It's a far cry from the 1970s and 80s, when the Royal borough indulged in an orgy of office building. |
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What, mused Jean-Pierre, had happened to the bacchanalian orgy we feared and hoped for? |
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We indulged in an orgy of girly-style excess including spas, shopping, shows and casinos. |
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Banks encourage what is for them a profitable orgy of borrowing, and luxury imports surge. |
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Now that the seasonal orgy of football has commenced in little towns all over the state I will also check the scores. |
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Those responsible went on an orgy of destruction smashing windows and electrical equipment. |
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True, it didn't show Tom and Nicole making love nor was the orgy orgiastic. |
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Even the city's Resistance Museum is cashing in on the orgy of national pride with its exhibit on Rembrandt in second world war propaganda. |
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In short, what we have here is a veritable orgy of vacuous generalities and meaningless slogans. |
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This was an orgy of hate-mongering and incitement to violence, insurrection and murder. |
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Outside there's an incestuous D' Ove orgy going on in the D' Ovecote, hot air balloons are sailing by, bees and hang-gliders are buzzing around. |
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The Romans' idea of a great evening was to watch gladiators hack each other apart, and then top it off with a drunken orgy. |
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Their attempts to get around these logical points generally result in an orgy of neologism and grammatical originality that gives me eye-ache. |
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For about a month after that an orgy of brutal beatings up and assaults upon Prisoners of War irrespective of rank occurred. |
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Eight years old tonight, the Irish language channel will forgo the traditional on-screen orgy of birthday self-congratulation. |
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It is reported that up to 25,000 exuberant lindy hoppers will be there, involved in an orgy of synchronised happiness. |
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As the jugs of wine were passed round and the atmosphere grew more ribald, Bligh wondered if this was just going to be some kind of orgy. |
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The Japanese are alleged to have held a three-day orgy at the luxury hotel under the guise of a company celebration. |
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Hollywood attitude and schmooze might well be the engine that drives this 11-day orgy of movies, parties and buzz. |
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She was later released, then arrested again when police busted a house orgy a week later. |
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Intellectual snobbery is so over, I chided myself, before launching into an orgy of sheer, joyous banality. |
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In honour of The Simpsons having been renewed, Michele invited her readers to indulge themselves in an orgy of favourite quotes from the show. |
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I can't say anything about these as I shamefully ignored them completely in favour of an orgy of consumerist spending on clothes. |
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More naked men are shackled together by their hands and feet in a sickening parody of an orgy. |
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The lead-off track begins as a shimmering, throbbing Moog orgy, through which a Spanish-sounding electric guitar bobs and weaves. |
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Police are treating the incident seriously because the culprits went to great lengths on their orgy of vandalism. |
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The worst types are the parents who indulge in such an orgy of worry about their children's exam performance that they can speak of little else. |
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The disaster occurred at a time of year when we have just wallowed in a shameful orgy of over-indulgence and conspicuous consumption. |
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She had played drinking games, Russian roulette, and had even been involved in a massive orgy. |
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With the sea of ripped wrapping paper cleared following the orgy of present opening, breakfast would be served. |
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In Roman times, a Bacchanalia was basically a very drunken orgy paying homage to the god of wine. |
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But for the rest of us, it's an orgy of sport, on most of the day, making you pick underdogs and winners on the spot. |
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We're not going to dwell, we're not going to indulge in an orgy of introspection and outpourings of grief. |
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That soaring something on the skyline, a problematic feature at best, set off an orgy of megalithic excess. |
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Fears that election fever will degenerate into an orgy of violence were confirmed when three Russian police officers were killed in an attack in the capital Grozny. |
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Such is the scenario in Pearl Harbor, essentially an orgy of impressive special effects that are wrapped up in about two hours of insufferable romantic-conundrum filler. |
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An orgy of groping and fumbling, and no sexual connotation left untouched. |
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The only check on that power is the spasmodic eruption of pseudo-scandal, a brief orgy of blood-letting as used to occur between emperorships in ancient Rome. |
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Their sordid complots are destined to explode into an orgy of violence. |
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The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. |
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Their lethal orgy ended, they turn back into spores and wait patiently to repeat the cycle. |
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So it's left to a nonexpert like myself to try to figure out the root causes of this orgy of misbehavior. |
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It's one thing to overturn an election by means of a judicial ukase, a partisan parody of a trial, or an orgy of gerrymandering. |
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I remembered how at last satiated with their orgy of torture, they had thrown me out on a garbage heap. |
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You might as well celebrate the life of Buddha by pouring gravy on an orgy. |
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In 2015 it will multiply across commercial TV screens in an orgy of building, cooking … and of course singing. |
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Not a physical return from war, but rather a return to normality after an orgy of violence. |
