Certainly, this latter-day political narcissist has already made up his mind what he's going to announce. |
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These latter-day seven deadly sins all seem to be connected with information technology, as the art of communication is known these days. |
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This brings up the latter-day chestnut which is now commonly utilised as an excuse to keep walkers out. |
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The man who sees himself as a latter-day Saladin will not to be enticed into retirement by the promise of immunity. |
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Delicate ecosystems worldwide are threatened with irrevocable decline beneath the massed boots of latter-day pilgrims. |
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One would seek to undercut or outmaneuver countervailing coalitions, a latter-day British grand strategy, so to speak. |
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He was very intent on this task, as if he fancied himself a latter-day St. Francis. |
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And let's face it, it's cooler to be a latter-day Beowulf than a burger-flipper. |
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He was portrayed as a latter-day Colonel Blimp with a wonderfully bilious turn of phrase. |
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Details of what it takes to be a latter-day Bond have been included on the website alongside other Foreign Office careers. |
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We must not be latter-day Pilates and wash our hands of the issues of our times. |
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Although Prairie boosterism took many forms, it often consisted of simple comparisons of earlier views of a community with latter-day views. |
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If he were able to see latter-day productions of «found objects», I like to think he would smile sardonically. |
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An influential young pro-Kremlin politician is trying to get the latter-day Saints banned from the country. |
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Yet, strangely, we know we aren't in the presence of a latter-day Puritan. |
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A latter-day dandy, he was renowned as much for his cut-glass vowels as for his Savile Row suits, bespoke shirts and handmade brogues. |
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Every decent liberal should defend his right to speak against the latter-day totalitarians who denied it yesterday. |
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It is the latter-day ghost of America's racist past that won't go away. |
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Albeit there are those latter-day scientists who would tend instead to award the ancestral palm to the lungfish. |
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Fortunately he would find not a latter-day Sodom or Gomorrah just a delightful little village nestling at the southern edge of the moors. |
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This conservative reaction put latter-day egalitarians on the defensive, scrambling for some redefinition of purpose. |
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In the ensuing days Miller was celebrated in the tony newspapers and magazines as a latter-day Shakespeare. |
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The latter-day St. George yearns to rescue the daughter of an absent-minded aristocrat who lives in a castle but who fancies himself a gardener. |
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I'm not suggesting that I want a latter-day Henry V in charge. |
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He struck me as a latter-day Socrates who had missed out on his true calling in the agora of Periclean Athens by some 2,500 years. |
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He may have been a public school boy, but he was also a bit of a lad, a latter-day artful dodger who spoke in a wised-up, street-smart demotic. |
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These latter-day Phileas Foggs, by contrast, want no surprises. |
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And the latter-day Machiavellis saw potentially great political significance in the timing of turning points. |
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Pillars of society abounded at these latter-day Roman Circuses. |
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She is always being asked how she came to write a latter-day Greek tragedy with such an insight into gang culture, social warfare and male aspirations. |
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This is an inexplicable case of lame and latter-day rather than rapid response. |
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In ethnography, we tend to see things mostly from the constructivist point of view, given the great frequency of latter-day inventions or re-inventions of tradition and putatively age-old, stable cultural forms. |
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In a matter of a few weeks, William Hague, once head of a struggling gathering of washed-up, latter-day Tories, has seen his fortunes miraculously transformed. |
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The expansive feel is reminiscent of latter-day Oasis, without their blank turgidity. |
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Although virtually intact and absolutely genuine, it has all the deadness of a latter-day reproduction. |
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A latter-day case is the penny showing Queen Victoria, whose coiffure began to look like an elephant's head when the coin was well worn down. |
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And there have been latter-day innovators. |
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Here again, Nin's latter-day apologists leap to his defense. |
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Who are these men who are held out as latter-day patriots and martyrs? |
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White evangelicals and latter-day Saints are uniformly in the GOP camp. |
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Here many of his latter-day adherents do him a disservice, using unsubtle approximations of his logic to produce crude statements about power and language. |
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In contrast, Bertie Carvel's fine, upstanding Karl is both latter-day Robin Hood, punishing his gang's excesses, and Hamletesque brooder meditating on life and death. |
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The very idea that the government would want to treat access to bandwidth as even remotely analogous to access to highways has latter-day asphalt manufacturers in a tizzy. |
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Until 1978 the Church of latter-day saints would not ordain men of African descent into the priesthood. |
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Of course, not all latter-day saints are eager to accept science on the same plane as God-given, capital-T truth. |
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Everything they do, on-screen and off, cements their reputations as likable everymen, latter-day Jimmy Stewarts. |
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Mr Rohmer has been attacked in France for latter-day royalism. |
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As they wander about Tate Modern's angular volumes, and in due course trip across the aerial bridge connecting to the new Tate Modern, latter-day strollers will be diverted by flickering VDUs and quizzical objets d'art. |
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If you guessed such latter-day globalizers as the United States or Britain, you flunked. |
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Maybe the Liverpool boss believes he has the quotability of a latter-day Bill Shankly. |
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It sounds as if he's already paying homage to Joe Strummer with his sparse and slurring musical style, but he looks remarkably cherubic, far from the pale and hollow cheeks of his latter-day image. |
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The present novel sets out to contextualize the name and to justify its presence in the mind of latter-day Martinicans. |
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Contrary to what is assumed in recitals B and C, Saddam Hussein, a latter-day Nebuchadnesar, took it upon himself to raze this old civilisation he admired so much to the ground. |
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Michael Medved on growing acceptance of the Church of latter-day saints. |
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His carefully rendered, quietly paradisaical scenes of the buildings, gardens and inmates of his hospital include expanses of delicate text and have the solidity of latter-day manuscript illuminations. |
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Now it's clearer than ever that Mr. Corgan made himself a latter-day guitar hero in full late-1960s-and-early-1970s style: with aerobatic upper-register leads, bulldozing low riffs, pealing echoes and outbursts of feedback. |
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They are, she says, latter-day hysterias, psychosomatic disorders whose roots lie not in organic causes but in psychological distress. |
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As gallant as Van Helsing facing down Count Dracula, the Yaris and Y the latter-day ghost-busters found the village rich in other-worldly atmosphere beneath a full moon. |
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But Mr King, whose own choice of transport was a more modest Volkswagen Golf, grew to detest the Chelsea Tractor tag attached to latter-day Range Rovers. |
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Like a latter-day Faustus who has mortgaged his soul to the pursuit of his art, Harrison now desperately craves the paternal love from which his learning has estranged him. |
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Ricardians, as the king's latter-day adherents are called, have a long and sometimes distinguished lineage stretching back to Horace Walpole in the eighteenth century. |
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