How To Use Throwaway In A Sentence
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It was a throwaway remark that proved tragically prophetic.
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It seemed like it was just a throwaway comment.
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It was only a throwaway comment.
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It is also there in the odd throwaway line.
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It's a problem we have in such a throwaway society.
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When Dr Shaibani talks about ‘God’, and ‘design’, it's not some throwaway line covering a belief in evolution.
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Many women will remember throwaway panties from the Sixties and Seventies - and by all accounts they were only too glad to dispose of them for good.
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That dangerous throwaway line is frequently harnessed by the enemies of equality as an easy way of evading tough questions.
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And some of the throwaway comments would be hard to invent.
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As far as throwaway movies go, it is top quality trash.
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How refreshing it is that in the midst of a throwaway society there remain products designed and constructed to function as advertised, season after season.
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There are many throwaway lines that would form entire plots in other books.
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I had a vague recollection of saying something of that sort, but to think that a patient was being helped by some throwaway remark of mine was quite humbling.
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Any sort of throwaway line of this nature is to be regretted.
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That's the other thing about watches: in an increasingly throwaway culture they remain a symbol of continuity.
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But what she had seen as a throwaway remark was taken far more seriously by social workers.
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People now don't want so much throwaway fashion.
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His old-fashioned conjuring tricks are brilliant and done with throwaway comedy.
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The charity said: 'We pick up the pieces of a throwaway society where animals are too often seen as commodities and not companions.
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Corporations make cheap throwaway products and packages to increase profits.
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Hospitals welcomed the convenience of single-use throwaway products because they no longer had to be concerned with product age, overuse, breakage, and malfunction.
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Unorganised sellers bring us a host of cheap goods at throwaway prices, but they don't enjoy much comfort, for their lives are one long struggle for existence, from generation to generation.
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So whether you fancy a bit of cheap throwaway fashion or a spending spree, you'll find an outfit you can afford.
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We have been brainwashed into becoming a throwaway society, from excessive packaging to clothes deemed too last year.
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I doubt she's made a throwaway comment in her life.
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We get glimpses of his throwaway humour.
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Jade and Pearl shapes natural sea sponges to fit a woman's body, absorbing flow and likewise averting the dilemma of throwaways, synthetic fibers and bleaching.
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As to the newspaper article, it reads like a throwaway remark made by someone who wasn't thinking too much.
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We have been brainwashed into becoming a throwaway society, from excessive packaging to clothes deemed too last year.
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There are many throwaway lines that would form entire plots in other books.
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I focused on keeping the experienced soldiers; I treated thousands of lives like throwaways, just to win a battle.
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MOOS: The only trick he'd teach us is what he called a throwaway, the disappearing coin.
CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2002
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They are a potent symbol of our throwaway society and public opinion recognises this.
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People now don't want so much throwaway fashion.
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The charity said: 'We pick up the pieces of a throwaway society where animals are too often seen as commodities and not companions.
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It was only a throwaway comment.
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throwaway diapers
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Either a lot of seeds were being planted from the get go, or the writers have gone back and picked up on throwaway lines/moments and built them into major story points now that we're into season 4.
Fat Arse Writer Syndrome
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As this throwaway remark shows, since the publication of Binchy's debut only weeks ago, Dublin has changed so much already.
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That said, about the live stuff, a lot of people think that the albums were kind of afterthoughts or throwaway affairs.
Be specific: Blues Explosion's Jon Spencer on getting the band back together
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The sets are expensive, the lifestyle lavish, the charm oozy and the dialogue throwaway.
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I tend not to read too much into a one word throwaway; for my taste, Matt seems to mostly be making mountains out of molehills (like he did with Steele earlier today — what is it about today for him?).
Matthew Yglesias » Conservative Women’s Group Cites Small Petrodictatorship as Ideal Form of Government
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Take seriously the environmental impact of all our throwaway technology.
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People will happily fork out nearly a quid for half a litre of clear liquid in a throwaway plastic container when a tap provides a perfectly acceptable alternative.
