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... humanity itself are rigidly excluded from such discourse . It suggests that the human touch has no place in business ; that people who write and talk in the course of their duties must be as mechanized as a production line . It is ...
... humanity itself are rigidly excluded from such discourse . It suggests that the human touch has no place in business ; that people who write and talk in the course of their duties must be as mechanized as a production line . It is ...
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... humanity . " As every reader will realize if he thinks about it , the tides of the sea have some of the same ... human beings have searched for some underlying pattern or order in the universe , a process which impelled them to ...
... humanity . " As every reader will realize if he thinks about it , the tides of the sea have some of the same ... human beings have searched for some underlying pattern or order in the universe , a process which impelled them to ...
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... human shortcoming in ourselves , we shall constantly discover that the sweeping “ truths " which others express every day in print or in speech actually are not as all - embracing as they seem . There are comparatively few ...
... human shortcoming in ourselves , we shall constantly discover that the sweeping “ truths " which others express every day in print or in speech actually are not as all - embracing as they seem . There are comparatively few ...
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Denotation and Connotation | 1 |
Diction | 55 |
Other Determinants of Tone | 130 |
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