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Here's an exercise in manipulation.  Below is a paragraph from the article.  Below that is the same paragraph minus adjectives.

In her powerful new book, “Nomadland,” award-winning journalist Jessica Bruder reveals the dark, depressing and sometimes physically painful life of a tribe of men and women in their 50s and 60s who are — as the subtitle says — “surviving America in the twenty-first century.”

In her book, “Nomadland,” journalist Jessica Bruder reveals the life of a tribe of men and women in their 50s and 60s who are — as the subtitle says — “surviving America in the twenty-first century.”

That's what it's like when the bloom is off the prose.

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Heh, heh. Very, very good. Very.