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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
The reason so little ever gets done
Mrs Huxtable smiles. She has extracted from the rector an implied disagreement. She knows from her long experience of committees how important it is to provoke the opposition into revealing its true colours. The reason so little ever gets done is that the English middle classes are cripples by politeness. Face to face, they will not confront each other, and so their conflicts are rarely resolved.
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eipjoo The reason so little ever gets done is that the English middle classes are cripple d by politeness. The reason that people don't accomplish very much is that middle class people in England are so polite that they are very slow to take action (for fear that they may do or say the wrong thing). CJ
- eipjoo The reason so little ever gets done is that the English middle classes are cripple d by politeness.
- The reason that people don't accomplish very much is that middle class people in England are so polite that they are very slow to take action (for fear that they may do or say the wrong thing).
- CJ
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eipjooThe reason so little ever gets done is that the English middle classes are crippled by politeness.The reason that people don't accomplish very much is that middle class people in England are so polite that they are very slow to take action (for fear that they may do or say the wrong thing).
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Mrs Huxtable realizes that the hindrance in getting a work done is the courtesy the the middle class follows. Their gentle and obliging manner impedes them to speak out their mind. And so they rarely get to solve the issues between them.
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CalifJim crippled by politeness.Thank you for your correction. I'm not good at English typing it's very awkward still yet to type.
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