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| 1 | 502 | View more quotes about despite">Despite the prescriptions and expectations of the day, she seemed unconcerned with wit and verve, with projecting a culturally recommended image. |
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| 1 | 499 | One was quiet, plain Paula, short, and sweetly bodied, simply and conservatively dressed, who seemed to live much within herself, shy, serious Paula, who listened well, so patiently, Paula, who refrained from participating in our gossip, often so frivolous and cruel, Paula, who, of all things, read books. |
| 1 | 500 | I, and, I am sure, several of the others, rather pitied Paula. |
| 1 | 501 | She did not carry herself with elegance or style. |
| 1 | 502 | Despite the prescriptions and expectations of the day, she seemed unconcerned with wit and verve, with projecting a culturally recommended image. |
| 1 | 503 | Did she not know how to do so? Surely she must wish to do so. |
| 1 | 504 | Why, then, did she not do so or, at least, strive to do so? Too, she was clearly uninformed of many things of obvious importance. |
| 1 | 505 | She seemed unaware of which journalists and politicians, which motion-picture and television personalities, and such, were to be approved, and, as important, those which were to be disapproved. |