goldfinch in A Sentence

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    We had about 100 Goldfinches this morning.

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    I'm not completely sure what type of bird this is, but I think it may be some form of Goldfinch.

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    Some credit Emerson Bennett and his obscure 1850 novel Oliver Goldfinch for the phrase, although others have it appearing in English as early as 1823.

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    But the desperate grandiosity of“The Goldfinch” eventually makes it sterile, draining the story of its humanity, and the audience's potential to have empathy for the characters' traumas.

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