While Lu's point that he would rather "let the empirical evidence
unbosom itself" than "elaborate on a purely conceptual discussion" (p.
Like its simpler predecessor, Clarissa investigates the idea that the self may be disclosed, minutely and in all its secret impulses, in the cumulative increments of epistolary exchange; and just as the novel's correspondents progressively
unbosom themselves over time to their fictional addresses, so Richardson now mimicked the effect for his readers by spreading publication over a matching period.
The gentle neighbourhood of grove and spring Would soon
unbosom all their echoes mild, And I (for grief is easily beguiled) Might think the infection of my sorrows loud, Had got a race of mourners on some pregnant cloud.
Not long ago a decidedly unelated Joe called to
unbosom himself of a growing unease over President Bush's new multilateralism.
During the recent convention of representatives from Harvard, Yale, and other colleges to consider the subject of athletics, one of the speakers
unbosomed himself thus: Athletics have come to the pass where they are no longer fair and open trials of strength and skill, but on the contrary, as at present conducted, they train the young men to look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit.