The air in the hallway flickers for a moment then fades imperceptibly as the shield buckles under the pressure. |
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She twittered and tweeted and seemed to move imperceptibly whilst standing completely still. |
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The interview with de Vries is different, changing form slowly, almost imperceptibly at first, like an ice cube slowly melting into water. |
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A man who is taken into servitude to wind the kingdom's clocks, concocts a scheme in which the clocks slowly but imperceptibly run down. |
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A removable battery cover may jolt a hard drive unacceptably when jogging, albeit imperceptibly to the user. |
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The room widens almost imperceptibly, then narrows again as the adobe walls converge on either side of the altar. |
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In some extraordinary way the Kennedy visit seemed imperceptibly to usher Ireland from the past tense into the present tense. |
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Close to the beginners meadow are gentle slopes, which become imperceptibly steeper, enabling you to improve without fear. |
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The gap separating wealthy peasant farmers from cottiers and day labourers widened imperceptibly. |
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He repeats a simple three-chord phrase, beneath which he almost imperceptibly alters his drum machine's timbres. |
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He stares at my clothes with an indiscernible look, waits for a second, then shrugs imperceptibly and returns to his work. |
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On sloping ground, soil can slip downwards at an imperceptibly slow rate by a process known as lateral creep. |
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I move my head imperceptibly, because of his moustache which brushes against my nostrils with a scent of vanilla and honeyed tobacco. |
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By the fourth track, the piano is becoming increasingly familiar, like an acquaintance imperceptibly becoming a friend. |
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And she sighed, and looked down at her hands, and then nodded imperceptibly. |
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Kienan stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and lit another, grimacing imperceptibly as he did. |
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The wife is a thoroughly odious creature, but by the end, the author has cleverly, imperceptibly subverted the reader's sympathies. |
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Constantly raising the level of tension, almost imperceptibly, is clearly his forte. |
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He slowly approached her as he spoke, his eyes almost imperceptibly changing from black to midnight blue. |
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Most of the Antarctic ice sheet moves imperceptibly slowly but nevertheless surely. |
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These men may have been of sufficient influence to become imperceptibly more like chieftains in control of warbands than Roman commanders. |
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The Queen heard it as well, for Margaret saw her shoulders stiffen almost imperceptibly. |
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Some interioranos grade imperceptibly into an acculturated native American population known pejoratively as cholos, who refer to themselves as naturales. |
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The sun, I notice on this day when Daylight Saving has reverted to standard time, has imperceptibly set. |
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It is difficult to imagine that these sophisticated planes will age but imperceptibly and attain useful service lives in excess of 30 years. |
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And even though this development may take place imperceptibly, it nevertheless leaves noticeable traces behind. |
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For changes can happen imperceptibly, but also cataclysmically. |
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The First Lady started out as the frizzle-haired frump in glasses, and gradually, almost imperceptibly, graduated to the pages of American Vogue and Vanity Fair. |
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The universities have the floor today and they must not refuse to speak or respond only softly, timidly, imperceptibly. |
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All this finds voices through characters whose tactile immediacy fades imperceptibly into a fog of ambiguousness and contradiction. |
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It was like bargello, deepening its colors every minute, but almost imperceptibly, so that you thought, How did I get here? |
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However, the creation of that agency is imperceptibly guiding us in that very direction. |
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Were the changes that occurred imperceptibly in its morals not produced in its legislation? |
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Nature imperceptibly extends the duration of the conjugal union, cementing this union each year with new delights, and new obligations. |
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Because the light is so diffused, the sky and terrain blend imperceptibly into one another, obliterating the horizon. |
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Masters of any art or craft guard against the temptation to rest on their laurels for fear that their work may imperceptibly deteriorate. |
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In this way, we have been able to develop the system almost imperceptibly, at the same rate as the company. |
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They do all of this quite imperceptibly, however, so that we are not always really aware of their presence. |
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Also, the handover between adjacent DVB-H radio cells shall happen imperceptibly when moving over larger distances. |
