Yet when a public figure emerges in a new setting, the unfortunate tendency is to imprison him in our own set positions.

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Gertrude enjoyed a rare freedom from the traps that imprison us in the grooves of social life.

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His life is slowly transformed into a duel with the illusions emanating from the set, whose superficial images seem to hypnotise him, even to imprison him in a virtual reality.

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