On glass sheets balanced by tall and short stumps of unpolished granite lie beautifully crafted Viking-shaped candles. |
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The vacuum chambers, where the test masses reside, look like the tanks in a microbrewery, though unpolished. |
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But at least the television ads bring a touch of unpolished rationality to the broadcasts. |
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John Paul's coffin was of unpolished, uncarved timber bearing a plain crucifix on top. |
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We are more likely to choose a shiny apple we can see our reflection in than one with dull, unpolished skin. |
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Is it possible to find raw, unpolished non-commercial perspectives on youth that are fun and challenging to read, and worth returning to? |
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Dunbar, born in Mississippi in 1904, was one of the last direct links to the unpolished, pre-war blues. |
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Joe is somber enough at the best of times, so if a little unpolished, he's not too offensive to watch. |
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He works in a scratchy, unpolished drawing style that looks like something put down in haste right after the event. |
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She inched up the wall, startled by the scuffs she had never noticed and then the dirty, unpolished glass that held but spots of reflection. |
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Tellingly, Namath, Allen, and Robertson all criticize the unpolished arrogance of the modern athlete, just as they were criticized before. |
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Note that polished surfaces present far less of a problem to the faker than unpolished surfaces. |
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Tantalum is a very hard, malleable, ductile metal with a silvery bluish color when unpolished, but a bright silvery color when polished. |
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As a result, the songs come off as unpolished, lending them a simple yet emotional tone. |
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They sell unpolished and uncut stones in an open space, cluttered with tables. |
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The floor is laid with special imported stones and left uneven and unpolished. |
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Insistent, often unpolished, and flecked with humour, Shary Boyle's drawings expose private vice and public embarrassment. |
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Some areas are left uncarved and unpolished, giving a dramatic sense of the raw material. |
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Save for a very unpolished Polish accent, Elizabeth Wilson is a sturdy Zofia. |
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I was reckless in my ways, dangerous and unpolished to the point of being branded a rustic. |
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Rich sources of magnesium include green leafy vegetables, unpolished grains, nuts and seeds. |
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A few shops in the city buy unpolished pots and sell them for a hefty sum after colouring and decorating them. |
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The beautiful thing about creativity at that age is it is brutal and unpolished, and not virtual. |
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But Cameron well knew that Cummings had long been Gove's unpolished right hand. |
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The idea that low production values or a slightly unpolished script will be forgiven because a show is online no longer holds any sway. |
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If it meets that deadline, it will be a rough and unpolished piece of legislation. |
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They are unpolished, unpredictable, and as much concerned with burying the old system as defining a new one. |
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How would those unpolished men be made to understand the Divine, if it was not by adopting the figures known to them in the world? |
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All in all, Appaloosa makes some terribly lifeless, unpolished and aesthetically unattractive music. |
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Scenario advocates might accentuate that scenarios can be used as a mirror, showing reality in an unpolished way. |
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Frances: Well, for instance, if you eat rice, it should be unpolished, brown rice. |
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The method consists in projecting an abrasive with compressed air to give the surface an unpolished or ground look. |
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The floor was of bare wood, unpolished, with a curious weather-stained look, almost as though it was the salt-encrusted deck of an ancient sailing ship. |
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In every crystal shop, both the polished and the unpolished minerals are usually available, but what is the difference when using them for healing? |
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He tied her reins about the iron ring embedded in the wood, and a moment later, he was standing on the unpolished wood floors, gazing about at the display of fine work. |
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These complex carbohydrates are found in foods that contain grains and seeds like barley, wheat, oats, millet, semolina, beans, lentils, wholemeal flour and unpolished rice. |
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The unconference can also be unpolished and raw, because participants speak about topics they're passionate about, not ones in which they are necessarily established experts. |
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Their unpolished uncut stones are displayed on about 30 tables. |
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Designers use marble with both polished and unpolished finishes. |
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These elements don't really gel and the whole thing too often reads like a sketch for a novel, full of interesting but unpolished ideas, rather than the finished article. |
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The film, banned in Iran itself, is raw, unpolished yet crafted, its script plain and unpretentious, lending its scenes a sense of reality with no impression of exaggeration. |
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The punchy five-track EP, with songs like You and Me Geometry and Haircut, is an unpolished indie rock gem full of post-high-school relationship angst. |
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They grumble about long, windy, unpolished pieces that don't fit into Slashdot's paragraph-link weblog format, and a style that sometimes glosses over key distinctions. |
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As recently as last autumn, senior members of the clerical aristocracy derided Mr Ahmadinejad's unpolished style as a liability to efforts then under way to win international acceptance for Iran's nuclear programme. |
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She remained true to her French-Irish song heritage, despite criticism from many who found her song lyrics vulgar, her French ungrammatical and mispronounced, and her tunes unpolished and repetitive. |
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Disruptive innovations usually find their first customers at the bottom of the market: as unproved, often unpolished, products, they cannot command a high price. |
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Made of unpolished shagreen and soft calfskin, the trunk is much like a mini safety-box with its metallic grid and its secret drawers enclosing 3 perfume refills. |
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This gives art the ability to deal with issues below the surface, things that are not shiny and glossy, to deal with the messy, vulnerable and unpolished sides of life. |
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Though the characters often speak over one another or at cross-purposes or as if they aren't listening, there is little or no place-holding dialogue, and there are few unpolished or unsharpened lines. |
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A silver bowguard made by Loloma in 1968 has one side rough and unpolished and another highly polished. |
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Our blade a unpolished to improve diffusion and eveness of the light. |
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With its loud, unpolished sound like an uncut diamond, the album serves heavy helpings of decibels and incandescent flames, as if spewing out the singer's visceral hatred for the system. |
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In tropical and subtropical climates, the unpolished rice would quickly become rancid in storage, so that is why the husk, containing the valuable iron, is removed. |
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This is the first time South Korea has imported polished rice used for such a purpose, although the country has imported unpolished rice for processed products, such as drinks and rice-cakes. |
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