Both Uses of
extricate
in
The Magic Mountain
- Or, as Herr Settembrini would have expressed it with belletristic delicacy, what a "wag"—reckless, even brazen, when dealing with personalities, but just as clever at extricating himself when he must.†
Chpt 7.3extricating = freeing or removing from constraint or difficulty
- That inner state was strong within him, too; he was not the man— not he, either—to extricate himself from it.†
Chpt 7.9 *extricate = free or remove from constraint or difficulty