How To Use Pretty In A Sentence
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I turned up at the school yard with my hippie backpack slung over one shoulder feeling pretty cool.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first part of the book is pretty boring, but it gets a lot better as the story goes on.
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And those involved are pretty small: a few degrees between cooler land and warmer ocean at night, a few tens of degrees between tropics and poles.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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We lapped the track a few times at a walk, trot and canter and the horse went through it pretty smoothly.
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The DOJ thing is pretty strange, and will probably get modified, but all I can say is how nice it is that Dems aren't all on the same page, parroting the same opinions, baaing like conservatives.
Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated)
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While the Irish government generates a lot of noisy, self-righteous cant about the evils of cigarettes at home, it makes a pretty packet from ‘selling death’ abroad.
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Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal.
Hair fix #3
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That's pretty reasonable for being a motoring eco warrior.
The Sun
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(I think the Dalek is pretty cute though, I have to say.) 10: 37 AM
While it's still Valentine's Day ...
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If you defocus from the embedded Zoho Writer you pretty much kill it.
The problem with mash-ups « Squash
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His assistant, a pretty young woman, is bright, very capable, and eager to help.
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The Latin American brotherhood was a pretty awful in general, coming out of some deranged ideas of Simon Bolivar, and it was an extraordinarily awful thing during the Cold War.
Matthew Yglesias » Carter on Gaza
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In the first sentence, the ship is described as a frigate, which has a pretty strong military connotation.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!
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Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
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Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some scattered reeds, two plants of the yellow herb called tansy, four of a red flower, and a pretty white one; but the treasures of the rock consisted of three roots of garlic, which Maie had put in a cleft.
The Lilac Fairy Book
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The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
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Condensed soups are pretty much just cans of flavour.
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I really got into gambling in a big way, and ended up playing blackjack with some pretty scary people, but it was a riot.
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With the exception of one guy, whose name escapes me right now, the DJs are a pretty poor bunch too.
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And after rewinding the film and watching it without any adrenaline to threaten our objectivity, it became pretty clear that during this year of epic passing, San Francisco played one of the greatest defensive games in playoff history.
OK, Now That Was a Defense
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_Pretty well married_, you know, implies 2000_l. _ a-year; and very well married, nothing under
Tales and Novels — Volume 07
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'' Then I got about 30 swings with the regular bat and it felt pretty much the same as swinging the fungo, which is obviously a good sign. '', who had surgery to repair a tendon in his right middle finger Aug. 14, visited his doctor in Arizona on Thursday and remains on schedule to return by late September.
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I am lobbying pretty heavily for a spicy cranberry jelly from a jar.
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This capricious beast had been trained to caracole, and his owner had taken to impressing girls by making the beast execute this pretty trick whenever he saw one.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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While you can get pretty close to walruses here, within 30 feet in some cases, you're not allowed to be on the beaches, so conversations are kept to a minimum and there's a rush to get up.
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She's in pretty good nick for her age.
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And I should really add, Gina, this is a pretty awesome, thorough, and well-demonstrated list you've put together here.
Easy Ways To Graph Your Life | Lifehacker Australia
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There's more to the field and hedgerow trend than pretty florals.
Times, Sunday Times
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So now you know the words to our song, pretty soon you'll all be singing along.
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It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes. George Carlin
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The cinema itself was pretty filthy, with popcorn strewn across the floor.
The Sun
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The Cameo cinema in Edinburgh has just announced an Eighties all-nighter, featuring saccharine delights such as Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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She was a pretty vessel: schooner-rigged, very low in the water, and -- as we found out when we took her -- of very deep draught; broad in the beam, and ` flush-decked 'fore and aft, with no raised fore or after castles.
Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
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Days moved by quickly and pretty soon, Gillian reached her sixth month check up, which this time included an ultrasound.
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We have been pretty open-handed now in facilitating the development of Chinese technology even for military purposes.
