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Which named failure modes of over- and under-emphasis does Sargent give in Chapter XLVII, and what is his 'implied promise' rule for avoiding them?

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1916 practice: Sargent's core rule is that to emphasise an action is to give an implied promise that it will yield a result in proportion to its prominence; if the promise is broken there will be resentment (paras 5-7). His named failures: the key act scarcely noticed (para 3); the prominent fist fight that leads nowhere, and the author who is then judged weak in other respects (para 5); the motiveless action, like firing at nothing (para 7); the 'April fool' incident that loses the spectator's faith (para 7); coaxing the spectator to dislike a villain (para 4); acting too quickly (para 8); a lengthy leader (para 3); and, at the end, false values leaving the play 'a veritable cripple' (para 14).

1916 practice: Sargent's core rule is that to emphasise an action is to give an implied promise that it will yield a result in proportion to its prominence; if the promise is broken there will be resentment (paras 5-7). His named failures: the key act scarcely noticed (para 3); the prominent fist fight that leads nowhere, and the author who is then judged weak in other respects (para 5); the motiveless action, like firing at nothing (para 7); the 'April fool' incident that loses the spectator's faith (para 7); coaxing the spectator to dislike a villain (para 4); acting too quickly (para 8); a lengthy leader (para 3); and, at the end, false values leaving the play 'a veritable cripple' (para 14). Curator qualifications: Value and emphasis rules are verified as Sargent's text: the implied promise that prominence will pay off, emphasis methods, and character importance by plot connection. The bounded negatives hold on whole-word counts. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt",
      "note": "sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLVII offsets per candidate"
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  • [sourced_fact] 1916 practice: Sargent's core rule is that to emphasise an action is to give an implied promise that it will yield a result in proportion to its prominence; if the promise is broken there will be resentment (paras 5-7). His named failures: the key act scarcely noticed (para 3); the prominent fist fight that leads nowhere, and the author who is then judged weak in other respects (para 5); the motiveless action, like firing at nothing (para 7); the 'April fool' incident that loses the spectator's faith (para 7); coaxing the spectator to dislike a villain (para 4); acting too quickly (para 8); a lengthy leader (para 3); and, at the end, false values leaving the play 'a veritable cripple' (para 14). · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) ch. XLVII offsets per candidate source

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