All 3 Uses of
sufficient
in
The Screwtape Letters
- As the uneasiness and his reluctance to face it cut him off more and more from all real happiness, and as habit renders the pleasures of vanity and excitement and flippancy at once less pleasant and harder to forgo (for that is what habit fortunately does to a pleasure) you will find that anything or nothing is sufficient to attract his wandering attention.†
Chpt 12sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- In other words let him consider himself sufficiently identified with the women and children to feel hatred on their behalf, but not sufficiently identified to regard their enemies as his own and therefore proper objects of forgiveness.†
Chpt 29 *sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- In other words let him consider himself sufficiently identified with the women and children to feel hatred on their behalf, but not sufficiently identified to regard their enemies as his own and therefore proper objects of forgiveness.†
Chpt 29