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... person of spurious intellectual pretensions , often a professor or the protégé of a professor . Fundamentally superficial . Over - emotional and feminine in reactions to any problem . Supercilious and surfeited with conceit and contempt ...
... person of spurious intellectual pretensions , often a professor or the protégé of a professor . Fundamentally superficial . Over - emotional and feminine in reactions to any problem . Supercilious and surfeited with conceit and contempt ...
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... person who in all innocence and ignorance - speaks of " a media like television . " His education evidently has not ... person's educational back- ground . Another , equally important , clue is vocabulary . The writer or speaker who uses ...
... person who in all innocence and ignorance - speaks of " a media like television . " His education evidently has not ... person's educational back- ground . Another , equally important , clue is vocabulary . The writer or speaker who uses ...
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... person . Connotations also reveal the writer's or speaker's own judgment , often without his knowledge or desire . This is one of the most valuable phases of intelligent reading the analysis of a person's language to discover evidence ...
... person . Connotations also reveal the writer's or speaker's own judgment , often without his knowledge or desire . This is one of the most valuable phases of intelligent reading the analysis of a person's language to discover evidence ...
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