Considerations of contemporary phenomena

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The following sentence, used by George Orwell in his famous essay "Politics and the English Language" to illustrate the problems of modern English, is an example of what kind of formality problem?

"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."

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