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Example sentences for: ober
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Dr. Ober has cleverly circumvented this danger.
My own favorite coup d'ironie occurs in the paragraph on Robert Craft's lapses: “He also refers to Mozart's first love,” Dr. Ober notes with regret, “as Aloysius,” instead of Aloysia , that is (or “Aloyisia” as the article cunningly renders it!)
Perhaps Dr. Ober, too, if I might venture a criticism at this point, has edged beyond the critical angle of irony, cutting it too fine in his approach and thereby risking a literal reading.
If the reader wants to read something that is not only informative and entertaining but can be admired for its style, panache, and humor, let him get Dr. Ober's books.
Certainly I, for one, was taken in at first by his solemn academic tone and groaned at the prospect of having to write a moralizing corrective--“Even Ober nods,” “Physician, heal thyself”--spare us!