“The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word of all practicable denotation?”
The Death of Words
(Published 9/22/1944 in The Spectator)
“The most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. What is the good of deepening a word’s connotation if you deprive the word of all practicable denotation?”
The Death of Words
(Published 9/22/1944 in The Spectator)