This Chinese anthology was memorized studiously in preparation for literary exams. |
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Bluegrass, once so studiously ignored by Nashville tastemakers intent on erasing the roots of country music, has come into its own. |
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But American reporters are studiously averting their eyes, lest they stumble over a story. |
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Hawthorne's text is studiously inscrutable about events antecedent to Hester's being branded adulteress. |
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And sure enough, so studiously edgy are the performances that one is never quite sure who harbours the darkest pathology. |
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We studiously avoided that tone of spoiled and bored querulousness for which colonials were infamous. |
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The Liberals have studiously continued to ignore the idea, abetted unwittingly by Opposition parties obsessed with gazing at their own navels. |
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For the entire time that she had been living in New Haven, she had studiously avoided romantic entanglements. |
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I studiously avoid poll takers waiting to ambush me at train stations and supermarkets, and I hang up on telephone surveys. |
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I'm talking carefully ripped jeans, studiously scuffed shoes, lovingly tousled hair and, for guys, cultivated stubble. |
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He studiously avoided leaving a paper trail that could implicate him in the financial shenanigans. |
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Mostly I just find him intermittently annoying because I doubt that his studiously developed online contrarianism reflects who he really is. |
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The boys in the office made mumbling noises about the fact that I'd got my hair cut, and studiously avoided saying anything else. |
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Many authors have been studiously writing, examining how these traumatic events have changed the world. |
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This is the point in class that I would typically raise my hand or open my laptop to studiously take notes. |
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Earlier in the century, presidential candidates sometimes furthered this goal by studiously refusing to campaign. |
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They wake up studiously each morning to earn their pay, which they often save. |
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The second half, led by Brando, was serious, surly, studiously indifferent to giving pleasure or generating affection. |
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Over the last year he has been studiously researching the Viking saga upon which his character is based. |
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Perhaps because of her humble background, she studiously avoids the elitism and authoritarianism of many of her competitors. |
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You can see how Bettany would charm Crowe, film directors and Oscar-winning actresses because the actor is exuberant company, studiously modest and still artlessly open. |
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As they wait for assistance to have the man taken into custody, they studiously ignored taunts and provocations and remained astonishingly polite throughout. |
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The usually dilatory official whose habit it is to charge extra for administration costs suddenly works studiously, and earnestly, organizing the charity effort. |
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The collected journalists from Europe and America are studiously taking notes, hanging on every word. |
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That is starting to exasperate the United States, hitherto studiously cautious towards Mr Chavez. |
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The duc de Chartres retaliated by studiously neglecting his wife, Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, the king's favourite legitimized daughter. |
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You then spend the day surrounded by silent students studiously staring at pages of notes and computer screens. |
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For an outcome that employed the ideas of both federalism and autonomy, the agreement studiously avoided both these terms. |
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It needs to be applied studiously with great forethought, but at the end of the day, silence is the worst possible option. |
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The group worked studiously over the weekend to begin developing a policy paper on migration and young people. |
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For quite a long time, Paulo who is originally from Esposende studiously followed what was going on in rally-raid. |
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At one end of the room thirty sommeliers seated around tables concentrated studiously on wines served successively. |
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She did offer up a few studiously unspecific opinions and policy proposals. |
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All of these things I have studiously avoided, perhaps at the cost of my own pleasure and the appearance of fuddy-duddiness. |
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He never came out against the troop surge of 2007 and 2008, but he also studiously avoided talking much about it. |
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He subtly dipped into the social currents that designers in New York studiously avoided. |
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Packing material littered the office and men in moving uniforms were studiously packing breakables and other pieces of furniture that graced the office. |
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It is the duty of every member of the organisation, however senior or junior, to enhance and preserve the capital of the organisation and studiously to refrain from any conduct which might detract from it. |
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The European Commission has studiously avoided getting involved in the Western Sahara dispute and refrained from adopting any initiatives that might appear to favour one or other party to the conflict. |
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The ultimate proof of any loss-management system, even one as carefully thought out, rigorously applied and studiously updated as OIMS, is in the results it achieves. |
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Legislative Suggestion: New legislation should studiously avoid any possibility of creating or continuing a conflict with other legislative documents or ministerial mandates. |
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The Bank's articles of agreement, its founding charter, enjoin its officers to remain studiously apolitical. Of course, the neophytes soon learned all about the political character of their host countries. |
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My point is that the movie, which is sometimes very funny in the usual zany, pop-surrealist sketch-comedy manner, is studiously inoffensive and thoroughly chicken-hearted. |
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He intersperses studiously boring tweets about small-bore political issues with a barrage of cat pictures and encomiums to sudsy baths, rubber duckies, and Teddy bears. |
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If you're worried about being poor, you'll studiously avoid them. |
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But Schumer and his staff have studiously avoided further comment. |
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Although there's a hint of Norman Wisdom in his pantomime moves, Ant recreates his past studiously, and it only takes a hip thrust and a coy look to recall what a peerless pop star he is. |
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Amidst the bright and multicolored ambience of lush bougainvillea bushes and beautifully designed garden paths, children were seen studiously conversing with each other in a lofty mood. |
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Or, worse, you'll just hit on a lecturer when drunk on free departmental wine, be rejected, and have to spend the next three years studiously avoiding them, and never ever taking any of their modules. |
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Warchus, after all, is best known for the stage musical Matilda – though he studiously avoided watching any of the aforementioned movies before he made Pride, he says. |
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Instead of proposing small steps, the Geneva Agreement' wholeheartedly embraces the fundamental issues, which have been studiously ignored both by the Oslo Agreement and the Road map, but follows the approach set out at Taba. |
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Reference has been made to the Jones act in the United States. which has been in place since the 1920s and which the United States has studiously refused and resisted abolishing, including during the NAFTA negotiations. |
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Petrarca had his Laura, and Dante his Beatrice, but Lorenzo has studiously concealed the name of the sovereign of his affections. |
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The hon. member talks about Colombia's past and in doing that he studiously ignores the present, the future, and typical of that member, he studiously ignores the facts. |
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