How To Use Eristical In A Sentence
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Throughout his career he has handled whatever has been thrown at him in a characteristically calm and dignified manner, underpinned by desire and doggedness.
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It is uncharacteristically diligent of a minister to seek precisely to understand what money spent will accomplish.
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He was uncharacteristically depressed and ruminative.
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In light of Hittite militu- 'honeysweet'2, a characteristically Indo-European u-stem adjective derived from milit- 'honey', there should be no doubt where the first element comes from.
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The panel laughed over Mike Huckabee's Sunday touting of his poll numbers among Republicans, which Douthat termed characteristically "charmingly passive-aggressive.
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The duke was characteristically droll about his political career.
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When he came nearest to the scientific spirit of his time, in zealous observations of the life of nature, he characteristically concentrated on the sequence of various bird notes at daybreak and the flight of moths as the stars of twilight were kindled.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 - Presentation Speech
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Reaching this skill in what Piaget would later dub in his characteristically dry fashion “the fourth sub-stage of the sensorimotor stage” typically between the ages of nine and twelve months was an essential precursor to more abstract and sophisticated thought.
The Truth About Grief
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We did not know about that," Kriemler says, in characteristically self-effacing fashion.
The Discreet Charm of Akris
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Some - but not all - of the 1946 drawings are uncharacteristically laconic and slightly benumbed.
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Apart from the structure of the pelvis they characteristically had an additional bone at the front of the upper jaw, the predentary, which bore no teeth but acted like a beak for cropping vegetation.
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It may already be too late to take the more open-handed British approach, and for reasons of self-preservation they may need to adopt an uncharacteristically guarded stance.
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Characteristically he used broadly contoured forms and polished his surfaces to immaculate smoothness, unbroken by projections or incisions.
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Swords of the bronze age were characteristically short in blade length, heavy for their size, and with a relatively blunt cutting edge.
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Consultations, mostly for minor ailments, are characteristically brief.
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Most of these newer buildings were made of wood, and many showed signs of uncharacteristically hasty construc - tion and shoddy workmanship.
Flint, the King
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All were united in having a characteristically clavate glabellar shape.
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The music is is characteristically punctuated with sounds of cymbals, drums and long trumpets.
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When they were comfortably seated over a bottle of Paxarete, Middlemas began, with characteristical caution, to sound his friend about the ease or difficulty with which an individual, desirous of entering the
The Surgeon's Daughter
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He was smiling at me, looking uncharacteristically sheepish, and well, quite beautiful.
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He was eventually much happier at the Architectural Association where, uncharacteristically for the time, Frank Lloyd Wright was his preferred modern architect.
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At the back of the room sat a handsome young man playing the gusla and singing, apparently the proprietor, and two very pretty young women, all with that characteristically Slav look which comes from the pulling of the flesh down from the flat cheekbones by the tense pursing of the mouth.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V
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Characteristically, the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism.
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He adds a characteristically aw-shucks postscript: ‘I have no way of justifying what I do, no temporal defence at all.’
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You might think this a bit uncharacteristically 'soppy' but several Rotarians had been acting as stewards and thought that I'd been pushing an empty pram around as a stunt.
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The female offender is characteristically older than her male counterpart.
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Many native species however, exhibit a characteristically wide range of ecological tolerances and their distributions reflect this.
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Punic names were characteristically theophoric, and the Romanizing upper classes of North Africa typically assumed Latin names that retained the religious or moralistic connotations of the originals.
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In one of the untitled drawings, a characteristically inverted robed figure, skirts ornamented with ink arabesques, topped with a hat, recalls the painted fables of Chagall.
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It was a characteristically confused encounter but one that made it clear to the author that the events of 1967 had made him permanently homeless.
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Richard Dawkins has written a characteristically emotional anti-Christian philippic in the Times:
2010 January « Anglican Samizdat
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Both the blue and the yellow have the classic, satiny translucent petals of the poppy tribe, both, characteristically, are held on wiry stems above the parent plant.
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The premolars are characteristically very slender, sharp, and cuspidate.
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It mixes humour and sentiment in a characteristically insular way.
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The children had been uncharacteristically quiet.
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Characteristically, psoriasis is symmetrically distributed, with lesions frequently located on the ears, elbows, knees, umbilicus, gluteal cleft and genitalia.
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Characteristically, they feature pyramidal, domed or conical roofs built up of corbeled limestone slabs.
