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a narrow escape a situation in which you were lucky because you just managed to avoid danger or trouble. He only just got out of the vehicle before the whole thing blew up. It was a narrow escape. See also: narrow it escapes me 1. I do not notice something. If there was something important in that package, it certainly escaped me. 2. I do not remember something. I knew his name a minute ago, but now it escapes me. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Hurston's conception of cultural identity as neither purely essential nor incidental and escapable adds a salutary nuance to often overly polarized arguments over the valence of cultural or identitarian politics. Sen's concept of freedom-and therefore development-includes the avoidance of "starvation, undernourishment, escapable morbidity and premature mortality as well as the freedoms that are associated with being literate and numerate, enjoying political participation and uncensored speech. Regurgitating and reacting to the material of his youth impels Paizs's work; his ambivalence comes with the predictable refusal to see this all-encompassing alien world as something escapable. |
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