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But opportunities to enlarge upon the tragedy, to infuse the musical with some flashes of real personality, are largely missed.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

Tim would enlarge upon these ideas in “Infidel,” his book about Afghanistan.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2011

The novel rehearses many of the ideas of existentialism that Sartre would later enlarge upon in his philosophical treatise Being and Nothingness.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2011

Japan, famous for its ability to copy and enlarge upon invention, has an S&L-like banking scandal of even greater proportion--perhaps a trillion dollars' worth.

From Time Magazine Archive

I fancied, too, you might be inclined, for reasons which we need not enlarge upon, to help me.”

From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)




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