The innkeeper himself greeted Adriana and directed the stabling of the mules and carriages, with grand flourishes and bellowed commands. |
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In that context, Marine's directorial flourishes obfuscate more than they enlighten. |
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Belief in spirit possession flourishes in times and places where there is ignorance about mental states. |
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Bubbling over with bright ideas, visual flourishes and deadpan drollery, this is a film of wry smiles and poignant moments. |
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This flourishes in a shady site and has the added bonus of airy heads of tiny blue flowers in late spring. |
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Matthews creates works that successfully straddle the line between contrived arty flourishes and successful accidents. |
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As the population drifts toward the exurbs, small flourishes make otherwise identical houses stand out. |
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Her ostentatiousness is endearing, if you can swallow both the musical and vocal flourishes. |
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The trademark guitars can still get in a strop, but mariachi horns and orchestral flourishes evoke Cinerama's widescreen dramas. |
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For all their flourishes, they lack cutting edge, consistently over-elaborating when it seemed more sensible to shoot. |
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He's tasked with playing a man who has embellished his life with dramatic flourishes and histrionics, and he does so without being hammy himself. |
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With the coda taken at a fierce clip, the brilliant concluding string flourishes were like musical sunshine greeting the joy of spring. |
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A group of teenage Chicanas sing a hymn with the flourishes of the gospel tradition, to the ecstatic applause of the congregation. |
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By means of these assured yet quivering lines, she transposes the painterly flourishes of the original paintings into crisp, staccato markings. |
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If one surveys the panorama of today's international left, Allende's legacy occasionally flashes and flourishes. |
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A picaresque novel with postmodern flourishes, the sinfully entertaining Zorro is serious fiction masked as a swashbuckler. |
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Tanto Tempo updates traditional bossa nova by adding subtle programmed beats, jazz flourishes and English and Brazilian vocals. |
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His eyes glint and dart with mischief, his gestures are as exuberant as his rhetorical flourishes. |
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Prokofiev's daunting cluster chords and rapid fire pianistic flourishes held no terrors for her. |
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It fostered a vigorous but conservatively minded fandom, which still flourishes and holds many conventions, large and small. |
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What is written appears to be out of emotional necessity, with no patience for flashy baroque flourishes or camped-up emotional exhibitionism. |
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Are their preferences driven less by political persuasions and by rhetorical flourishes and more by the economic bottomline? |
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Social liberalism is an optimistic creed, which flourishes best in good times. |
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The Basque Gabriel's Message is properly festive with flourishes in the trumpets to accompany the Annunciation. |
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The whole thing could almost be played as a dumbshow, with flourishes of grand guignol. |
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My handwriting was so much more simple than her flourishes and sweeps and big spacing. |
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The tamarillo is subtropical rather than tropical and flourishes between 5,000 and 10,000 ft. in its Andean homeland. |
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Although similar, malanga grows best in dry places, while taro flourishes in wet ones. |
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The coconut tree is a palm, usually tall, which flourishes on seashores in the moister parts of the tropics. |
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The repetitions, sudden shifts in direction and melodramatic flourishes fit neatly into the frantic pace of the contemporary dance beat. |
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Unnecessary curves, strokes, flourishes, dots and lines can prove to be counter-productive, he says. |
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In the Western Ghats, at an altitude of about 1,600 metres, in the region of sholas and grasslands, the kurinji flourishes as a gregarious shrub. |
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Other seasonal flourishes include striped accessories in fresh color combinations of yellow, aqua, grass green and soft pink. |
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Instead of gilding and elaborate flourishes, such beds have more modest detailing and are painted in subtle pale greys and beiges. |
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It flourishes on the back of faxes and in the margins of copybooks, doodles reveal a billion private boredoms. |
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Throughout, Tait notes that Witherspoon's sermons were earnest, clear, precise, direct, and unembellished by rhetorical flourishes. |
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These rapidly built, but artistically maligned buildings are now prettied up with decorative flourishes and used for museums and churches. |
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Prof. Pangle, despite rhetorical flourishes in this direction, finally reveals little interest in such a radical questioning of rationalism. |
