Her hair was pure white, her skin was ivory white, and her lips were almost bloodless. |
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Landing in France in March 1815, he deposed the Bourbons in a bloodless revolution. |
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On the wall across his desk sits an analog clock, a bloodless white against the deep red painted background. |
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The October Revolution was carried through in a nearly bloodless coup by the Bolsheviks under the leadership of Lenin. |
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The father took over in a bloodless coup in 1970 and maintained a vast army of secret police and informers. |
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It is almost as if, by buying these innocent, bloodless lamb cutlets, we feel able to rise from the table guilt-free. |
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Everywhere the meat is bloodless and pale, reducing the gross-out factor and allowing the viewer to focus on the craft. |
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I prefer my leisurewear prefaced with a Stella Mc, and my exercise as bloodless as her mother's sausages. |
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Only its bloodless nature garnered it a G rating rather than PG. It's not a lighthearted romp like many of Disney's other animated movies. |
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By mid February he had assumed control of the city in a remarkable bloodless coup. |
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The unusually bloodless conflicts of the past 12 years have made political leaders somewhat risk averse. |
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If they had succeeded, it would have been a bloodless revolution, and our lives today might be different and immensely better. |
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We need to abandon the fantasy of a bloodless war and get this fight over with, I think. |
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Nowhere is this link between the form and the content of bloodless revolution more recognizable than in Scott's Old Mortality. |
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This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history. |
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Over 30 countries experienced nearly entirely bloodless revolutions in the span of a few months in 1989-90, and nobody saw it coming. |
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In obedience to by-laws and shareholders, a corporation is a serenely calculating, bloodless, bodiless profit-machine. |
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Here, the mise-en-scene becomes almost televisual, with a flat, unidimensional naivete and bloodless characters. |
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This was the first bloodless revolution in Tbilisi, a city which has been burned down forty times in its history. |
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Cutting his jugular would empty the blood entirely from his body, leaving him a bloodless shriveled corpse. |
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In other words, clever endings can't conceal that his films are essentially bloodless, forgettable exercises. |
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Much of this economic merriment can be ascribed to the miracle of our virtually bloodless revolution and the government's macro-economic policy. |
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He heard a moan come from her bloodless lips and then the door was shut and his wife cut from his view. |
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Beside her in the passenger's seat, Beth clutches her hands together so hard that the fingers are white and bloodless. |
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Sebastian's face was as pale as his hands, nearly bloodless, and pointed in a rather elfin manner. |
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Her fingers suddenly look anemically bloodless, their paleness complemented by her white long sleeves. |
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His perfectly straight nose was exactly proportionate to his mouth with his almost bloodless lips. |
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His thin, bloodless lips were a pale pink and were in danger of turning white in contrast to his nearly-black dark brown hair. |
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And it was hard enough to think about her in the dream, what with her pale skin and bloodless face. |
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Blonde hair spilled onto the ground, leading the eye to a bloodless face, the eyes closed and features still. |
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In pictures he appears bloodless and stern, but in the flesh he is surprisingly normal. |
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Oh, and that nuke strike may be the most bloodless terrorist attack in the history of film. |
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Which makes it all the more disappointing that the language used by most start-ups is so cold, so bloodless, so calculating. |
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This woman, this humourless bloodless shambles of a person, was entirely sure that the sign was not open to interpretation by her or anyone else. |
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Her character portraits are cold and bloodless, and her self-conscious literary tone has the musty odor of a vanity-press poetry journal. |
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Neither we nor they seem to understand why this new, bloodless God should even matter. |
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Martha is a bloodless engineer in the kitchen, as well as a disciplinarian in the dining room. |
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Giving has an emotional component, after all, and most of the new charity sites still feel a bit bland and bloodless. |
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It was mechanical, lifeless, bloodless and monotonous, but the material was brilliant. |
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For many, scientific materialism is not a bloodless philosophy but a passionately held ideology. |
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Seeing people get shot here is usually a surprisingly bloodless and hands off affair. |
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Twelve political parties and three coalitions are fielding candidates in the election, organised just six months after a bloodless coup toppled the president. |
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In three months of daily protests, except for a few instances of arson and the police murdering one protestor, the Black Power revolution was bloodless. |
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A bloodless revolution is possible, but only if it's supported by a clear majority of the populace, who are no longer afraid to say what they think for fear of being shot. |
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Until recently compilations of slave trade statistics have seemed to reduce one of the darkest episodes in world history into a set of abstract and bloodless figures. |
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The golden-haired man sits on the edge of his couch, drumming his fingers atop the coffee table so hard that his fingertips turn a bloodless white. |
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She fell to her knees, small noises escaping her bloodless lips. |
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At which point it becomes clear that we have entered a minimalist, bloodless horror movie. |
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His idea was to become modern, efficient and bloodless by using lethal injection. |