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Common knapweed is like a pretty thistle without prickles.
Times, Sunday Times
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My writing style is pretty unique.
The Sun
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To go from that fall, hitting her head, and then to do the headbanger is pretty amazing.
The Sun
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Such quackeries do not make old people young and ugly girls pretty.
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Data costs about $0.05 per MB and it is pretty reliable and fastish I got about 380kbit/s connection speed.
2008 January « My Life in Kharkov
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The Lonely Sailor from Pete Barnstrom of Left Foot Red Video features a variety of animation techniques, as Mistah Pete says, “cel animation, stop-frame, some keyframe bidness…pretty much every kind of animation I know.”
Luminaria: ‘Millie and Lucy’ and ‘The Lonely Sailor’ | Missions Unknown
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Go in dressed as a Bond character and you'll just look pretty suave.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we gave Eli his big contract, we needed him to go from above-average/pretty good to very good, and to make the leap from a steward of a good offense to someone who could carry the offense by himself.
Greg Hanlon: Ungiantlike: Eagles 45 - Giants 38
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Played in horrible conditions with gusting gales and sweeping rain this was never going to be a pretty affair.
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I am pretty certain that during his actual practice lifetime Dr. Egnor utilized these studies and never counted on the brains of his patients to be so intelligently designed that they would all be optimally perfectly identical. coturnix
Egnorance Overload - The Panda's Thumb
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I'm meeting my study group for lunch today, but I'm pretty much ready for orals.
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Next to the pretty basic motel where I stayed was a shop selling and renting electric wheelchairs, and there they were in their serried hundreds.
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The ladies, in their pretty language, signalized him as a 'finick.'
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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No one but Mark heard it, but Mark was pretty sure he had just received a slightly cracked rib.
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Compared to say, high fantasy, it is actully pretty hard to find good (or any) material in steampunk (and other smaller genres).
Genre dilettante «
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Lively, pretty, and pleasure-loving, Carie had married the saintly younger brother of the minister in her hometown of Hillsboro, West Virginia, because he was preparing to go as a missionary to China, and she wanted to give herself to God.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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I've done some pretty naff things over the years, in the name of my work and it paid off.
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The place emptied pretty quickly when the fight started.
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I'm pretty sure he'll agree.
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It was a pretty straightforward plan.
Times, Sunday Times
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The manaesh, a slightly thicker bread crusted with sour crushed sumac and wild Armenian thyme, was pretty great too, especially when you toast it at home and have it with your coffee in the morning.
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The media gave his personal life a pretty firm going-over.
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For the overnighter I pretty much took a toothbrush, my hot-water bottle and a change of underwear.
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Commentary has pretty much adopted him as their science guy, and he has published a steady stream of flapdoodle in their pages over the last decade.
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The classroom equipment is pretty rudimentary.
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I got to know her pretty well and realized that she wasn't really shallow.
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The future looks pretty dismal right now.
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Again for very reasonable prices, they will restitch, reheel, resole or reglue pretty much anything.
Times, Sunday Times
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Teaching Unions whose members make a pretty penny from invigilating and correcting.
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Not pretty - I think you have to be under 6' to be perdy.
The night before the race and "inner voices"
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Yes | No | Report from Vinny69 wrote 12 hours 43 min ago lee amd tiffany is pretty good i like that show,
"In the Blood" was one of my favorite hunting theme movies of all time. What are some of your favorites?
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The musical direction she was going in and the mime and dance, it left me pretty cold.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the business failed, he had to draw in his horns pretty sharply.
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Pretty soon we will be bailing out the autoindustry and homebuilding industry and after that healthcare.
New Jersey Real Estate Report
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Also, I know you disdain catfish, but there's certainly a subset of guys who are hard-core and pretty cultish about catching monster blues and flatheads.
Which Fishing Cult is the Most Insane?
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It's not just pretty to look at though, it's also incredibly playable.
