| Painfully shy, agoraphobic and intensely private, the outline of his life is, for the most part, a list of publications. |
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| Painfully aware of every minute occurrence nearby, she progressed, one foot moving soundlessly in front of the other. |
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| Painfully aware of the contradiction between the policy of glasnost and the party's handling of the Chernobyl crisis, Gorbachev at last acted. |
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| Painfully loud, deathly quiet, gospel as not-gospel with gospel singers, they were a rush and a thrill, sonic joys for sonic joys and sonic depths for sonic depths. |
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| Painfully for Lugar, the Club for Growth is headed by former Indiana congressman Chris Chocola, a former friend and ally. |
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| She hit the ground painfully, landing on an elbow and cheek, with the edge of the glass door swinging back to lodge firmly against her hip. |
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| Once considered painfully shy, he is now notorious for being surly and unwilling to suffer fools. |
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| So much theatre is painfully stagey and overdone that I find most of it laughable. |
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| The process may have been low-key and painfully slow, but it has seen the old Republican gods and heroes repudiated. |
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| But moments of effective humor are rare oases amidst a desert of painfully unfunny and sophomoric material. |
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| He'd seemed astounded, but poor Ryan had been making himself painfully obvious. |
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| Tool will not be moving over for Klaxons, because Klaxons aren't very good musicians and are being painfully gimmicky with their occultness. |
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| The engine oiler had a painfully swollen jaw, apparently from an abscessed tooth. |
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| To all you backstabbers, haters and bastards, I hope you die slowly and painfully! |
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| That's what comes from subjecting oneself to confusion and some painfully obvious bias on both sides of the argument. |
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| As we have painfully learnt during periods of national food shortages, it is expensive and wasteful to let crops rot for lack of storage space. |
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| I felt my stomach churn painfully, heaving viciously before I had time to react. |
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| Lydia could feel herself falling swiftly into the dark blue caverns of Gerhard's eyes as she let herself be lulled by his painfully true words. |
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| Her hands were bound together by a painfully tight rope, chafing badly at her wrists. |
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| Nor do its people feel any need to hide their light under a bushel like the painfully self-conscious and underconfident Scots. |
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| Consumers are painfully overcharged in all aspects of their business transactions. |
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| But just before she could get any closer a evil, painfully load hog-like cry stopped her. |
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| This is the kind of subject matter that will strike home painfully for many men and women in today's work force. |
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| I am sporting an almighty bruise on the back of my left foot and my right shoulder is painfully letting me know that it's there. |
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| One, the projection of the film onto the bathtowel-sized screen was so painfully out of focus it made my eyes throb. |
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| She could feel the burning heat creeping up her neck and building up on her cheeks painfully. |
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| She felt sore all over as she painfully walked to the awaiting medical center in town. |
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| I made my way to my room, change into pj pants, took off my jacket and fell painfully to sleep. |
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| The man let Madeleine go and she fell to the ground, clutching her neck painfully. |
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| Rubbing her sore bottom painfully, she jerked her head up to see who had run into her. |
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| Half-swallowing caused his throat to stretch painfully but he barely felt it. |
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| I spent the next two hours in the dentist's chair having sharp edges painfully filed off and loose teeth fixed back in. |
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| The demon turned to look at Ryuko, dropping Jade on the spot and leaving her to rub her neck painfully. |
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| My mood on Friday wasn't helped by the fact that I was limping around with a painfully throbbing bruised ankle. |
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| Despair becomes the main content of the novel to the point where it is painfully obvious and painfully funny. |
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| The usual mischievous sparkle had gone from his eyes and he appeared serious, painfully serious. |
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| The man's grin was sheepish and he rubbed his sore thigh that had painfully come into contact with the table's leg. |
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| He coughed again, more painfully, and now his lips were flecked with blood. |
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| It was a classic moment of inclusion which I felt acutely and painfully outside of. |
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| I like about half of every season lately and I've come to think the first couple are painfully slow. |
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| He stood at over six feet tall but had a far more powerful aura about him than Lars, who was painfully aware of this. |
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| New copyright legislation is in the offing but it's a painfully slow process. |
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| As the bus makes its way out of the centre, it is painfully slow due to the volume of traffic and it is no way to travel if you are in a hurry. |
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| She was an elegant, very composed lady, said to be painfully shy, but not the time I met her. |
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| While John took to it with ease, I was painfully aware of my lack of sophistication. |
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| We are also acutely aware that completion of these and other outstanding items is painfully slow. |
