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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead • 1967
We're overawed, that's our trouble. When it comes to the point we succumb to their personalities...
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker admits that they and their companions become overawed by other people. At the decisive moment, strong personalities cause them to give way. The remark diagnoses a failure of resolve in the group without establishing whether the people intimidating them possess actual authority or power.
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