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dustheap /ˈdʌsthiːp /nounA heap of household refuse: figurative this composer is not so easily consigned to the historical dustheap...- In other words, what we have here is a definition so broad that a ‘material’ that might be used in a Grades 1-8 classroom such as a book that exceeds 200 pages will be tossed in the dustheap.
- Is it consigned to the dustheap of great possibilities because there is no audience for such a work, or should an audience be forced to sit through the play and somehow find a way to relate to people and stories that are not about them?
- Shakespeare fixed the idea of fairies, consigning some fairies forever to the dustheap and conferring immortality on his own creations.
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