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The situation reminds us of fifteenth-century Italy, where casualty-averse mercenary condottieri conducted protracted and nearly bloodless warfare. |
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Then I felt an arm upon my shoulder, and Boris turned a bloodless face to mine. |
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The soul-shattering scream still wrenched from Elaine's bloodless lips. |
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I mean, jeez, if I'm going to wallow in obvious hipsterism, I want it to at least be fun and well-executed, not ironically arch, foppish and bloodless. |
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On July 23rd 1952, Nasser helped to organise a revolt against the Royal Family and King Farouk was overthrown after a few days of bloodless rebellion. |
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A material offering to the Almighty, normally animal sacrifices and bloodless sacrifices. |
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The fact that the coups in Mauritania and Guinea were bloodless is positive. |
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In 2006, a bloodless military coup deposed the elected government in which the governing party held 375 of the 500 seats. |
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This type of manpower must be produced by a bloodless revolutionary system of education which will require millions of dollars to finance. |
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It was more a matter of internal conflict in the Liberal Party, a real bloodless coup and a power thrust behind it. |
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In their universe all is bland, bloodless, bleached of character. |
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His mistake was to anger his nephew, who proclaimed a republic in a bloodless coup in 1973 while he was on an island off Naples, taking mud baths for his lumbago. |
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These months following October's bloodless coup have been eventful indeed. |
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He smiled, a thin sliver of teeth between his bloodless lips. |
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The fact that England's revolution was bloodless implicitly grounds his claim that Enlightenment in Britain differed in significant ways from Enlightenment in France. |
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As a result he recruited a band to record this debut album, and his synth-pop, once rather bloodless, became more visceral with the addition of guitar and drums. |
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She still hadn't said a word, but her face was bloodless, her lips white. |
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Today we must all pray that the war will be short and as bloodless as possible and that it will bring the least possible disruption to the region. |
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Measured but never bloodless, ranging from skittish to melancholy, it was a fittingly virtuoso way to close an evening that underlined the Academy's reputation for musical excellence. |
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Perhaps the optimists have reason to hope for a short, bloodless war, but cooler heads point to the risks and question the justifications that have been advanced for this war foretold. |
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Perhaps because the problems seem so intractable, or perhaps because there is little real disagreement between the main parties, the contest is strangely bloodless. |
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No longer will it emerge from the bloodless bunker of the White House situation room with its steely computer lists of military hardware and images of projected targets. |
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Bloodless or not bloodless, a coup is a coup. |
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The pale, bloodless guardians of the English novel, so the argument went, simply couldn't cope with his comedy, his rumbustiousness, his Jewishness, his pungent, balls-out assaults on good taste. |
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I hope, for the sake of the Iraqi people and for the sake of our troops doing their duty as professional soldiers, that this war will be as swift and as bloodless as possible. |
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On 3 August 2005 a group of army officers led by Colonel Ely Ould Mohammed Vall staged a bloodless coup against the regime of President Taya and went on to form a military council. |
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The Philippines convened the first International Conference of New or Restored Democracies after its bloodless revolution of 1986, which ended years of martial rule in our country. |
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This resulted in a peaceful transition from a one-party to a multi-party system, heralding a new era of democratic renaissance that has seen three bloodless political changes at the head of government in 16 years. |
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In Africa, Somali army officers led by Siad Barre carried out a bloodless coup in 1969, creating the socialist Somali Democratic Republic. |
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On March 3, 1776, the Americans landed after a bloodless exchange of fire, and the local militia offered no resistance. |
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Apparently the military take-over was bloodless at first. |
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They seized dominion officials and adherents to the Church of England during a popular and bloodless uprising. |
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A military junta took over control of the State from the royal family, with a bloodless coup that quickly earned the support of a large majority of the population. |
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For many, the term cyber war conjures up images of deadly, malicious programmes causing computer systems to freeze, weapon systems to fail, thwarting vaunted technological prowess for a bloodless conquest. |
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Winningly, though, Weaver was hardly some bloodless accountant. |
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The people who came to power as a result of this bloodless revolution have firmly embarked Georgia on the path towards Euro-Atlantic integration, to build the rule of law and a State that respects western values. |
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The ethos is all too easily misunderstood as an overprecious, bloodless, mindless civilization. |
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Afghanistan's political order began to break down with the overthrow of King Zahir Shah by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan in a bloodless 1973 coup. |
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Louisiana settlers, hoping to restore the territory to France, in the bloodless Rebellion of 1768 forced the Louisiana Governor Antonio de Ulloa to flee to Spain. |
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A sampling of topics includes analgesics, aseptic technique, bloodless surgery, HIDA scan, managed care plans, rotator cuff repair, and ventricular shunt. |
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On the early morning of 25 April 1974, young officers of the Portuguese Armed Forces triggered the almost bloodless Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the Salazar regime. |
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Within hours after taking office, Stevens was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier General David Lansana, the commander of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces. |
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