It left Sharpness, South Wales on 10 October 1944 on a journey to Liverpool with a cargo of 350 tons of barley and never turned up. |
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Note the downiness of Cupid's wings and the unblemished quality of the flesh in cruelly close proximity to the sharpness of the lion's claw. |
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For if you allow these beauties to age, even if only for a minute, they will lose their sharpness, their appeal and their zest. |
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His style was a mixture of wit, sharpness and schoolboy sarcasm, with large shots of Wodehouse and Beachcomber. |
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By 1936 RCA's research and development department was lagging behind Farnsworth in terms of screen size and sharpness of image. |
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After a lean spell with Manchester City, the former Leeds and Liverpool striker has recaptured his sharpness. |
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There's a sharpness and attack to her performances, which ensures a sense of drive. |
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The beef was tender and combined well with the tangy sharpness of the black bean and lengths of spring onion. |
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For those with manual cameras f stops of f16 or f22 will achieve the best front to back sharpness or depth of field. |
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The final aspect of the criminal law meriting consideration concerns the sharpness of the line between killing and letting die. |
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Colors are properly saturated and vibrant, black levels are solid, though the sharpness is good to middling. |
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In fact, the intellectual sharpness of the record is more like that of a dull butter knife. |
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It was marvellously complemented by the foie gras and marmalade, to which the grapefruit added a wonderful sharpness. |
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It slows so that you're able to discern the edges with startling sharpness. |
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If you can, use a tripod or other camera support to achieve sharpness, pack filters for a gloomy day and experiment. |
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The most important thing that you should know about sharpness is to use a good tripod for all of your shots as well as using a cable release. |
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The latter comprises five unpunctuated prose poems, showing the same sharpness of observation that Stevenson himself was noted for. |
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Her unsisterly sharpness to her youngest sister Amy, for example, causes Amy to burn the volume of tales she had been working on. |
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Control ranges from critical sharpness to hazy softness and is adjusted by using a ring on the lens barrel. |
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The sharpness of his face drew shadows, and his unblemished visage resembled the moon, a glowing white, with shadows of gray cast upon it. |
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Someone should snap her up just for the sharpness of her headlines, one-line squibs, and nifty asides. |
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The sharpness in her voice startles Clark, as does her sudden pointing finger. |
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With this and copious amounts of water, the edges of blades on all sorts of tools or weapons were honed to sharpness. |
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A picture's clarity depends on the sharpness of contrast of its boundaries. |
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What is lost in the translation to the small screen is compensated for in the sharpness and clarity of the DVD images. |
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Overall, the sharpness and clarity of the picture is quite remarkable for a film that has not been restored to pristine condition. |
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My heels' sound changed from the dull clunk of shoe on wood to the clipped sharpness of heel on marble. |
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I simply wrote the truth, and relished the penetrating sharpness, the harsh beauty of reality. |
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We assessed the image quality of both these camcorders based on their colorimetric rendering, sharpness of image and sensitivity. |
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But the scale and sharpness of the wealth gap presents an inescapable danger. |
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The onions and feta added a touch of piquancy and sharpness overall making this salad my favourite dish of the evening. |
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Despite the vogue for very short focal distances, in glossy shots of food, for example, he insists on sharpness throughout. |
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The result keeps the sharpness of bicubic interpolation while smoothing the isophotes to reduce jagged pixelization artifacts. |
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We all noticed the sharpness and quickness of his reactions-as a counterpuncher he had no equal. |
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Just the right amount of crispiness on the outside and softness inside, contrasting with the sharpness of the lemon and sweetness of the sugar. |
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Her voice dripped with the sharpness of mockery as she pronounced these last words. |
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As it was, his expression hardened, the catlike sharpness of his pupils glinting dangerously. |
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Together they contain 153 upright 11-inch spikes, honed to the sharpness of a Viet Cong punji stake. |
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Both women tore into gristly steaks using sheer will more than the sharpness of their cutlery. |
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Erial was now working on his sword belt, checking and double-checking the fit, the buckles, even the sharpness of his sword. |
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Highlight separation, sharpness and acutance are increased because they give more pronounced edge effects than other developers. |
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He gained much lift and sharpness with his awkward wrong-footed deliveries. |
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That daily hour and a half of repetitious activity is necessary to whet the fine edge of our skills to razor sharpness. |
