to strip

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. Winston Churchill

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. Georgia O'Keeffe

I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out. Henry Rollins

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again! Michael Flanders

Dialogue is always tricky. Authenticity is almost impossible, and you always end up sounding too olde worlde. What I do is to strip the words back, so I get the dialogue to sound timeless... Tracy Chevalier

It is time to create something new. It is time to strip poetry of meaningless tatters of form, and to clothe her in new, suitable garments. John Gould Fletcher

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