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| The first of these is the painfully inordinate length of the electoral process. |
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| El Guerrouj is painfully aware that he has won everything apart from the Olympic title. |
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| Then there are those of us who are painfully aware of our shortcomings as human beings. |
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| Trusted companions were perceived as enemies and she refused to eat, becoming painfully thin. |
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| Compared to making music, however, Cave finds cinema a painfully slow business. |
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| It's an elegant film but one that fails to engage, mainly because of the painfully slow pace. |
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| The introduction of speed cameras has been promised, but is taking a painfully long time to implement. |
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| His painfully slow recuperation gives him a greater affinity with his surroundings. |
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| The flower is generally used as a poison and can kill slow and painfully or quick and painlessly. |
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| Skow nodded, swallowed her questions, and led on quickly, painfully aware of the silent shadow that trailed her. |
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| On Sunday night I attended a swanky dinner in a painfully trendy Brighton Hotel to listen to James Rubin, former US assistant secretary of state. |
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| Squeeze a wedge of lime on top, and if you're brave, add a few of the painfully hot peppers served on the side. |
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| His body was hunched over painfully, creating a hump at the back of his neck. |
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| Once she reached the door, she made a painfully pathetic attempt at civilities. |
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| At least some members of the evangelist's communities have parted company painfully with local synagogues. |
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| No other singer could bring an entire room to a painfully hushed standstill just by performing this one number. |
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| Sapphire's eyes looked towards the bodies and her heart clenched painfully once more. |
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| If John hadn't been holding onto her, she would have crashed painfully to the hard pavement of the street below her feet. |
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| Pulling herself painfully up, she wobbled shakily on the cobbles, catching the icy metal of the lamp-post next to her to steady herself. |
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| I have become painfully aware that codependency is making what everybody else thinks more important than what I think. |
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| They are ill-equipped for the task and the reporting process is painfully slow. |
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| As a result she had been kicked around by fortune as it pleased, painfully aware of its brute force. |
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| Kathy grinned at me, her whole face brightening up, once again painfully perky. |
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| If he was occasionally indecisive, it was because he was painfully cognisant that lives hung on his decisions. |
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| That's painfully evident here in Minnesota, where interstates 35, 94, and 90 run like fat scars up and down and across the map. |
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| Trey searched diligently with his flashlight as he proceeded painfully slowly. |
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| He was painfully aware of his bare flesh as bodies pressed around him once more. |
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| His fingers tightened on her arm painfully, and gentled at her involuntary hiss. |
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| My pupils contracted painfully from the relentless fluorescence of the lights above. |
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| I haven't worked sheep in many years, but I can remember flyblown sheep dead or dying, slowly and painfully. |
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| Her hand had such low muscle tone that it cramped painfully as she tried to control the pencil when she wrote. |
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| I made my way painfully along the small hallway and down the creaky stairs towards the front door. |
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| Unlike buildings, where shifting foundations or leaky roofs are painfully obvious, golf course problems often are overlooked. |
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| The crow's feet at the corners of his eyes deepened as he frowned almost painfully, and rubbed his forehead. |
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| If that sounds painfully scary, you could just say you'll e-mail him later, which is an obvious cue for him to offer up his address. |
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| She moved slowly out of her curled up position and painfully stretched out her limbs. |
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| He's a pragmatist who's painfully aware of how hard it is to effect change in large organizations. |
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| As knowledge moves forward, bastions of belief are painfully knocked down, as creationism has been by Darwinian evolution. |
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| She was gaunt, painfully thin, expressionless, wearing a sleeveless top, dark pants, and sandals. |
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| Above all, he thought the generals of the army painfully slow and inconsiderate to leave him in such mental agony. |
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| Sadly, she became deconditioned, put on weight, became progressively more inactive and remains painfully disabled years later. |
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| His skin is pale and greyish, and his hands painfully contorted by years of rheumatoid arthritis. |
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| And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? |
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| Her smile was so fake and there was a gleam in her eye, a gleam of hatred as she dragged out every word painfully. |
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| Your uncompromising honesty and painfully truthful criticisms can make life difficult at times. |
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| The whites, of course greatly discomposed, had besides a curious look of being painfully shocked by such an outrageous row. |
