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His exuberant identification with Shakespeare's fat knight, Falstaff, with Dr Johnson (whom he worships) and with GK Chesterton, his ability to convince us that he is, indeed, Falstaffian, Johnsonian and Chestertonian, leaves us suddenly aware of a scandalous truth: Johnson and Chesterton existed while Falstaff is merely a fictional character.
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What makes a scandal scandalous?
Unless they are scandalously scandalous.
TALKING TV: Oh, that scandalous, Scandal .
Its headline is a scandalous misrepresentation of the truth because it suggests that the ban has been withdrawn because of a British "backlash".
She apparently imbued all her children with the defiant truth of their scandalous paternity.
Nothing could be further from the truth and these scandalous allegations are all based on a simple misrepresentation of a quote from Michael in my book The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation.
Are scandals really that scandalous?
In this case, the Minnesota legislature passed a statute allowing courts to shut down "malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspapers", allowing a defense of truth only in cases where the truth had been told "with good motives and for justifiable ends".
What is scandalous is the administration's unwillingness to tell the whole truth.
SCANDAL-PRONE, or just prone and scandalous?
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