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«The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.»
Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Educator)
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an episode, banishment, engaged, episode, episodes, reinstatement, variety
«Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent ''I',' the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
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an episode, bursting, burst forth, episode, episodes, episodic, germ, ironically, The Germ, tone of voice
«Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.»
«We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road»
Author: Johnny Mercer
(Composer, Lyricist)
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Ending
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an episode, episode, episodes
«Intense creative episodes are, in many instances, indistinguishable from hypomania»
«Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.»
Author: Madame de Stael
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an episode, episode, episodes, history, History of, The Whole Man
«The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
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Feelings
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an episode, at any cost, condensation, episode, episodes, intense, realistic, real person, series, sustain
«We made 16 episodes of Cracker and I loved doing the show, but unfortunately no one was watching us.»
«What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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accumulated, an episode, clearer, documentary, episode, episodes, imagined, selected, verisimilitude
«Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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adventures, an episode, at parties, episode, episodes, lodged, lodges, lodging, lump, lumped, lumps, obscure, standardized, Thirty two, Thirty Years, whatsoever
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