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  • The record was, I think, called Peace, a heart-warming exhortation for world leaders to avoid war – although many of them, unbelievably, have completely ignored the doughty cloggers' message in the intervening years. Which footballers have produced their own food and drink?
  • Meanwhile the dark-haired woman, who after all these years I still remember so vividly, wears an unbelievably sexy one-piece outfit that appears to be sewn from rags.
  • Earth is such a beautiful, unique, unbelievably complex planet and yet humans are simply hellbent on destroying it and everything on it. Death by Plastic
  • The keeper then excelled himself by reacting quickly to block the rebound from Adam and, unbelievably, Dundee were still ahead.
  • He told the meeting: ‘It would be unbelievably crass to introduce a system without any other element of modal shift.’
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  • Unbelievably, our Government are now planning to close this magnificent institution.
  • Drake - unbelievably - spit at Quin, who managed to dodge the slimy gob.
  • My rabbit just had babies with his ‘brother’ - they are so unbelievably adorable!
  • In other words, this is your typical Pinkwater novel: screamingly funny, unbelievably weird, and fantastically awesome. Boing Boing
  • But soon after my skin felt unbelievably hot and my heart was racing. The Sun
  • Please use your column to tell people like it is - unbelievably hard. Times, Sunday Times
  • Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy and careless on the other.
  • The four operations were unbelievably tough. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was unbelievably soft and gooey. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was unbelievably boring and tedious. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unbelievably naive, and I would agree with "whacko"--and I've met a few people who actually seem to believe that. Fire with Fire
  • This lily is ubelievably fragrant as well as being beautiful. Archive 2008-07-01
  • Unbelievably, they were later fined for, respectively, wilful damage and assault, and obstructing the police.
  • The classic Peranakan dish of chicken cooked with tar-black stuffed candlenuts is unbelievably delicious.
  • These are unbelievably complex human beings who happen to be women. Times, Sunday Times
  • As Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine, obsessively pursues her father's killer, she proves to be an almost unbelievably viable outdoorswoman, stoically fording a river on horseback, camping out nightly without complaint, bracing the elements, staring down death. Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit
  • These are unbelievably complex human beings who happen to be women. Times, Sunday Times
  • His steak bordelaise comes with such an unbelievably rich and delicious red-wine-and-shallot sauce that you will never miss the slices of poached beef marrow which are the traditional garnish.
  • The vegetarian main was unbelievably good again - a roil of fricasseed chanterelles, cauliflower, salsify, leeks, spaetzle and parmesan. Times, Sunday Times
  • And although she still looks unbelievably good in her workout clothes, she maintains that her body is far from perfect. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unbelievably, the term "cremains" is the preferred nomenclature of the Cremation Association of North America (I looked this up). New York Review: The Collected Stories Of Lydia Davis
  • And the thing is that simplifies a situation that is so unbelievably complex. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was unbelievably responsive and easy to handle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Original solid mahogany doors set the tone; beds with squashy headboards and mountains of cushions are unbelievably comfortable, as are sofas; bathrooms are small but stylish, in racing-green marble.
  • One lingering shot of his unbelievably expressive face is enough.
  • But Atkins is so last year, so unbelievably unstylish and obvious.
  • Even minutes later, I cannot believe I posted this unbelievably predictable, sappy question.
  • It is just a couple of centimetres square, a few millimetres thick and unbelievably easy to use. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is progressing unbelievably well and long may it continue. The Sun
  • … and getting my H1N1 jab! that my internist is an unbelievably kind and gentle mensch Felix et errabunda XLVII
  • The document has a fairly high level of redaction, including - unbelievably - almost half of its bibliography.
  • In some places the demand for selective education is unbelievably high and it would remove some of the pressure on places. Times, Sunday Times
  • Needless to say, Zinfer's very first day on Planet Earth had turned out to be an unbelievably wretched experience for the poor little prince.
  • It would be ... let me see, now -" The almost automatic processes of Libby's brain started running off the unbelievably huge and complex problem in accelerations, intervals, difform motion. The Past Through Tomorrow
  • What unbelievably atrocious behaviour that woman displayed! Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • He was submerged in the water of the Dalton swimming pool where, unbelievably, he stayed for an hour.
  • They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the impostor popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes’.