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They are mere rhetorical flourishes designed to conceal an actual renunciation. |
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The film has the rhetorical flourishes of the certain, but the confusion of the tentative. |
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There are electronic flourishes all over this record, alongside organs, cellos and pianos. |
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The opening story, Celia, is a cheerless piece about a woman who will go to bed with anyone who flourishes a bottle. |
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Flixweed flourishes in full sun, mesic to dry conditions, and almost any kind of soil. |
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Buildings' first floors, decorative flourishes seldom seen at street level. |
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Major art often flourishes on the fault lines between civilizations, fed by complex cross-currents between one form of life and another. |
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He garnered almost 5 per cent of the vote in 2000, a sign that prairie populism still flourishes here. |
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Many of these businesses were simply older buildings updated with stucco facades and other Spanish flourishes. |
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Throughout, he maintained the same high-voltage delivery and hyperkinetic flourishes with which he had begun. |
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Most of the directorial flourishes that do work here are unfortunately cribbed from more successful movies. |
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Although Buddhism originated in India it now flourishes predominantly in other parts of Asia. |
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Even Rotary flourishes primarily as a Cause, as another opportunity for the Southerner to puff and prance and be a noble hotspur. |
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The bar drips with rococo flourishes, from the ornate marble fireplace to the lavish gilded mirror. |
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Sectarian strife now empowers the civil wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen and Al Qaedaism flourishes in the chaos. |
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The chorus is a real grower, complete with excellent guitar flourishes. |
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More than 200 gay men from across North America arrived at a remote Arizona oasis by summer's end, kick-starting an international movement that flourishes to this day. |
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He always wants to find little flourishes in her wardrobe that are her way of expressing herself in a rather conservative world. |
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Indeed, Sanko's guitar and voice, with some additional atmospherics provided by subtle effects and keyboard flourishes, constitute the album's core. |
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The Cheetahs Among McCarthy's litany of totally weird, inspired flourishes, is a pair of domestic cheetahs. |
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Like the Bonsai trees in the classical gardens of Suzhou, it's China in miniature that captures the imagination, every bit as much as its grand monumental flourishes. |
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The opening flourishes exploit the sonorities of a large harpsichord, incorporating shivering tremolandi along with the habitual shooting scales and cascading arpeggios. |
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Bawer is quite plainly a talented writer, but he is also tricksy, and he has a tendency to overload what are often perfectly valid points with debatable stylistic flourishes. |
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Central to all music from Syria and Arab countries are monophony and heterophony, vocal flourishes, subtle intonation, rich improvisation, and the Arab scales. |
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This is a climate in which right-wing and nationalist demagogy flourishes. |
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His words were purposeful, almost business-like, with the tautest of poetical flourishes. |
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Tasmania has one of the strangest flora in the world which flourishes in the moist, warm oceanic climate, producing a dense green temperate rainforest. |
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She changed frets dramatically, adding little flourishes here and there. |
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The following day she was proclaimed by heralds with flourishes of trumpets at various places in London, to the stony disapproval of the citizens. |
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He is not an experienced debater, given in the past to flourishes of synthetic rage at Nationalists rather than the humour and put-down his elevated status requires. |
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The crisp dynamic shifts and organized flourishes whet your appetite for more of the same, especially during the radiant synth pinwheels of the chorus. |
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The same confusion of intent infects his trademark stylistic flourishes. |
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George's rhetorical flourishes add juice and spice to the work. |
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This excessively restricted vision of the impact of computer and software technology on economic progress is presented with lively rhetorical flourishes. |
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In my father's case, Chaber knew that such rhetorical flourishes were unnecessary, since opposing counsel had, in effect, accused my father of being a liar. |
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Papa's script was so beautiful it was almost illegible and now, when I see something he wrote, those flowing tails and flourishes make my throat close. |
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By contrast, St Cecilia sweeps in on joyous flourishes from trumpets and drums, with rushing strings as buoyant as those that welcome Handel's Queen of Sheba. |