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The three overlap and interact, sometimes imperceptibly passing from one to the other. |
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A watermark is a mark that is imperceptibly embedded into an audio-visual signal for conveying hidden data. |
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Since the light is so diffused it is likely that the sky and terrain will blend imperceptibly into each other, obliterating the horizon. |
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With nothing but the gentle slap of one piece of pasteboard against another to distract him, Sam slipped imperceptibly from daydreaming into sleep. |
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The young captain reddened imperceptibly, and his smile got wider. |
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A wide lawn runs down the centre of the garden, so it melds almost imperceptibly over a ha-ha into the surrounding parkland, planted with fine trees. |
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An almost imperceptibly inclined roof shades an external terrace. |
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On the first song, chimes segue imperceptibly into electronic bleeps. |
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The intervening four months operation prior to the occurrence is a reasonable time frame in which these cracks could grow imperceptibly under the dynamic loading of the hull girder. |
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The new money they create adds imperceptibly to Bitcoin inflation, spreading the cost of their work over all users. This elegant system makes Bitcoin cheap to use. |
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I WRITE from the pilot's cabin of one of the world's largest container ships, the Eleonora Maersk, moving almost imperceptibly through the South China Sea off the Vietnamese coast. |
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But part of me does fear that, instead and almost imperceptibly, it will soon be that his presence will simply no longer be felt, and that we and the world will be poorer for it. |
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The process of assessing a company's overall offshoring strategy will move imperceptibly into an assessment of the steps being taken to select the outsourcing partner. |
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Over that time the sun will slowly, almost imperceptibly, heat up. |
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The maximum sound intensity levels are equivalent to those generated by large ships, but remain below the discomfort threshold known for marine mammals, and fade imperceptibly just a few hundred metres away. |
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Every day, we see hundreds of images which imperceptibly give us distorted ideas of the status, behaviour and roles of individuals in the community. |
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The roach, both of the top and bottom beds, is always imperceptibly incorporated with the freestone, which is invariable situated beneath it. |
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A trend line drawn through the retail sales graph does slope downward, but almost imperceptibly. |
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On I Am Sold, a two-note digidub bassline becomes the engine for the track, like a half-memory of Jamaica, while a wordless vocal note at Retrograde's climax turns imperceptibly into a wailing dub siren. |
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It is equally undeniable that global warming will exacerbate poverty and national tragedies, which are breeding grounds for civil war and, sometimes imperceptibly, for conflicts that affect international peace and security. |
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Like Otello, Falstaff moves imperceptibly from aria to duet or ensemble, unhampered by recitative, as if Shakespearean inspiration had helped the old master to free himself from the conventions on which he had thrived. |
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So almost imperceptibly the mainstream media began to interlard hot features into their real news. |
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He might have carried on his metaphor by remarking that succeeding waves and ripples modify the constitution imperceptibly, so that only he who watches closely can detect changes or tell when and how they occur. |
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And she began flobbering, almost imperceptibly, toward the scrubby brown growth beyond the sand and toward the sun. |
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Mechanical materialism is the theory that the world consists entirely of hard, massy material objects, which, though perhaps imperceptibly small, are otherwise like such things as stones. |
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My divine Work embraces all, from the greatest and most perfect beings that dwell by my right, to the most imperceptibly small animal, to the vegetable and the mineral, and in the atoms and cells that form all creatures. |
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To change position imperceptibly, especially at a tilt, is difficult. |
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The period of grace before that same 10 per cent is diverted to wrinkle-watch may be woefully brief, but since lines progress imperceptibly, it's impossible to maintain a vigil of the same intensity. |
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This sometimes happens almost imperceptibly, but they are never in the same position, with the same advantages as they would have enjoyed had they not decided to change and become mobile. |
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A corporation movie imperceptibly turns to an other kind of movie. |
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The crashes are usually because the land rises imperceptibly into a largely featureless expanse, an area prone to sudden cloud, mist, updraughts and crosswinds. |
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Van Veen said, showing a visitor a selection of the components, of different sizes, each grooved imperceptibly with precise lines that diffract light. |
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But then, almost imperceptibly, it dematerialized, in effect. |
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