How To Use Famously In A Sentence
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The World Series is back in this famously blowy city by the bay, and Thursday night's forecast is for wind, drizzle and temperatures in the mid-50s.
You'd Be Cooler Without the Jacket
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It may be a while before he flashes that famously photogenic toothy smile again.
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He looks downcast, a frown passing like a cloud over his famously large forehead.
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Golub, whose large-scale paintings drew inspiration from everything from Greek kouroi to images of male pornography, used a technique that was more sculpture than brushstroke, famously using a meat cleaver to create aggressive peaks on the canvas.
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One hint could have been that his nomination brought immediate praise from both industry groups and Congressional republicans) and the topper of them all Bush sicophant Stephen Johnson (who famously sided with Buah and big industry in hampering states from enforcing higher greenhouse emmision standards and stifling his own Depts requests and reports on environmental problems).
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Most generally, Locke had argued famously that real essences are unknowable.
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One is Peter Butler Sr., a retired insurance executive now living in Pebble Beach, Calif., who is an advocate for Eddie Lowery, the 10-year-old boy who famously caddied for the victorious Francis Ouimet at the 1913 U.S.
Bush-League Move by Hall of Fame?
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At 27, he's already a giant among local comic artists - and not just because of his large frame and infamously squeaky voice.
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Mr Greenspan is famously hard to interpret, and the motivation for his rate cut will no doubt remain unclear for now.
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The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli).
The Heirloom City
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Jefferson famously excised all miracles from his copy of the King James Bible; as a rationalist and a deist, he considered such stories to be needless embellishments.
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Peter Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association and Britain's most famous crop trasher, who famously pulled up six-and-a-half acres of GM maize in 1999, says that £20m of taxpayers 'money has gone into GM crop research since 1997, despite the fact that not a single crop is grown in the UK.
Just because GM is gaining popularity doesn't make it right
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Harrington is famously teetotal, never having let a drop of alcohol cross his lips, so it can assumed he was speaking from the heart.
US Open 2011: Remarkable Rory McIlroy wins by eight shots
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It was famously sung in the trenches of the First World War by Welsh regiments to keep their spirits up, and it's a firm favourite with Welsh rugby crowds.
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Famously, he had divorced Josephine the previous year in order to found a dynasty.
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England were rocked back, their famously brittle confidence rattled again.
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He once famously warned the Government that British television was being turned into a two-tier system: ‘Telly for the nobs and telly for the slobs’.
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It is famously understood that Darwin used a tree diagram to represent evolutionary relationships.
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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, the priapic bishop of Autun who became France's diplomat for all seasons he served and survived both the Revolution and Napoleon, famously remarked that no one who had not lived during the ancien régime could have any idea of how sweet life could be.
Why They All Came to Versailles
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The vestments and mitre were a gift of the Abbot to the Pope, and they are the work of Piero Montelli from Verona, perhaps the most famous, but alas famously exclusive, vestment maker and embroiderer in Italy.
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Again this is a play about military commanders and the troubles that beset them but it also, famously, approaches the theme of civil unrest.
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What the fishermen did was to take these small fish and turn them into a soup that is most famously known as bouillabaisse, which has become such a classic that there are restaurants specializing in it.
At My Table
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One of the key instigators of the Microsoft case, Silicon Valley attorney Gary Reback, famously perorated that Microsoft had become a "threat to the underpinnings of a free society.
The Trustbusters' Last Meal Ticket
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America, as Tocqueville famously concluded, is a nation of joiners.
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This kind of metafictional goofing around was a common convention of the Looney Tunes cartoons, which often referred implicitly or explicitly to the offscreen animator, with characters looking upward in this way to get the attention of the artists a device most famously used in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck a few years earlier.
The Girl Can't Help It
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Would it be too much to ask for someone -- perhaps one of his New York Times colleagues -- to give famously airheaded columnist Thomas Friedman a bit ...
Thomas Friedman Needs Someone To Help Him Access Widely Available Facts About Politics
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On the other hand, he famously gets by on only four hours a night.
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Politicians eagerly seek association with film icons; often stars shift seamlessly into politics, as done most famously by MG Ramachandran in Tamil Nadu.