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The subtle string flourishes and guitar parts in the background are what really make the song, though, as Rouse's voice is merely serviceable in the understated verses. |
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They turn out a flamboyant blend of jazz, folk, funk and classical guitar, with flourishes of Latin acoustic guitar of a most impressive standard. |
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As sudden musical flourishes precede and follow more tentative, delicate passages, so hope and anxiety seem to dance across the song's brightly colored sonic eggshell floor. |
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Both brothers like their father, musically speaking, are rather erratic instant effect with quack, ornamental flourishes that be tied down to ponderous vistar. |
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At times, the ensemble pieces take on a relentlessly driving momentum, locking into a cyclic repetition that is embellished by individual trills, flourishes or patters. |
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A few late 16th and early 17th-century instruction manuscripts have survived with military calls, short fanfares, and longer flourishes written out. |
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Congress reflected public opinion, which resonated with the ideological argument that communism flourishes in poverty. |
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Even infused with a toadying creepiness, Oswald flourishes as a sympathetic chap, the guy you can't help rooting for. |
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Bryanthus, a beautiful flowering heathwort, flourishes a few hundred feet above the timberline, accompanied with kalmia and spiraea. |
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Grassroots environmental activism still flourishes here, as does grassroots antienvironmental activism. |
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Specifically, around AD 600, flourishes and exaggerations of the basic strokes began to appear in more manuscripts. |
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An expert on carousels, he particularly loved the Herschell Spillman merry-go-rounds of the 1950's with their clean flourishes and bold colors. |
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Marine life also flourishes around seamounts that rise from the depths, where fish and other sea life congregate to spawn and feed. |
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The 11 tracks are full of electronic flourishes, punchy drums, sweeping strings, plinky piano and grand choruses. |
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The 11 tracks are crammed full of electronic flourishes, punchy drums, sweeping strings, plinky piano and very grand choruses. |
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Two of the three tales end unpleasantly, with Grand Guignol flourishes that seem excessive when the rest of the film is so flat. |
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She's influenced by Keith Jarrett as opposed to, say, Don Pullen, preferring cool flourishes to earthy percussiveness. |
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The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Govt. |
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My fields and gardens every year cost me no end for seed, The only thing that flourishes is them darnation weeds. |
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Kuwaiti popular culture, in the form of theatre, radio, music, and television soap opera, flourishes and is even exported to neighboring states. |
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He also visits Rotterdam's massive international port where, surprisingly, wildlife actually flourishes, including shore larks and snow buntings. |
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How flourishes the King of Clubs? I always observe its mensiversary in my fancy. |
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Communitarians argued that man fundamentally is not a rights-bearing, property-seeking individual, but a social being who flourishes in stable associations and communities. |
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This plant does well in ordinary soil but flourishes best in rich soil. |
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Lucifer, which is Latin for light-bearer, is a wash of stony Casio soul flourishes and vibey Parisian coos, set adrift on dank, bass-reverb bliss. |
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Bastille offers simple lines and appears to be drafted of slender iron bars connected by hand-wrapped wires, while Sea Lily displays flourishes and curves. |
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This trend intensified in the Gothic period, when most manuscripts had at least decorative flourishes in places, and a much larger proportion had images of some sort. |
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With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue. |
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Quick buffo comedy requires the clarity of the straight play, while sustained romantic anguish flourishes in atmospheric backlights and crosslight. |
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The most widespread zonal vegetation is that of the microphyllous desert, a desertscrub that flourishes on regosols and on Quaternary coarse alluvial plains and lower bajadas. |
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Grillo's discourse heralds the palingenetic mission assigned to the Internet as the transparent unmediated site where true democracy necessarily flourishes. |
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Aeolism, or the emphasis on the form or sound of words per se rather than on their meaning or sense, presently flourishes under many dignified guises. |
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It was full of heartbreak, and Katy was too unobserving to notice how round and steady and commercial the penmanship was, and how large and fine were the flourishes. |
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Leonardo da Vinci was the exemplar, and his drawing of the Vitruvian Man became the symbol of the creativity that flourishes when humanities and science come together. |
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