How To Use Intrigue In A Sentence
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He needed somebody to trust in this morass of intrigue and double meaning that was called the royal court.
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It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign.
Barbarossa
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I'm also intrigued by this "heather in the 'shwa", being from the 'Shwa, myself.
Don't Break Your Arm...
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The plot and intrigue don't come from a script, but from careful editing and control of the set.
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The movie would perhaps be better described as a suspenseful intrigue, but due to the inclusion of zombies, undead or not, it gets called "horror.
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American football, on the other hand, is a game of intrigue, strategies and intellect.
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He could not recall Plauen having talked much about the modern Empire, except to label it a weakling, lost in fantasies of its past, battling for life in a hostile age, constantly stalked by hostile intrigues.
The Swordbearer
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_philosopheress_ Madame du Châtelet, who managed, at one and the same moment, the thread of an intrigue, her cards at piquet, and a calculation in algebra, was a very clever woman!
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
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But there's a falsity in the reaction to the disaster that both intrigues and disgusts me.
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Suppose we admit that Bernadette was not the shy, simple child we knew her to be; let us endow her with a spirit of intrigue and domination, transform her into a conqueress, a leader of nations, and try to picture what, in that case, would have happened.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete
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Intrigued, the aliens monitored the few lyrics they could hear rising up from this outdoor roller ritual.
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This is a novel of intrigue.
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I agree that to clearminded people using a framework as a feature shouldn't even be an issue, but let's face it, there are certain people who will be intrigued to use an application simply because they wish to see how Ajax or RoR is being used.
How Do We Judge Our Tools? - Anil Dash
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Intrigued, he attended a recital by the virtuoso lutenist Joseph Iadone, a member of New York Pro Musica, whose work helped bring wider attention in America to early music.
James Tyler, luntenist and master of early instruments, helped preserve music of ancient era
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They were genuinely intrigued by the story and felt little need to elaborate on what already seemed so outlandish.
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Aside from the linguistic challenges they pose, these ancient artificial, noncewords, with their sonorous, cantillating, rhyming, and rhythmical variations on phonetic themes, have intrigued and fascinated scholars who try to divine the rules governing their formation.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
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And once their fairytale officially ended, relations between them became the stuff of Shakespearean drama, with intrigues, infidelities and fights for centre-stage.
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A little time to carry on this intrigue with the Frank, when possibly, by the assistance of this gallant, Alexius shall exchange the crown for a cloister, or a still narrower abode; and then, Agelastes, thou deservest to be blotted from the roll of philosophers, if thou canst not push out of the throne the conceited and luxurious Caesar, and reign in his stead, a second Marcus
Count Robert of Paris
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‘We were happy, unsurprised and intrigued by the survey results, and we also received a confirmation of our current mandate,’ says Fairey.
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Can it still baffle and intrigue today?
Times, Sunday Times
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And with the discretion of rare breeding she carries into the haunts of vice and miserable intrigue the Italian byword: _Orecchie spalancate, e bocca stretta_.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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I WAS intrigued by a financial whizz-kid on the radio yesterday describing the global credit crisis as "a black swan event.
Express & StarExpress & Star
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Jupiter filters through your job chart and gives you a certain something that intrigues people.
The Sun
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To these qualities he added cunning and a sense of timing in political intrigue.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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John Shade, the Wordsmith Professor of English Literature, doesn't seem to me imaginatively capable of assembling a story like that of Kinbote-Botkin-Charles Xavier, not to mention the whole Baroness-Orczy plot of Zemblan intrigue.
Reading Nabokov
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The king and the president intrigued with the local representatives of white governments.
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Sexual intrigues were almost part of the culture of high politics.
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Most of all, the Colonel was intrigued that the wet blanket had absorbed the energy of the pistol shots.
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You were all smooth and deep voiced there on the dance floor and yeah, I went back to your place after only one drink, but I was intrigued, but once you pulled out that technological terror you call your "sithhood" that was the end of that, but you kept waving your hand "the phallus is not at all scary" and I didn't have any choice but to agree, but now I've got these sores, and the droid at the clinic says they're contagious bitch!
Calgon, Take Me Away
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A number of large Avens and Boulder Chambers add further intrigue to a fascinating area, which could almost qualify as a complete cave system in its own right.
