| This taciturn guy, played by Gerard Butler, melts in the boy's artless presence and starts falling for his mum. |
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| When meeting the faculty at Wellesley, Roberts is artless enough to admit she has never been to Europe. |
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| It was integral and uniform, and its patterns were as obvious and as artless as the patterns in its Brussels carpets. |
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| He is a sensitive soul, plucked from the intellectual nursery of theatreland, totally at sea in this tough, artless world. |
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| A convict has escaped, unwittingly aided by young Julian's artless chatter, and John must be on hand to deal with the situation. |
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| It is written in rhymed tetrameters, the most artless of English metres and quite unlike the majestic blank verse of Prospero the magician. |
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| Regarding the speaker's motive, it implies an artless lack of calculation or an active desire to tell unpleasant truths. |
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| Lex had once told him about the ideal of sprezzatura, the art of seeming artless. |
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| Schools taught the young by rhythm first, and then with simple striding chords, and eventually with artless tunes. |
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| His prose is artless and nowhere near as polished as Osborne's, but his book still tells a fascinating story. |
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| Reading their artless, jargon-infested prose, I was seized by a sudden urge to inflict violence on them in a concrete underpass or back alley. |
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| It all seems transient, happenstance, until you start concentrating on the apparently artless compositions of these powerful images. |
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| Dressed in a baggy black jumper, a denim mini-skirt, woolly tights and boots, she looks great in an effortless, artless kind of way. |
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| If it's true that all art is propaganda, but not all propaganda is art, then Robbins has produced a masterpiece of artless propaganda. |
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| The days of rampantly commercial, craftless, contentless, corporate-driven pop, especially as practiced by artless teenage girls, are here. |
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| Similar lapses in professionalism are seen in the repetitive dialogue, go-nowhere action and artless acting. |
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| I'm less sympathetic toward Hollywood stars, mostly blank-eyed cyphers with nothing to say and an artless way of expressing it. |
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| The conventional view held that cultural impress on the New World was rudimentary, artless, too recent to have mellowed the garish profusion of nature. |
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| It looks smeary and artless with a slab of butter and a greyish sausage-slice. |
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| Each has a physical and and vocal signature, constructed with the kind of care that makes the process seems artless, and puts them on in rapid and seamless succession. |
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| Slavish to this creed, planners brought us three soulless retail parks boasting multi-national chains selling artless tat on the outskirts of town. |
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| The word inept, according to Roget's Thesaurus, means clumsy, artless, awkward, bungling, inadept, inefficient, unskillful, ham-handed and incapable. |
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| Britain, it seems, is not just the powerhouse of trashy music, silly clothes and artless art. |
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| Unfortunately, he seems to have made them up. Moreover, he did so in a surprisingly artless way. |
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| What Taylor-Wood is banging on about in her unspontaneous, artless, emotional way is that the tears may well be controlled, ambiguous or dishonest. |
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| Were this Zach Curtis-directed Theatre in the Round production less entertaining than it is, I might have been more than mildly irked by Beane's rather artless repetition. |
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| We need to discuss his little article, which starts as a review of Razor Magazine and then sort of singles me out with screaming caps and artless lines. |
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| Only later was my smugness undercut by the notion that the fly, dropping slowly through the water, could be mistaken by an artless fish for a hatchery pellet. |
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| Designedly simple, almost artless, it's the perfect climax of a poem that has all the while been gently spinning in accumulating narrative arcs to reach the still point where mimesis gives way to original presence. |
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| I remember that in the country of my childhood, each time that I received a fine gesture, either from my family or from a friend who took a liking to me, the voices of my mother and father repeating this artless rhetoric. |
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| Yet the crafted object, like this poem, must needs appear unlabored, artless, essentially poetic, natural. |
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| When the holiness of some of us is built on the invisibility of the rest of us, good honest sin, artless self-centeredness, looks better than pseudo-saintliness. |
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| The artist sings the verses he reads off street graffiti, which, though crude or artless, nonetheless carry a very optimistic resonance for all the good things in life. |
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| Delaney's slightly artless script quickly became a critical success. |
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| One artless peal of laughter after another loosed itself into the air. |
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| The aim here is surely simplicity over tricksiness, not cleverness but a kind of artless grace. |
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| Relevant backstory is condensed into a few lines of artless dialogue. |
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| After its marriage and the birth of his children, Allison and Adam, it begins to represent the world such as it discovered him to the farm of his grandparents, memory of artless happiness. |
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