Karten and Keith emerged through the balcony door, just behind him, along with a miasma of strong Sullaneen tobacco. |
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The pit swirled down into oblivion, a thick, cloying miasma threatening to devour him if he drew too close to it. |
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But what seduces me is the unfussy sleekness, the minimalist precision and playful pop, the lurid miasma of styles. |
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The sun was overcast by clouds, and the air was spring-like, but the miasma of the swamps added a sour, heavy scent. |
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His eyes were wide, and Egewe sensed the hot miasma of emotions that the boy was emitting. |
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All of them sensed the palpable miasma of evil which clung to its tunnels, though some were more sensitive to it than others. |
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All those remote-control toys bought for tweeners get played with for an hour or two and then get sunk into the miasma of a child's bedroom. |
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Each new smell cue would simply add to the miasma of conflicting odours, and people were often seen fleeing the theatre, holding their noses. |
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Flashbacks, dream sequences and supernatural intervention merge into a miasma of disjointed, tricksy effects. |
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Inside the doors of the Special Division building they were marched straight down a flight of stairs into a miasma of human misery. |
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A sickly brown miasma eddied about his feet as he stepped around the bodies. |
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For Dedalus, as for James Joyce, Irish history was an ineluctable, disabling miasma of piety, nationalism and superstition. |
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But his later years have been a miasma of money troubles, marital strife and ill health. |
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The MSM is a miasma of irresponsible, ideological improvisations, especially these days. |
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The councillors pointed out everyone knew cholera was due to miasma, the rising of bad smells from the foetid surrounds. |
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New providers will inevitably be forced to share in the miasma of regulations and taxes that provide its current arbitrage advantage. |
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The palace in the end became a miasma of schemes, intrigues, paranoia and backstabbing. |
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But in the last series, it was enveloped in a miasma of nastiness. |
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The first step was to flood test crops with ozone, the evil ingredient of smog, to simulate the ebbing and flowing of the urban miasma. |
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Though human life was not regarded as sacred in antiquity, the Greeks judged murder to be an act of impiety, since it offended the gods and caused miasma or pollution. |
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Yet, today the project is mired in morass, in a regulatory miasma created by this government. |
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Its miasma, the Master in incarnation Participates in the redemption of Humanity. |
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Such is the astral desire and the related miasma that the forces in the body are struggling to have health. |
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The feminine mystique, that miasma of influences, would keep women modest, shy, silent and invisible. |
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The dank miasma of the marsh, clung with a mucid dullness round my frame. |
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After all, who hasn't found themselves in the middle of a favourite movie only to catch a whiff of some foul miasma making its way merrily up your nostrils? |
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The trunk of Oak at Field's Edge is broad, solid and tactile, but the lower branches are shadows, and the leaves and shrubbery dissolve into a green miasma. |
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Today's the day for refuse collection where I live, and the miasma of smells and stench from the bins was like wading through a marsh this morning. |
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The trouble is, the whole issue is shrouded in a miasma of mistrust. |
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In addition, the agricultural protectionism of the European Union, ossified in the economic miasma of the Common Agricultural Policy, needs to be scrapped. |
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Everything else is a miasma of vague promises and guarantees. |
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The world kept breaking up into a miasma of red dots and smeared vision. |
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But to be honest those games are mostly a miasma of hazy impressions. |
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They exploit the exigencies of war to sound like clergymen, seizing religious language to veil partisan public policies in a miasma of ersatz godliness. |
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Instead it appeared, at least to some Americans, as if the promise of the United Nations had collapsed in a miasma of bureaucratic inertia and rhetorical posturing. |
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A miasma of middle class angst simultaneously stings granny and granddaughter into revenge against Annie at the same time it is paralysing their victim. |
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As investors and managers, we have to shake off this miasma of defeatism. |
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The miasma ensuing from the broad range of egregious human rights violations in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea requires urgent attention at all levels, from national to international. |
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It is through this miasma that a way forward must be found. |
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The European Parliament has no intention whatsoever of allowing the micro-nationalist miasma which has just drenched the Balkans in blood to develop in Turkey. |
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He did not deny the influence of sewers, poorly ventilated housing, and the like – but he was certain that graveyard miasma was an important, much neglected predisposing cause of disease. |
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The air of CGI is thick with the miasma of biz-school neologisms. |
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Most doctors then believed miasma – bad air – was responsible. |
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The miasma of dirty dealing discussed in this section demonstrates how members of the international community have sought mutual advantage with Angola's shadow state to ensure future oil supplies. |
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Since then, a black miasma of recursive vengeance has descended upon Iraq. |
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Even at the age of 10 or 11 I recognised that something strangely morbid hovered over their pages, and that dispersing this chilling miasma might make more sense of the world I was living in. |
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McWilliams's self-help best sellers preach a message of personal responsibility, which is a refreshing switch from the miasma of tomes hyping inner children and codependency. |
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