For example, she would often subvert any form of tangential thinking I had used in explaining concepts, and instead tried to always sharpen my ability to explain them in irreducibly simple terms.
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The comment I would make about this sentence is that "subvert any form of tangential thinking" sounds like a bad or undesirable thing, yet "sharpen my ability to explain them in irreducibly simple terms" sounds like a good or desirable thing.
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The comment I would make about this sentence is that "subvert any form of tangential thinking" sounds like a bad or undesirable thing, yet "sharpen my ability to explain them in irreducibly simple terms" sounds like a good or desirable thing.