Within the transparency, amorphous shapes glowed a pinkish grey, punctuated with darker, circular masses. |
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The picture quality is superb, punctuated by the lush colors of the gang's neighborhood pub and the panache of their respective flats. |
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The edge of the drop-off is punctuated by large formations of madrepores with contorted outlines. |
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Pota passed into law with 425 ayes to 296 nays after a bitter 10-hour debate that was punctuated by vicious personal attacks. |
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With my eldest child now attending morning nursery, my days on maternity leave are punctuated by the school run. |
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There was a scrabble of paws and claws on stone, punctuated by a few grunts. |
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To the west, a thick patch of forest stretched all the way to the sea, punctuated in several places by vast marshlands and winding rivers. |
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He periodically returns to a monochromatic style, punctuated by scrupulous forays into vivid chromatic declarations. |
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He returned to his chair as silence and thoughtful reflection punctuated the moment. |
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Then, as the car approaches, the slow thudding changes to a punctuated boom-boom-boom. |
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Exhausted and semi-conscious, my peripheral awareness of a sort of beige abyss was occasionally punctuated by explosions of extreme color. |
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I'm not saying those turning points are punctuated by Mercurial storms like I was some Greek hero or something. |
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The mixture of Provencal and Normandine exterior was punctuated with trellised ivy. |
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Violent shocks punctuated the strong shaking which lasted some 45 to 60 seconds. |
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A merry-go round filled the piazza with its barrel-organ tunes, punctuated by the pop-pop of shooting galleries. |
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So it's a meaningless mismatch punctuated by spite, scrappy goals, cards and, with the exception of the peerless Pires, no flair. |
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The film is comprised of a series of vignettes punctuated throughout by shots of text against monochromatic backgrounds. |
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Are you addicted to blindingly boring surfing punctuated by the occasional interesting hit? |
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Here were lives lived in the light of eternity, punctuated by tragedy, illuminated by the joy of unbiddable grace. |
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Indeed, economists have good reason to find the theory of punctuated equilibrium uncongenial. |
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She punctuated her career with asides about the 'body fascism' of television bosses. |
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The rest of his day will consist of more counseling, punctuated by glasses of slivovitz to drink and little cakes to eat. |
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The two read out lines from Srinivas' number peppered with Sanskrit slokas and punctuated with melody. |
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The day was warm and sultry and the unseasonable rain which punctuated the round failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the golfers. |
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Equity markets continue to drift downwards or, at best, sideways, punctuated by short, unsustained recoveries. |
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You'll encounter a challenging mix of steep ascents and descents punctuated with alpine streams, snowfields and lush meadows. |
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Staghorn coral rises above a tangled matrix of numerous other hard coral species, punctuated by great domes of brain coral. |
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The stadium's design, which suggests an ornate airline hangar, is punctuated with arches balconies, soffits, and pilasters. |
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The strings punctuated the word with furious, almost violent spiccato playing. |
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Having attended last year's event, I can attest to its practically tactile, loving atmosphere punctuated with childlike bursts of humour. |
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It is slow and deliberate, punctuated with momentary bursts of creativity or rage. |
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It also happens to be an incredibly catchy number, with an unforgettable bass guitar line, punctuated by bursts of joyous brass. |
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His speech was almost unintelligible and punctuated with startling bursts of volume. |
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They spoke little, each of them thinking his own thoughts, but it was a companionable silence, punctuated by the sputter and crackle of the fire. |
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A rushing noise arose outside, growing louder and louder, punctuated by squawks and screeches. |
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The thud of the wound, the squelch of the intrusion of iron into flesh was punctuated with the gasp of the Vikings. |
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American politics has been repeatedly punctuated by the threats that constituted the nuclear options of their day. |
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Traditionally the life of a soldier involves long stretches of boredom punctuated by brief and seemingly unending moments of stark terror. |
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The dialogue is frenetic and noirish, the action punctuated by a string of jarring, campy song-and-dance numbers. |
