Would it be impossibly unrealistic to suggest that a shift of resource into diagnostics and screening might pay long term benefits? |
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Topics that had once appeared impossibly opaque to even the most determined of scholars now almost promiscuously invite inquiry and controversy. |
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It may seem difficult, if not impossibly perverse, to justify the highest ranking for a record of solo contrabass improvisations. |
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To send equipment from one important supply depot to the other involved taking an impossibly circuitous route. |
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It is a record only the most churlish, or those with almost impossibly high expectations, could deem anything less than laudable. |
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So then I fried the bacon until impossibly crisp, crumbled some on my salad, placed the rest in a mortar and proceeded to pestle the remainder. |
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This may seem impossibly gnomic, and it is certainly complicated to decipher, but its main arguments are clear enough. |
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Unlike elementary particles, there was a well-defined theory, the general theory of relativity, but this was thought to be impossibly difficult. |
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David is a man who sets himself impossibly high standards and then loathes himself for failing to achieve them. |
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Good reporters and writers often set impossibly high standards for themselves, benchmarks that far exceed what anyone else imposes. |
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A blanket ban on western reporters makes the getting of hard information almost impossibly difficult. |
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We only feel guilt, hostility, and anger when we measure ourselves and others against impossibly high standards. |
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Concentration on psychological fulfilment places enormous strain on the institution because it raises impossibly high expectations. |
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Industrial production possibilities and new technologies is a major, some would say impossibly difficult, task. |
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An impossibly attractive, damp-eyed French girl radiating a soft sense of melancholy shot straight from a convent school into the charts. |
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I think there were very high expectations for this movie, perhaps impossibly high. |
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There are simple important questions which might have simple concise explanations, but finding these explanations seems impossibly difficult. |
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But images of Irvine impossibly and implausibly running the ball from deep and kicking unlikely goals from halfway will remain in the memory. |
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Something akin to rain was falling over her awareness, silver rain that was illuminated impossibly against the darkness as it was unleashed. |
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Viewed through 21 st-century eyes, the political landscape Macmillan describes seems almost impossibly genteel and good-natured. |
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Harry's gaze fell again on the wedding photograph of two impossibly young people, faces bright with the glow of first love. |
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Humbled by the magnificence of the falls, Lewis felt his written description impossibly inadequate. |
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Certainly as a work of fiction this series could be easily dismissed as impossibly cute and unbelievable. |
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Calvin Klein models' faces are redrawn as skulls with requisitely and impossibly high cheekbones. |
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A land of kite-flying children, deliriously happy women, contented men and impossibly cute kittens. |
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Joe described water that was impossibly blue, with vibrant corals and countless fish and other marine life. |
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And here's the impossibly blond and blue-eyed sweet boy, aged maybe five, standing in front of a Christmas tree. |
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Some of Fellini's situations seem impossibly grotesque, yet they have echoes in recent world events. |
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He whirled around to find an impossibly tall, cloaked figure leering ominously at them. |
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He hit the floor with a sickening crunch, wings askew and limbs bent into impossibly painful angles. |
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The whole place is impossibly glamorous and the wealth on display is something else. |
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Can television handle philosophy, which is popularly seen as either arcane or impossibly difficult? |
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It's not that his surmises are automatically wrong, but that they sound affected and impossibly privileged. |
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But then Stanier enters with an impossibly huge drum fill, splintering the subdued mood and booting the song awake. |
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Suddenly, the whole Net vanishes, except for a few pinpricks of light, far, far away, imitating the stars on a cloudless, impossibly dark night. |
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Western aid also helps counter the effects of Montenegro's impossibly tangled government budget and economic system. |
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The impossibly pretty town is mostly on an island on Lake Constance but spills over onto the mainland. |
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The film shows a pair of nimble, experienced hands framed in close-up, deftly preparing an impossibly lovely meal. |
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An impossibly high, ear-splitting sound emitted from the speakers, shattering almost all the windows in the stadium. |
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The stories of the seven characters intertwine impossibly in a story of identity and self-imposed oppression. |
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Here was a child star who was talented, impossibly cute, totally freckly and absolutely ginger. |
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Driver 2 is equally tough, but at least this time the missions aren't impossibly hard from the very outset. |
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The show's success is in its cast of impossibly good-looking teenagers and their skimpy outfits. |
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He was literally larger than life and had an impossibly dramatic Wagnerian voice. |
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Mostly the book's given over to the impossibly quaint eccentrics Edwin encounters in London. |
