Neither straight comedy nor thoroughgoing drama, it's a dreamy, wistful mood piece with only the wisp of a plot. |
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The options for dealing with so thoroughgoing a tyranny were pathetically limited. |
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The importance of a literature of immigration springs from this thoroughgoing engagement with the host country on the part of the immigrant. |
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A thoroughgoing bumbler, he accidentally kills the boss's grandson and then loses the pistol. |
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He was, of course, a consummate thief, but he was probably not the most thoroughgoing plunderer among the world's despots. |
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A thoroughgoing job, with attention paid to detail, and totally faithful to the original, the English translation makes for a good read. |
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In a world in which knowledge is power, whether we like it or not, thoroughgoing scepticism is not an option. |
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He wanted to create a thoroughgoing change in the way ordinary people perceived prostitution. |
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With the death of Elizabeth and accession of James VI and I, the Puritans anticipated thoroughgoing church reform. |
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In the last two decades, there has been a thoroughgoing reconsideration of the idea of a standard language or dialect or variety. |
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When he began his studies, he was a thoroughgoing Arminian, but in process of time, God used his doctoral studies for his conversion. |
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Her thoroughgoing analysis of the texts certainly makes her findings about the surveys indisputable. |
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It is nothing less than a thoroughgoing critique of Tamil culture and society. |
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He has a deep and thoroughgoing knowledge of the subject, and the ability to explain it. |
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He, matey thoroughgoing professional that he is, suffers from nothing of the sort. |
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Even the thoroughgoing libertarians have to ask what to do in light of that reality. |
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And this, in turn, is nothing less than one of the most thoroughgoing instances of assimilation and reconsolidation in twentieth-century America. |
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One notable consequence for biology was a thoroughgoing re-evaluation of experimental work on prebiotic and biotic evolution. |
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His thoroughgoing Puritanism meant that he constantly subjected himself to self-examination. |
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The Paper underlines the importance of ensuring more thoroughgoing economic changes and steady economic growth. |
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The world movement paid dearly for the IC's failure to carry out a thoroughgoing and principled struggle against Pabloism. |
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It does not purport to be a thoroughgoing statistical analysis, but does offer some commentary on the figures presented. |
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Despite these very intensive and thoroughgoing efforts, it has not been possible to locate Ratko Mladic. |
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First, rather than being discrete interventions, some are more thoroughgoing lifestyle choices involving many health-related activities. |
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Just as shattering violence affects people, it affects whole peoples, busting up the basic assumptions and givens in a society that usually prevent thoroughgoing change. |
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At the same time, new paths are being explored for more thoroughgoing coordination. |
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Even thoroughgoing originalists and textualists generally believe that Constitutional terms should be read in ways that account of technological developments. |
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If so, that would seem to preclude thoroughgoing commitments to war or peace or grand causes. |
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A thoroughgoing commitment to transcendence cannot allow for a God who is involved in human affairs. |
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I suspect, however, that a more thoroughgoing transformation is in order. |
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The reforms will proceed more quickly if we introduce thoroughgoing gender equality. |
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We are succeeding in holding serious and thoroughgoing discussions on all agenda items. |
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The reform, as I have just mentioned, cannot go as far as a more thoroughgoing reform conducted in the process of amending the Treaty. |
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The Commission provides a platform for all States to engage in an interactive and thoroughgoing dialogue on these issues. |
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There is simply nothing on the sports calendar as thoroughgoing as the domination of Thanksgiving Day by American football. |
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Epicurus was a thoroughgoing physicalist in his philosophy of mind. |
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The need of the hour is thoroughgoing political and electoral reforms. |
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The Reformation began, theologically speaking, with closed eyes and open ears, in the midst of a profound and thoroughgoing cultural and spiritual crisis. |
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Moore is offensive in precisely the ways in which he sets out to be, through a thoroughgoing knowledge of his natural constituency and his natural antagonists. |
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The reports were thoroughgoing and, as pieces of journalism, blameless. |
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While worthwhile, commendable, and necessary, these local prosecutions are not enough to prompt the thoroughgoing national, institutional reforms needed. |
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He will simply not countenance further funding increases without thoroughgoing changes in the balance between state and private school educated undergraduates. |
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Only through this kind of critical, self-reflective and political work can thoroughgoing structural and cultural racism be rooted out of our society. |
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A thoroughgoing libertarian might say that the problem is society's willingness to forcibly extract tax money in order to take care of emergency medical costs. |
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One of the most engaging things about the site is its air of faint eccentricity, and the fact that it is put together by a thoroughgoing enthusiast. |
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Even where Europeanization has, over time, produced pure and thoroughgoing Communitarization, levers for national influence have been retained and guarded very jealously. |
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She is a member of the editorial board and one of the folks who has made the paper a national laughingstock for its thoroughgoing political correctness and zany leftism. |
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This balancing act is potentially tricky, he argues, because thoroughgoing scepticism has a great potential to hurt others. |
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There is little doubt that Parliament would not have given the CSIS its extraordinary powers if Parliamentarians had not been satisfied that the use of those powers was to be subject to continuous and thoroughgoing review. |
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The man who seeks to qualify himself for positions of responsibility will master the disciplines of thoroughgoing and patient analysis of questions requiring his answer. |
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The country has undertaken thoroughgoing reforms in several sectors. |
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The law is designed to substantially improve the quality and transparency of financial reporting, strengthen the independence of the auditor, and ensure a more thoroughgoing audit. |
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I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment. |
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After six months of preparation, Lawyer Joseph Oteri began in September the most thoroughgoing legal attack on antimarijuana laws ever made. |
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The CEO's task force developed a thoroughgoing marketing strategy for the new product line. |
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But after 40 years of a planned economy the existing facilities were in a dilapidated condition and in need of thoroughgoing renovation and overhaul. |
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And with this understanding, the Toulmin and Goodfield comment quoted above becomes compatible with revolutionary transformation, which, not surprisingly, takes time to become thoroughgoing. |
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In the face of a tragedy like the one being suffered by Haiti, the spotlight should fall squarely on the people suffering in Haiti and I hope and trust that we all will make an effort to foster a thoroughgoing recovery. |
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The steady approach of cholera in 1831 was the last occasion in England of a thoroughgoing resort to quarantine restrictions. |
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The participants also underlined the importance of carrying out a thoroughgoing, international combat against doping through the preparation of an international legal instrument under public law. |
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The Origin of Species was published in 1859, long after romantic struggleism had become a popular philosophy, and Darwin himself was a thoroughgoing liberal humanist. |
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Clearly, Sifuentes-Jauregui's monograph is the opening of the sort of thoroughgoing investigation into Latin American masculinities that are necessary at this juncture. |
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Transitivity is a thoroughgoing division of Basque verbs, and it is necessary to know the transitivity of a particular verb in order to conjugate it successfully. |
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