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Thereafter we began to shed the plantations and move into rainforest punctuated by stilted kampung houses and jackfruit trees. |
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This course may be punctuated by the positive or negative effects of palliative oncological treatment. |
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The eclectic garden uses Mexican pebbles as a ground-cover and is punctuated with yellow-blooming kangaroo paws and purple-flowered hebes. |
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And so the game goes on, stopping and starting, punctuated with random outbursts of grievous bodily harm. |
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As they cross into his yard, their voices fade to a dull murmur punctuated by high laughter. |
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However, the film does not overindulge in political posturing or preach, and is frequently punctuated by humour. |
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Passing Bell is an eerie composition of fossil-gray verticals supporting gray, red and purple ovoids, punctuated with shocks of orange. |
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After he returned to the bench, he was chewed out by his coach, who punctuated his displeasure by emphatically grabbing the player's leg. |
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As MH, the family nurse practitioner, cleaned and sutured the wound, the patient punctuated the air with Henny Youngman-type one-liners. |
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It's in the shade of the tung trees that the road from Sanyi meanders, punctuated by the occasional panorama of the surrounding countryside. |
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Above us the boundless blue sky was punctuated with a few fluffy cirrus clouds and the sun shining down on all of it. |
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The sound of booted feet was punctuated by the occasional clank of metal and soft, guttural voices. |
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Richie hyperactively schmoozes his way through the series, punctuated by brief moments of insight and intensity. |
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What follows, for about 45 minutes, are bizarre little set pieces, punctuated by ample, generally clever patter. |
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The whole history of the US, indeed, is punctuated with scares, crazes and occasional mass hysteria. |
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The duo display a likable rapport and a healthy sense of irony, and their show is punctuated by flashes of invigorating idiocy. |
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The pensive mood is punctuated by the quiet string-pluck of an acoustic guitar at the end of the track. |
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The ample percussion section punctuated the music's flow without overwhelming it. |
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Now it was a tangle of vines and trees, punctuated occasionally by stone facings buried in a sea of leaves. |
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The whole game is punctuated by some upbeat music that seemed to find its origins from the coin-op arcades. |
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However hard he tried to impersonate someone who is happy with his lot in life, disillusionment and disappointment punctuated his every sentence. |
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Benben stars as Martin Tupper whose dysfunctional dating life is punctuated by moments of cinematic daydreams. |
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And so the day went, filled with inconsequential matters and punctuated by long periods of nothing at all. |
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The function was punctuated by felicitations as the stars took turns to get on to the stage and wish the movie success. |
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The lower level has patterned brick exterior walls punctuated by arched windows, while the upper walls are heavy wood timber with stucco infill. |
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The beaches are empty except for the odd experienced surfer and the shoreline is punctuated by unlikely, romantic pinnacles of rock. |
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I was intrigued by the lettuce soup, which turned out to be a piping hot concoction punctuated with fresh ginger and herbs. |
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The composition is punctuated by dramatic rocks, pine, bamboo and flowering prunus, plantain, rose and willow. |
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He had made a 15-foot birdie putt, getting within a stroke of the lead, and punctuated it with an emphatic fist pump. |
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I went off into a day punctuated by involuntary shudders of revulsion as the sensations were recalled. |
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He forcefully articulated his points, which were punctuated with statistics and figures. |
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The horizon was punctuated by four distant patterns of cooling towers, but try as we did we couldn't pick out a hint of York. |
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The land was highly regular polder, punctuated by a grid like system of canals and waterways across the drained areas. |
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Its wall space is irregularly punctuated by windows, while the ceilings are flat and supported by wooden beams. |
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Because the action comes irregularly and is punctuated by periods of character building and exposition, the production stumbles. |
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The landscape is punctuated by hills which are often topped with a thin band of limestone known locally as cornstone. |
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She has a walk that wouldn't look out of place on a sumo wrestler and a laugh which is punctuated with alarmingly porcine snorts. |
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The music is is characteristically punctuated with sounds of cymbals, drums and long trumpets. |