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Yet I feel pretty sure that recreating the messianic zeal about Early Intervention that I felt that day in Granton would do nothing but good.
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That was pretty much the last I heard from him, and we haven't seen the money since.
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Yet the government does exactly this and the public seems pretty much unconcerned about it.
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It's pretty clear he was brought in as an eleventh-hour replacement.
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A pretty feeble ruse, perhaps, but it works. which might work except the nobble is pretty damned big ... that's the problems; and then there's writing as avoidance of writing (kinda like this post!):
Writer's Block
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I'm pretty sure some of my neighbors would still turn up for bear-baiting or a nice drawing and quartering if it were going on down at the town green.
Where I work...
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A pretty fern that is quite different again is maidenhair fern.
Times, Sunday Times
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As far as demonstrations go, it was no big deal and, with no reports of the well-practised Belgian police water cannons in action, it was a pretty tame affair.
Damned either way
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The graph line runs pretty much the same five years before and five years after.
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Yeah, well it's kind of helped me through some pretty dire times of stress, like my 4th year at varsity.
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The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. "Come on, buddy, let's go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he's got a spoon. Back off, I've got the toe clippers right here". Jerry Seinfeld
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It's not bad to be reminded that there's a whole horde of men of his generation out there in the sticks for whom the old shibboleths are pretty important.
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I still think that pretty little Browning semi-auto would sell in other rim-fire chamberings.
The Browning Wish List Roundup
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At another time it might have been a pretty journey, the hills just turning the colors of pumpkin and hay and pomegranate and the skies depthless and clear, but now everywhere one looked most of the trees had been felled for fuel and there was only a hazy, oppressive brightness refracted from the shorn hillsides.
Excerpt: The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee
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I'm pretty sure they slept together before they were married.
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The insurance cost of a Mini is actually pretty reasonable.
$1.99 « BuzzMachine
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I am pretty sure 95\% of the commenters on this site have never even talked to a girl, which is why a bullfrog is their fantasy date - they never actually have to talk to him or let him see how socially inept they all are.
Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)
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Like me, he was a disillusioned cynic, enjoyer of beer and a great admirer of a pretty face.
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We knew we were in for a pretty long, jejune evening.
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I think -" "I've a pretty little mare, pure Arab - bought her for breeding, but she's proving deuced picky, altogether unamenable.
ON A WILD NIGHT
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That's pretty precise for a wild guess.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sure, there's a pretty popish synth line that could be easily translated into a mid-60's glock part, and there're handclaps, but the damn verse is one bar of four, one bar of three, one bar of four and repeat.
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We see chickadees, crows, two pretty orioles … But where is a pigeon when you want one?
Birdology
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When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty little package22.
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Then after doing some numbers, we saw that HWA would take a chunk, HWA's agent would, a book packager would, and after paying the contributors Ellen and I would be pretty underpaid.
MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1)
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Then I tried to get at him in many ways; but he was pretty sly and had always two prize-fighters, besides his sons and his khitmutgar, on guard over him.
The Sign of Four
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This recipe will make around six to eight pancakes - but be warned, you may want to double up as they get devoured pretty quickly!
The Sun
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This is a pretty straight-forward and self-explanatory clause, but it's important none the less.
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In the U.S. you can get some pretty great decaf from a number of sources: the aforementioned Terroir Coffee for lighter roasts, and for deeply-roasted plunger pot or espresso-style decaf try the Sumatra or any other decaf from Peets (www. peets.com).
Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico
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Pretty soon the place was populated with everybody from gypsies to prime ministers to people with turbans running around - it was indeed an Orson party.
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( "Some will rob you with a six-gun/Some with a fountain pen," go the words to Woody Guthrie's ballad "Pretty Boy Floyd.")
Richard B. Woodward: Bernard Madoff and Anton Chigurh: the Con Man as Serial Killer
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It was a pretty huckery-looking mini-bus.