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For this was the unfortunate moment which he chose to launch another of his impassioned diatribes at the worldliness, the luxury, the intrigues, the meretricious bedizenment of wealthy and high-born women.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Shock revelations follow as the story unravels, the plot thickens and the audience grows more intrigued.
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In my previous impostures in the English department, I had picked up some of the rudiments of Romanticism, but one idea that intrigued me was Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime.
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A horror story's got to spook you and intrigue you.
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Yet these were the years that most intrigued me; as I continued my research, I found out she may have had a broken romance with Prince Leopold of England but ended up marrying another man (while wearing a diamond brooch from the Prince on her wedding dress); as a mother, she suffered heartbreak during
A Note about Alice I Have Been by author Melanie Benjamin
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Its quartet of couples confronted and intrigued the audience by way of ballet's athleticism and expressivity.
With Little to Cheer Besides Balanchine
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The three parts are wildly uneven, but this brainteaser seems designed to intrigue and perplex in equal measure.
Times, Sunday Times
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The part where you said you were overcome and ended up in a hospital intrigued me, I'm looking for a game where failing doesn't give you the game over screen, where failing and recouping your losses is all part of the game.
War stories from Mosate Soleo
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As a result, Truzzi was intrigued by magic, juggling, sideshows, carnivals, and circuses.
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The visitors, lured by the intrigue of the island's rich monastic history, will spend the day exploring and picnicking on golden beaches.
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The tea room natter also serves to keep the audience intrigued and alert.
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The festival is based upon the story told in the Book of Esther, a tale of humorous and melodrama parody of palace intrigue, in which the brave Queen Esther and her uncle, Mordecai, save their people from the twisted genocidal plot of the wicked vizar of Persia, Haman.
Archive 2006-11-26
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The man's chest and shoulders were magnificent, but the stump of a right arm, beyond the flesh of which the age-whitened bone projected several inches, attested the encounter with a shark that had put an end to his diving days and made him a fawner and an intriguer for small favors.
THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
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Intrigued, we ordered a round and, as advertised, it tasted like someone had dropped a pat of Land O'Lakes into weak Earl Grey.
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One item that intrigued them was a key to a safe deposit box, which was apparently left for them to find.
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In his many years as a councillor he has witnessed many intrigues, backstabbings and bunfights at Hull's Guildhall - and his reaction to the latest particularly vicious spat is a weary shrug.
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Angela, a whitewater rafter, skydiver and the family's risk-taker was intrigued by the idea.
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The man's chest and shoulders were magnificent, but the stump of a right arm, beyond the flesh of which the age-whitened bone projected several inches, attested the encounter with a shark that had put an end to his diving days and made him a fawner and an intriguer for small favors.
THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
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Stories of people entering marriages they felt were doomed from the start intrigued Carl Weisman of Torrance, Calif., whose book, So Why Have You Never Been Married?
'With this doubt, I thee wed': Some know marriage will fail
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David Copperfield's lament is given here with my further typographical highlights on the kinds of anaphoric returns and alphabetic reversals by which Gass is intrigued: From
Notes on 'Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian'
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It is a grand oligarchy, with immense force and push -- with cunning and skilful intrigue -- in whose plenipotent fingers the threads of the universal octopus centralizes its splendid capabilities in a papal head.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
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When Westrick recently found out about and read the paper, she was intrigued by the areas of overlap and by the alternative approaches to various topics.
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In this way it becomes a short realistic story of every-day people, involving frequently a love intrigue, and told in the iambic senarius, the simplest form of verse.
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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Vroom, vroom, I'm intrigued - what if this is another really neat improvement on digital life from good ol' Google?
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Most important, the performance art intrigue of such a fascinating project is not to be missed.
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Eroticism, intrigue and spectacular sex are all here in this pulse pounding production from Private.
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The palace was a nest of intrigue.
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Mademoiselle Prévost, alarmed at such a triumph, intrigued with such success that Mademoiselle de Camargo was soon forced to fall back to the position of a mere _figurante_.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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The radish is really what intrigues me here though.
Almost Meatless: Salmon Citrus Salad
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O'Grady's accounts of the Elizabethan wars find heroism only among the ordinary members of the warrior class as brave and honest pawns sacrificed to the intrigues of their self-seeking leaders.
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Obviously these questions intrigue me as I have been on both ends of the equation.
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Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio.
Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
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He found his own direction early in life; he chose a narrow path and never deviated from it; he remained completely uncorrupted by success and by the intrigues of the art-world.