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It began with an almost throwaway comment.
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In the long term, the Government hopes to have an impact on the throwaway culture.
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Regarding side effects, most stories included throwaway lines advising that the drug appeared to cause few side effects, none serious.
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Any sort of throwaway line of this nature is to be regretted.
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The problem is that financial products are not throwaway consumer goods but require servicing and maintenance through the life of the contract.
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In addition, the study concludes that laundering cloth diapers produces nearly ten times the water pollution created in manufacturing throwaways.
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Any sort of throwaway line of this nature is to be regretted.
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We get glimpses of his throwaway humour.
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We live in a throwaway culture where it is cheaper to replace most faulty household goods than to repair them.
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I love throwaway humor, the weird little asides that maybe weren't what the marketing schlubs thought would people would laugh at when they did test screenings, but that crack me up.
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As they plough through the water of a plush north London swimming pool, their arms flailing to Beyonce and Rihanna like hippos in a disco, the 15 or so middle-aged women eye the comic in the studio next door as he demonstrates the throwaway oversway that led to the Strictly Come Dancing judges awarding him an impressive 27 points out of 40 for his waltz.
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It was just a throwaway remark, but perhaps my ignorance backs up the original point.
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It is also there in the odd throwaway line.
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As long as people purchase food and beverages in throwaway containers, they are supporting an unsustainable business and practicing an unsustainable lifestyle.
McDonalds Sweet Tea Styrofoam Packaging
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The final climax pushes its luck a little, relying as it does on perfect recall of a throwaway comment in the first act.
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That dangerous throwaway line is frequently harnessed by the enemies of equality as an easy way of evading tough questions.
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Vivid colors, mass-produced clip art and the low-tech animations emphasize cheap, throwaway culture that Americans are nurtured on.
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What a story there must be behind that throwaway line.
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That was when his interest in Walsh was first piqued by a disparaging throwaway remark slung across the kitchen table by his mother.
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I doubt she's made a throwaway comment in her life.
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The charity said: 'We pick up the pieces of a throwaway society where animals are too often seen as commodities and not companions.
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Simple voice phones are becoming a throwaway commodity, and terminal manufacturers have seen handset sales dip for the first time ever.
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It's a problem we have in such a throwaway society.
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We have been brainwashed into becoming a throwaway society, from excessive packaging to clothes deemed too last year.
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Forget ‘abracadabra’, today ‘obsolete’ is the magic word that can turn a throwaway into a collectible.
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They are the ones who are easily ‘spoken for’ as being also smart consumers whose growing sophisticated needs require that the entertainment market produce yet faster goods and more effectual throwaways in the name of better service.
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In the long term, the Government hopes to have an impact on the throwaway culture.
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On board, reduce your own amount of throwaway items, for example, use reusable plastic boxes for food instead of wrappings or baggies.
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Emotions were running high and people might utter a few throwaway remarks but the general feeling is one of relief that he has gone.
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What is a little more unexpected is that this is no frothy, throwaway piece of pretty silliness.
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That dangerous throwaway line is frequently harnessed by the enemies of equality as an easy way of evading tough questions.
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The last point, almost but not quite a throwaway, is that success breeds success.
Success in American Companies: Lessons for Canadians
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Such a throwaway jibe reputedly once caused Phelps to fall out with school friends for years; Parry, a big, bluff Liverpudlian, will laugh it off more easily.
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Unlike magazines and books, newspapers feel more ephemeral and throwaway, but they carry their own weight because of their reach.
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We live in a throwaway culture where it is cheaper to replace most faulty household goods than to repair them.
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Originally it was a throwaway comment that became a metaphor, which in turn has become the philosophy that defines the club.
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They are a potent symbol of our throwaway society and public opinion recognises this.
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It seemed like it was just a throwaway comment.
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The question of the day was whether this would be another Gilmore Girls, or some mindless throwaway.
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Geoffrey of Monmouth cheekily pinched this tale with the throwaway comment 'also called Merlin' and thus Merlin the Magician evicted Ambrosius from that part of the legend.