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A member of the public famously captured the essence of his personality when he said: ‘The thing I like about you is that you have nae dignity.’
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When Nelson famously said, "The Dons may make fine ships; they cannot however make men," after visiting the Spanish fleet in Cadiz in 1793, he was referring not to the quality of Spanish sailors but to the lack of them, for as often as not crews were diminished by disease and other factors.
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Famously discovered by Harry Johnston and named by P.L. Sclater in 1901 (Johnston thought he was tracking down reports of a new forest-dwelling equid), Okapia is a short-necked forest-dwelling giraffid, though how typical it is in the grand scheme of giraffid diversity and evolution has proved controversial.
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Famously banned from the BBC's Play for Today slot in the 1970s, Clarke's harrowing drama about life inside a borstal was remade two years later as an equally notorious film.
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The reason for the replacement is that IMX-101 is even more stable than TNT, which when invented was hailed as famously insensitive to shock and other conditions which would reliably detonate other high explosives of the day such as guncotton and nitroglycerine.
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In one of her famously impassioned speeches - between threats to bloody noses - she blasted what she called the objectification, disrespect and "violence" toward women, slamming her fist so hard against the lectern that her bracelet shattered.
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(Even Ike's famously rambling press-conference answers, according to his press secretary, were purposeful obfuscations rather than aphasic incompetence.)
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It may be a while before he flashes that famously photogenic toothy smile again.
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It is a famously unclassifiable book, part cultural criticism, part autobiography, mixing participant ethnography with literary analysis.
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He is famously taciturn in interviews, and not big on stage patter either, preferring to flick through his back catalogue with the minimum of fuss.
Times, Sunday Times
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She once famously shook hands with Dracula when she attended a gala performance by the company at Leeds Grand Theatre.
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The earlier versions are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire.
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Yet, to use a term famously employed once by then-United Nations Ambassador Madeleine Albright, who was upset with the Cubans, Richardson does have cojones.
James Warren: Bill Richardson, Suited for Hillary's Role, Named Secretary of Commerce
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She is famously in good physical nick.
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The former Yorkshire and England star once famously declared that forcing youngsters to wear helmets was turning cricket into a ‘pansy's game’.
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An uptight young smartarse editor travels out into the middle of nowhere determined that HE can be the one to rehabilitate a famously reclusive writer who hasn't written a book in 20 years.
Crowdsource: Favorite Film about the Creative Process?
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War is famously'the continuation of policy by other means '.
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Mao Zedong, who led Communist forces to victory in 1949, oversaw the rapprochement between China and the U.S. that stemmed from the Sino-Soviet split, and famously shook hands with President Nixon when he visited Beijing in 1972.
Beijing Hails Start of a New Era
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Wittgenstein famously admonished us not to mistake the map for the territory.
Matthew Yglesias » My Theory’s Great, Except for the Times It Doesn’t Work
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Acokanthera shrub, which has bark filled with "ouabain", closely-related to a source of arrow poison famously used to kill elephants.
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When relocating the company in October from its famously grungy Madison Avenue offices to bright new digs off Park Avenue, he assigned himself an office no larger than those of other key executives.
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Throw in the famously tolerant Dutch attitudes and you've got a place that rewards visit after visit.
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The federation which at one point acted as a semi-autonomous government organisation is famously fond of using its power and influence in the law courts.
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England were rocked back, their famously brittle confidence rattled again.
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Sontag was once famously described as the most intelligent woman in America.
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Kraftwerk famously came out of the German experimental music scene, which the music press later dubbed "krautrock", at a time when artists were creating work devoid of ties to Teutonic tradition.
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Well, the 52-year-old is of course known for more than just insulting Jews; but since he hasn't acted on screen since M. Night Shyamalan's Signs in 2002 and infamously declared in 2006, "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world" whilst getting arrested for drunk driving, I can't help but have that as my free-associate for the seasoned Aussie.
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Clapton has covered the Johnson songbook throughout his career, most famously in ‘Crossroads’, his barnstorming showstopper when he was in Cream more than 30 years ago.
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Sands once famously remarked that our revenge would be the laughter of our children.
