'Denigrate' had the same deficiencies as the ones I'd come up with, I think. But Quahog's 'condemn' is very close to meaning 'the opposite of justify.'
I have another query, not grammar related, except insofar as it's about John Paul Sartre, and he, er, well, used grammar.
I read in the Times Literary Supplement (I think), a few years ago, this odd factoid about Sartre. I think I posted it on SI: The claim was that during the Algerian War, he was afraid of receiving letter bombs (his apartment had been bombed), and so had his mother open all his mail.
I have a friend who is writing a piece on Sartre and is trying to source this anecdote. I put Sartre mother Algerian War bomb into google and come up with 78 hits, but not this story. It could be apocryphal, but it hadn't been presented that way when I read it.
Has anyone else read this about Sartre having his mother open his mail, and if so, can they give a source? |