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Now the microwave oven was pretty old and I'm not surprised it conked out, but the iron was relatively new and I hadn't been expecting it to explode in my hand for another couple of years at the earliest.
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Then, this state of nerves is most frequently to be relieved by care in affording them a pleasant view, a judicious variety as to flowers, * and pretty things.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
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Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
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It is now pretty conclusively established that they are no more Japanese than they are of any other country in particular, but that the originators of the breed were common fancy mice which were suffering from a disease of the brain analogous to the 'gid' in sheep.
The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
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I'm pretty sure that writing for publication is one of the most arrogant things a human can do.
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Pretty good, Miss Green, the advisor called out with her usual restraint, hands on the hips of her gray sweats, her expression thoughtful A compact woman with frizzy brown hair and a somewhat plain face, Miss Green had a husky voice that always sounded as if she had laryngitis.
The Second Evil
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All-in-one devices - scanners, copiers and printers in one machine - are pretty popular these days.
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There are a handful of real tech stormers (like "A Roboter"), a handful of really pretty, nearly beatless minimal compositions (see "Awaking Naked"), and another few, like this one, that find the line between the two and hop back and forth between both worlds.
Slippy (Music (For Robots))
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I knew I was playing pretty well when we stopped after nine holes to have lunch.
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She gets some pretty cute boyfriends.
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If the ship is aground, which is likely enough, for the captain pushed up farther than we thought possible, they will be pretty safe when they have once got past her.
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril
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Also, I'm pretty sure that his intuition is correct about the unrequited bromance.
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a scarlet "whittle" over all this motley finery; with a "outwork quoyf or ciffer" (New England French for coiffure) with "long wings" at the side, and a silk or tiffany hood on her drooping head, -- Priscilla in this attire were pretty indeed.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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As a lightweight, he carried a pretty solid wallop to go along with his uncanny ring generalship.
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She guessed that was pretty much what Josh was seeing in her peepers too.
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These traditional cottages are not only chocolate-box pretty, they also provide good levels of natural insulation - but don't forget the repair and renewal costs
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My good friends of masher persuasion are in seventh heaven when they have the opportunity of admiring eight pretty faces.
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Last night's Lee vs. Kryzan debate was pretty staid, which is to say boring.
WNYMedia
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She is slightly built and very pretty, with baby blue eyes and a wide, cheeky grin.
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There's also a pretty good chance that we could have a last minute substitution for the cranberry relish.
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Nations. yep, it's pretty quaint stuff, couched in terms of newness and normalcy, of foreigness and familiarity. it describes the music as modern and "swingy" and yet timeless, as being of universal appeal - they belong to everyone - and yet "from a single nationality." i wonder whether the universalist rhetoric was meant to appeal to non-jews or simply to jews ambivalent about their jewishness? or am i simply being naive about midcentury, metropolitan jewishness? it is interesting to me also that, apparently, zionist discourse had not yet divorced the term palestinian from any association with jewish heritage.
Wayneandwax.com
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Get a load of this pretty woman!
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At Tin House, at the magazine and in the books division, we're looking for writing that edifies the reader, not something that distracts them Fox's programming has that pretty-well covered.
Tin House
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And this writing seems pretty ordinary: complete sentences; semicolons; yada yada.
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A few months ago, I heard a regular at the local coffee shop say, ‘Pretty soon, you'll need a sawbuck to get coffee here.’
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But these pretty guys are much more cosmopolitan than just being Aussies, and they don't just speak with Australian accents, however it may sound to the undiscerning ear.
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So popstrel Samantha Mumba's joke at last week's Brits is a pretty good joke.
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Pretty soon I overheard a conversation between two muddled buyers.
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They all are fans of the hybridized glads, confused by the pretty pictures shown in catalogs and on bag tags of masses of gaudy colorful clown like flowers.