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As we walk to the edge of a stream, a stickleback freezes, then darts away in a series of rapid zig-zags punctuated by brief pauses. |
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What results is a continent of gypsyish blues, punctuated by eclectic folk influences. |
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There were loud boos, punctuated by occasional defiant claps from isolated guests. |
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This is the third go-around for clearance talks, and each round has been punctuated by skirmishes. |
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There follows a protracted period of silence, punctuated with the odd sigh but mostly consisting of concentrated chewing. |
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Anyway, my last week of surfing was punctuated by fun puddling about in the small waters of Kuta Beach. |
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It is a clash of civilizations, not economic systems, and it is likely to be long, nasty, and punctuated with harsh reversals. |
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The text is liberally punctuated with useful graphs tables and illustrations that help to summarize data and convey key concepts. |
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The many short chapters are often punctuated with pregnant little epigrams that underline the plot. |
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War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. |
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Finally, the book is also punctuated with a series of illuminating photographs, charts, and tables. |
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The Carol Fleming dance group punctuated the musical sets with various dance routines. |
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His best-known contribution to evolutionary biology was the theory of punctuated equilibrium that he developed with his colleague Niles Eldridge. |
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Their views are commonly known as the theory of punctuated equilibrium and contrasted with evolutionary gradualism. |
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I didn't mention punctuated equilibrium or allopatric speciation either, because it isn't relevant to the matter at hand. |
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Riding on a crisply insistent motorik groove, masses of electric guitars weave plangent chords, punctuated by dirty feedback squeals. |
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On the left, the mouth of a megaphonelike shape contains concentric blue lines punctuated by small yellow disks. |
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She punctuated her statement with emphatic head gestures which again caused her hair to fall in her face. |
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A small silence ensued, punctuated by the less than pleasant sound of gloop and gunge bubbling through poor Graham's sinuses. |
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The slow accretion of shanty towns to the shell of the city is punctuated by storms of poverty and sudden explosions of slum-building. |
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There have been a number of cold periods, punctuated by warmer periods, of which we are living in one. |
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Minutes passed by, and the President waffled on, punctuated only by a cough or the quiet dropping of screws. |
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There can be nothing more disgusting for a non-smoker than a meal punctuated by wafts of cigarette smoke from a neighbouring table. |
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Kruger spreads over nearly 20,000 sq km of unspoilt scrubland punctuated by acacia and mopane trees. |
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Similarly cheers and acclamation punctuated the famous speech of the young senator on man's rights and dignity. |
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Every sentence ended with a question mark, and was punctuated by a popping bubble or annoying giggle. |
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The booming voice of the quizmaster is being punctuated by the beep of mobile phones receiving text messages. |
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The performance was punctuated throughout with the clatter of seats as half the audience walked out. |
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She answered in a fluently written letter punctuated by dashes about the death of her husband. |
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The nun's words were punctuated silently by her sisters' nods of affirmation. |
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They sat wordlessly, each consumed in their own thoughts, punctuated by the sharp ting of the rain. |
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The coach punctuated this talk with an air punch that could have dislodged teeth had anyone been standing in his fist's way. |
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She punctuated the point by kissing him on the cheek and giving him a slow wink. |
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Most of the work is punctuated with recitatives and arias with not much choral work but the work did not bore me at all. |
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In the undergrowth you can see white anemones, while the marshes are punctuated by kingcups and irises. |
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In any case, there should be no chance of ambiguity, or any other sort of unclarity, so long as the relative clause is properly punctuated. |
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It may well be an immaculately written novel, correctly spelt, beautifully punctuated, and full of poetic language and noble ideas. |
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This resulted in a complete lack of rhythm and short rallies punctuated by frequent drop shots. |
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Will it result in a facile anti-reductionist anfractuosity so skilfully punctuated way back by E.H. Carr in his What is History? |
