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Over the years, even in four-star restaurants, PL had been rejecting the house dressings and concocting his own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Guilt-ridden, the wife had been rejecting offers to head committees; her humiliated husband meanwhile doubted his own professional success.

From Time Magazine Archive

All his life he had been rejecting the claims of beauty and gentle things, and he could be sure that his well-brought-up family would go on doing it after he was in his grave.

From The Judge by West, Rebecca