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And I wanted to see if this road that once seemed as impossibly romantic as Xanadu or Shangri-La was where I had left them. |
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Out went the jeans, T-shirts, and sneakers and in came leather, studs, chains, moustaches, biker boots and the impossibly big hair. |
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Like most shojo the style includes lush costumes, impossibly beautiful boys and, yes, those big, saucer eyes and tiny, button noses. |
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Pudding is an impossibly rich chocolate cake, followed by a shot of treacly espresso. |
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Suddenly that pilgrimage to Celtic Park doesn't sound quite so impossibly self-indulgent. |
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This list wasn't originally intended for a quiz so some are absurdly easy and others impossibly hard. |
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The single player game begins with Conker getting impossibly blitzed and stumbling out into a dark starry night. |
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Even if it were desirable, a completely fat-free diet would be impossibly bulky. |
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His hair was spiked, but true to its nature, a few wayward hairs escaped the gel, falling into his impossibly honey-brown eyes. |
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So while the challenge facing the peace movement in south Asia is daunting, it is by no means impossibly quixotic. |
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Nose bent impossibly over a weather-beaten face, he looks much older than his 46 years. |
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The reason for this disparity is that most definitions of nanotechnology are impossibly broad. |
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You can fish, or dive, or lie on the impossibly white sand and count how many shades of blue there are in the sea beyond. |
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One of my greatest strengths has always been the ability to make the apparently impossibly unworkable work. |
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Nearly all the remaining complaints were trivial, baseless or impossibly vague. |
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Though its title initially suggests an impossibly broad subject, The Black Experience is the story of one Pan-African man. |
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She had been sitting in the window, embroidering some impossibly fine design. |
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The book explores the relationship between an impossibly eccentric contemporary composer and his grudging biographer. |
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He disappeared without payment when he had completed the extraordinary task of fitting a spiral staircase into a space deemed impossibly small. |
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A Canadian production, it spoofed the entertainment industry via a cast of impossibly naive characters. |
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In Bombay, even something as innocuous as button mushrooms were impossibly exotic at that time. |
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There is a picture, in my mind, of an impossibly long, steep path up a bleak peak rising Golgotha-like above a fold of green hills. |
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It bounded towards her, revealing a short wood nymph with impossibly tangled grey hair. |
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Vega is seen here as vicious and impossibly vain, but not quite the psycho nutjob of the Japanese anime movie. |
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It was falling slowly, impossibly slow, as if physics had given up and allowed gravity to be enchanting instead of practical. |
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Singing in English at the impossibly low volumes she favors, syllables are often lost as her voice shows fine cracks. |
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Besides, the three of you look impossibly cute when you're sat like that of an evening. |
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A woman, impossibly beautiful, hanging twenty stories in the air, calmly brushes her teeth in close-up on a video screen. |
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The Danish Kitchen in High Ousegate has no disabled toilets at all, and the ordinary toilets are up an impossibly steep flight of stairs. |
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Guys with impossibly British suits, seersucker or pinstripe with red rep ties. |
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His robes, loosely draped around his tall but sticklike figure, were trimmed in silver-blue and stood impossibly white among the sand and dirt. |
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The impossibly high expectations of motherhood, of striking a balance between the working world and the world at home, is what most women face today. |
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How arrogant, how impossibly stupid and just how ignorant are we? |
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Nice. If the dog needed a wee in the night I'd have to go with him, as the dog was impossibly large and ungainly, and the door was impossibly high off the ground. |
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This continues until an impossibly huge amount of ice cream is compressed into the pint. |
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It must have been full summer, for it was warm enough not to need a coat, and the lawns were thick with white daisies, all impossibly open in the moonlight. |
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Now fully warmed, Alex's impossibly large arms resemble a relief map of his native country, with jagged veins resembling the Ural mountain range, dividing east from west. |
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We met on the third floor of a shabby building in Asadabad in an impossibly spare room that we dragged cushions into. |
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Really, expecting 41-year-old eminem to channel his late-20s self was an impossibly ambitious demand. |
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By now, the Americans were crying out for a road-going version of the impossibly beautiful car and in 1956 the 356A was born in direct response to this demand. |
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As the air filled the sac, the balloon took on an impossibly long shape. |
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It was something quite unique, impossibly velvet and probably never to be repeated. |
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A riot of leaves walls off a bend in the river, a curtain of vines cascades from impossibly tall mango trees. |
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There is the almost impossibly small world of gluons and mesons and quarks, but also the infinitely vast cosmological field strewn with uncountable galaxies. |
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He was the larger-than-the-life figure, and he loomed impossibly large over this campaign. |
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As long as J.Lo is Instagramming selfies in a bikini and no makeup and looking impossibly beautiful, Lopez will have a career. |
