that one too, I'd be happy with either, your decision Kits, the consultant kept showing us more and more settings, clearly hoping to wheedle some firmer show of preference from me, gently explaining to me the fine points of each, the vermeil here, the hand-painted borders there, until I had been forced to bite my tongue to keep from saying what I really thought: that despite the craftsmanship it made absolutely zero difference whether Kitsey chose the x pattern or the y pattern since as far as I was con† (source)
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The feminist exegesis argues if the Koran originally was progressive, then it should not be allowed to become an apologia for backwardness.† (source)
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The truth is, Alisande, these archaics are a little too simple; the vocabulary is too limited, and so, by consequence, descriptions suffer in the matter of variety; they run too much to level Saharas of fact, and not enough to picturesque detail; this throws about them a certain air of the monotonous; in fact the fights are all alike: a couple of people come together with great random —random is a good word, and so is exegesis, for that matter, and so is holocaust, and defalcation, and usufruct and a hundred others, but land!† (source)
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Ignoring me, Frank went on with his scholarly exegesis.† (source)
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Agreeing that horses were most interesting, I was treated to a detailed exegesis on the filly in the paddock, now standing drowsily at rest, tail twitching for the occasional fly.† (source)
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She wrote a straightforward story that requires no exegesis.†
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The talk is entitled From Exegesis to Exposition.†
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I was revved up to do an extended exegesis on the triumphant transformation of a great picture book to vivid movie life.† (source)
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There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.† (source)
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