| They wander in a dark Machiavellian universe lit only by pinpricks of mercy to light their way. |
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| This recurs in the bunch of bananas covered with pinpricks that, oxidised on contact with the air, form the black outline of a face. |
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| His pupils were pinpricks, and the surrounding circlets of frost-blue hummed as if fed with raw, crackling sound. |
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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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| At night, light from the interior radiates out in thousands of shimmering pinpricks, like a spectacularly illuminated porcupine. |
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| He can feel about two-thirds of the normal sensation of being touched and half of the usual intensity of pinpricks. |
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| Her eyes were dazzled with an infinite number of little pinpricks of light. |
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| Delicate folds, cuts and pinpricks, or lifts at the drawings' corners and the resulting shadows, are all experienced as major events. |
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| Given that most asteroids appear merely as pinpricks of light in our telescopes, how can we fathom their dimensions? |
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| Stork notes that pinpricks show that Jan van Eyck's 1432 portrait of Cardinal Albergati was magnified mechanically, with a proportional compass. |
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| Harder than even the 4 inches of reinforced steel below it, it served to make Allied shells, even AP rounds, bounce off like pinpricks. |
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| A rash which starts off as tiny red or purple pinpricks and may develop into bruises which do not fade when pressed with a glass. |
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| These explorations are, however, mere pinpricks in the impervious hide of western culture. |
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| The comment stung Winston's eyes with pinpricks of embarrassment, and he wanted to run until he couldn't see straight. |
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| His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication. |
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| While the stars gave off small bright pinpricks of light, the moon had a soft and faint glowing aura. |
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| I smiled and waved back at them until they were mere pinpricks in the distance. |
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| I loved to sit in the planetarium, just me beneath a million pinpricks of light. |
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| The stimuli included mechanical pinpricks, electrical stimuli, contact heat, and injection of a low-pH solution. |
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| The iris of each eye was dotted with pinpricks of lights like stars, and the pupils were gray, like the moon. |
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| The country's leaders are worried the sporadic suicide bombings could be relative pinpricks leading up to terrorism on a much larger scale. |
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| Deanna could make out the tiny red pinpricks of fighters and missiles swarming toward the two ships as they accelerated madly to attempt an escape. |
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| She then pinpricks for 45 minutes, lulling most patients into such a state of relaxation that they are unaware of anything but the tiniest tingle. |
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| India cannot allow political pinpricks from its neighbours to come in the way of pursuing freer regional trade through unilateral action where necessary. |
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| Their eyes focused on the other's until they were nothing more than pinpricks interrupted by the continuing flow of bodies passing through the widening space between them. |
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| He picks up a disposable pen and points to two tiny pinpricks. |
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| Her eye lights, pinpricks when I arrived, where dimming rapidly. |
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| I scream at the ceiling, its blinking pinpricks of light, to let me fall off that edge, falling wholly into that unfeeling darkness and letting me feel no more pain. |
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| Most of these startups will fail, and even successful ones will be little more than pinpricks for a banking mastodon with trillions in assets. |
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| It was at this point that I noticed her rash had almost completely disappeared and now looked like pinpricks. |
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| At night it is an expanse of darkness with only a few pinpricks of light. Yet trade is picking up. |
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| He could discount pinpricks of media criticism: favourable coverage on national television easily outweighed it. |
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| Exactly which of the pinpricks of light in the picture actually is the burst can be worked out later. |
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| Edel can now move both legs slightly at will and can feel pinpricks on her back and stomach below the injury. |
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| Data transmitted molecularly might also enable blood-sugar levels to be monitored without invasive pinpricks. |
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| Be vigilant about cuts, scratches, splinters and pinpricks. |
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| While some are significant, others are pinpricks. |
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| He is seeing stars, pinpricks of light swarming across his retinas. |
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| Made of woven optical fibres and powered by a small battery, Luminex fabric emits thousands of pinpricks of light the colour of which can be varied. |
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