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The very best pictures by those artists seem impossibly complex and multilayered, defying paraphrase. |
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Then there is the flash of brilliant light on the horizon, followed impossibly quickly by a blast of intense heat and the billowing of a mushroom cloud. |
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It was seen as a shockingly unglamorous approach at a time when fashion, still very much about class, was shown on impossibly aloof models in carefully posed, static shots. |
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Each impossibly soft, downy robe feels like a little chunk of heaven that's so incredibly snuggly that being swaddled in one is like returning to the womb. |
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A black-and-white cat named Chopper sleeps upside down on the porch, his open mouth revealing a row of impossibly tiny teeth. |
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Austen was a mathematician of social interaction, and her novels are impossibly, preposterously good. |
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Despite evidence that placing myself in the position of a finger-wagging instiller of high principles didn't work, it was impossibly hard to avoid. |
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It was hugely popular in 1930s Hollywood, where the lives of the great, the worthy and the impossibly good were recorded in a hagiographic pearly light. |
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The overhead lights were harsh and the walls were impossibly white. |
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Look, it sounds impossibly maudlin if you read the synopsis of this film. |
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At the time, dogmatists fiercely defended the view that an artificial lens would be impossibly difficult to implant, and would also be rejected by the immune system. |
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It would be all too easy to go into activity overdrive to try to cram in as much as possible during a visit, particularly given the impossibly long summer days. |
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So yes, there were hazards, and clouds of smoke pouring up in the air, but I can't regret those fall evenings by dancing flames under impossibly clear West Texas skies. |
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Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies. |
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The missile continued to rise, finally leveling and falling at an impossibly slow rate, until it had completely carried over the fortress before crashing to the ground. |
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None of us is infinitely wise, impossibly strong or indomitably virtuous. |
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After that shaky start, Sharp is on firm ground, with a solid discussion of 8 tactical ploys, ranging from the common self-standoff to the impossibly rare Pandin's paradox. |
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Both contrive to produce misses out of impossibly promising situations. |
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As darkness fell and Christmas lights came on in windows we would drive from one fusty home to another, greeting impossibly old and decaying and undoubtedly lonely people. |
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He was an enfant terrible of culinary art, impossibly difficult to work for, fastidious about his creations and possessing a volcanic temper and savage tongue. |
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He wants to reform the impossibly cliquey party, long ruled by smug dotards who have turned political nest-feathering into a national art-form to rival ikebana and origami. |
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These seemingly impossibly fast rates of evolution implied by this Cambrian explosion have long been exploited by opponents of evolution. |
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Wouter Bos seems too good to be true. He's smart, relaxed and impossibly telegenic, with a knack for coming across as humble and sincere. |
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And his book-length piece on Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass is still one of the most readable exegeses of this impossibly abstruse work. |
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What? Go and do some work for heaven's sake. Stop moping. I swear Ross, I have never met anyone in my life more impossibly moansome. |
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Melody, for this, impossibly, was her mother's name, twinkled in a searching manner over the glasses. |
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So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father. |
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There is no denying the smooth qualities of the impossibly good-looking Alexi Kaye Campbell, who plays the veteran call boy. |
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My parents had a dormer and two impossibly small twin beds with the world's chintziest chest between them. |
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Jason Kendall beat out an impossibly slow roller to third, with Scutaro taking third. |
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Hayne says he performs 1,500 to 1,800 autopsies per year, an impossibly high number. |
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All that is impossibly amazing is considered nothing, and the impossibly amazing is considered normal. |
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This year's impossibly deluxe Neiman Marcus gifts include a Jaguar convertible, a diamond-studded pen and a custom-decorated Airstream trailer. |
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My eyes burn from sleep unslept and from tears unshed. I long for oblivion. I am impossibly tired. |
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Gilbert set almost impossibly high standards for recruits and many did not meet the requirements. |
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Both entail Lynch's infidelity, and both involve a wonderfully warm performance from John Hannah as Paltrow's impossibly considerate new romant ic interest. |
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And for these children, many of them devoid of any optimism about the future, the world of gangsters and gangsterism seems impossibly glamorous and wealthy. |
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Seemingly hemmed in on the edge of the box, Waddler suddenly teed the ball up and twisted his body to lift an impossibly cheeky lofted volley high into the right corner. |
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I had all the kids in my summer camp lie back in the prairie and watch the little white cumulous clouds float past the impossibly blue sky of summer. |
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Fifty-something Material Girl, three kids Desperately Seeking PreNup, WLTM impossibly low maintenance, but highly successful bloke to indulge every whim. |
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This may all be yet another misunderstanding, but hasn't the dividing line between intermental communication and parapsychic hocus-pocus become impossibly fine? |
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