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Lubitsch also had a knack of getting uncharacteristically good performances out of his actors.
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Oblivious to his hectic surroundings, the man carried on with his lonely saunter until he reached an uncharacteristically quiet corner of the courtyard void of any activity.
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Such transitions2 often excite mirth, or other sudden and tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense.
The Beautiful in Sounds
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So saying, he opened his cloak, forgetting, with his characteristical inconsistency, that he showed his shirt stained with blood.
The Monastery
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In his characteristically overgenerous way, Russell attributed his ideas to Ludwig Wittgenstein, who had been his pupil for a short time at Cambridge before the war.
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The Prime Minister merely looked ahead, eyes and jaw grimly fixed, and uncharacteristically ignored his inquisitor.
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Sanderson, 64 last week, is characteristically nonchalant at the prospect.
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Catch ya later. andrea Says: mmt, fed was uncharacteristically cocky (but in a good way) in his semi final presser. if you compare the AO semi final presser to the FO where he met soderling or even wimby when he met roddick, he wasn't going on about how 'those guys don't have much of a chance cos they're playing me' and that kind of attitude. during the other GS's he said the usual stuff 'gonna be a tough match' 'give them credit' 'don't underestimate'. he was definitely more fired up and letting some zingers fly this time around compared to the usual stuff. of course, the term cocky can be seen as a negative and in the end, it wasn't negative at all and he lived up to all his comments. he's just usually not that fired up vocally before a final. but if i had been playing like he had been, heck, i would've been saying the same things!
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Her Aunt Sallie gave her an uncharacteristically extravagant gift.
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He remembered David saying once, in an uncharacteristically serious manner, that Nick had a rough time at home.
LOST SUMMER
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A piece of flint struck from a core which characteristically shows traces of the processes of removal: concentric fracture ripples and a bulb of percussion.
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On the role Baxter has played in dragging British skiing in a forward direction, he is characteristically modest.
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The Spy" by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott is a wonderfully written and historically fascinating espionage novel set in pre-World War I America, in which our hero, Isaac Bell a characteristically brilliant and strong Yale man, stops a slew of Japanese, German and English spies who are trying to break America's secret program to build the most powerful dreadnought battleships and control the world's waters.
Twelve Months of Reading
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Left-wingers, rather than jingoes, should be the ones least willing to forgive "Hanoi Jane"; although her characteristically vainglorious, self-dramatizing decision to publicly oppose the war was the most morally justified one of her life, her judgment of how to put it into practice was disastrous.
Calamity Jane
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Uncharacteristically, he summoned his imagination instead, painting an ecstatic vision of the village under a fulgent canopy of stars and a crescent moon.
Van Gogh's Transcendent Vision
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Towards the end of on uncharacteristically orderly day, the avuncular former dictator once again grabbed center stage, accusing his American captors of mistreatment, beatings, even torture.
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It has a longstanding rep as a place where countercultural creativity and characteristically Texan over-the-topness collide.
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The face is characteristically square or broad with a short neck, often giving a squat appearance.
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Cargill returned to his native country alone, indulging upon the road in a melancholy abstraction of mind, which he had suffered to grow upon him since the mental shock which he had sustained, and which in time became the most characteristical feature of his demeanour.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Table salt, for example, has a characteristically cubic crystalline shape that can be observed with the naked eye.
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To make punishments efficacious they should be (4) 'characteristical' or impressive to the imagination; and that they may not be excessive they should be (5) exemplary or likely to impress others, and (6) frugal.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
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"Cultural cringe" denotes a characteristically colonial deference towards the cultural achievements of others.
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The emotion is characteristically distanced in the first stanza.
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He led toward the back of the house, introducing Lanyard to a spacious apartment, a library uncommonly well furnished, rather more than comfortably yet without a trace of ostentation in its complete luxury, a warm room, a room intimately lived in, a room, in short, characteristically
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
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Characteristically the paintings are grey in tonality, which together with their dusty-looking surfaces and the skeletal proportions of the figures often conveys a ghostly feeling.
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The expressionists, finally, pitted their own brand of emotional but, characteristically, nonsensuous and nonerotic subjectivism against the imitative art of the nineteenth century.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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In this opening chapter of the book Steve takes the measure of Reagan's accomplishment in his characteristically thoughtful and large-minded fashion.