Merlin Trilogy, by Mary Stewart. Book review
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Some people overreacted to what was only a throwaway remark.
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Meanwhile, the women will spend any idle moment weaving those offering baskets - instant, perfect, throwaway works of art.
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She was very upset at what to him was just a throwaway remark.
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The reality is that couriers are throwaways for the upper echelon of illicit drug enterprises - their occasional capture and the loss of illicit cargo an expected overhead expense for those but rarely seen before these courts.
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She introduces the narrator to Jerome Strozzi, an aging priest who ministers to society's throwaways.
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Our throwaway society must be encouraged to recycle.
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The final climax pushes its luck a little, relying as it does on perfect recall of a throwaway comment in the first act.
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Who would have predicted that one throwaway posting would elicit over 800 comments?
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The second, almost a throwaway, notes that a rise in net income isn't the only determiner of whether you've moved up.
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People have used the word 'apocalyptic' and this is in no way a throwaway comment.
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Heidi thinks the bikini is a "throwaway piece" and also isn't sure how she feels about the headpieces -- does she like them or not?
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale: Part One Recap
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And there's a marvelous, almost throwaway moment where Shaun and his ragtag band of survivors meet up with another group who look, mysteriously, a great deal like Shaun's group.
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Plastic, throwaway silverware is not used since the airline serves only ‘finger food’ and not full meals.
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Take this one, for example, about some throwaway line of Howard Dean's.
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In fact, most of Link's comic relief throwaway lines fail miserably.
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In fact throwaways are the best things to start with because you are not losing anything should you not be very happy with your first results.
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However, a guidance counselor is a sort of a throwaway character, so I needed something memorable without taking up a lot of lines, because the page count was pretty tight.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Kathleen Bolton, part 2
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The American nailed his first qualifying run in the men's halfpipe with 45.8 points on Wednesday, the highest score of his heat, but caught a rut on his second and got low marks in what he described as a throwaway run.
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They also somehow seem to be symbolic of our throwaway consumer society.
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That's the other thing about watches: in an increasingly throwaway culture they remain a symbol of continuity.
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Furthermore, we must save with the paper, does not use the throwaway chopsticks and the cup.
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The biggest problem is that it is a very lightweight throwaway film that is likely to be picked over for years to come because of its supposed insights, and it will suffer for that.
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It seemed like it was just a throwaway comment.
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That dangerous throwaway line is frequently harnessed by the enemies of equality as an easy way of evading tough questions.
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This is one of the better examples of Dowdian wordplay, as the throwaway ‘or vice versa’ cleverly suggests an absurd chiasmus.
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So instead I smiled and made some throwaway statement, and returned to my daydreams of the stage.
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Which proves, once again, the fact we live in a throwaway world in which, for some, history only goes back as far as yesterday - maybe only as far back as breakfast.
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A couple of days ago, in documenting a misquote in a Business Week article, I theorized that the misquote was a result of “empty throwaway words that fill up all Business Week articles.”
Scripting News for 5/11/2007 « Scripting News Annex
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Caesar salad, seemingly a throwaway on this menu, is dressed with a refreshing splash of yuzu.
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Nobody's doubting his sincerity, but if he ditched even some of the throwaway lite rockers, he'd be a far edgier and ultimately more appealing prospect, even if you couldn't take him home to meet mum any more.
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It began with an almost throwaway comment.
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Oh, right, last time we were together I made some throwaway comment about Philly, just chatter to point him in the wrong direction.
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He claims people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the article.
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Though some environmentalists say that single-use drink containers promote a throwaway mentality, the aseptic packaging industry argues that its product is used for more than just children's juices.
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Using what were considered ‘throwaway’ cuts of meat - such as pork jowls and ribs - barbecuing provided an economic means of feeding a family.
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There are many throwaway lines that would form entire plots in other books.
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However, instead of becoming useless throwaways that will quickly be discarded, these items can be given to the blacksmith to be used as raw material so he can make you new armor or weapons.
