critical apparatus
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There's the fourth leg, which is half-born: a cultivated critical apparatus which is separate from the commercial machine.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2018
Some art demands it, no matter how dull or corrupt the critical apparatus of the viewer.
From The New Yorker ● May 28, 2017
Something feels not quite right about subjecting Don DeLillo to the ordinary critical apparatus.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2016
Though the book labours under a critical apparatus that might have been thought de trop if the subject had been Wittgenstein, it is not helpful in telling us about, for example, Taylor's father.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2012
I have, of course, derived much help from the critical apparatus accompanying many of the texts cited, but these I have not, as a rule, thought it necessary to recapitulate here.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
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