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In his characteristically satirical manner, he questions the moral degeneration of our cities, where vice is the order of the day.
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The common punt is the best known form of it; the dory by far the handiest all round; the cargo barge the biggest; and the old-fashioned 'bateau' the most characteristically Canadian.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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The hero is uncharacteristically drawn into a scene of violence.
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In her creative moments, she "rejects hierarchical thinking characteristical of Western Culture" and chooses instead "spirituality.
Doing both at once
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Some members of characteristically large groups may be more needy than productive.
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Characteristically, Roosevelt sought to charm and disarm his guest, while committing himself to nothing.
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On one side of the bridge, the setting looks characteristically like a Chinese landscape painting.
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I do not mean that experiential interests are characteristically frivolous or critical interests inevitably profound.
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In wild type, this response is via a monosynaptic pathway and has a characteristically short latency that is stable at high frequencies of stimulation.
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According to chronicler William of Malmesbury, her dying act was characteristically pious: as a final gift to the Priory, she ordered hung about the neck of a statue of the Virgin Mary her personal rosary of precious stones.
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It is much more explicitly present in a variety of passages such as the one in which Richard expatiates about the death of kings in characteristically allegorical terms.
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The fascist leader characteristically indulges in loquacious statements about himself.
Early Monday « Gerry Canavan
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If the standard less-than-a-page short poem characteristically is uninterested, if not inarticulate, on the subject of time, it is no less implicated.
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Characteristically mixing scholarly inquiries with fun, he considers the great ratite enigmas: why don't they fly or sing, or have proper feathers?
Times, Sunday Times
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With a mid-engine design and rear-wheel drive, the Roadster and Coupe have characteristically sporty road manners.
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‘OK, sorry,’ Leanne said, taken aback by Rob's uncharacteristically foul mood.
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Her Aunt Sallie gave her an uncharacteristically extravagant gift.
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There is characteristically a dense sparsely cellular fibrous stroma.
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Its presentation of the central figure is more stylised and presents his teaching in extensive discourses which are markedly different from sayings presented by the synoptists, which (even when they are combined into groups) are characteristically short and pithy.
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Boasting characteristically dry Aussie wit, the first half of the film is a decent, dark dramedy.
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Even at this young age, though, he was characteristically ruthless with himself.
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Kraemer's reply was characteristically long - winded but nevertheless clear and direct.
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The first type are characteristically seen at birth and grow commensurately with the patient, possibly changing with changing hemodynamics, lymphatics, or hormonal stimulation.
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A fine copy, with topstain uncharacteristically rich, in an unfaded, nearly perfect dust jacket with just a couple of tiny spots of rubbing.
Jan Herman: Book Bling for Sale
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In the course of it, the presenter became uncharacteristically tongue-tied and repetitive, which is hardly surprising.
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Until now, the UN has been characteristically hesitant, to sometimes tragic effect.
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‘This is a good year for me,’ agrees Imtiaz, looking characteristically unruffled on an unseasonally hot day in uncrushed white linen.
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Characteristically, the dictatorship co-opted or eliminated political opponents and regional caudillos or bosses.
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Michelle arrives home slightly hung-over from the night before but still characteristically bright and chirpy.
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Years later, the sacking still makes the normally placid Burt uncharacteristically testy, but he doesn't dwell on it.
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Like watching paint dry" – John Kear in uncharacteristically ungracious mood after his Wakefield team had been drubbed at Wigan on Easter Monday.
My Super League awards show
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he was uncharacteristically cool
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This characteristically scientific open-mindedness can be found in his title term "moral landscape".
Sam Harris: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Review)
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There is an awkward squad in British art bred perhaps of northern Protestantism and the sexual repression, even perversion, that is seen by the rest of Europe as being so characteristically British.
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The demon too is an object of worship - a tribute to the principle of devotion manifest as enmity, and a characteristically Indian paradigm seeking to reconcile irreconcilables.
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The fifth-set end-game started with Djokovic serving at 3-4 and stringing together an uncharacteristically bad game, getting broken at love on two mishit forehands, a framer of Federer's that set up a winner and a double fault on a second serve that missed the line by about a foot.
Novak Djokovic Eliminates Roger Federer In U.S. Open Semifinals
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One-Sided Headache Cluster and migraine headaches are characteristically unilateral.
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He never has been a good speaker with a prepared text (last night, his speech was characteristically wooden, with several word confusions).