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The plagioclase crystals would have formed subcircular lenses of anorthosite that punctuated background chromite accumulation. |
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A good deal of waking life is punctuated by daydreams, reveries, and fantasies in which the mind withdraws to contemplate an interior landscape. |
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The chaste but imposing exterior is revetted with a grid of limestone slabs and punctuated by broad wooden doors. |
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With abrupt fades to black, punctuated by mysterious notes, the auteur got Grace Kelly and Grant together for a magnificent piece of work. |
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My mother was standing at the kitchen window watching a column of thick black smoke rising into the sky, punctuated by the odd lick of flame. |
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Already there is a low buzz of excitement, punctuated by the occasional outbreak of applause. |
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The fabric of the town is relatively horizontal, the roofscape punctuated only by the town-hall and a church spire, both slightly to the north. |
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The entrance rotunda is rendered in light tones and polished surfaces, dominated by a large, banded window punctuated with green glass. |
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The night here is punctuated by artillery fire and that fire was coming from the east. |
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Great flashes of light illuminated the whole area, punctuated by the rumbling of thunder clouds. |
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Nightmares flowed like fever, syncopated by the twitch of a neon light outside and the rhythmic clatter of the air-con, punctuated by the shriek of car horns. |
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His speech was punctuated by Yiddishisms, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic. |
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These frozen, silent moments were punctuated by the hum, whir and click of slide projectors changing and revolving, reminding us of their outdatedness and sheer physicality. |
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They punctuated their demands with demonstrations and protests. |
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The passageway is lit by a ribbon of alabaster above and subtly punctuated by the cathedral's devotional chapels, which are arranged along the inner walls. |
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A little long winded, but the speech was punctuated with a lot of applause, which suggested that a lot of the military brass in attendance support him. |
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A medieval town dominated by fantastic architecture, it is a gem with ancient streets and alleyways punctuated by beautiful civil and ecclesiastical buildings. |
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Lunch was punctuated by cheerful banter, with everyone in high spirits. |
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They are punctuated by colourful abstract sculptures from the 1970s and the occasionally successful stylised bronzes of sinuous nude girls from later in that decade. |
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The Doctor's harrowing account of the orthopaedic centres for polio and landmine victims was punctuated with the earthy humour of the people he deals with. |
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The removal of each piece was punctuated by the rip of Velcro. |
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Like my wife's slimming programme, this year's harvest is going in fits and starts, punctuated by incredibly hot days of activity and frustrating rest periods. |
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A continuous background hum of machines and the soft voices of nurses was punctuated occasionally by the shrill of a telephone, or shoes padding across the lino floor. |
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Dean punctuated the moment with a swing of his arm and a yell. |
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The track features a gently pulsating synthesizer under a spare, reverberating guitar melody, and is punctuated by the sporadic ebb and flow of a stuttering drum beat. |
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Ragweed hay fever has a short, punctuated, and punctual season. |
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I bet he had no idea when he sent in his badly spelled and badly punctuated letter that he would be ordered to cut off his hands and bleed over the keyboard. |
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Mostly, however, I heartily adored you, delighting in your company, relishing your exuberant sense of humor, which you punctuated with lusty cackles. |
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The images spread over several walls, punctuated by windows offering a panorama of the actual Bund, the Huangpu River and the futuristic Pudong district beyond. |
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The drama is punctuated with moments of cornball humor and wit. |
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For now, an impasse holds Ukraine in a limbo punctuated by violent outbursts. |
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He speaks in broken sentences, punctuated by the sound of rattling and tribal drums. |
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As his conversation picks its way determinedly from subject to subject, his speech is measured and occasionally punctuated by loud cackles of laughter or bursts of anger. |
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The play was punctuated by the merciless clangor of wood blocks. |
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It is not a hugely quick track, with two hairpin bends at each end and quick straights punctuated by chicanes which see the drivers right up on to the kerbs. |
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The riverside walls are punctuated nevertheless by defensive bastions of which the main one controls an access from the river and numerous underground passages. |
