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Defamiliarization and sarcastic humor in Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Most famous for roles they didn't like: Christopher Plummer and Alec Guinness

"Bear alone the weary strife": Charlotte Brontë and the loss of her siblings to tuberculosis

"I don’t even know what it is": Kevin McCarthy's rhetoric of ignorance

Outwards is coming! Old-fashioned German terms for seasons

Mitch McConnell obfuscating President Trump's agency in the Senate on 9 November 2020