Many philosophers blenched at the idea even of educating, let alone empowering, the common people. |
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But even Melville might have blenched at Browning's final exordium. |
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When I mentioned idly to my publicist recently that I'd kept a journal from age 12, she asked if I'd like that archive accessed posthumously, and I blenched. |
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He never could abide Brillat-Savarin and the panoply of theory around simple issues of hunger and pleasure erected by the French in the 19th century, and blenched at pretension. |
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This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. |
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