Monday Report « Fairegarden
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One pretty little wader, an avoset, appears as if standing on stilts, its legs are so long; and its bill seems bent the wrong way, or upward.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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The spies on both sides are pretty louche characters, and espionage is portrayed as intimately bound up with military and business interests.
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The game ended up going to a penalty shootout, which was pretty nerve-wracking, and a little anticlimatic at the same time.
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No one will care about you too much unless you're pretty or dying.
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Sarcasm is usually pretty obvious and shouldn't need telegraphing in such a crude manner.
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To spend a day steeped that deeply in "sense of wonder" is rare indeed, and tent-poled a pretty satisfying year of SF consumption.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1)
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Already considering flip-top cell phones pretty outmoded, we attach Bluetooth devices, with no thought of Lt Uhura opening the hailing frequencies through an elaborate earpiece.
Officers Starship | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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The pretty cathedral city in Hampshire was bustling with shoppers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Althouse: FWIW, I read that sentence as you meant it because I'm used to your writing, familiar with your views and know what you're referring to, but I did "stutter" for a second to make that adjustment ... in pretty much the exact way I do when I'm editing for pay something which I then "flag" for the following author query: "Are you confident everyone will read this as you intend it be understood?
"The Optimum Population Trust... says each baby born in Britain will... burn carbon roughly equivalent to 2½ acres of old-growth oak woodland...."
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Pretty much all Christian denominations and traditions celebrate Christmas and so it's a good reminder of our common roots and ancestry.
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To forget sb is pretty easy. Just don't see him/her, don't be a contemptible wretch.
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“Is she a pretty girl?” said the Duke; “her sister does not get beyond a good comely sonsy lass.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Present castle incumbent Peter Frost-Pennington is a stoic, sensible Scot, who likes to keep an open mind on spectral matters, but readily admits a recent flurry in phantom phenomena has been pretty good for business.
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In an ideal world it would also link to the collaborative Hydra notes that were taken for pretty much every session.
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For the screamingly obvious manipulation/staging of these images, it's pretty inexcusable that we've had to wait this long for someone to report on it.
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The road twisted and hairpinned and climbed, but as scary mountain passes go, it was pretty tame.
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Again, it has nicely done packaging in a slimline case with a pretty neat insert.
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I wore my summer suit pretty well through that winter, and the following summer experienced the longest, dryest spell of all, in the period when salaried men are gone on vacation and manuscripts lie in editorial offices until vacation is over.
Chapter 26
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Since they are wearing bug repellent they only have a very small few spots on their body that is left undefended and ripe for the picking, and these sweet spots can sometimes be pretty hard to get at.
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Working in a record shop was pretty much a labour of love.
Times, Sunday Times
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All our theories sound pretty lame.
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I think “it is not an abstraction that animates them” could actually be a pretty revealing sentence, and not merely a bizarre self-contradiction.
Matthew Yglesias » Peretz: Obama Needs “Harsh View of Islam Today”
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The Great Bars are dying because of fear and bad science, but the solutions seem pretty obvious.
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Lysander : What a pretty beauty ! Helena, I would through fire for your sweet sake.
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Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant.
Times, Sunday Times
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By this point, I'm pretty much immune to any potential sexual peer pressure, and won't easily give into doing anything I'm uncomfortable with.
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The media gave his personal life a pretty firm going-over.
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Americans tend to be pretty cynical about politicians and think corruption is widespread.
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They were both pretty ordinary, lived normal lives, made satisfactory grades and were decent looking.
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I had a continual barrage of interjections - quite contrary to the speech of the Minister, to whom we gave a pretty fair hearing.
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The lines are pretty blurry at this point.
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Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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But, you know-this writer's pretty damn good too.
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They learn fast and the days when foreigners could come and teach them something are pretty much over.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its also pretty self evidently false, as the briefest foray into the science and its history will tell you.
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The boys had obviously gotten a pretty strict upbringing both at home and at school.
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I'm pretty handy at giving out advice," claimed Mark.
