And that conviction of unworthiness was the deepest lesson I had been taught as a child, that I was the surrogate demon who was to act and sort of expurgate the demonic in my dad. |
It is as if Rockwell had an inner Mr. Hyde whose noirish vision his Dr. Jekyll was always having to expurgate. |
The one major error I have detected in Perkins' biography is the confident assertion that she would not have tried to expurgate every unflattering reference. |
If anything, the translation has managed to expurgate many of the careless clauses. |
Therefore the editor undertook to expurgate the epigrammatists, especially Catullus and Martial. |
One way to expurgate these frustrated dreams and fond notions is round the television. |