Both Uses
impartial
in
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
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- To begin with, his examination of KING LEAR is not "impartial", as he twice claims.†
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- It is obvious that when you are summarizing KING LEAR for the benefit of someone who has not read it, you are not really being impartial if you introduce an important speech (Lear's speech when Cordelia is dead in his arms) in this manner: "Again begin Lear's awful ravings, at which one feels ashamed, as at unsuccessful jokes."†
Definitions:
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(1)
(impartial) without favoritism or bias
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)