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| The imagery and camerawork are almost painfully beautiful, while the disconnected narrative deliberately withholds closure. |
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| She had warned the demon, dissuaded him till the very end when it had become so painfully clear that it had been all going wrong. |
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| Arguments over final salaries and divvying up the remaining assets became painfully contentious. |
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| For a man famous for running a tight ship, this could be a painfully expensive exercise. |
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| Her painfully shy, stuttering father doted on her while her more powerful mother spoiled her. |
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| Then, elated with the tranquillity of aloneness, I sat upon dusty shoes extracting ideas from my brain to be written painfully into my journal. |
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| His head began to throb painfully and he felt the eyelid under the laceration lower in reaction. |
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| The main character of this painfully hilarious racial satire stretches to prove he's really a down white boy. |
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| Musical settings of the requiem may be very public, or almost painfully private. |
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| Because they are too painfully close, like a rival sibling, we have singled them out for special treatment. |
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| The callers recounted tedious vows, painfully off-key songs warbled by bride and groom, the inclusion of the groom's dog in the ceremony. |
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| The recoil jarred his shoulder painfully, but he ignored it as best as he could. |
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| She stumbled on the stairs, tripping and hitting the ground painfully, jarring her arm under her body. |
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| Her hand was throbbing painfully, but it was nothing compared to the ache in her heart. |
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| Hereabouts ewes wander at will followed by their weak-kneed, painfully innocent lambs, the majority just days old. |
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| It's since my shoulder got painfully and extremely jiggered, six years ago. |
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| Other advanced industries, like those producing machine tools and bearings, were painfully emerging but were at a low technical level. |
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| Always painfully aware of their place in the pecking-order, they struggle and jostle for position. |
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| It tore at his skin, ripping it raw and re-opening his chapped lips so they bled painfully. |
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| This potent grease-cutting chemical melts away the first few layers of skin on my hands, leaving them dry, cracked and painfully raw. |
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| Yes it's the painfully slow tennis tournament that keeps sellers of boot whiteners in business. |
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| A cold sweat ran over me, and my heart began thumping violently, almost painfully, in my chest. |
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| The process has been painfully and agonizingly slow to the World Championship Title. |
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| As is usual with films from the period, special effects and rear projection are painfully noticeable, adding to the concerns. |
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| Still painfully wounded, he helped the tail gunner out to the wing of the aircraft so the other crewmembers could help them onto a waiting boat. |
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| It's not so bad when the seat in front is up, but if they recline it then it presses rather painfully against my knees. |
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| Her throat constricts, and she swallows painfully, trying to keep her voice steady. |
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| And now she sat in the withdrawing room, listening to Lorraine chatter on while the blood in her temples pounded painfully. |
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| In future docking will only be allowed for working dogs whose tails could otherwise become painfully damaged. |
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| Anti-car policies, on the other hand, are still painfully lacking in Edinburgh. |
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| Reams of news and commentary rehash the discussions that have become so painfully familiar in recent games. |
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| I felt my body stiffen painfully as I relived the memory of my best friend being thrown onto the concrete footpath. |
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| Thankfully, according to Corinne, keeping flexible also doesn't mean following a painfully angelic diet. |
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| His left hand dove into my hair and his other hand gripped my neck painfully. |
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| Michael twisted painfully out of the way and swung his sword left-handed in an awkward but powerful arc. |
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| And they slowly, painfully, retaught themselves the importance of combined arms and the tight integration of suppressive fire with movement. |
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| She swallowed painfully and glared at the angry red and bleeding hole in his shoulder. |
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| Jack barely wriggled into the parachute and found the ripcord in time to land painfully but not fatally. |
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| The Utah Senator finds himself trapped painfully between a rock and a hard place. |
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| Hauling himself up on his walker, he edged painfully out of the living room into the hallway, dragging his legs behind him. |
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| She was beginning to laugh a little, being painfully aware of the apparent lack of logic. |
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| No, she thought sadly, painfully aware that he was standing mere feet away from her. |
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| As it was, he was also wearing his travelling gear, painfully bright clothing that stood out a mile against his dark skin. |
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| The local chief was a painfully thin traditional medicine man in suit and tie, his beaded magic wand by his side. |
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| In fact, we are so painfully aware of the issues that we can spend hours talking about them. |
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| In that moment he could scarcely breathe, and yet the air was filling his lungs like an inflated balloon, stretching them painfully. |