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That dangerous throwaway line is frequently harnessed by the enemies of equality as an easy way of evading tough questions.
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We get glimpses of his throwaway humour.
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People now don't want so much throwaway fashion.
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But this isn't just a swipe at Miller or a throwaway smack at the paper of record.
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Originally it was a throwaway comment that became a metaphor, which in turn has become the philosophy that defines the club.
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I don't have much more to say, other than that it was not something I expected to find in a throwaway paper under a table at the Duke of Gloucester at 1 on a Friday morning.
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As the credits roll, you wonder why you bothered wasting 100 minutes of your life on this flat, soulless piece of throwaway trash.
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Many surgeons use 'once-only', throwaway theatre equipment despite evidence of considerable cost savings by using reusable ones.
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Nicolas Cage "these days seems all too content to waste his and the audience's time in tacky genre throwaways," while Julianne Moore is "yet another performer who seems intent on breaking the hearts of the faithful.
GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.
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It began with an almost throwaway comment.
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As efforts to close the materials cycle intensify, throwaway products will be either banned or taxed out of existence.
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throwaway children living on the streets
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It's an idea relegated to some throwaway dialogue and one disarming scene in which a girl is confronted by a nutcase.
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It is also there in the odd throwaway line.
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So whether you fancy a bit of cheap throwaway fashion or a spending spree, you'll find an outfit you can afford.
The Sun
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Everyone is amazed at what can be done with those simple little throwaways we call ‘gadgets.’
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They are a potent symbol of our throwaway society and public opinion recognises this.
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Instead of having to guess at references or wonder about non-sequitur throwaway lines and images, we would have the powers that be explaining them to us.
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The emails ranged from pithy observations to throwaway responses.
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With the average outboard costing about $8,000, consumers feared their engines could quickly become very expensive throwaways if they had no way to get them repaired.
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That's the other thing about watches: in an increasingly throwaway culture they remain a symbol of continuity.
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The thing I dislike most about fashion is its throwaway nature.
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Among the detritus lifted off the pitch was a pig's head, a J&B whisky bottle, countless coins and numerous thrown-away throwaway cigarette lighters.
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We live in a throwaway culture where it is cheaper to replace most faulty household goods than to repair them.
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
Archive 2009-04-01
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In our fast-paced, throwaway culture, this treatment of what was once mere wreckage changes our relationship with time itself.
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Indeed, the best interludes are scenes where teenagers capture the perplexities of adolescence with a throwaway observation.
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That dangerous throwaway line is frequently harnessed by the enemies of equality as an easy way of evading tough questions.
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The poems are throwaways, effusions of the moment.
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The thing I dislike most about fashion is its throwaway nature.
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Convert yard sale finds and common throwaways into unique, safari-inspired furnishings to create your own study sport!
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a sharp mesmeric intelligence which she uses to shock with subtlety, in throwaway detail and quiet changes of direction.
The Literary Review and a bit of a back track.
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What is a little more unexpected is that this is no frothy, throwaway piece of pretty silliness.
Times, Sunday Times
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That dangerous throwaway line is frequently harnessed by the enemies of equality as an easy way of evading tough questions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Nobody's doubting Baxter's sincerity, but if he ditched even some of the throwaway lite rockers, he'd be a far edgier and ultimately more appealing prospect.
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In the long term, the Government hopes to have an impact on the throwaway culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evening wear will be for sale along with throwaway paper dresses from the 1960s.
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The final climax pushes its luck a little, relying as it does on perfect recall of a throwaway comment in the first act.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a problem we have in such a throwaway society.
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I am going to get some cheap, old, throwaway PCs for the purposes of these courses.
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Marr offers nothing in the way of inventive guitar on Boomslang, a disc of barre chord throwaways you'd only expect from demos leaked by an unscrupulous associate.
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What is a little more unexpected is that this is no frothy, throwaway piece of pretty silliness.
