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When I told him that many of us who cheer his plainspokenness on the Middle East decried him in the '70s, he laughed.
Her lyrical weakness--the plainspokenness that resonates in a protest song but can sink a ballad--is largely offset by her increasingly confident vocals.
Hugo's poem has a quiet majesty which steadily builds as the poem progresses; this is in part because he avails himself of simple declarative lines that have a solemn Biblical plainspokenness about them: Booz s'etait couche de fatigue accable; Il avait tout le jour travaille dans son aire; Puis avait fait son lit a sa place ordinaire; Booz dormait aupres des boisseaux pleins de ble.
 
 
 
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