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give oneself over

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Like the game, it's very easy to give oneself over to the unpredictability of where it goes from scene to scene, rolling back and forth through the 20th century.

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Perhaps, “Site Fidelity” insists, the only option is to give oneself over to it.

It can be hard, amid the distractible masses, to give oneself over to the music.

Just as the New Wave continues to inspire cinephilic critics and directors alike, so this unconnected and unintended quintet of Grand Inquisitors overawes a later generation and places in them the fear of aestheticism, frivolity, irresponsibility, and sheer bad taste of boldly forging ahead to dramatize, depict, stage, and otherwise give oneself over to the power of cinematic fiction.

One must give oneself over to the illusion, the precisions and geometries and statistics and characters and lore of the game.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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