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The book's humor comes from the gap between everything this insufferable narrator says and the reality that peeks through when he quotes other people -- an irony so wounding that the novel feels more like an 18th-century satire than the work of recent comic writers like Tom Wolfe.
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Gerald B. Lefcourt, a criminal defense lawyer, said Mr. Hynes seemed to be so wounded that he forgot prosecutors' usual decorum.
There are, of course, those former Hillary supporters who are so wounded that they are still reluctant to support Obama, despite Palin's explosive arrival on the campaign scene.
Jennifer McGuire, with whom Borges lived after being kicked out of his own home, is quoted as saying, "By the time he got to us -- his real family -- he was so injured and so wounded that the triage we provided wasn't enough".
I answered that there was a time that nothing around me made sense, and that I had learned to listen to and help everyone who needed it in order to stretch my heart because, back then, it was so wounded that it was a reflex to shut down.
KT: No. Ever since I was bit by this girl who went off with the Irish peer when I was 18, I was so wounded by that, I was determined nobody would ever, ever walk out on me again.
Some of us have been so wounded or persecuted that, quite understandably, we come to believe that everyone is against us.
And know too that justice minister, Christiane Taubira, the "victim" of the infamous monkey cartoon, was so wounded and offended that she gave an extraordinary, moving speech at the funeral of one of the murdered cartoonists.
"He was so wounded by then that any recovery was beyond reach.
Many of the victims, however, say they feel so wounded and betrayed that they will never again set foot in a church.
Dipping into her lower register, she turns "With Every Breath I Take," a film-noir-influenced ballad from "City of Angels," into the icy lament of someone so wounded by love that the only feeling left is an impermeable hopelessness.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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