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hand-wringing and fence-sitting
1. The following description is about a memorial installation titled "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe". Can anyone please explain what the highlighted sentence means?
2. Does "interrogation of" here mean "debates about"?
What had begun as an intellectually rigorous and ethically pure interrogation of the Berlin memorial was taking on the shape of a circular, centripetally driven, self-enclosed argument. It began to look like so much hand-wringing and fence-sitting, even an entertaining kind of spectator sport’
2. Does "interrogation of" here mean "debates about"?
What had begun as an intellectually rigorous and ethically pure interrogation of the Berlin memorial was taking on the shape of a circular, centripetally driven, self-enclosed argument. It began to look like so much hand-wringing and fence-sitting, even an entertaining kind of spectator sport’
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red apple hand-wringing Dictionary definitions: a way of expressing that you are very worried or nervous. an overwrought expression of concern or guilt (informal) an extended debate over the correct course of action in a situation excessive expressions of distress or anxiety, by or as by clasping and twisting the hands together red apple fence-sitting taking a position of neutrality or indecision, as in a controversial matter.
- red apple hand-wringing Dictionary definitions: a way of expressing that you are very worried or nervous.
- an overwrought expression of concern or guilt (informal) an extended debate over the correct course of action in a situation excessive expressions of distress or anxiety, by or as by clasping and twisting the hands together red apple fence-sitting taking a position of neutrality or indecision, as in a controversial matter.
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red applehand-wringingDictionary definitions:
a way of expressing that you are very worried or nervous.- an overwrought expression of concern or guilt
- (informal) an extended debate over the correct course of action in a situation
- excessive expressions of distress or anxiety, by or as by clasping and twisting the
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