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In natural English speech, "thwarting" appears in contexts such as: "and the war is won without that. and he recognized his his own error and I think some of his political pessimism in his later years as a result of the kind of thwarting of that feeling of optimism that he had about the potential for social change in the early years of the war. But I think more fundamentally, you know, from our 21st century perspective is the issue that I brought up earlier about kind of surveillance and state power,". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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and the war is won without that. and he recognized his his own error and I think some of his political pessimism in his later years as a result of the kind of

thwarting of that feeling of optimism that he had about the potential for social change in the early years of the war. But I think more fundamentally, you

know, from our 21st century perspective is the issue that I brought up earlier about kind of surveillance and state power,

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Definitions of “thwarting”

verb

present participle and gerund of thwart

noun

An instance of blocking or obstructing.

“[…] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.”

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