  • I become dizzy and faint when I walk past them because the urge to knock them over is so unbelievably strong. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Ark is portrayed by a piece of trelliswork with a label ‘ARK ‘hung on it and the animals are imagined by the actors by sound and mime most believably.
  • Worse yet, your opponents are unbelievably excellent shots who almost never miss.
  • Her aide, Fiona Shurll, the ex-editor of an obscure knitting magazine, was unbelievably like an owl.
  • God, how unbelievably corny!
  • He's worked unbelievably hard and he has very carefully earned people's respect. Times, Sunday Times
  • he was unbelievably angry
  • The tragedy is that it'll probably be these two guys who get sued, not the incompetent morons at entrac who sold fedex-kinko's an unbelievably insecure system. thats freaking awesome. now i just need a smart card writer. WordPress.com News
  • Unbelievably, a few days later, the neighbor's wife was again victimized as her car was blocked by another vehicle, forcing her to sit, petrified and helpless, while a youth stood at her driver's side window shouting profanities at her. Archive 2005-05-01
  • Part of Harrods is that you come in here and find things that are absolutely, unbelievably beautiful. Times, Sunday Times
  • In some places the demand for selective education is unbelievably high and it would remove some of the pressure on places. Times, Sunday Times
  • We've also come to realise what an unbelievably thankless task it is to maintain the turf on a football pitch. Times, Sunday Times
  • The four operations were unbelievably tough. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is progressing unbelievably well and long may it continue. The Sun
  • And I also love the Big-Star-esque Bandwagonesque I like this whole album so much that there is no point picking out individual tracks, and it's only--unbelievably--$5.99 from Amazon! seriously, put it in one of your supersaver-free-shipping orders, you cannot go wrong with this by the altogether excellent Teenage Fanclub. Big Star
  • Reading some of the misleading product bumph, if it wasn't deliberate, then it was unbelievably inept. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wings are unbelievably fine silver filigree.
  • Unbelievably to him, there were no single-family houses in those areas in his price range.
  • He not only floated the ball out onto the green, but sent his chip closer and closer until the ball unbelievably dropped into the hole.
  • Unbelievably, he dropped his head onto her shoulder and fell asleep instantly.
  • he acted believably sincere
  • When I did my parody, Red Sophia, I extrapolated that this poor, magnificent warrior woman was probably getting unbelievably horny waiting for someone to come along who could beat her.
  • Romantic or touching moments are cued with swelling music, unbelievably swelling music that bulges and finally erupts from your speakers to reach a peak of splendiferousness.
  • But Stevens then misses the brown, and an exchange of unbelievably tense safety follows.
  • It was unbelievably boring and tedious. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was so unbelievably fantastic that he was flirting with me, but bryozoa was involved. The Boys Next Door
  • He is a superhero with no superhuman powers; he's just unbelievably driven.
  • Her makeup so unbelievably dramatic, so abnormal, she looked mentally ill.
  • She is not portrayed as angelic but as a believably good-natured and optimistic adolescent.
  • Everyone, notes briner Miles Chapin, says, "'This is unbelievably delicious!' Food: Get Cured
  • The band loan rate is unbelievably high.
  • He is also an intensely angry, unbelievably evil man.
  • I stopped dead in my tracks as, unbelievably, two artist friends' works had been ripped off at once.
  • She adds, believably: "It's not easy to leave a life as arduously rich and difficult as all that. After Empire
  • They treat people unbelievably well and in return we try unbelievably hard. Times, Sunday Times
  • See "Zumanity," the unbelievably sexy Cirque du Soleil show at the New York, New York casino that combines the best of burlesque and acrobatics and contortionism (tickets range from $65 to $125; zumanity. com). Travel: Loving Las Vegas
  • On the court she is bratty, unbelievably noisy and in my view is clearly trying to psyche out her opponent. The Sun
  • Pretty and earthy, she can be aggressive or retreat believably, and has some nice scenes with her extended family.
  • But both of us have cycles of energy and enthusiasm which we have to consciously try to marry together - and that is unbelievably hard. The Sun
  • He uses interiors and outdoor locations which are believably drab yet shot through with unidentifiable menace.
  • Unbelievably, it's 20 years old, but its freshness is undimmed and its vision unrivalled.
  • She looked at the various framed certificates, mounted onto the peach colored wall, that were arranged in an unbelievably neat order.
  • I brought one of the baconers for $90 which was unbelievably cheap.
