All semblance of evil were slowly drained away as he drank swallow after swallow of this liquid fire. |
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Minimal hand-carving blended the narrow taper of the leg into the foot turning and created the semblance of a carved cabriole leg at low cost. |
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It is often at the point of taking on extra management responsibility that any semblance of work-life balance is lost. |
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This weekend's spring tides might help scour out the bank of sand and restore a semblance of tidal passage. |
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The second fan generated a semblance of underwater movement in Atlantic, scrim rippling along the flow. |
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His monopoly, they say, was threatening to kill off any semblance of competition in a discipline that used to thrive on it. |
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Barney has a semblance of a running story in each film, and characters and self-references appear in multiple films. |
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The only option left now for the devastated Democratic party is to rally together and show some semblance of a united front. |
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Still, the Raiders have to generate some semblance of pressure with their front four. |
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We get no closer to any semblance of truth, or any semblance of an idea of the best possible way forward. |
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Maybe a nice shot of single malt medicine would bring them back to some semblance of reality. |
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The trick here is meticulous preparation in order to avoid the intrusion of any semblance of reality. |
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The donors may enjoy better control over the economic affairs of the country in the absence of any semblance of fiscal system. |
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His hood still shadowed any semblance of a face, if he had even had one to begin with. |
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Such a view, though defensible in theory, would destroy all semblance of coequality from a practical standpoint. |
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The shavetail saluted crisply and started prodding the crowd into a semblance of order. |
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Her show last year maintained a semblance of identifiable images suggesting real, if manipulated, skyscapes, seascapes and landscapes. |
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Because grace could not bind itself to matter, Bogomils believe that Christ had only the semblance of a human body. |
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A narrow phonetic transcription of the yaourt lyrics will show how various formal features are employed to create the semblance of English. |
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After the departure of the Romans from Britain, the native inhabitants retained a semblance of Roman institutions. |
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It's as big as a breeze block, but the tome is the most ambitious attempt to corral the film industry into some semblance of order. |
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My nose senses that this is a murky, damp place, but with some semblance of warmth and the faint scent of cold food. |
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Ignoring their screams, I tried to maintain some semblance of calm, despite the storm raging about inside. |
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Every time there's even a semblance of running water, we put something under the faucet to catch the precious drops. |
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Thousands of commuters faced the prospect of trying to get home as the initial chaos gave way to some semblance of order by mid-afternoon. |
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By the time the Professor returned from the airport, all public areas of the house had been restored to a semblance of order and calm. |
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Here, the battle commanders had been able to maintain a semblance of discipline and control. |
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The economy overheats and stock prices diverge wildly from any semblance of reasonable valuation. |
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This beer is a winner with beer aficionados, especially hopheads who appreciate a hoppy beer that has at least a semblance of balance. |
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But then his expression cleared and he looked down at her with a semblance of calm. |
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They clip-clopped along the semblance of a path at a constant but jerky pace. |
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Television programs are resumed within this privileged enclave, and a semblance of normality returns within the walls of Bognor. |
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She shook her unruly mane of red hair, attempting and failing to coax it into some semblance of order. |
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The tables were dotted carefully around the coffee shop to give the semblance of disorder. |
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Any semblance of nerve failed him, and for the second time in his life, Sakki Ryu ran from a fight. |
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One day, during a lunch break, I found a semblance of shadow under the branches of a cotton plant, lay down and opened a notepad. |
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That act of folly summed up 30 minutes of dire rugby, but also seemed to spark Scotland into some semblance of life. |
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Slowly, as June crept on, life began to take on some semblance of normalcy for most of the residents of London. |
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Everyone could sense it was futile, but at least for half an hour they got a chance at some semblance of competition. |
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The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this descent into moral turpitude. |
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The ferry from Fajardo disgorges hordes of weekend visitors and creates a reasonable semblance of activity for the shops and bars. |
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He turns aggressive and a verbal duel follows, shattering any semblance of peace that remains. |
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The design does its best to give a semblance of weightiness to something no bigger than an essay. |
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It finally took policemen wielding lethal looking lathis to bring the plaza back to some semblance of normality. |
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Although they are by no means as striking as total eclipses, annular eclipses can afford a semblance of the experience. |
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Buoyant circles, rings and squiggles float like islands and lena, at times, an amusing semblance of comic-book drawing. |
