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While early biographies of Florence Nightingale tended to be quite ___ [#permalink] New post   30 Nov 2022, 10:38
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While early biographies of Florence Nightingale tended to be quite _____, Lytton Strachey’s irreverent 1918 essay about her ushered in a new era, making it acceptable, even fashionable, to criticize her.


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B. sycophantic
C. unsentimental
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Re: While early biographies of Florence Nightingale tended to be quite ___ [#permalink] New post   01 Dec 2022, 17:34
Why is sycophantic the answer? If all of a sudden it is ok to criticize her I am not sure what being sycophantic has to do with the sentence
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Re: While early biographies of Florence Nightingale tended to be quite ___ [#permalink] New post   06 Dec 2022, 05:33
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I think because in this new era it is ok to criticize her, while in the early no criticize but more of sycophantic, which is oppose to criticize - since we have the shift "while"
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