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The contrast is presumably deliberate, to emphasize the gap between tender fantasy and harsh reality.
"This presumably deliberate massing of Communist effort" has forced the government to accept recommendations that henceforth all departments dealing with secret matters can refuse to negotiate or even talk to suspected Communists.
During my time in Belfast, half a dozen people quoted that line to me, noting the presumably deliberate echo of Adams's famous 1995 quote about the I.R.A. Storey "didn't mean Sinn Fein hadn't gone away," McIntyre said.
So if the piece itself registered as bitty – a sequence of diverse individual episodes without much sense of a larger picture – that was presumably deliberate, though there were certainly moments of striking character, colour and texture along the way, with sudden bursts of manic activity offset by moments of uneasy stasis – though rarely of calm.
Otherwise, Lineker's opening link was limited to a presumably deliberate cricketing mixed metaphor ("Match of the Day is 50 not out"), an allusion combining Shakespeare and Roy Hodgson ("after a summer of discontent") and an alliterative riff ("back to banish those Brazilian blues").
The fuzzy quality of that sentence – "going as far back" refers not to the history lesson but her own biography – is presumably deliberate, because the entire novel is similarly blurred as it dips in and out of Jimmy's parallel historical world: we are told that he favours detail over themes or theories, although later we learn that "conflict was at the heart of his theory of history".
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The scenes featuring Mr. Obama include an opening with him at the annual White House correspondents' dinner just a day before the raid (which was added by Ms. O'Hara); another that catches him on a long, lonely walk as he presumably deliberates his weighty decision; and — without getting too deeply into spoilers — another that finds him declaring at the end, "Justice has been done".
This is presumably a deliberate choice, but it robs the performance of the frissons that make such characters compelling.
Indeed, Mitchell later tweeted his apparent amusement at the public anger, saying "Calm down dears"; presumably a deliberate reference to David Cameron's sexist comment to Angela Eagle in the House of Commons.
He must, though, have been delighted with what he saw on the pitch, his Gabon team – in the first half in particular – playing with real pace and intelligence, executing what was presumably a deliberate tactical plan to perfection as they won their opening game at the Africa Cup of Nations 2-0.
Presumably this is deliberate on Mr. Kadare's part, but it means that the reader has to give up some of the traditional pleasures of the novel — the illusion of getting to know flesh-and-blood people — for the more head-spinning sensation of looking at them through a fun-house mirror.
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