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Unfraught

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Un`fraught´
a.1.Not fraught; not burdened.
2.Removed, as a burden; unloaded.
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His example concerns the point in Death in Venice when Aschenbach encounters Tadzio on the way to the beach and the thought suggests itself: why not simply go up to the youth and speak to him in the ordinary, unfraught way, in the friendly, familiar way people use at resorts, and so commence a pleasant, less agitated seaside acquaintance?
Thomas Mann in English by Greenberg, Martin / New Criterion
One longs for a respite from the unrelenting pitch of exertion, a simple, unfraught phrase.
Lines Contemporary Ballet, Joyce Theater, May 26-31, 1998 by Solomons, Gus / Dance Magazine
 
 
 
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