Word: vaunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characters. If the Antelope district, and the people who form its background, are painstakingly revealed, so also is Vridar, and his every moral pimple shines out to us. His lies are duly reported to us; we ever know each time that he lies to his diary. Every windy, youthful vaunt is, we are told, unfulfilled; if Vridar omits the payment of a laundry bill, every detail of the transaction is coldly and unemotionally reported, until the reader wallows in a sea of sordid insignificance. In Mr. Fisher's love scenes the words "ecstasy," "tenderness," and "delight" are literally present...