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Despite being famously weedy , the Sargasso is noted for its water clarity- the weed competes with other , mirkier phytoplankton. and if the ocean water was warmer than global average, something may have been happening to the near surface albedo
Critical Review of Robinson, Robinson, and Soon’s “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”
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He was a famously peppery lawyer.
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her husband demands, the famously intimidating brows beetling like two grizzled insects as he proceeds to fiddle with a radiator.
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Someone who works for my company was rather famously sacked recently for blogging about his work, and not even in a seriously vituperative way - just an occasional mild grizzle.
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They palled up with booze and they kept their pal close at hand: a pint in the glove box, a flask on the hip, and most famously, the fifth in the desk.
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Talk famously steals the riff from Kraftwerk's Computer Love and hearkens in tone to the quirky off centre Whisper.
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The band of funsters never appear on stage without their shell suits, signature chains of cheap gold safety pins and famously irreverent sense of humour.
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Time consciousness: The perception of time is famously cultural.
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It captures the effervescence of the Essex personality and the county's famously vibrant business scene.
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Bianca Jagger famously wore his shoes for her entrance into Studio 54, sitting astride a white charger; the Princess of Wales was a fan; and the "Sex and the City" character Carrie Bradshaw had such a predilection for his heels that "Manolos" became a household name.
Manolo Blahnik: Feet First
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Reagan famously maintained the self-delusion of his starless and bible-black follicles up till the age of 80 despite the fact that even America's entire population of three-year old immature cucumbers and most conservatives knew that Reagan's hair was actually as gray as a charcoal sketch of Al Gore.
Martin Lewis: See Bin Laden Dye! (Not For The Sensitive)
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Balanchine famously declared that "ballet is a woman," but the aphorism was far truer in Degas's day, when the ballet was an almost exclusively feminine preserve of layered tarlatan skirts, pink satin slippers and ribbons.
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Malick is a famously reclusive figure who never gives interviews and seems to disappear off the face of the planet for years at a time.
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Just to make sure Scotland's unchurched youth is listening, the vehicle will be unveiled and sent on its national tour by Cameron Stout, the famously celibate 2003 winner of Big Brother.
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What are the his employment policies in an infamously pinchpenny and corner-cutting sector of the health industry?
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After Island Records billed him as the "African Bob Marley," he famously split in the mid-80s when the label proposed revamping his sound to stay relevant in the increasingly profitable World Music niche.
Modiba: King Sunny Ade Tours "New America"
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There are a few exceptions to this pattern, most famously in seahorses where females have an ovipositor which places unfertilized ova into the male's pouch for insemination.
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Jean-Francois Lyotard famously defined postmodernism in terms of the sublime and posited it as presenting what is unpresentable, excessive, regardless of order and perfection.
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Graham was himself a formidable "scrutinizer"; and, famously, a "strong resenter," with intermittent compulsion to test the indulgence of his friends.
Our Man on Capri
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Latics famously dodged the drop on the final day in each of the last two seasons.
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Spelling and pronunciation are famously at odds, and have been ever since early medieval monks yoked English to the Latin alphabet, which they modified to capture the sounds of a Germanic tongue.
The English Is Coming!
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Ex-president Clinton famously evaded a question regarding his exploitation of women in subordinate positions by responding "it all depends on the meaning of the word 'is'.
October 3rd, 2009
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Birman's insight that the Soviet Union was far weaker than it seemed from its military prowess was implicitly adopted by Ronald Reagan when he famously predicted in 1982 that "freedom and democracy will leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history.
Right From the Start
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A source said: 'They got along famously and clearly had the hots for each other.
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Worked out first in his geology, the argument from consilience was brought to bear most productively and famously in his demonstration of the truth of evolution, and of natural selection's role.
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Like his father before him, who famously barfed on the Japanese after a bad reaction to Halcion, the 1980s version of a miracle sleep drug for those with bloody hands, you can bet your Tempurpedic mattress that Junior takes sleep aids.
Nina Burleigh: Ambien Nation
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Indeed, the band's famously-honed instincts and dayglo pop-smarts provide the contradictory musical notions that never allow the album to sway too far in one bleak direction or another: it's that friction extant between Chesnutt's shadowy worldview and the inventive bounce and bray of Elf Power's euphonous intraband chemistry that buoys Dark Developments, provides its freshness, and makes for rewarding repeated listening.
