Both Uses of
sufficient
in
Crediting Poetry by Seamus Heaney
- So, partly as a result of having internalized these attitudes through growing up with them, and partly as a result of growing a skin to protect myself against them, I went for years half-avoiding and half- resisting the opulence and extensiveness of poets as different as Wallace Stevens and Rainer Maria Rilke; crediting insufficiently the crystalline inwardness of Emily Dickinson, all those forked lightnings and fissures of association; and missing the visionary strangeness of Eliot.†
- Attending insufficiently to the diamond absolutes, among which must be counted the sufficiency of that which is absolutely imagined.†
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Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)