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I say throwaway because their inclusion feels like an afterthought, the result of a series of reshoots deemed necessary after early prints were found to be far too draining.
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The books come in a bright blue backpack that also contains a box of washable markers and a throwaway flash camera.
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Here Paul Leonard has taken that throwaway line and constructed one of the best alien cultures I've ever read around it; reminiscent a little of both the pentagonal creatures of At the Mountains of Madness (though a lot less evil) and David Brin's Alvin the Hoon, but faced with an imminent world-destroying tragedy - this is Venus of several billion years ago, still habitable though steadily deteriorating.
March Books 40) [In Search of Lost Time #5] The Prisoner and The Fugitive
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Several times I just found myself chuckling at some throwaway line.
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
Archive 2009-04-01
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I doubt she's made a throwaway comment in her life.
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She considered the song a "throwaway" -- one of many topical songs written for a particular political cause at a particular moment in time.
Peter Dreier: Remembering Bess Lomax Hawes
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She was very upset at what to him was just a throwaway remark.
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Conor Lenihan showed an impressive grasp of his brief in the Dail today by reducing exploited Turkish workers to the status of kebab eaters in a throwaway remark directed at Joe Higgins.
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All I wanna know is why this ace MC is wasting his time with a throwaway re-hash of every track about a shorty ever written.
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If the transport is an expendable, throwaway rocket, there are no people present when the craft arrives in space.
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The thing I dislike most about fashion is its throwaway nature.
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I was rummaging through my box full of stuff (you know the kind of box one keeps for throwaways that don't quite make it into the garbage bin) and found something that amused me.
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Coupland the slaphappy rhetorician, drunk on throwaway tropes and instant epigrams, puts Coupland the pop sociologist in the shade.
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The second could come if inspecting and reusing the ‘disposable’ camera is cheaper than making a film throwaway.
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Then with a shrug of resignation, all he could offer was a throwaway comment, ‘that's the way it is’.
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The album itself was fairly forgettable (outside of the peppy stepper “It's Too Late To Change The Time”), save for the disc's final song — which on LPs in those days meant it was a throwaway.
The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson
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And some of the throwaway comments would be hard to invent.
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It was only a throwaway comment.
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It was only a throwaway comment.
The Sun
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So it was a throwaway remark by Clive that started it all off.
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What is it with music snobs only being able to appreciate good throwaway pop ten years later?
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They are a potent symbol of our throwaway society and public opinion recognises this.
Times, Sunday Times
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So whether you fancy a bit of cheap throwaway fashion or a spending spree, you'll find an outfit you can afford.
The Sun
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Anderson knows how to amuse us with a mosaic of background details and throwaway lines.
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Single-use throwaway lancets are used for haemoglobin check and single-use disposable transfusion sets that are attached to blood bags are used during the process of donation.
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Her roomie in Cheertown is the impossibly perky rah-rah team captain Savannah Monroe (High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale — and yes, there's a throwaway "Sharpee" joke) who is at least amusing as she tries to preserve a "no negativity zone" amid the various back-stabbing bitchery you expect from the genre.
Roush Review: Terriers and Hellcats
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It is always the casual throwaway comment, rather than your most carefully timed put-down, that is likely to cause terrible offence and end a friendship.
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Does Eagleton not see the gross distortions involved in such throwaway lines?
The Times Literary Supplement
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And some of the throwaway comments would be hard to invent.
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Sure, because this was a throwaway that would play downtown for 48 hours and that was it.
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Indeed, in the film, there are a lot of brilliant throwaway one-liners about our celeb-obsessed culture.
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We decided to find out and asked three women in their 20s and 30s (who were still in nappies when throwaways were all the rage) to wear the new knickers and report back.
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
Archive 2009-04-01
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This is the part of the field where you will see what are called throwaway plays, which are deep throws to the end zone or a trick play like a reverse or double pass.
Redskins-Eagles keys to the game: special teams
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Originally it was a throwaway comment that became a metaphor, which in turn has become the philosophy that defines the club.
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