canonical
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But this year in particular, it was often the new seams of meaning and feeling actors found in canonical texts, or the emotional truth they brought to new writing, that most impressed me.
Cohen-Solal’s report of its invention in partnership with Georges Braque — easily the high moment of both artists’ careers — is straightforward, canonical.
From New York Times
He warns a fellow patient at Research Psychiatric Hospital against two other canonical works: A. Alvarez’s “The Savage God” and William Styron’s “Darkness Visible.”
From New York Times
The writer is canonical administrator of St. Francis International School.
From Washington Post
Certain members of the team, far from the minarets of home and the strictures of canonical law … overindulged, to say it gently.
From New York Times
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