  • I know - I saw what a free market without independent courts and democratic accountability did to Russia in the 1990s, consigning millions to extreme poverty and making a few unbelievably rich.
  • Unbelievably, it all dried out without a bubble, and was duly admired by our visitors the following day.
  • These include the flashlight fish in the Indo-Pacific, the rosy-lipped batfish of the Galapagos and Cocos islands, and unbelievably vividly coloured Spanish dancers.
  • In Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaids are unbelievably beautiful, and a male would not have had that lightness of line.
  • It was so unbelievably, horrifically brilliant that we were frankly worried we might have dreamt it.
  • But the real scene-stealer here is Ken Stott, whose ruthless Kennel-boss Good Joe is both workably evil and believably confused.
  • The driver gave a single safety instruction "Hold on tight, you're going to get wet", then hurtled down a canyon at high speed, leaning the boat perilously—unbelievably, and exhilaratingly—close to the cliff walls. High-Flying Adventure
  • My diaphragm and lungs spasmed so severely that I woke up screaming because the pain was unbelievably excruciating!
  • Unbelievably, most of the 1.5 billion tons of hazardous cargo shipped across this country every year go unchecked.
  • It's so unbelievably good that there has to be something wrong.
  • As chance provided, the white wool of mouflon which was shed naturally by the wild sheep in spring, the unbelievably soft earthy-brown downy wool of musk-ox, and the lighter red rhinoceros underwool were also gathered with great enthusiasm. The Mammoth Hunters
  • They did two new songs (well, newish as they've done them before on a Radio Scotland session) and they're excellent - I recommend the unbelievably good What Women Do To Men.
  • They and most of humanity are so UNBELIEVABLY SHALLOW that they looked at a NORMAL woman, and snickered because she doesn't look like the over-siliconed, underweight bimboes you see on other reality TV shows ... Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • They've worked unbelievably hard to get this horse back on track. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was unbelievably responsive and easy to handle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Christina felt unbelievably underdressed in her worn jeans and high school sweatshirt.
  • The upcoming sitcom about those cavemen from the Geico commercials: great idea, or unbelievably bad one? 10 « July « 2007 « Adventures in Juggling
  • Now over 60 years old, the movie still looks unbelievably good.
  • She's pushy, arrogant, obnoxious, unbelievably abrasive, and not nearly as cute as she thinks she is.
  • Almost unbelievably, showjumping was also the sport where an unknown but large number of big-name trainers paid a hit man to electrocute their horses for the insurance money. Yatima » 2009 » May
  • But, unbelievably, there is a downside to all the harrumphing pomp and pageantry.
  • What unbelievably atrocious behaviour that woman displayed! Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • And the one day that I went was unbelievably impactful.
  • The volume of sound ranges from near inaudibility in dulcianas, to medium intensity in salicionals, to unbelievably loud in theater organ solo strings.
  • Almost unbelievably, the federal government may block one of the disease's more promising therapies for no other reason than the Food and Drug Administration's obsolete, even antimodern, regulations and approval models. A Moral Test for the FDA
  • The album is now getting (unbelievably) its first unveiling in North America.
  • She has ended it as a genuine international superstar whose debut album is, unbelievably, the fastest selling in history. The Sun
  • I've always longed for a sweet and affectionate, yet unbelievably cool, nickname.
  • What you did was unbelievably stupid.
  • As Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old heroine, obsessively pursues her father's killer, she proves to be an almost unbelievably viable outdoorswoman, stoically fording a river on horseback, camping out nightly without complaint, bracing the elements, staring down death. Avital Binshtock: An Environmentalist's Review of True Grit
  • My latest cut-down bone handled table knives have a near quadrant at the tip and cut unbelievably.
  • What unbelievably atrocious behaviour that woman displayed! Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • The crepe is unbelievably light and tasty and looks so pretty too. Archive 2008-09-01
  • Unbelievably, buyers will not even need a pilot's license because aviation laws state the jetpacks are not heavy enough to require one.
  • Just a few years from her death, she's unbelievably voluptuous, which just makes you feel sorry for all the stick people currently embodying our culture's ideal of beauty.
  • And so, almost unbelievably, have the larynges of the dead men. Times, Sunday Times
  • All perfectly couth and prosperous, not a blade of grass out of place, but unbelievably boring.