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The early scenes of courtly intrigue are slow, but things liven up on the battlefields of France.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is something else about this story that intrigues me.
Christianity Today
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The major intriguer behind the UN was Franklin Roosevelt.
Stephen Schlesinger: Capturing the Birth of the UN on Film
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What intrigues me is why the postie didn't just throw the letter away.
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The normally staid boardrooms of the country's big car makers have been rocked by allegations of bribery and sexual intrigue.
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Sexual intrigues were almost part of the culture of high politics.
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… 30 … The Scottish surgeon James Braid, intrigued by one such performance, began to study the practice, ultimately publishing his findings under the title "hypnosis," derived from the Greek word "to sleep.
Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
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I was intrigued by Tom's link so I went to see what Kerron was on abaht.
Archive 2007-03-25
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The writer added a breath of intrigue to the mystery surrounding the wizard.
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It is a story of intrigue, deception and treachery.
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I was intrigued on how the owners managed to keep the plants on the wall surfaces alive in a non-fenestrated space.
The Greenhouse Nightclub Interior by bluarch Architecture
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It is probable that the Count was in connivance with them about all this, but anybody was surely little acquainted with me who did not know that I was too busy with my art to give any time to politics, even if I had not always felt an aversion to everything smacking of intrigue.
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
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Ava, a slumped, grey-haired woman just ahead in the line, is intrigued to hear of similar events going on elsewhere.
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Intrigue, sex, politics and power dominate the drama.
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the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal
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BATH, England—Although historians today think that he suffered from a hereditary blood disorder called porphyria, not madness, King George III's erratic behavior has always baffled and intrigued in equal measure.
The Witty Madness of David Haig's George III Is Fit for a King
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The moon shines on your personality chart and there is something about you that intrigues people.
The Sun
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And what a nest of anxious rhetoric and backstabbing intrigue it is.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a disgusting habit that really mystifies and intrigues me at the same time.
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And from this time began an intrigue between his Majesty and a junto of Ministers maliciously bent against me, which broke out in less than two months.
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You can approach that person who intrigues you.
The Sun
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Now that the two have exposed their repressed animosity toward each other, there's an added layer of drama and intrigue to their public personas.
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This belongs to the secret world of state-to-state relations, with all their intrigues, shady deals and questionable trade-offs, which most governments hide from their citizens.
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There is something new about you that intrigues people.
The Sun
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There is something new about your love style that intrigues a partner.
The Sun
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A novel of international intrigue in which Grace goes to Stockholm in response to a cryptic message from her sister, Willa.
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To these qualities he added cunning and a sense of timing in political intrigue.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Herein lies the unmistakable whiff of a work in progress - and its corollary - the promise of further unputdownable Jamesian intrigue.
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The picture's allusions to great moments in cinema - a horse suspended in its harness, from Vertigo shot of a woman plummeting from a bell-tower; the Michael Caine at the height of what I call his blazer years, when he played a series of men caught up in international intrigue while looking smashing in navy sports coats.
GreenCine Daily
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An archaeologist from the Threshers Verity Auger becomes embroiled in interstellar intrigue when she discovers a duplicate Earth, held in stasis by alien technology, has become active and in fact can now be visited.
REVIEW: Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds
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He was intrigued, but was concerned that too much of the NO2 would dimerize to
Richard E. Smalley - Autobiography
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He knew those legends well, as well as he knew the legends of Roland and the twelve paladins, and he would be intrigued by the retelling.
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For example, there is no need to worry that the smart machine will indulge in tale-bearing and back-biting, much less plan palace intrigues and carry out malicious back-stabbing.
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Like most Australian girls, I was intrigued by a man who could be so self reliant and independent in the bush.
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Standing stones and circles, henges, cup-marked stones and dolmens have intrigued us for generations, but there is little real evidence of their true purpose.
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With supernatural undertones, this thriller provides more suspense and intrigue than you can swing your tutu at.
The Sun
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But with thousands of people doing “revolving door” pathetic short sentences in cushy jails, which only serve to encourage them to come back again. on July 28, 2008 at 7: 37 pm | Reply Intrigued of Ilford
Oooops! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Antonia's creations had thoroughly intrigued me when I met she and her family at the Palm Sunday Crafts Fair the previous March; I eagerly looked forward to seeing the bubbly cauldron where she cast her magic spells and brought her bewitched creepy-crawlies to life.
Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
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But this intrigue of the antient is a piece of private history, the truth of which my beloved cares not to own, and indeed affects to disbelieve: as she does also some puisny gallantries of her foolish brother; which, by way of recrimination, I have hinted at, without naming my informant in their family.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Agrippina is considered to be the murderer, because she was ambitious for her son, Nero, and Claudius had become suspicious of her intrigues.
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He ‘distained to mingle in the intrigues of court life’ and found his chief occupation in the formation of his collection.
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The notice intrigued many students.
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Two recent films directed by prominent American actors deal with Latin American political intrigue in an odd partnership with dance.
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Some excellent suggestions here, but I am particularly intrigued by CGull's antiperspirant trick.
How Do You Keep Your Hands and Feet Toasty?
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Scientists from Harvard Medical School were intrigued to learn that the Kuna seem to have naturally low blood pressure.
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Intrigued, I scrolled to see what music they recommended for me.
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-: Corporate intrigue is usually harder to follow than journalism.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Common Superhero Day Jobs, Part 1
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Failure to do so can easily make the consultant a victim of political intrigue.
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Even though he held business in contempt - as would any right-thinking, left-leaning humanities professor - the marketplace intrigued him.
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The Arien personality may be energetic, enthusiastic, and intrigued by excitement, but the Virgo inner nature holds some of those passions in check.
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Khadra's Algiers is a labyrinth of political intrigue and corporate crime - or, more precisely, corporate crime disguised as political intrigue.
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I'm intrigued by everything you are saying, because it would sound like you have a generally more sanguine view of the situation than the auditor general did or than the Senate committee did that studied security in Canada.
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Tropylium: "An idea that intrigues me would be non-compensatory lengthening based on foot type considerations, similar to the theory of gradation by fortition proposed for Finno-Samic.
A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
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It is a story packed with plotting, political intrigue and bloody warfare.
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He found himself snared in a web of intrigue.
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Lord Acton's erroneous idea, that Ridolfi was employed by Pius V to obtain Elizabeth's assassination, seems to have arisen from a mistranslation of Gabutio's Latin Life of St. Pius in the Bollandists Cecil eventually discovered the intrigue; Norfolk was beheaded, 2 June, 1572, and the Puritans clamoured for Mary's blood, but in this particular Elizabeth would not gratify them.
Mary Queen of Scots
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It felt like an instance of synchronicity - I started noticing Sutherland's work about 18 months ago and have become increasingly intrigued by him.
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But what intrigued me most of all was a postscript was appended to the Hardy letter: ‘Remember me to Coffin and the admiral.’
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The simmering tension between them is played out against the sweep of world events as Shanghai fears a Japanese attack and the city becomes a hotbed of political intrigue, secrets and desperation.
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All the beautiful little hints of intrigue were stomped down with movie-length hobnail boots.
MIND MELD: SciFi TV Shows That Deserve A Remake (with Videos)
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He seemed so mysterious in Dorian and Ashaya's story, I have been intrigued ever since!
Q & A
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It's a question that intrigues conservatives, as much as it emboldens liberals.
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Also, I was most intrigued with this sighting because we saw it on a mountain at a city overlook where light pollution is highest.
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Woodward granted former CIA director George H.W. Bush a pass by excluding him from accounts of Iran-Contra, which occurred while the notorious intriguer was vice president under the notoriously hands-off Ronald Reagan.
Russ Baker: "Obama's Wars": The Real Story Bob Woodward Won't Tell
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I was intrigued to read in your autobiography that your relationship with your parents was starchy and formal, while you were close to your grandmother.
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The intrigue is accompanied by a voice-over commentary, just in case you don't understand, and haphazard flashbacks to remind you of her traumatic childhood.
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A war of intrigue, conducted by one tyrannous power against another, was altogether different.
Times, Sunday Times
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The title intrigued me I was expecting to read an article about, well anything but that.
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Alarmed, Mei-ling and Ei-ling initiated a subtle intrigue designed to keep Stilwell in place.
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Schwarz had an agent who would serve as the key intermediary for this operation: Trillium, the flower code for a reputed Zionist named Andor Gross, alias Andre György, a chatty and somewhat disreputable intriguer who over the years had been a freelance courier for both the Allied and Axis intelligence services in Istanbul.
Wild Bill Donovan
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I was intrigued to discover that enterprising later medieval peasants would make a quick profit on the side by knocking up a cruck frame using illegal wood from the local lord's forest, and then smartly on-selling before being nabbed, developing the original prefab house!
