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Soloists who can populate the stage with uncurtailed ambition.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2025

Operating in a realm uncurtailed by everyday rationalism, Foreman and the Wooster Group are the experimental theater love-match we’ve been waiting for.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

The lines suggested were a general federation under one protective flag, self-government in the Colonies, and the continuance of uncurtailed autonomic independence in the two Republics.

From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by Thomas, C. H.

At length, on the 16th of the month, the news spread that he was acquitted of the high charges made against him by the House of Representatives, and that his power was left uncurtailed.

From A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences by Haviland, Laura S.

Will you, said he, on your honour, let me see them uncurtailed, and not offer to make them away; no not a single paper?—I will, sir.—On your honour?

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel