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Even allowing for coat-trailing, it is clear that Orwell's honesty is rooted in his own conflicted personality.
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The book to some extent invited -- and Kingsley availed himself of the opportunity in a far more than sufficient degree -- that "coat-trailing" which, as has been said, inevitably in its turn provokes "coat-treading": and it has been abused from various quarters.
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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With its mix of coat-trailing hyperbole and hare-brained logic, it is a claim that encapsulates Goldhagen's style of argument.
New Statesman 2010
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They must say yes to the principle of respecting democratic party mandates and they must say no to any return to coat-trailing parades.
Slugger O'Toole 2010
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With its mix of coat-trailing hyperbole and hare-brained logic, it is a claim that encapsulates Goldhagen's style of argument.
New Statesman 2010
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With its mix of coat-trailing hyperbole and hare-brained logic, it is a claim that encapsulates Goldhagen's style of argument.
New Statesman 2010
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They must say yes to the principle of respecting democratic party mandates and they must say no to any return to coat-trailing parades.
Slugger O'Toole 2010
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With its mix of coat-trailing hyperbole and hare-brained logic, it is a claim that encapsulates Goldhagen's style of argument.
New Statesman 2010
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Later he seemed to see no contradiction between his flirtations with paramilitarism and equal justice for all and between his coat-trailing efforts to get arrested and respect for the rule of law.
Slugger O'Toole Brian Walker 2010
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With its mix of coat-trailing hyperbole and hare-brained logic, it is a claim that encapsulates Goldhagen's style of argument.
New Statesman 2010
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