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A lens cap not only guards against scratching, but also keeps off dirt and fingerprints, which can also reduce sharpness and contrast. |
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This smooth French mustard has a clean sharpness and medium level of heat. |
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A curious phenomenon associated with the lower reaches of the Severn is the tidal bore, which forms somewhat upstream of the port of Sharpness. |
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The bridge is upstream from Avonmouth and the Port of Bristol, but downstream from the Port of Sharpness. |
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In the west, the situation was remedied in 1820, with the construction of the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal seven years later. |
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The East Channel is navigable as far as Gloucester Docks, from where the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal provides a navigable channel south. |
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Burchill's third goal in as many games, maybe it was just his lack of match sharpness that made him look out of sorts in his initial outings in Dens Park colours. |
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The music lends the story precision and sharpness without any murmuring. |
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He is like the chess grandmaster who is always planning many moves in advance, with his sharpness of vision, both in terms of running and thinking. |
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He had none of his famous sharpness and sparkle at the table. |
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Can be used with minimal agitation when processing roll film in tanks for very pronounced adjacency effects that can result in great apparent sharpness. |
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In later years we got to know him well and relished his dry sardonic comments delivered in a languid, light Noel Cowardish voice, which belied the sharpness of his wit. |
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Her writing has a sharpness of wit unsullied by the translation. |
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For a moment she could not move because of the pain, a sharpness stabbing her chest, then it grew less intense, shifting to lower down, in her belly. |
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Sometimes the cheese slightly liquifies upon the tongue coating it with its flavors, be it the sharpness of a blue cheese, or the tangy-creaminess of a good Camembert cheese. |
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Even at the age of 42, the outlines of an athlete are plainly visible in the leanness of his frame, the gaunt sharpness of his features and the languid flow of his movement. |
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He has a big personality made for TV, plenty of moxie, ego and mental sharpness. |
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The dot-com collapse was dramatic enough, but even the skeptical few who saw that one coming were sandbagged by the sharpness of the overall market decline. |
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The sharpness and clarity of the images is pleasing to the eye. |
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The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession. |
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Since 1986 Waverley Excursions has operated occasional sailings to Sharpness and Lydney by the MV Balmoral. |
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I have then peeped pixels, looked at the sharpness, resolution, barrelling, pincushion, vignetting, you name it. |
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The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal connects the Severn at Gloucester to the Severn at Sharpness, avoiding a stretch of the tidal river which is dangerous to navigate. |
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Oversampling, combining several pixels to make one high-quality superpixel, adds sharpness, reduces noise and improves low-light performance. |
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This effectively removes image distortions and Newton's rings, resulting in improved sharpness and higher image quality. |
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It dresses the wheel constantly during machining, keeping it in a state of specified sharpness. |
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A lack of match sharpness was perhaps to blame for Rooney squandering England's best chance after 27 minutes. |
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These include a manual focus ring, manual white balance, exposure control, shutter priority mode, aperture priority mode and sharpness control. |
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The Stroudwater Navigation used to join the tidal Severn at Framilode, but since the 1920s has connected to the Severn only via the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. |
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Phase 1b connects the completed Phase 1a section, westwards, to the rest of the inland waterways network, at Saul Junction on the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. |
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Like a good fine wine, with Joan Burnie we savoured the sweetness and the sharpness of her tongue during her time at the Daily Record. |
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The linewidth is inversely proportional to the Q factor, which is a measure of the sharpness of the resonance. |
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Freshly cut blades are always used since the sharpness of the edge is very great. |
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Overall unless you are a merciless pixel peeper I can't imagine someone being unhappy with the sharpness of this lens. |
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Through the next two debates, Kerry never lost that quiz-kid sharpness. He seemed to have an answer for everything. |
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A working trip to Scandinavia, where the league programmes continue through our close season, could yield a series of friendlies to maintain sharpness and offset the cost. |
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The underwater vision is not as a sharp as in air, but the ability to judge the distance of moving prey is more important than the sharpness of the image. |
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When Jones's limp arm left the German's shot in the six-yard area, Owen only had to show a fraction of his sharpness to outspeed the Southampton defence. |
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Gromyko concluded that Home added sharpness to British foreign policy. |
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