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A wall was built of mud brick on a limestone foundation, punctuated by projecting bastions to allow cross-firing against anyone attacking the wall. |
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Anyone who remembers halcyon summers on the islands readily recalls the clackety clack noise of the looms that punctuated every 100 yards or so of a walk through any village. |
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The swooping and soaring melody, very Eastern in its melismatic cut, is punctuated and embellished by the other three string instruments and by the piano. |
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These are punctuated in somber and sorrowful moments by elegiac strings. |
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His father has punctuated the message with an exclamation mark. |
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Because the campus is punctuated by a series of natural and man-made lakes, streams and fountains, water plays an important sensate role in the psyche of the community. |
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Structurally, many employ a standard verse and refrain alternation, punctuated by a middle eight, where the song becomes fleetingly more interesting. |
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The end and beginning credits, punctuated with outtakes, dancing, and singing, seem to last roughly the length of time it took for the Titanic to sink. |
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The choir sang traditional hymns punctuated with claps and the ululating tribal cries of celebration. |
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The coffee is so good no matter where you go, from small corner caffes to trattorias and pizzerias, the end of a good meal is always punctuated with a shot of espresso. |
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Civil war continued, punctuated by innumerable truces and lulls. |
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The mammoth store had hosted book clubs and regular readings that punctuated the days in that bedroom community. |
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He had a pleasantly jowly face, punctuated by a brushy mustache under his fleshy nose, his pants always fastened to suspenders. |
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His canon camera dangled by his side and the feeling of uncertainty over what he could now report punctuated everything he said. |
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Impatient and dismissive, punctuated by forced, faked little laughs and peevish demands for more airtime. |
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Grids of rice-paper squares punctuated by areas of stitching and little insets of lace and netting suggest quilts, while lacy edgings connote pillowcases and hand towels. |
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Clean lines punctuated with specimen plants are ideal not only because they are easy on the eye, but they also have the practical benefit of aiding security. |
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Scenes of bucolic harmony and sylvan bliss are punctuated by violent episodes in which all manner of wild animals are shown attacking domestic animals. |
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The drone of the poker machines, roulette wheels and craps tables is punctuated by the bleeps, trills and occasional rattling of coins from the one-armed bandits. |
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With crisp, articulate draftsmanship and a penchant for queasily keyed-up colors, Sharrer presents slyly enigmatic events that are punctuated by surreal details. |
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The video screens were blotted out by the clouds, displaying only swirling mists and droplets of moisture punctuated by a flash as lightning rippled through a cloud. |
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Green lawns run along on either side, punctuated with water filled ponds and fountains, and surrounded by orderly rows of eucalyptus and casuarina. |
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Temples and palaces punctuated the skyline seemingly at random. |
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He wrote plain English, punctuated by short pithy sentences. |
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The rat-a-tat of the copier in a back office, punctuated by the ring of phones coming from everywhere, like fragments of celestial music trapped in a singularity. |
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The opening song places keening flutes and whispered vocal over an insistent pulse of clay drums and thumb pianos, punctuated by occasional bursts of talking drum. |
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The three working days of the conference were wall-to-wall keynote speeches, which, for the press at least, were punctuated by press conferences which were often better value. |
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Many slather gray mud over their naked skin, giving themselves a wan, ghoulish cast, and they saunter through a surreal panorama punctuated by eccentric installations. |
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She is frisky and good humoured like a bouncy Labrador, gushing with anecdotes punctuated by a laugh, which is a cross between a joyous cackle and a happy crow. |
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As it happens, we do not get so much from Miss Stein, for punctuated or unpunctuated her sentences are simply bad, ill-constructed, confused and rhythmless. |
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From time to time, the unending song, gently driven on by two solo violins, is punctuated by the even rapping of a woodblock and the pretty chiming of a celesta. |
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I spend waking hours in a fog of delirium, punctuated by uncontrollable giggle fits, heart palpitations, and mental anguish. |
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The theory of punctuated equilibrium will come to be seen in proportion, as an interesting but minor wrinkle on the surface of Neo-Darwinian theory. |
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These works combined several shades of white paint in built-up layers of greasy petal-like strokes that were punctuated with dots of ultramarine or alizarin crimson. |