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Many cliffs are now brightened by the pretty pink flowers of thrift on their trembling stalks.
Times, Sunday Times
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This, apparently, was the very room from which Monet painted his celebrated views of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament, hung in (acceptable) reproduction around the walls of the pretty, panelled sitting room.
The Smartest Hotel in the World
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When something like a black cloud passed among them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming over her head, or a ship with many people: they certainly did not think that a pretty little sea-maid was standing down below stretching up her white hands towards the keel of their ship.
The Little Sea-Maid
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Foodfreak said... on now that's what I call a decent pastry - sounds delicious and is very pretty!
Spinach and Egg Pie
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I thought it was an angelfish at first, but it was pretty cool!
Field & Stream
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It's pretty much a rule of politics that when a party has been out of power for a while it is willing to tolerate a decent amount of ideological impurity in its presidential candidate.
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Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004 beef and bacon aka beefy yes! that's the name of my new dog! it's a boxer with an "excellent" on her cert.! she's a pretty old dog though ... bout 5+yrs. i'll upload some pictures somewhere ...
Overthefence Diary Entry
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But I do know that over time I have been able to calibrate my eye pretty well.
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The parent/child dynamic and the means by which it can perverted is also pretty consistent and even clever at times.
Dead Silence
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With today's base rates at historic lows, the chances of rates going down much further are pretty slim.
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Cat gave me a copy of Yume no Hon, which is very pretty.
Wiscon 30, day 3
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That Thoreau gave the impression of being what country folk call a crusty person -- curt and forbidding in manner -- seems pretty well established.
The Last Harvest
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When you make only submarine sandwiches, you get pretty good at making submarine sandwiches.
THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF BRANDING
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Then, every Republican Party bigwig, in an effort to explain away their own failings, or the failure of the policies they advocated, will say, "Oh, well, let's remember, it was a pretty weak field.
The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Aug. 26, 2011
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Money will buy a pretty dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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The cautiously pretty title track is the year's most penetrating earworm.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a pretty unpleasant experience when a company you've invested in goes bust and you lose your entire investment.
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And while it's pretty expensive to incarcerate men, you can expect to spend double the cost to incarcerate women because of the cost of their confinement and also the cost to society of their kids.
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The lanai is the favorite reception room, and here at any social function the musical program is given and cakes and ices are served; here morning callers are received, or gay riding parties, the ladies in pretty divided skirts, worn for convenience in riding astride,
Following the Equator
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Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there.
Little Women
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The screws and plates implanted in a damaged hip or knee can cost a pretty penny — $382 in the case of a 3-milimeter headless compression screw.
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Ten celebrities are out to prove they are more than just pretty faces and have undergone months of rigorous training.
The Sun
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The days when developers would sit at a text editor manually arranging buttons, listboxes and other widgets by brain power alone are pretty much gone.
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A ‘no bid’ handed to you on a plate contract is a pretty attractive proposition.
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These pitches are definitely not a pretty sight, and they most certainly are not tended with loving care.
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Her back was tabby: from above or the back, she was a pretty tabby kitten, in grey and cream.
ON CATS
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And I was cutting the cheddar into pretty thick slices figuring I would make a proper doorstep sandwich and maybe smear some Branston pickle on the cheese, yeah?
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I like to think of myself as relatively calm and level-headed, pretty much trundling along on an emotional even keel.
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It's pretty exciting that the dishwasher is getting fixed tomorrow, too.
January 24th, 2010
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I like the guy but it looks like we'll all be fed up with him pretty soon griff on Dec 30, 2009
Rumors: Worthington as Flash Gordon, McAvoy as Ian Fleming « FirstShowing.net
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DETAINING the next president of the United States for three hours in what an eyewitness called a "malodorous" small room at an airport in the provincial Russian city of Perm looks, in retrospect, to have been a pretty bad idea.
Robert Amsterdam