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The ice-encrusted cairn eventually appeared through the gloom and I was glad to retrace my steps downhill to a little niche where I could find some semblance of shelter. |
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Their initiation is to slay an infant in front of its mother in order to remove any semblance of humanity or emotion. |
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Here's a man who can shoulder a crisis, keep the show on the road, juggle two mobile phones, a walkie-talkie and a landline and still keep a semblance of sanity. |
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One day I'll reorganise the sections into some semblance of order. |
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It is not only encyclopaedias, dictionaries, and libraries that create the illusion of a semblance of order from a mass of chaotic and random materials. |
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With the exception of a very few cultures with any semblance of a written language system, oral history is the main basis in which pre-Christian history is preserved. |
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The country was not any closer to even a semblance of self-rule. |
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True courage involved secretly washing a thin camp uniform or crocheting underwear from stolen yarn in order to maintain some semblance of humanity. |
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Are Nietzsche and Heidegger the fathers of philosophies of existence partly because Germanic creates this semblance of physicality and there-ness? |
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I had to at least hold my ground, or lose all semblance of competency. |
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We chatted inconsequently, watching the kids screaming around the church basement gym while the junior scout leaders vainly tried to impose some semblance of order. |
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Truly dramatic explanations must, however, bear some semblance of reality. |
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Braugher is the only one who appears to have a semblance of dignity. |
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Many of the basic cable channels with even the remotest semblance of a news presence. |
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Still, amid the uncertainty the residents of bab al-Salameh do their best to carve a semblance of order into their lives. |
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Diesel engines were once very crude things, often doing their best to pilfer ideas from the best petrol engines in order to imbue them with some semblance of bearability. |
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Since then, the Kampucheans have reintroduced a semblance of normality. |
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Pickering's woeful start continued when they slipped to their third defeat at Clifton Alliance but at least their batsmen began to show a semblance of form. |
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And any semblance of normality that had previously existed seemed to have evaporated. |
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First, the Neesonesque action hero must convey some semblance of hard-earned depth, which helps older viewers identify. |
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Many performers succumb to corpsing, and I have on occasion been known to set it up, while of course retaining the semblance of a consummate professional. |
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But for some semblance of camaraderie, lend an ear to their tales of woe. |
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His life is saved by the heroic revolutionary Fairfax and it is Fairfax who can unify and motivate a motley bunch of anti-monarchists into some semblance of an army. |
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He forced her, along with her older sisters, to forgo any semblance of a normal childhood. |
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However if only half of what is going the rounds right now has even a semblance of credence to it then it would seem that there are problems to be ironed out. |
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With deft fingers, she carefully sculpted the whitish-gray mass into a semblance of a man, a fat, chunky man with sagging limbs, but a man nonetheless. |
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There was only person helping him keep his semblance of saneness. |
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He remembers putting nails on a railroad track so the train could forge them into flat blades that he could sharpen into some semblance of a cutting implement. |
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Shakespeare's Richard was a cruel, vindictive and irresponsible king, who attained a semblance of greatness only after his fall from power. |
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With the University of Arkansas nearby, Beland said the meals take on the semblance of cookoff during football season. |
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Instead what you once glean is the semblance of a jazz song distorted by recurring arhythmical beats and sounds that compete with each other. |
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And it was clear we would not even maintain a semblance of friendship. |
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It took months, she said, for any semblance of normality to take root. |
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Iraq's government has been removing blast walls little by little since late 2008, trying to restore a semblance of normalcy to this bunker city. |
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And when is there going to be some semblance of organisation to what appears to be an unending programme of digging up and re-laying surfaces? |
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The only time we had a semblance of independent foreign policy was when we wore the Blue Beret, and even young American travellers wore a Maple Leaf flag on their backpacks. |
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On next meeting Mrs. Ottarson, she permitted no semblance of complaint or of adverse criticism to evidence the weightsome discouragement that oppressed her. |
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It keeps the spirit of the season quietly ticking over in a semblance of subliminal festiveness that's not the usual in-your-face magpie-like attraction to sparkle. |
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The Senate can and should hold an open seat for Illinois until such time as justice has been served and some semblance of ethics has returned to the Land of Lincoln. |
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This split highlights the different roles of the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board and prevents any semblance of undesired exchange of information. |
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During the American period, some semblance of city planning using the architectural designs and master plans by Daniel Burnham was done on the portions of the city of Manila. |
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