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| Out of the bustle appeared a painfully thin little six, or seven-year-old scarecrow, arms no thicker than sticks. |
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| She's manacled to the wall and her limbs, all painfully thin, tremble with weakness. |
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| The French navy, painfully rebuilt in the 1770s and 1780s, suffered badly from the effects of the French Revolution. |
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| Her chin scraped against the rough bark of a fallen tree trunk and her arm twisted painfully beneath her. |
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| My hair was scraped back into a painfully tight and still considerably wet ponytail. |
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| My heart twisted painfully and the marble floor below me seemed to spin into an incomprehensible blur of beige and maroon. |
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| She takes a nickel-sized piece of glass out of her foot, painfully, and does some cleaning and bandaging. |
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| He tried to stand up and banged his head rather painfully on a shelf sticking out of the wall. |
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| Also included were the masterfully painted, cartoonish canvases that seem to address painfully mixed feelings about body image. |
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| Darius scowled blackly at the memory, his head still throbbing painfully from the spy's vicious assault. |
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| Yet, I don't want to throw myself at him and be rejected and make the rest of the night painfully embarrassing for both of us. |
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| The band has a tight grip on melody, mixing dreamy guitar work with crashing drums and painfully self-aware lyrics. |
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| He's also painfully anxious not to give offence, and you wonder if he's almost too nice for his own good. |
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| Ian can barely breathe, his lungs are so heavy and his stomach painfully tight. |
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| Advancement by seniority resulted in painfully slow promotion, which resulted in officers overage in grade. |
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| Raven black curls fell riotously around her face, holding no semblance at all to the painfully tidy styles of the London ton. |
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| A meticulous lecturer and painfully accurate author, he instilled the same standards in his pupils. |
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| Two drum kits and two keyboard set-ups make it painfully clear why these guys are named after the Greek god of thunder. |
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| As passion's storm rages in the empty night will the fitful dreams of lost love just continue to slowly, painfully, tormentedly drift by? |
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| The river rises to swallow everything around, its rise painfully, tormentingly gradual like a torturous, emaciating death. |
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| A very old woman, bent in half and tottering on crippled legs, slowly and painfully pushed her own empty wheelchair. |
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| Or if you're middlingly unlucky, you get a roaring infection and die painfully. |
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| And the trades unions reminded Labour, painfully, that power is not without responsibility to those who helped put you there. |
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| Kiko looks up almost painfully and I'm transfixed at the depth of horror I see in his blue eyes. |
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| Somehow he made a misstep and lost his footing, sliding awkwardly down to the bottom of the ravine and bruising himself painfully. |
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| The supporting stories have a much sharper bite, including a return to his painfully confessional autobiographical style. |
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| The out of tune orchestra Elgar leads is so painfully unaware of their playing that this is an extremely unpleasant recording. |
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| Structure-wise it's incredibly flawed, the climax is rushed, the middle is confused, and the beginning is painfully twee. |
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| For years, Best painfully articulated that the form in outward appearance may be Westminster but the content is pure, unadulterated governorship. |
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| On his forehead resides a swollen, bluish bruise that is most likely throbbing painfully. |
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| His upper body slammed into the damp ground, snapping his head around painfully. |
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| She had only walked a few steps, when in the next second, she was flying in the air before her forehead bonked into the whiteboard painfully. |
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| But he was painfully anxious to exculpate himself from the guilt of having acted undutifully and disrespectfully towards France. |
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| Through the course of the play, she numbs herself from both the unfaceable present and the tragic circumstance she painfully recalls. |
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| Because we are all Canadians, and therefore painfully polite, he mistakes our bemused muteness for rapt attention. |
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| Watching the clock on my bedside table, I saw the numbers change before my eyes with painfully unhurried pace. |
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| He stood up painfully and slithered across the slimy floor, slipping on the fish that had scattered from the broken boxes. |
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| Tina was leaning out of an open doorway, giving him a sloe-eyed bedroom look that was painfully familiar. |
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| Though their efforts were valiant it was painfully obvious it had little effect on the blaze. |
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| Once the stereotype of Brits abroad was of painfully polite, post-Imperial types. |
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| He mumbled some obscenities and he closed his eyes painfully recalling the gorgeous Nile blue eyes looking blankly up at him, expressionless. |
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| In a joke worthy of the painfully verbose Professor Dorr, the film may have plenty of cellars, but it certainly has no Sellers. |
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| The grunts of effort, hateful little bursts of sound, are painfully frequent. |
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| Chester sat up in bed painfully, and sputtered some nonsense about suing the hospital. |
