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This, if I may permit myself to indulge in a term that I suspect Wood doesn't have much use for, is a bit of a metacriticism -- because, as it happens, it perfectly captures the tone of many of Wood's judgments, which for all their intellectual earnestness can come across as slightly condescending.

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Thus, even though major genes for resistance to rusts in cereals may permit some sporulation (i.e. race-specific partial resistance), such is the restraint on pathogen reproduction and transmission that it is only in favourable circumstances that this is likely to be sufficient to result in a disease epidemic.

(Ho ho, if I may be permitted a bit of "black dialect").

Mr. Rich, if I may be permitted to say so, could have made his subsequent point without falling into that groove.

But insisting on a comma is, if I may be permitted to use a word that is not to be found in any dictionary, bonkeroony.

If I may be permitted a followup: Do you see a distinction between how we should approach the Taliban and how we should approach Al Qaeda?

"Love" — if I may be permitted to borrow the words of my recurrent hero, Winnie-the-Pooh — is a Good Hum, such as is Hummed Hopefully to Others.

And I also experienced it much closer to home -- if I may be permitted to say so -- since my wife had once lived not far away, on the Upper West Side...

But "if I may be permitted a personal view," he added, "the forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process.

"His Majesty faced the contingency, and entertained the suggestion as a possible one, but with natural and — if I may be permitted to say so — with legitimate reluctance," said Lord Crewe.

When Chick remarks on the resemblance between uncle and niece, noting a particular difference in the general area of the chest, Nicolas answers that, indeed, "she is more developed perpendicularly, if I may be permitted this precision".

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