  • Second on the slate is the remake of the classic The Seven Samurai ... unbelievably it seems to be going ahead. Filmstalker: June 2006 Archives
  • Those people, unbelievably, are also losing weight.
  • In some places the demand for selective education is unbelievably high and it would remove some of the pressure on places. Times, Sunday Times
  • That being the case, I believe I can believably contend that the correct English spelling is, in fact, "hassenpfeffer," and if one is to call it "hasenpfeffer" one is using a German word, and should properly also italicize it, as is the custom with foreign words in English text. "Darn you to heck, Edward Willett, darn you to heck!"
  • Lainey was, unbelievably, pregnant again.
  • The croissants are flaky and buttery (I think they're the best I've tried in Calgary) and the almond croissants are unbelievably decadent.
  • Unbelievably (for we are talking Sweden), the Saab driver was unbelted, but as she was hit from the side, it was stated that it would not have made any difference in this situation, anyway.
  • They were unbelievably sturdy, with action-figure bulk, barrel chests, and sharp-tapering lats. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • This simple combination looks stunning and tastes unbelievably delicious with a dollop of fresh tomato sauce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unbelievably, it all dried out without a bubble, and was duly admired by our visitors the following day.
  • Unbelievably, aquarium officials admitted that they had hoped Dottie might eventually come to see the die as a mature and friendly adult boxfish. Zoos: Boredom behind bars
  • Unbelievably, all this heroism was virtually ignored by the press and Hollywood.
  • They take the form more of an unbelievably prolix official diary.
  • There is no doubt that computers ‘play’ a very different kind of chess to humans which generally speaking is highly calculative, rather materialistic and unbelievably tenacious.
  • The coliseum looks unbelievably real, and I can't believe the level of detail we were able to attain while maintaining a fast frame rate.
  • Without going overboard on the bent-backed, swivel-eyed cackling often brought to the character, his Fagin is believably unscrupulous and self-serving.
  • Pretty and earthy, she can be aggressive or retreat believably, and has some nice scenes with her extended family.
  • Reid, Pelosi et al have been unbelievably disingenuous in debating the issues. Matthew Yglesias » Obama at the House GOP Retreat
  • This grueling post-apocalyptic National Book Award winner earns its scenes of menace and the odd expletive by believably conjuring a future in which people survive by scavenging materials from the rusting hulks of oil tankers. Darkness Too Visible
  • I become dizzy and faint when I walk past them because the urge to knock them over is so unbelievably strong. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cave now contains an unbelievably horrible life-size plastic model of a mylodon.
  • Not only did he puncture his sword through his limb, but also because he moved so unbelievably fast, Blake endured twice as many slashes in one mighty stroke.
  • Add to this the fact that bank bonds still look unbelievably cheap. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are unbelievably beautiful but they are also wild and they eat things. The Sun
  • He's a fine actor, but he's simply too innocent- and young-looking to believably impart any sense of his emotional struggle.
  • Remember Luxo Jr, the Pixar short which managed to make an anglepoise lamp into an unbelievably cute cartoon character? Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
  • In her article, Dreaming of a Pink Christmas, Ball considers how toys are "still unbelievably segregated along strict gender lines" to the extent that 'femaleness' is seen as "humiliating for boys. Thinking Pink
  • This simple combination looks stunning and tastes unbelievably delicious with a dollop of fresh tomato sauce. Times, Sunday Times
  • The players have to have some family support, and their laydeez always look so unbelievably bored. Should footballers bring their kids on the pitch?
  • This may sound ethereal, but Conran - who is well into his forties, but looks unbelievably boyish - displays a very real sense of the responsibilities that come with living a charmed life.
  • Sally had grimaced with distaste when she had met her from the train, immediately condemning the beige shirt waister dress she was wearing as unbelievably frumpy and sexless. Lesson to Learn
  • She looked at the various framed certificates, mounted onto the peach colored wall, that were arranged in an unbelievably neat order.
  • So that's how bored and unoccupied I was when I happened to come across this artist while surfing (being unbelievably bored).
  • It's almost unbelievably fitting that these supremely phlegmatic men live in Spitalfields.
  • But are not, after all, the three major chords in the last movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony unbelievably simple?
  • As we battled against the wind, the scudding clouds suddenly parted to reveal a dazzling sunlit glimpse of the cone, unbelievably close, in staggering golden 3D.
