Prior to my night of nocturnal mutterings two other rather aggravating events took place. |
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There were angry mutterings from the public during the explanation of standard engineering contracts and procurement processes. |
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Fact is, his grogginess is of a piece with his intensely absurd comedy, the enervated mutterings of one worn out by too much hard thinking. |
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Not a good time to be leader of the Conservatives, beset by challenges from without and mutterings from within. |
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However, there has been a steady increase in mutinous mutterings from rail users' groups lately as well as from individual passengers. |
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But there have been mutterings at technology gatherings about a lack of news about projects. |
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He is a master of platitudinous nonsensical mutterings meted out in a muttonheaded masterly display of the obvious. |
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We on the left console ourselves with mutterings about false consciousness. |
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It wasn't so long ago that a request for a third glass of fino sherry would raise a few eyebrows and mutterings about a drink problem. |
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I had to quietly excuse myself from a Vinyasa class with mutterings of trick knee. |
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In Viking days, there were probably mutterings about how mean and amoral life had become, what with all that raping, pillaging and so forth. |
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When some local mothers got together to have a mass feeding session in the town centre, people walked past with furrowed brows and mutterings. |
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Concerns were first aroused following the mutterings that came out during the resignation of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. |
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With hushed mutterings and grumblings they all trooped down to the stables. |
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But there are mutterings from within over Labor's lack of policy and failure to attack the Government. |
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After a few loud mutterings and expletives, Sara stomped her foot and stormed out the opposite door. |
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No more biblish, no more tiresome polysyllabic nonsense, no more mundane middle-class mutterings. |
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Nobody wanted mutterings about crowd trouble besmirching the memory. |
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Its riot coverage, however, could be characterized as the mutterings of someone having a nightmare yet somehow determined to control the terrible surreality of the dreamscape. |
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A year and a half later, such mutterings under one's breath were fewer and farther between. |
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Bastian only sighed again as the taxi began to slow down and the driver's annoyed mutterings began to be heard over the groaning and death rattles of the engine. |
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And the British soon stifled aggrieved mutterings that they had been most exposed to the crosswind. |
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Portugal and Spain are in a bad way, too, and there are mutterings that Italy may go the same way. |
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There have been allegations and, let's say, mutterings about the youth service. |
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Angry mutterings from Paris and Berlin were all that was needed to ensure that this excellent draft directive was thrown out. |
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My professor, who sadly never saw the mirth of my mutterings, seemed to have resolved to torture me with the critical essay. |
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Whispers echo in the light of an oil lamp, mutterings about what this victim must have done to deserve her fate. |
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There are dark mutterings that ultimately, and quite soon, the network will transmogrify into a bunch of podcasts available online and on mobile devices. |
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There have been fitful mutterings about Catalonia, the region of Spain where Barcelona is, seceding from Spain. |
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Some of the mutterings of rust Cohle come from the perfectly elliptical and safely imprecise musings of Thomas Ligotti. |
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Privately he can hear the mutterings of disapproval and disappointment. |
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Last week, for the first time, open mutterings within his own ranks suggested that, if he does not exercise one of those options, the decision may be taken out of his hands. |
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And there were mutterings over the sharing of facilities at the centre. |
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There may be a cabal of disgruntled former ministers on Labour's back benches, but they have largely kept their mutterings of discontent to themselves. |
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German today is peppered with borrowings from English and, despite some mutterings, there are no official attempts to purify the tongue of Goethe and Grass. |
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We only have preliminary estimates at the time of writing though early mutterings suggest overall balances were aided by stronger government and household spending, along with improved contributions from net trade. |
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It is hardly shaking in its boots over the divided mutterings of Europe. |
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There were mutterings that the chancellor's refusal to rule out a rise in VAT the previous day had been a cunning plan to wrong foot Ed Miliband but it was just as like the prime minister was making up policy on the hoof. |
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The formation seeking authenticity from the Brutus Myth and the prophetic mutterings of 13th century seers, it is a truly false premise from which to construct an identity. |
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Dark mutterings about the Welsh Assembly greasing the wheels of the selection process. |
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At the time, Malaysia and Indonesia were extremely reticent in the face of mutterings from Japan and the USA about sending naval vessels to the area to beef up security along shipping routes. |
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What can even his authoritarian government do to alter the mass alcoholism, the demographic disintegration, the mutterings of the minorities and the incompetencies of a non-incentive social order? |
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I have heard mutterings of spoiled ballot papers, a kind of dirty protest. |
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The political mutterings of oafish celebrities are best ignored. |
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Subsequently, two concerto-like episodes erupt, the first building from rapid mutterings into grandiose swirls, the second ranting against cataclysmic low octaves. |
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Mutterings that it was all too good to be true started long before now and those who forewarned us can take a dubious comfort from these figures. |
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Mutterings rippled around the room about how all refugees should be taken in, but the squadron leader shook his head sombrely. |
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