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Playwright

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Dramaturge

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An extract, an excerpt

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Un extrait

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An account

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Un compte-rendu, un exposé

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The scope

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La portée, l’étendue

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A discrepancy

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Une contradiction, une divergence

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The stress, the emphasis

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L’insistance, l’accent

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A critisism

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Une critique

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An uderstatement

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Une litote

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A préjudice

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Un préjugé

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A bias

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Un parti pris

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An assumption

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Une supposition

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A statement

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Une déclaration

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An Outlook (on)

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Perspective (sur)

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Commonplace

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Banal, ordinaire

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Far-fetched

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Forcé, tiré par les cheveux

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Misleading

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Trompeur

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Spurious

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Faux

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Fallacious

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Fallacieux

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Consistent with

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Cohérent avec

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Hackneyed

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Rebattu, galvaudé

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Concise, concisely

Exhaustive, exhaustively

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Concis, avec concision

Exhaustif, complètement

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Outspoken

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Franc, carré

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Disparaging(ly)

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Désobligeant, méprisant

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Uncompromising(ly)

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Intransigeant, en se refusant à toute concession

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Non-committal

Réservé, sans se compromettre

Paradoxica(ly)

Paradoxal(ement)

To state

Déclarer

To claim

Prétendre

To express

Exprimer

To convey

Communiquer, faire passer

To reveal

Révéler

To expose

Dévoiler

To account for

Justifier, expliquer

To expound

Exposer, expliquer

To comment on

Commenter

To convince

Convaincre

To refer To

Faire référence à

To allude to, to hint at

Faire allusion à

To imply

Laisser entendre, impliquer

To note

Noter, remarquer

To dwell on

S'arrêter, s'étendre sur

To enlarge on

Développer

To digress

Faire une digression

To infer

Déduire, conclure

To stem from

Découler de

To result in

Aboutir à

To result from

Résulter de

To entail

Entraîner, comporter

To aim at + nom ou girondif To aim to + infinitif

Viser, aspirer à

To consider

Considérer, envisager

To overlook

Oublier, négliger

To omit

Omettre

To elude, to evade

Éluder, éviter

To advocate

Préconiser

To extol, to praise

Faire l'éloge de

To criticize

Critiquer

To object to

Élever une objection contre

To reconcile

Concilier, réconcilier

The text bears upon/on the issue of

Le text porte sur la question de

Le document que nous devons commenter

The document We have to comment on

L'auteur s'intéresse surtout à

The author is mainlly concerned with

Sharp

Cinglant, acerbe

Acute

Perspicace, aigu

Mere(ly)

Purement et simplement

(Un)biased

(Im)partial

Humorous(ly)

Humoristique, avec humour