Guy T. Saperstein: The Presiential Election is Not Going to Be Close
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Miller was especially wounded by Mailer's scathing verdict on his uncharacteristically whimsical travelogue The Colossus Of Maroussi.
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'This offering doesn't pretend to subtlety at all, but the premise is so very intriguing, and so well-presented (in characteristically wry Pratchett fashion), that Johnny's cry for the essential humanity of all to be recognized, whether English, Iraqi or ScreeWee, loses none of its poignancy-or timeliness.'
Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett: Book summary
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Then, characteristically, small bursts of applause broke out across the vast square.
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As long as he is able to retain his faith in this bipolar unity, Emerson is characteristically affirmative and optimistic.
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Wrasses characteristically have a protractile mouth, cycloid scales, and a single continuous dorsal fin lacking an obvious notch between the soft and spiny portions.
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Peaty alluvial soils characteristically have an O horizon which usually occurs at the surface but can be interbedded with freshwater alluvial sediments.
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The second ( "combe," the omission of which from the official French dictionaries Nodier characteristically denounces, is our own "combe" -- a deep valley; from, I suppose, the Celtic Cwm; and pronounced by
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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The rarely heard Loeffler work is a gem of beauty with a characteristically expansive opening and a rumbustious Russian dance as a Finale.
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The elusive Monti characteristically clung to the shadows, his name seldom surfacing even in the annals of the French occult world.
The Sion Revelation
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She follows the three-year evolution of a class at the ballet school, focusing on three characteristically hard-working, gifted students.
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My date's chauffeur had to wait for hours on an uncharacteristically nippy September night while we discussed the twin towers disaster.
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Such19 transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense.
On the Sublime and Beautiful
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His bass solo is characteristically creative and displays wonderful intonation and tone.
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But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
In praise of … Kate Bush | Editorial
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It may already be too late to take the more open-handed British approach, and for reasons of self-preservation they may need to adopt an uncharacteristically guarded stance.
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There's a fustiness about Mr. Beatty's uncharacteristically lackluster stage set, which he locates sort of in the 17th century.
A Million Tartuffes Later, Is Moli��re Still Breathing?
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By relying on a characteristically low-key form of moral persuasion, he believes he is slowly winning them over and that the foundations will eventually reflect his influence.
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As could be expected, Newman editorialized in NewsNotes with characteristically tangy opinions, sharp observations, and piquant commentary.
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Best of the set though is the uncharacteristically breezily lilting third number.
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His work characteristically involves him interacting, often fruitlessly, with a charcoal drawing he has made on a wall.
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The Central Mountain Ranges are dominated by east-west trending ridges that are characteristically steep and rugged and underlain by resistant sandstone and novaculite (chert).
Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)
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She even was dressed a little like a schoolgirl that evening, he observed, white button-down shirt, uncharacteristically flippy miniskirt, and a backpack slung across her narrow shoulders.
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The most remarkable one was that which converted the French chevet, or group of apses, into the more familiar square, and characteristically English, eastern termination.
Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See
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His furniture and interior designs, often made in collaboration with his wife Margaret Macdonald, are characteristically art nouveau while avoiding florid excess.
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Fulmars, uncharacteristically quiet today, sit on their ledges among more splashes of bright pink, cascades of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and the last of the blue spring squill.
Country diary: Shetland
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Characteristically modest about her accomplishment, Mrs Graham, then 80, was amazed that she had won a Pulitzer Prize.
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Even if they turn out in characteristically low numbers, they will still add millions of new votes into the Democratic column.
Dylan Loewe: Democrats Still Winning the Long Game
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That can't last, of course, for "Cat's Cradle" is jampacked with Vonnegut's characteristically searing sarcasm and vaudeville tempo.
Longacre Lea unravels the twisted string theory of Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle'
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These are characteristically formed of polygenetic intermediate volcanoes and may include both basaltic and more silicic volcanoes that have emerged during various times in their life history.
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Negro blood certainly appears in strong strain among the Semites, and the obvious mulatto groups in Africa, arising from ancient and modern mingling of Semite and Negro, has given rise to the term "Hamite," under cover of which millions of Negroids have been characteristically transferred to the "white" race by some eager scientists.
The Negro
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Owen has been uncharacteristically silent.
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Characteristically his sculpture is made of junk material or rough, unworked wood.
