But I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. |
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Grievance writ large over their collective visages, the protesters crisscrossed the streets, and aired their eternally pending demands. |
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It was a debacle with a capital D writ large in ten foot illuminated letters. |
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But since I think of the blogosphere as a dorm room bull session writ large, I still like the idea of discussing stuff like this. |
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In this village, distress and despair are writ large on the faces of nearly 100 widows and their 350 orphan children. |
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On poster sites throughout Glasgow are black billboards writ large with addresses and postcodes. |
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And once more I am profoundly touched and humbled by the evidence of the human spirit writ large. |
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Shock and disbelief were writ large on the faces as irate depositors thronged the bank's Sector 8 branch to know the status of their deposits. |
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His entire bizarre lifestyle the drapes, the wheelchair, the pills was hypochondriasis writ large. |
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In this scenario, civil disobedience is nothing more than democracy writ large. |
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The major global geophysical catastrophes that await us down the line are in fact just run-of-the-mill natural phenomena writ large. |
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Surely it would be advisable to have explicit criteria, but that's really administrative law reform writ large. |
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Our national governments and parliaments would be like large, powerless local authorities in an EU writ large. |
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In the future, efforts in that direction would have to ensure that environmental protection was writ large. |
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Particularly in the EU Member States, where respect for social rights is writ large, these rights should not be violated. |
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That observation is writ large if one looks at the history of the bill. |
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The theme of overindulgent polygamy writ large in the text was de-emphasised whereas the fertility motif symbolised in the Dohada ritual was pronounced. |
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As before, the drawings supported a rock persona writ large. |
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He is, like Donald Trump, the law of unintended consequences writ large, in human form. |
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The behaviour of national governments is simply the tragedy of the commons writ large. |
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The supra-national governance coming into being was the American Revolution writ large. |
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They are angry that they don't feel safe, at work or writ large, given who is in charge, bigly. |
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The following morning's nearlies and one win aways were the small print while CHAMPIONS was writ large. |
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But surely Ascot is just the British class system writ large, with the nobs in their finery in one enclosure, and the riff raff in another. |
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Today, indeed, the sense of belonging to a shared yet plural heritage is now writ large upon all of human civilization. |
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It shows that it is just Mike Harris writ large, on the blanket of this country, and right-thinking Canadians will not stand for it. |
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His words about the baptized seemed writ large on the Basilica's blazing walls. |
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Indeed, the devastation wreaked by those conflicts is writ large on the destroyed cities and infrastructure of affected countries. |
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I believe a regional union can and must develop a foreign policy of its own, which is not simply national diplomacy writ large. |
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After the public reading of expansive excerpts of her work the previous evening, one noticed that a huge discomfort was writ large on the faces of the accompanying family. |
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The pain and disappointment of the defeat was writ large across the faces of the Great Britain players as they trudged from the field, but coach Brian Noble remained stoical. |
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However, not knowing any other mode to express their reverence, few students just fell on his feet and returned to their seats with a sense of pride writ large on their faces. |
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The futility of war, the folly and the horror, and the lies that serve the bloodshed of the battlefield are writ large across Peter Whelan's The Accrington Pals. |
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Countries are just human beings writ large, and human beings, by and large, are a law-abiding bunch, because most of the time obeying those laws is convenient. |
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This is a critical incident writ large of the type my colleagues and I have advised about, studied, and written about over a period of eight years. |
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As we bear witness to the inevitable permutations that characterize human frailty writ large, the recording and preservation of memory is a cultural imperative. |
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As a concession to health, he then switched to half pints and even refused a Scotch pie from the chuckwagon although temptation was writ large on his face. |
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McCain said additional economic sanctions against Russia writ large were also called for. |
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But it was a proxy war between the Tea Party and establishment GOP writ large in this small state. |
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The unchanging culture in Turkey, with regard to the political role of the military is of the Stockholm Syndrome writ large. |
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The story of Game of Thrones is already basically just a Monopoly session writ large, full of aggressive trading and spurious imprisonments and players seeking to gain total control over their peers. |
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We tend to feel more defined by the specifics of our unique involvement than by the more generic and shared impact of all charities and non profits writ large. |
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I should point out that the association doesn't have an official position on organized crime writ large, so my remarks today are predominantly my own. |
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The chronicity of addiction is really a kind of fatalism writ large. |
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Apparently, putting your name next to an opinion in Hollywood is a sign of feeble-mindedness, sort of like in Washington, another fear-based, single-industry small town writ large. |
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From our perspective as a company, I believe that, writ large in the technology industry, we see a huge opportunity to be a value-added player in this discussion and to be much more collaborative. |
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These actors, alas, are at the service of a submoronic script and special effects that look like a video game writ large. |
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Bestsellerdom is writ large for this novel, sure to be greeted with rave reviews. |
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It is important that it should not just become a flag of convenience and that all measures prescribed in the acquis are taken to ensure that safety is writ large. |
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It would appear that most African revolutions historically have had some root in ideology or inter-group conflict, and are something more than armed robbery writ large. |
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A sort of towels-on-the-sunlounger tussle writ large. |
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There is a distinction to be made between harmonization of support for a particular Southern CSO and support for civil society writ large in a particular country. |
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Mr. Chair, very specifically, I want to give the minister the space to have the numbers at hand, but this is a principle of the CCS fund writ large. |
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For better or for worse, affirmative action in the educational context has never been approved as a device to ameliorate America's race problem writ large. |
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Jefferson's opposition allied him with small farmers and agrarianism writ large. |
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Brunei is a case of problematic, family-run enterprises writ large. |
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Nevertheless it should be noted that the Russian Net, like its global counterpart, remains a relatively elitist phenomenon, more the preserve of the privileged than of society writ large. |
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You see, when it comes to buying a car, people who'd haggle with the milkman turn into sadsters with 'empty my wallet' writ large on their foreheads. |
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Snuggle's is housed in what was once a mid-sixties estate pub, the perfect place to wind down a life as a nearly man. Suburban mediocrity writ large. |
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Beneath the boredom and the glory, there is always the horror, a thumbsucking atrocity perpetrated on a child and writ large ever after to the point of ineffability. |
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