Thatched barns and stave churches: the possibilities of Anglo-Saxon timber architecture
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This movie has it all: romance, mystery, intrigue, danger, and who can forget the airplane cutouts and midget mechanics.
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It's all too easy to settle into one of the vaulted snugs and get happily drunk to talk of political intrigue.
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I am intrigued by the new Family Chase edition.
The Sun
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Political intrigue, both in the host country and between the expats, only adds to the sense of drama.
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I well know the vanity of decorative ribbonry and tinware, especially when, as too often happens, intrigue degrades the honor conferred; but, coming as it did, that bit of ribbon is precious to me.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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More than 3,500 Scots, mainly woman and children, and their cats were killed in witch hunts at a time of political intrigue and religious ferment.
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For example, there is no need to worry that the smart machine will indulge in tale-bearing and back-biting, much less plan palace intrigues and carry out malicious back-stabbing.
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Seriously misjudging the popular mood in Spain, Napoleon, with a mixture of intrigue and brute force, sought to remove the Bourbons and replace them with one of his brothers.
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I was intrigued when I saw the use of the term "literacy" and multiple categories, as I have been watching the term morphing from its original meaning "literate" meaning "one who knows the letters" i.e. one who can read write and make meaning of text to a new meaning which in broad term means fluent, competent, able to interpret.
Archive 2006-03-01
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I'm intrigued with the unexpected twists, turns, stumbles and rebirths that life presents - with the resulting seasoning and forming effects they have on us.
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I'm not much interested in golf, and I don't really follow it, but I'm intrigued by this story about the newest wunderkind in the game, who happens to be a girl.
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Yet the cast manages to coexist capably with the conceit, confidently propelling us through the drama of lords, priests and queens, in ascendance and decline, in Henry's intrigue-ridden court.
Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII'
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He also discovers a nest of intrigue, decadence and a heathen willingness to murder people very casually if they get in your way.
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But we don't want to give too much away as intrigue and betrayal are at the heart of the storylines.
The Sun
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[A] tale rich in intrigue and impressive historic detail with abundant wit and humor.
The Dakota Cipher by William Dietrich: Book summary
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Far too often biographers are obsessed with sex, courtly intrigue, or military manoeuvres.
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For Webster's audience, Italy was perceived as a site of political intrigue, economic power, decadence, and moral decay.
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As The Ghost, McGregor is the stand-in for the audience, drawn in over his head and struggling to figure out the high stakes world of political intrigue.
Movie Review: The Ghost Writer » Scene-Stealers
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Intrigued by the historically reported differences in anthropometry between the bronchitic and emphysematous patients, researchers performed studies to assess body composition in both COPD subtypes.
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Aside from the brevity of the story, what intrigued us was how narky it was.
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Can it still baffle and intrigue today?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a stirring, brutal tale of conspiracy and intrigue, treachery and dissent, the overthrow of a hapless leader named Duncan.
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An idea that intrigues me would be non-compensatory lengthening based on foot type considerations, similar to the theory of gradation by fortition proposed for Finno-Samic.
A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE
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Its happy consummation is delayed over five volumes by intrigues, contretemps, and misunderstandings, many of them designed to exhibit the virtues and failings of Camilla, or to test and improve her character.
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By then at the end of his active career as a lover, intriguer at the court of the regency of Louis XIV, and soldier who had thrice chosen the wrong side in the civil wars known as the Fronde, La Rochefoucauld clearly exceeded all others at this game.
Puncturing Our Pretensions
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Throughout history, people have been intrigued by the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
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The three parts are wildly uneven, but this brainteaser seems designed to intrigue and perplex in equal measure.
Times, Sunday Times
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The clients are obsessed with themselves, but also intrigued by the reticent Mira and her war-torn country.
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Students they met with were so intrigued by the potential of tools like Twitter, Google, and Wordpress in Arabic, Kurdish, and English for both developing a stronger civil society and to scaring up some work that the delegation, says Liebman, is discussing throwing together a simple hub with a handy URL that points to the free and cheap hosted web services that might quickly help them along their way.
What I Did on My Iraqi Vacation
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The general reader intrigued by the topic might object that Baucom has written his book in a language more accessible to his colleagues in literary criticism than to the said general reader
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All the schemes and intrigues are doomed to failure.