My Old Kentucky Blog
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He famously told of attempts to waterlog the infield, and even moving the fences in between half-innings.
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By the mid-1930s she was a superstar, singing, lisping and tap-dancing her way through such films as Poor Little Rich Girl and Bright Eyes, in which she famously sang On the Good Ship Lollipop.
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Fragonard's famously teasy painting of The Swing is re-created with the addition of a tribal peekaboo dress.
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As such, many regions developed their own local mustard style—from pungent Burgundian spreads most famously that of Dijon to the sweet grainy stuff made famous in Bavaria.
The Commitment-Phobe's Condiment
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Managing to hold his famously waspish tongue, he seemed at ease, a patron of the arts keen on charitable good works, as well as the kind of cause that many would consider lost.
Electric Proms: Elton John and Leon Russell – review
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Infamously, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra do not broadcast on Radio Scotland.
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Milbury famously fretted about the "pansification" of the NHL.
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Mill famously tried to accomodate this fact within utilitarian structure with a doctrine of “higher” and “lower” pleasures, though not especially convincingly.
In Search of Higher Pleasures
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Famously, Forster accused the educational systems of the time of retarding the emotional development of schoolboys.
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It ends up like that General in New Orleans, trying *trying* to get important information out about disaster preparedness, having to face reflexively antagonistic journalists and famously pronouncing, "You're stuck on stupid.
A frightening mix of bodily fluids.
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They got along famously.
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Mr. Sarkozy's proposal, far from being a break with France's recent past, is a continuation of government attempts to improve the lot of workers by punishing business owners, an impulse embodied most infamously by the 35-hour workweek law passed by the administration of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin.
Sarkozy's War on Profit
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It most famously can be a truth serum for the untruthful, though that wasn't a problem yet in our trial.
FATAL FLAW
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This (Link courtesy Professor Bainbridge) is a pretty funny parody based on a scene from the original Star Wars movie that has famously been changed a couple of times by George Lucas in reissuing the movie.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Doctored Han Solo Memos, errr, Evidence
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Leigh famously begins work on his projects with no script, no characters and no names, expecting the actors to pitch in on all of these in a collaborative workshop style.
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It most famously can be a truth serum for the untruthful, though that wasn't a problem yet in our trial.
FATAL FLAW
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Not only are oysters reportedly aphrodisiacal - Casanova famously feasted on them every day - they are a sensuous, zinc-rich texture food full of squelchy, salty juiciness.
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But using a famously queeny actor to accomplish this task of reassurance makes the film interesting to us fifty years later.
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As the Arctic Ocean north becomes less and less icy, commercial fisherman have begun eyeing these vast, untapped waters as an adjunct to the famously rich fishing grounds of the subarctic Bering Sea, west of Alaska.
Shifting spring: Arctic plankton blooming up to 50 days earlier now
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Bonnier was equally well-known for his famously roving eye, which may have been alluded to here by the artist in his patron's confident, all-knowing gaze; Nattier's portrait of his wife as the chaste goddess Diana offers a witty antipode.
With All the Time in the World
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As they get on famously, can she tempt him to join her?
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Bush, famously or in -, slashed taxes to levels undreamt of even by Reagan.
Matthew Yglesias » Steele: Cops, Firefighters, Soldiers, Postmen, Teachers All Secretly Unemployed
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He studied the area for 50 years and once famously described it as ‘a breathing space for the cure of souls’.
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In 1985, the first performance of "Arien" was famously delayed for 90 minutes because of technical problems related to the large quantity of water used in the set.
BAM Festival Allows Friendships to Grow
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She once famously shook hands with Dracula when she attended a gala performance by the company at Leeds Grand Theatre.
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He is a strange liberal who seems to get along famously with conservatives.
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Famously, the two main options in the metaphysics of modality are David Lewis '(so-called extreme) modal realism, and ersatzism (or actualism, or abstractionism) in its various forms.
