Meaning
The closing decades of an artist’s life do not generally make the biographer’s heart beat faster, but Claude Monet is one of a handful of painters who bucks the pattern of an irrelevant old age. While it’s true that by the time he was 73 he had accumulated all the usual dragging baggage – outhouses full of fancy cars, a taste for expensive wine and a sprawl of dependants – it was also now that he produced career-defining work. More specifically, he produced what he called his Grande Décoration, consisting of those eight giant waterlily murals that curve around the Orangerie des Tuileries in Paris.
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dragging baggage — personal possessions that you take with you every time you move to a new house a sprawl of dependents — a lot of people for whom you are responsible, particularly financially; this is a literary way of saying "a lot of dependents". CJ
- dragging baggage — personal possessions that you take with you every time you move to a new house a sprawl of dependents — a lot of people for whom you are responsible, particularly financially; this is a literary way of saying "a lot of dependents".
- CJ
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dragging baggage — personal possessions that you take with you every time you move to a new house
a sprawl of dependents — a lot of people for whom you are responsible, particularly financially; this is a literary way of saying "a lot of dependents".
CJ
0What's the meaning of the second sentence in this passage?
"who bucks the pattern of an irrelevant old age."
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