| There are loads of aspiringly wacky art acts around, but few can match the authentic awkwardness of David's absurdist tableaux. |
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| Mr. Strouse's melodies were inflected with a perishable disco beat, and Lee Adams's lyrics were littered with aspiringly groovy slang. |
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| An unshakable dignity seems to have been instilled in Ellington from childhood, and Cohen examines the aspiringly genteel society in which the much beloved boy grew up. |
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| But for all their semiclad spooning and sparking and aspiringly fiery fights, this Bonnie and Clyde don't seem convincingly hot for each other or for the thrill of being on the run. |
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| He was still in the intermediate stage between horse and donkey, a natural mule still struggling up aspiringly toward perfect horsehood. |
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