Impossible Worlds
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In 1977, infamously, he was dunted from behind by a police horse called Adjutant, a slice of film we obviously had to use.
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Keats famously used it in "Ode to a Nightingale" in the line "Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
John Lundberg: Harry Potter's Anonymous Poems
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Mahmud rejected the offer, famously repudiating the idea that he should be known as a broker of idols rather than a breaker of them.
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Body shapes changed almost overnight as the effects of a famously punishing routine which included speedball sessions and was rounded off by hopping up the stairs at the Athletic Ground began to take their toll.
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Investors, institutional and retail, have famously short memories.
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Despite these polemics coming into play, the pair of us have managed to get along famously and have exchanged some very long-winded email arguments covering not just politics, but life in general.
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The weather in Antarctica is famously unpredictable, changing in minutes from blue skies to raging blizzards.
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Sinewy and sensuous, these preparatory masterworks are anatomical wonders capturing the longings of the famously impetuous painter.
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The neo-romantic oiks who famously heckled him in 1994 drew scant response from the audience.
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The two of them get on famously.
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He was famously handed a six-month ban in 1994 for pulling another jockey off a horse at Beverley.
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And the racing manager leaps into action to represent his famously reclusive boss.
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With the same detached honesty he famously records the great events, the invaluable ongoing political story, as well as his own foolishnesses and lustful fumblings.
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“Celebrating the rich building traditions and architecture of Yemen, most famously the extraordinary multi-storey buildings that constitute the heart of many Yemeni cities, dating back hundreds of years but continually renewed and rebuilt by their inhabitants”
Matthew Yglesias » Before We Launch a Proxy War in Yemen….
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Apart from the fact that Freeh is a hacktacular freak, it will be interesting to see how the famously computerphobic former G-man wades into all this email and IM info.
Think Progress » REPORT: Hastert Picks Ex-FBI Chief Louis Freeh To Overhaul Page Program
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The thought of Boris Johnson, the faux-bumbling Tory toff, who once famously referred to black children as piccaninnies in an article, becoming Mayor, fills me with dread.
Racially profiled in the West End and other stories
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A famously ebullient man, Fuller was initially stiff and uncomfortable as an actor.
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Britons are famously obsessed with the weather, but have long taken the forecasts with a pinch of salt.
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He is famously taciturn in interviews, and not big on stage patter either, preferring to flick through his back catalogue with the minimum of fuss.
Times, Sunday Times
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Famously discovered by Harry Johnston and named by P.L. Sclater in 1901 (Johnston thought he was tracking down reports of a new forest-dwelling equid), Okapia is a short-necked forest-dwelling giraffid, though how typical it is in the grand scheme of giraffid diversity and evolution has proved controversial.
Archive 2006-06-01
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As successful as they were at the box office (which isn't hard to achieve when it comes to summer audiences and their infamously short attention span ...) "Transformers 2", "Star Trek" and a host of other summer films were simply redressed rehashes (with the exception of "District 9", which was great, in my humble opinion).
AVATAR Zooms Past $800 Million Worldwide on Its Way to $1 Billion – Collider.com
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One contemporary version of Henry's complaint was: ‘I have nourished and promoted in my realm sluggish and wretched knaves who are faithless to their lord and suffer him to be tricked thus infamously by a low clerk.’
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On top of that, Perry got endorsed by swivel-eyed flat tax fan Steve Forbes, who famously blew a stack of cash running in 1996 and 2000 for the Republican nomination.3.08pm: Oh dear – it seems cruel cyber-squatters have been buying and abusing slight variations on the spelling of Michele Bachmann's name.
US politics live blog: Obama's new housing plan, Republican presidential candidates in a tangle
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When a physical resemblance between her and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was noticed, Fey returned to the show to portray the "mavericky" Alaskan who could "see Russia from my house," as Fey famously zinged in a performance that earned its own Emmy, for Fey's "special guest appearance by an actress in a comedy series.
Stars set to honor Tina Fey in Mark Twain Prize ceremony at Kennedy Center
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The area is a famously dangerous stretch of coastline and is the site of thousands of shipwrecks.
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Here called Trio A Pressured #3, danced by the seven White Oak company members, its original soundlessness and famously uninflected movement - a long, deceptively simple, unpunctuated phrase - have been seriously compromised.
