The advisee may present herself as a supplicant but end up an aggressor, demanding and scornful.
—
Merve Emre,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
But to foreign audiences, who knew little of domestic concerns, Seward’s message made Lincoln seem to be the aggressor—a terrible messaging strategy, in Sumner’s view.
—
Zaakir Tameez
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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