Empson
Americannoun
noun
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Empson says he was happy to pay the equivalent of $400 for the service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
“Colleagues have enjoyed a taste of independence, if not of freedom,” says Laura Empson, a professor of the management of professional service firms at Bayes Business School at City, University of London.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2023
It may have been Empson who donated the four volumes of The English Flora to the RHS library before her death in 1948.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2021
A truly fascinating man, Angleton was a devoted student of the matchless British literary critic William Empson, who descried, in the densely metaphoric poems of Donne and Shakespeare, patterns of subtle contradiction, self-reference, and ambiguity.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2019
He lifts an opinion from Coleridge, takes something else from Frye or Empson or Leavis.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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