Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fagles made special effort in his translation to avoid the old-fashioned type of stilted, impenetrable rendering that forces the reader into saccadic conniptions in the search for a sentence's subject. With a smile he recognizes such age-old traps of translation in his book's postscript: "Not a line-by-line translation, my version of The Odyssey is, I hope, neither so literal in rendering Homer's language...
Ultimately, it is the "list-owner's responsibility, to [check] how the mail looks [before] it comes out" to avoid any errors, he said
...they are confined to the rooms members deem them fit to enter. It is no wonder that such a controlling environment gives club members confidence to make the kinds of overtures that would be seen elsewhere as inappropriate; Epps is right to advise women that the best way to avoid uncomfortable sexually-charged situations at club events is simply not to attend them. Still, he neglects to mention that the primary fault lies with the men who create such situations...
Such fast-paced exchange made good use of the actors' perfect comic timing. At one point, the two even changed personalities as they make conflicting attempts to further, or avoid, the conversation...
...partner in trade (China) and the authoritarian government the U.S. has not (Cuba). What complex axiom of foreign policy justifies this hypocrisy? Economic expedience perhaps, but certainly not moral conviction. The administration must explain the discrepancy between its two contrasting policies not just so that it can avoid the embarrassment of a hostile international community, but more importantly, because it is the promise of American democracy to aim higher than our neighbors' low criterion of convenience...