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Most of all, the Colonel was intrigued that the wet blanket had absorbed the energy of the pistol shots.
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There is no heir apparent to engage in intrigue against him.
Times, Sunday Times
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A tale of murder, bribery, betrayal and intrigue follows as the plot gathers pace and Solomon races to towards the finish line.
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It may share Shakespeare's penchant for combining vulgar humour with intellectual high-mindedness, but this drama of sapphic intrigue in late 19 th-century New England is somewhat over-written.
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North was a man who added to the intrigue of meetings.
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I was totally intrigued by the tame birds, the animals, and by the mountain ranges and the geography.
Times, Sunday Times
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But since then Csikszentmihalyi’s theory seems to have lost traction, so I was intrigued to hear my Turkish friend (in gridlocked traffic that was the antithesis of flow!) update me on a couple of recent studies (copies of which he subsequently sent me) that have rehabilitated the notion of flow.
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There is something new about your love style that intrigues a partner.
The Sun
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It's no fun to be old and alone and not be odd, to at least stir up conversation with an air of intrigue and mystery on the block.
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It focuses brilliantly on political intrigue and high stakes and assassins and crumbling empires.
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I am intrigued by the capstan winches fitted to the Range Rovers on the Darien Gap crossing.
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Step across its threshold (beneath the royal escutcheon of Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain) and you brush against a time when these colonnades shaded both piety and intrigue.
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More interested in intrigue and the dark underbelly of the Imperium of Man?
5 Reasons Why You Should Read a Warhammer 40,000 Book
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What intrigued me in charting the life stories of the Mann brothers, by contrast, was the way Heinrich began his professional life as an anti-imperialist and socialist: a writer who denounced the Kaiser's war - World War I - at the risk of being denounced himself as an anti-patriot.
Nigel Hamilton: From Rage to Civilization
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They will increasingly have to master the dark arts of political intrigue.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no heir apparent to engage in intrigue against him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mazarin's numerous nieces, and the opera, that new importation from Italy, which the Cardinal was bringing into fashion; while in the remote past of half a dozen years back the Fronde was the only interesting subject, and even that was worn threadbare; the adventures of the Duchess, the conduct of the Prince in prison, the intrigues of Cardinal and Queen, Mademoiselle, yellow-haired Beaufort, duels of five against five -- all -- all these were ancient history as compared with young Louis and his passion for Marie de
London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
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A many-sided tale of faith and betrayal, drama and intrigue, set in the world of old Edo.
I want them all
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We are also intrigued by what is going on just outside a house on the right-hand side of the picture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only her name irked Susan, and as Susan wrote Clara Colby, "If Catt it must be then I insist, she should keep her own father's name -- Lane -- and not her first husband's name -- Chapman," [404] but the three Cs intrigued Carrie and she continued to be known as Carrie Chapman Catt.
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
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In fact, few vegetables offer as much intrigue as the mysterious mushroom.
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She rolled with it like bodysurfing a wave, caught between euphoria and intrigue.
Shadow Chase
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After having a a little descanted on this Adventure, we resolved to go to the Rose, to wash down our Disappointments, and try to meet some of our Acquaintance as they came out of the Play, and hear what Transactions, what Intrigues, and other little trifling News the House afforded that Evening.
The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
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Arriving in Boston for the show, they discover a web of intrigue, giant-sized egos and really catty behaviour.
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What intrigued me about Florida's current publicity tour is the uncritical adulation his ideas seem to be receiving in much of the Australian media.
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Jupiter filters through your job chart and gives you a certain something that intrigues people.
The Sun
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He had seen a summer camp counselor demonstrating hypnosis using mesmeric passes and postural sway tests and was intrigued by what he saw.
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But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy … She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own … she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
What Would Wilson Do?
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Different climate controlled rooms display a wide variety of local and international plants and flowers that intrigue even the most horticulturally ignorant person.
Archive 2007-05-01
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You've really intrigued me-tell me more!
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Her pictures capture those around her, those who fire and intrigue her moral curiosity.
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Are you intrigue with grilling or frying steak or kidney - pie or casserole?
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The intrigued agent employs an investigative journalist to dig into the past.
Times, Sunday Times
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But we don't want to give too much away as intrigue and betrayal are at the heart of the storylines.
The Sun
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The Arien personality may be energetic, enthusiastic, and intrigued by excitement, but the Virgo inner nature holds some of those passions in check.