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The show is punctuated by subtle, skilled curatorial juxtapositions. |
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The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall. |
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At the end, the orchestra played a somber dead march that was punctuated by harsh, chilling blows on the timpani. |
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This opened an intermittent civil war as James attempted to seize Douglas lands, punctuated by a series of humiliating reversals. |
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In the history of the Earth, biodiversity has gone through long periods of expansion, occasionally punctuated by mass extinction events. |
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Flood basalt events occur as pulses of activity punctuated by dormant periods. |
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He punctuated his demand with a deep thrust up CJ's hole. His giant pipe drove almost all the way in, pulsing against his fingers beside it. |
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The Gulf Coastal Plain in Texas is punctuated by a series of cuestas that parallel the coast, as are most coastal plains. |
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For landlubbers, a hiking trail winds through oak and mesquite forest, punctuated by the occasional Adam's needle cacti. |
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In evolutionary terms they are punctuated equilibria for which chaotic evolution is only intermittent. |
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Twin banks of teaching accommodation with a central corridor are punctuated by either three-storey high atria or open areas of hard landscape. |
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It was simply wonderful, its creamy chocolate gooeyness punctuated by rich coffee. |
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Earth did indeed plunge into an ice age about every 100,000 years, punctuated by warm spells, or interglacials, that lasted about 10,000 years. |
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This is likely the pattern recognized in Niles Eldredge and Stephen Gould's punctuated equilibrium. |
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These mutations can occur gradually or rapidly via a term called saltation or punctuated evolution. |
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In style, it sounded like Philip Glass punctuated by drumrolls and the plash of falling water. |
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Later came an electropunk version of Hank Williams's Lovesick Blues punctuated with ska horns. |
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Distracted by the munchings and gulpings that punctuated my father's theology, I lost my place in his dialogue. |
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We had a fine dinner, punctuated with Heidi's loud ha-has and lots of wine. |
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Ulrike lived in a farm hof, and all around me were the dark blank fields punctuated by a few disparate lights. |
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There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that. |
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Meanwhile, her brother Branwell fell into a rapid decline punctuated by dramas, drunkenness, and delirium. |
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The resulting sound is a timbre that is punctuated by rhythmic variations in volume, filter cutoff, or distortion. |
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This tends to give the music a more punctuated, bouncy sound that can be especially well suited to hornpipes or jigs. |
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These deposits are commonly punctuated by metre-scale fining-upward, medium-grained, cross-bedded sandstones, interpreted as terminal distributary channels. |
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In winter, snowmobilers, skiers and snowshoers move through denuded forests that are punctuated occasionally by the dark green of pine, fir or holly. |
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Le Havre's festival calendar is punctuated by a wide range of events. |
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Australia by contrast is a picture of general equilibrium, punctuated from time to time by expansions that have left very few linguistic outliers or inliers. |
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The book is sown through with a vocabulary of adaptive organisms, fitness, punctuated equilibrium, replication and other concepts from evolutionary science. |
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Kitsch may be the only word for a sculpture consisting of several tall, vertical chrome pylons punctuated with drippy, woundlike gashes that glow with changing LED colors. |
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There commenced a period of minor skirmishes with Saladin's forces, punctuated by another defeat in the field for the Ayyubid army at the Battle of Jaffa. |
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Wellesley then forced Soult's demoralised and battered army into a fighting retreat into France, punctuated by battles at the Pyrenees, Bidassoa and Nivelle. |
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The quiet of the Phoney War was punctuated by a few Allied actions. |
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If we switch quickly from fossil fuels, climates might come to resemble those of the interglacial warm periods that punctuated ice ages of the last two million years. |
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Sudberry Properties hosted an official groundbreaking event, which was punctuated with the planting of a 20-ton, 30-year-old Moreton Bay Fig tree. |
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A second cup, Otanigui5d, was drizzled with flecks of earthy colour and was punctuated with a white dot surrounded by a pulsating ring of burnt sienna. |
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How many of us went to college because we thought it would be a fun ride, loaded with irony and punctuated by the occasional intellectual pratfall. |
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