  • She's 24 and unbelievably beautiful. The Sun
  • When she's satiated, she can be unbelievably cruel. Times, Sunday Times
  • These unbelievably hard-boiled women, one has already lost an eye and looks like Captain Ahab, transform over the course of the year from dry joke tellers to ticking time bombs.
  • Sandra is unbelievably flattered by the little boy's compliment.
  • It has somehow gone right up the beach and into the garden, and unbelievably even into the hotel.
  • Picoult individualizes the alternating voices of the narrators more believably than she has previously, and weaves in subplots to underscore the themes of hope, regret, identity and family, leading up to her signature closing twists. Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult: Book summary
  • I become dizzy and faint when I walk past them because the urge to knock them over is so unbelievably strong. Times, Sunday Times
  • This means in turn that they must be shining almost unbelievably brightly - perhaps 100 or more times than an average galaxy.
  • The statement bears repeating because it's so unbelievably stupid.
  • I become dizzy and faint when I walk past them because the urge to knock them over is so unbelievably strong. Times, Sunday Times
  • St Vincent has a fascinating history and unbelievably dramatic terrain - it's a real treat for adventure lovers and eco freaks.
  • I never could stand these unbelievably low-cut, breath-stopping bodices.
  • In a book so prodigal of riches one finds, unbelievably, neither an index nor a glossary.
  • Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Archive 2007-01-01
  • Unbelievably, one of the most gifted players in history, Di Stefano never participated in a World Cup.
  • We are unbelievably fortunate to have met the Dharma and to have the opportunity to do recitation and meditation on the Compassion Buddha.
  • It all sounds unbelievably vibrant in DTS, as if the musicians are performing live in your family room.
  • He got unbelievably unwarranted criticism. Times, Sunday Times
  • What unbelievably atrocious behaviour that woman displayed! Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • Also at Slant, Schager on Avenue Montaigne and From Other Worlds and Keith Uhlich on Jacques Rivette's L'Amour Fou, "a mish-mash of ideas and situations both brilliant and inane: a good stateside comparison, coincidentally created around the same time, is John Cassavetes's Faces, which, like L'Amour Fou, is a jagged-edge black-and-white psychodrama prone to rather unbelievably grand gestures in constrictively intimate settings. GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
  • Unbelievably, our Government are now planning to close this magnificent institution.
  • For example, over a good fifty yards of my walk to the station today I was assailed by an unbelievably strong smell… of Parmesan.
  • This simple combination looks stunning and tastes unbelievably delicious with a dollop of fresh tomato sauce. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unbelievably, they can walk among their victims, oblivious to their humanity.
  • A lot of the con artists I've arrested are unbelievably charming.
  • This is unbelievably patronising, ignorant and plain stupid.
  • He knew that whatever she did — her quick generosities, her hot enthusiasms or angers, her birdlike caressing ways — was unbelievably sincere. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
  • He doesn't shift believably between hard-ass and lover, and most of the time he actually seems bored.
  • I make absolutely no apology for enthusing about the trip, which was even more successful, unbelievably so, than the first.
  • Jackson entered the public consciousness as an impossibly cute, preteen wonder in 1969, an unbelievably precocious singer in his family band, The Jackson 5.
  • Australian butterflies are from the families of whites, browns, blues and swallowtails, unbelievably sensible names.
  • In fact, the majority of football interviews are so unbelievably dull and predictable that most journalists could probably write the answers themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • I imagine the last holes were unbelievably hard. Times, Sunday Times
  • I have barely sat down again when, unbelievably, I hear the jet approaching again from a north-easterly direction.
  • But until such a work appears, France's Forgotten Legion offers an unbelievably rich source of undigested primary material for enterprising researchers to exploit.
  • After the hurly-burly of London life, rural coupledom felt unbelievably peaceful.
  • There are several intensely elegant and unbelievably flexible, long-limbed movements and poses.
  • But I doubt Jane has what is required to believably play a decrepid civilian cop. Cheeseburger Gothic » Again, while we wait for the Geek…
  • I have barely sat down again when, unbelievably, I hear the jet approaching again from a north-easterly direction.
  • It was unbelievably boring and tedious. Times, Sunday Times
  • Need to practice getting a gun and cannister unholstered, though animals can be so unbelievably quick. Montana Hiker Survives Grizzly Attack
  • Many of his clients are unbelievably nervous, usually because of a bad experience in the past.

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