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Italian architectural historian Bruno Zevi famously decried the depersonalizing effect of the city's broad avenues and cold modernist styling.
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This is a famously livable city, and its residents tend to be famously smug about the fact.
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One thing that has probably mellowed only a little with age is Lloyd's famously sharp tongue and his impatience with incompetence or poor thinking.
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Our commander in chief is also famously our nicknamer in chief, but what he should be famous for is giving lousy nicknames.
The Nickname Has Gone to Hell
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On Cebu, the recent rediscovery of several of the islands 'presumed-extinct species (most famously the Cebu flowerpecker), has focused community conservation activities by the Cebu Biodiversity Conservation Foundation on protecting the island's last few hectares of forest.
Biological diversity in the Philippines
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A famously lapsed Catholic herself, Greer's desire to criticise the document in unfavourable terms is not surprising.
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There was some delay as we wrestled with both an unsympathetic location and the glare of the lights in his famously large glasses.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are expected to bow down before the divinely written Word, even when that Word famously, ludicrously contradicts itself over and over and over again.
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Now we're not surprised at the mayor's invidious juxtaposition since he once famously remarked, when questioned about his tax increase's impact on local bodegas, ‘It's a minor economic issue.’
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In no time, we were getting along famously in the back of a taxi.
Times, Sunday Times
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In an interview with People magazine granted shortly after her husband made it through his famously contentious confirmation hearings, Ginni said, What [Anita Hill] did was so obviously political…Her allegations…remind me of the movie Fatal Attraction, or in her case, what I call the fatal assistant.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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He helps his famously slimmed-down boss stay that way by mixing protein supplements into sauces and preparing waist-conscious meals such as vegetables in aspic and pomegranate sorbet.
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She deserves special credit for achieving all this at an institution with a famously difficult to manage faculty and at a time of harsh ideological conflict in society as awhole.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Great Law School Dean Doesn’t Have to be a Great Scholar
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Using two celebrities (Britney and Paris) whose behavior was famously far from stellar is dishonest.
McCain Says He Is Proud of ‘Celebrity’ Ad - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Roman Jakobson's good friend, that arch-structuralist aristocrat Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetzkoy, famously said that phonetics is to phonology as numismatics is to economics.
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Recent recordings capture both his improvisatory sessions with the elder Riley—whose oscillating keyboard patterns famously inspired the Who —and his compositions for solo guitar, featured on the Tzadik release "Streams of Gratitude.
A Minimalist Heir With Maximum Chops
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My friend Christian, who famously composts his own (bigger) dogs 'poop, clued me into the importance of red wiggler worms, so I decided to go to nearby Buena Vista Park to dig for some.
Boing Boing
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A famously lapsed Catholic herself, Greer's desire to criticise the document in unfavourable terms is not surprising.
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So many were seduced by the Arian heresy that St Athanasius, who championed the Creed at Nicea, famously said, ‘The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.’
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Yet only two days into his holiday, he found himself so captivated by the island he famously tore up his return train ticket and threw it into the sea.
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There was a political movement against tea-drinking in the 18th century, after the British imposed penal duties and the Boston hotheads famously dumped a consignment in the harbour.
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In 2000, he famously guaranteed that his team, despite a midseason slump, would get to the playoffs.
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Analysts questioned whether such a deal between two famously tough-minded management teams could work out.
Whitehaven, Aston Discuss Coal Merger
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But the famously combative president also struck a rare conciliatory note following his victory, as he appeared to recognise the opposition's growing power.
Times, Sunday Times
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Al D'Amato, who famously stood behind Gillibrand, is now behindthe "obscure" Bruce Blakeman candidacy.
Morning Read: Colavito's Skepticism, Lopez's Meeting, Bloomberg's Schools
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He famously failed to defend the infanticidal Minnie Dean, the first and last woman to be hanged in New Zealand.
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These famously include: Name one item of clothing worn by the Three Musketeers?
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Famously started by a Harvard student as a way to dynamize the freshman facebook, the site is built to serve preexisting networks of high schools and colleges (though anyone can now join).