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The same learned authority, from whose lucid and fascinating pages we enjoyed the first glimmerings of the 'gladsome light of jurisprudence,' says (vol.i. p. 264): 'The command and application of the public force, to execute the law, maintain peace, and resist foreign invasion, are powers so exclusively of an executive nature, and require the exercise of powers so characteristical of this department, that they have always been _exclusively_ appropriated to it in every well-organized government upon earth.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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These kinds of media reflect features that are very characteristical of the purpose they serve and have been most common across the media in a past and nowadays.
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The film also looks terrific, and uncharacteristically noirish for a Hitchcock film.
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It was a dramatic change in tone, a contrite president uncharacteristically admitting a major failure.
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Such [28] transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
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The completely unmoving, unconvincing romance between a wooden Hayden Christensen and an uncharacteristically bland Natalie Portman is only the most obvious clumsiness.
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Characteristically his sculpture is made of junk material or rough, unworked wood.
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Characteristically, he does not cite any source for this assertion.
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The patient characteristically believes that the part is diseased or not fully functional.
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These kinds of media reflect features that are very characteristical of the purpose they serve and have been most common across the media in a past and nowadays. †Comment by One Jew †July 29, 2006 @ 12: 09 pm
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This child is characteristically handicapped by an inability to tolerate authority, and lacks a capacity for sustained effort; however, he is intelligent.
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His stage plays, however, have all been placed in a contemporary setting, in which the myth-making is not nearly so straightforward, and the tone characteristically hovers ambivalently between celebration and satire.
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At 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, on a clear, uncharacteristically fogless dawn, the San Andreas Fault just offshore from San Francisco snapped like an overloaded tree limb.
Colossus
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The Northern Inner Piedmont (45e) is characteristically underlain by highly deformed and deeply weathered Cambrian and Proterozoic feldspathic gneiss, schist, and melange.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
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Characteristically the past is given in doxology, not in positivistic reportage.
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Starting the night before, she had made an enormous dolma, the characteristically Iraqi mixture of stuffed vegetables—not just grape leaves and zucchini, but also tomatoes, green peppers, eggplant, and even onions and swiss chard; all stuffed with fragrant rice and meat and stewed together for hours in a pot with a layer of lamb chops at the bottom.
Day of Honey
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It may begin as a hard nodule, or as a papillary growth which breaks down on the surface, leaving a deep ulcer with a characteristically indurated base -- the _crateriform ulcer_.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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The lesions characteristically involve subcortical white matter, extending to the lower layers of the cortical ribbon.
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‘This is a good year for me,’ agrees Imtiaz, looking characteristically unruffled on an unseasonally hot day in uncrushed white linen.
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Characteristically she took the joke very well.
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He went on to launch a characteristically scathing attack on the newspaper, and on the eyewitness testimonies of the night in question.
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He tapped the side of his nose in an uncharacteristically arch gesture.
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Andy and Kevin set off for a two-month trip to the Antipodes on Thursday, and the first of Andy's characteristically opaque text messages arrived soon afterwards.
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Uncharacteristically, perhaps because the bellyache and the fever distracted him, he sat in the open rather than behind tree cover.
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Ian Storey as Erik looks unromantic, but acquits himself well in this uncharacteristically Italianate role.
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Matt Welch makes quite reasonable points about news media and the war, to which Instapundit responds in characteristically lame fashion.
Instaflub
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The text of the book is preceded by a note in which Harris presents an uncharacteristically direct statement about his ideas and how they are to be understood in his work.
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The chief aesthetic charge against the art works was that their characteristically modernist expressionist distortions failed to conform to a naturalistic realism.
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Her solo performance to the assembled guests in the variation towards the end of the Act is a magical blend of strength, vivacity and grace, culminating in a characteristically powerful medley of piqué and chaîné turns.
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Much of Giacometti's work of this time reflects a characteristically Surrealist interest in the unconscious world and dreams as well as the themes of sexuality and violence.
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Ask Fossett to explain his motivation and he is characteristically sphinxlike.
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In short, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory can help rhetoricians navigate the posthumanist theoretical landscape in a characteristically rhetorical way.
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Dreams, predictions, a haunting vocal soundtrack and a glamorous set establish Transfer's new show a characteristically rich theatrical presentation.
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What Bosch has added, characteristically, to this theme is the lurking presence behind the saint of a small, black demon, who occupies the right corner as the antipode to the eagle attribute of the saint.