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This week they say there is an orgy of spending going on, but only in Conservative ridings. |
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Millions of healthy animals were needlessly slaughtered in an orgy of killing and burning that shocked the world. |
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The army units present on the spot, as well as the official local police forces, are direct accessories to this orgy of violence. |
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians are worried about their jobs and their families, yet the Conservatives are engaging in an orgy of pork-barrelling. |
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The explosion in oil prices has triggered an orgy of speculation in raw materials, including foodstuffs. |
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Any of them can transform a gig into a raving sound orgy, and together it's pandemonium. |
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The government introduced a budget that is an orgy of spending, three times the rate of inflation. |
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In a burst of making up for the sorrows of the past and smothering the memories of its mistakes we indulge in a brief orgy of fun. |
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Circling this orgy of nickel-and-dime excess were overhead murals that vaguely recalled the great outdoors with modernist visions of birds flying over mountaintops. |
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They cut all these pieces together and made it look like a big orgy. |
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Most of Jack's team gets whacked during a drunken orgy in a sleazy hotel. |
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It seemed to be a continuos orgy, drinking all day and night. |
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However, there is one big positive amid this orgy of self indulgence. |
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The weekend was an orgy of drinking and dancing and loving and living and I've come out of the other side with a number of war wounds to prove it. |
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Either that or the orgy of fun, shopping and eating going on around me. |
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The orgy of mutual accusations has reached extraordinary levels. |
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While we stand here and debate, there is an orgy of violence and killing. |
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Many a satisfactory jammy, sardiney orgy left its distended celebrants poorer in pocket certainly, but richer in cherished memories. |
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So from day one of the new government, we saw a sustained orgy of divisiveness and meanness about immigration, Aborigines and dole bludgers. |
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The two lines of paraders merged in a controlled orgy of sound, colour and motion,and proceeded to make their way down through the terraces toward the river, where the rats and bad spirits were meant to drown. |
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Quality is checked continuously in every process but the final leg in the plant is an orgy of customer invigilation. |
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Once the best in the Arab world, Iraq's educational institutions have been debilitated by a decade of sanctions, a brief war and, finally, an orgy of looting that spared few public facilities. |
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Any of these combustible subjects can spark a week-long orgy of backlash and counter-backlash, with arguments so convoluted they would leave medieval theologians reeling. |
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An orgy of kicking and screaming that required police intervention, this incident managed to make Jesse Jackson's cynical but fisticuff-free rallies look Gandhi-esque by comparison. |
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While the Conservatives have slashed social programs that are valued by Canadians, they have undertaken what can only be called a massive orgy of pork-barrelling. |
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A quick death was a blessing, compared with the slow agony of those who were scalped, or worse still, roasted over low fires in an orgy of torture. |
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A few months later, on the 49th anniversary of the 1959 uprising, the orgy of anti-Chinese rioting led by Buddhist lamas in Lhasa was followed by coordinated actions in Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan provinces. |
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He embarks upon an orgy of exploration in a world that is all new to him. |
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But while we tend to paint the 1970s as a decade of sex-and-drug-fueled excessiveness, the reality wasn't nearly so straightforward: Americans hardly rose as one to fling off their clothes and join the orgy. |
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However, since the bill was passed, it has been blocked in the Senate by the Conservative senators, who are engaging in an orgy of obstruction and disinformation. |
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The Hond uran ambassador to Colombia, Carlos Rodriguez Andino, was sacked after last year's festive party turned into a drinkfuelled orgy. |
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It would be an abysmal and irresponsible free-for-all spending orgy, like the sponsorship program, the long gun registry, and like the irresponsible and unaccountable spending in the HRDC department. |
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An ambient music that intensifies crescendo its experimentations, resulting in an impressive sonic orgy, a cathedral of apocalyptic and desperate sounds. |
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When we are talking about dangerous goods, fundamentally that is something that the government needs to address right up front, rather than this orgy of corporate tax cuts that seems to be its reason for being. |
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But please, can we call a halt to the current orgy of lachrymosity, which is starting to make Tiny Tears look like Steven Seagal? |
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Aerobics Oz Style was just commencing in an HD orgy of thigh-pumping action on a sunny beach Down Under. |
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Strippers across Tampa's many clubs were anticipating an orgy of business this week from the crush of conventioneers. |
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Every now and then a word gets bored with its usual beat, and begins to attach itself to sentences in an orgy of unnecessariness. |
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But he was stunned to see partygoers protecting their modesty with tiny towels and an orgy in full swing. |
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Nobody can deny that war is a profitable business for those who like that kind of money. War is an orgy of money, just as it is an orgy of blood. |
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We need to go back in history to Mr. Trudeau and what his governments left in terms of the orgy of spending that was undertaken during his time in office. |
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It is not up to the United Nations to say just what the German schools of the future should teach, and we do not want to be guilty of a Hitlerlike orgy of book burning. |
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