The Web 2.0 Bubble
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This constituted the bowling alone phenomenon, a term sociologist Robert Putnum famously coined to describe the diminishment of American community life.
Childhood Unbound
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He famously mooned a referee, threw a shoe at a baseline judge who kept calling foot faults and changed both his shirt and his shorts on court during a match.
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Hume famously claimed that inductions are based on regularities found in experience, and concluded that the inductive predictions may very well turn out being false.
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But this generation of celebrity is famously superficial and basically self-parodying.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a famously even-tempered man, but even he had his limits.
LORD PRESTIMION
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And of course there have been some very silly, very illiberal and lots of unworkable, ‘eyecatching’ initiatives such as the famously ridiculous plan to frogmarch teenagers to cash points for on the spot fines.
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Like famously, another vogue term savaged here six years ago, it marches on.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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That is, unless we assume that all currently known natural laws are literally all there are or even can be (as Lord Kelvin infamously did at the end of the 19th century), then it is possible that in the future new versions of purely natural laws will be discovered that can explain the existence of those entities now claimed to be possible only through supernatural intervention.
2006 April - Telic Thoughts
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Karan is famously enamored with Casablanca lilies and uses them in her scents as often as she possibly can, and Gold is built around the intoxicating aroma of these heady, nectarous flowers.
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He famously quipped: 'You want to make a monkey out of me?
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No worries, mate; Australians are also famously thick-skinned!
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David James was famously addicted to computer games back in his Liverpool days.
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Its followers are famously hospitable and generous.
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Male bowerbirds famously woo females by fashioning elaborate bowers - not nests but U-shaped showplaces with parallel walls of twigs.
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His career was sustained by a famously dry wit.
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Breton embraced a similar kind of monism, arguing famously against distinctions between the real and imaginary, past and future, life and death.
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The coffee bar in the sixth-form centre was famously off limits to teachers.
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Lack of sun in the later part of the day is why winter is so famously bleak at high latitudes.
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In other respects, he is famously reticent, averse to showmanship and actually something of a camera-shy recluse.
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Like the Zigs and some of the smaller works at the Whitney, the Tanktotems are painted; their engaging polychromy reminds us that Smith famously strove to combine painting and sculpture into what he called "a new art form" that "would beat either one.
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Those mistakes including a "commoditisation" of Starbucks, a loss of the "romance" of coffee-making (he was famously inspired to build a chain after his first trip to Italy in
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And the Spurs are famously one of those teams that will bench players who don't play defense.
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Famously his deeds out of office earned him the tribute that he was a better ex-president than an incumbent.
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Cultural barbarians were clamoring at the gate, eager to corrupt a venerable institution that gave the world Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Citizen Kane—and, to be fair, two competing films about the lambada that famously pitted Golan against Globus.
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I have been getting on famously with two ladies at the local horticultural society.
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Yet he was famously thin-skinned and irascible, as I have good reason to remember, if any criticism became directed at himself.
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The famously reclusive millionaire writer JK Rowling has revealed that even as a child she hid away from the world, burying herself in books and daydreams.
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They're famously taciturn, and make no allowance for outsiders.
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Iverson famously gave himself the sobriquet ‘The Answer’, tattooing the words on his left arm for emphasis.
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As Joplin famously noted of all his compositions, "It is never right to play 'ragtime' fast," while his concert waltz "Bethena" adds the direction "cantabile" - "as if singing.
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Where Ms. Chua famously rejected the birthday card her 4-year-old made for her and threatened to burn her other daughter's stuffed animals if her piano-playing wasn't perfect, the "Mom" in Ms. Shin's book lavishes unstinting care, behind the scenes, on her children, even as one calls her a "country bumpkin" when she brings them rice cakes in the city.
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In Hanoi, she spoke out against U.S. tactics in the war and was photographed, infamously, perched on an antiaircraft gun.
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Broadway's staging about the radioactive spider-bitten Peter Parker has been famously snakebit.
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Bush, famously or in -, slashed taxes to levels undreamt of even by Reagan.
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As such, monuments are uniquely qualified to figure prominently in the ‘aesthetic of destruction,’ the imagination of disaster famously anatomized by Susan Sontag.