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Characteristically aloof, she downplays the importance of literary awards, yet recognises the significance they hold for some individuals.
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He characteristically remarks that he will not speak as a rhetorician, that is to say, he will not make a regular defence such as Lysias or one of the orators might have composed for him, or, according to some accounts, did compose for him.
The Apology
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Any of various insects of the order Lepidoptera, characteristically having slender bodies, knobbed antennae, and four broad, usually colorful wings.
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Beet soup with duck is a hearty take on borscht, and while a brilliantly vermilion gazpacho could have been our favorite soup, it was, uncharacteristically, too salty.
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Which means I'm on a mission: elbowing my way past strangers, zig-zagging between cars, even occasionally breaking into a uncharacteristically moderately paced stroll.
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Histologically, thick collagen bundles were seen, characteristically whorling around vessels in a fibrotic stroma.
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He characteristically remarks that he will not speak as a rhetorician, that is to say, he will not make a regular defence such as
Apology
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Characteristically he used patterns of interlinked shapes - strongly outlined but avoiding geometrical regularity.
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He was characteristically insensitive to Western public opinion.
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The tranquil uses of red and orange brickwork, with their auburn hedges, mollify the harshness of the sky above Pissarro's characteristically low horizon.
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Mr. O'Drive now declares himself a Babe of Grace, and free from the bonds of sin; or, as he more simply, but truthfully and characteristically expresses it -- a beautiful specimen indeed of his simplicity of views -- 'he is replevined from the pound of human fraility -- no longer likely to be brought to the devil's auction, or knocked down to Satan as a bad bargain.'
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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For this reason, her readings proceed in a characteristically deconstructive fashion.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Viewed collectively, the works certainly bristle with his characteristically intense emotion.
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In an ancient Briton they would, I take it, be exaggerated, since modern Britain, disforested, drained, urbanified and consequently cosmopolized, is presumably less characteristically British than Caesar's Britain.
Caesar and Cleopatra
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The dunes and strand support only a few species of xerophilous herbaceous plants and are characteristically unwooded.
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
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Her future takes a dramatic turn when she follows an uncharacteristically rash instinct and travels to the slums of Bombay.
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The content, he goes on to argue in his characteristically extreme way, is the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind and it has about as much importance as the stencilling on the casing of an atomic bomb.
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This self-parody neatly illustrates several of Richard Stern's failings as a writer: the antiquated rhetoric, the irrelevant allusions (to my race and to Brigid Brophy, her name characteristically misspelled), and, above all, the lack of matter, the absence of any arguable point.
Criticism
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Scalia was characteristically intense, frequently shifting to the edge of his seat and punctuating his thoughts with brisk gesticulations.
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The government of the Cayman Islands uncharacteristically took the designation phlegmatically and said that the
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Hay bales punctuate a characteristically tree - poor British landscape.
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With unfailing constancy tomorrow becomes yet another today, full and hectic with characteristically unforgiving demands which brazenly refuse to be postponed.
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This may explain why our painter is careful to show Athena as about to bedeck Pandora with a characteristically feminine adornment, a fancy necklace.
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Characteristically, they feature pyramidal, domed or conical roofs built up of corbeled limestone slabs.
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Euripides characteristically opens his plays with a markedly non-naturalistic prologue.
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The characteristically high repayment rates on loans are proof that even the very poorest people are creditworthy.
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Here he is, dressed up in characteristically flamboyant manner as a Russian general as he helped celebrate artist Sam Taylor-Wood's 40th birthday at a fancy dress party in the East End. Gallery:
Let HARRAH
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But uninformed Americans haven't quite yet figured out the true source of their frustration – they themselves, how they have been voting, their characteristically poor choices across many decades, and their characteristic gullibility which is so valued by the corporate and political elite these sheep so blindly serve.
Senator vows to block carry-on fee
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Treaties, like any other form of agreement, characteristically incorporate both rights and duties as part of an interlocking bargain.
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The face is characteristically square or broad with a short neck, often giving a squat appearance.
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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea … EDF, of course, was engaged in that characteristically twenty-first century French endeavour, the development of nuclear power.
Margaret Drabble | Trespassing
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Recently turned 50, John had his birthday presents to show off - a characteristically loud tartan suit and a beautiful shiny steel mandolin.