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| My reputation was earned inch by inch, slowly and painfully. |
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| There's that moment that comes in every doomed relationship when you know with stabbing certainty that it will, at some undetermined point in the future, end painfully. |
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| It is, certainly, painfully lovely, achingly gorgeous, exasperatingly lyrical, sumptuously spellbinding, ethereally hypnotic, and, above all, transcendentally sublime. |
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| But also real, unscripted, and sometimes painfully honest, as when Dave owned up to his extramarital misbehavior. |
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| Nancy and Miller exhibited the painfully protracted, predictable ponderousness which has become the hallmark of deconstruction in its senescent phase. |
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| But this off-broadway show reverberated with insights that felt painfully real. |
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| After 1989, she said, Romanian students were painfully aware of not having had access to the books their western counterparts could easily obtain. |
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| If not, it's simply mystifying, as well as painfully unfunny. |
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| With details on every incident and graphics that painfully illustrate the toll, this one is not to be missed. |
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| But when the heart gets involved, all our painfully acquired metaphysical insights go right out the window, and we're reduced to battling it out like rutting chimpanzees. |
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| These observations are painfully correct, as are the concerns raised about our dependency culture and the class-war scores undertaken by too many of our politicians. |
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| One of the saddest bewilderments, when I look at all the bearings of it, nay properly the fountain of all the sad bewilderments, under which poor mortals painfully somnambulate in these generations. |
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| We find from Mrs. Fairfax that Mr. Rochester is often changeful and abrupt because of his nature, and also because of family troubles which absorb him painfully. |
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| The first half is painfully slow and borders on ridiculous in some parts. |
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| She came across as uncertain, unprepared and painfully unspontaneous. |
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| Mutlaq is painfully aware that his own side will be harmed if they spurn a place at the table of the enfranchised. |
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| So Mandela was painfully slow in denouncing the squalid dictatorship of Robert Mugabe. |
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| Indeed, one has to wonder for a community that has spawned scores of spelling bee champions and science finalists, but has painfully few athletes, runners and players. |
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| Dark marks were scored across her muzzle in dreadful lines that were a reminder of the scars that distorted my own face and she moved slowly, painfully. |
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| Some of her clues are painfully obvious, others needlessly obscure. |
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| But I'm definitely not commenting on any soddenness in the writing itself, just painfully reviewing the sad state of our books after our first ever flooding a week or so ago. |
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| She fell to the dirt like a doll, her arms breaking the fall painfully. |
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| It's painfully posey and we felt a little cheap and used afterwards. |
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| Not all of us have been in a situation when you watch someone die slowly and painfully but I'm sure we can all imagine. Wouldn't it be so much easier if they could end it all? |
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| She closed her eyes and carefully massaged her painfully hard stomach. |
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| She was painfully thin and her face was seamed with many fine lines. |
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| It's a painfully bittersweet film, but told without any of the plodding, maudlin notes that in less sturdy hands could have sunk the entire endeavour. |
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| On top of that, the colors lack the richness and depth one expects, particularly during sunlit exterior shots, when the picture looks painfully washed out and faded. |
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| My head was now throbbing painfully, and I had released him. |
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| He invades personal space, standing mere inches away from his staff while playing the innuendo card with a heavy-handedness that makes his point painfully obvious. |
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| Alora almost spat, the contempt for her foster mother painfully obvious. |
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| Shakily I splashed some cold water onto my stricken face, wishing the cold liquid to act as a reality check, maybe even wake me up from this painfully real nightmare. |
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| Friends allege he is painfully shy and a borderline social inadequate. |
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| Only someone already painfully unable to deal with abstraction would draw such a suicidal conclusion. |
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| But the music is often painfully beautiful, especially the love song Marie and the emotional wallow of Guilty, and Newman's craftsmanship is consistently staggering. |
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| Dignified affability is the becomingness of superiority, which while it does not remove the line of distinction, does not render it painfully visible. |
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| We were painfully aware that the poorest of the poor, such as washerwomen and casual labourers, were still unable to borrow, because they lacked enterprises. |
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| The sounds buzzed slightly and worked around in her head, sleep clawed at her eyes painfully as Samantha sat up and rubbed the last remnants of a dream from them. |
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| It's not an awful film, just a painfully average one that squanders its opportunity to make something great out of the justifiably heralded source material. |
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| Yet the settlement negotiated painfully over the past weeks is uneasy. |
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| Her gun, belted at her waist, dug painfully into his leg, and Max winced. |
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| I can bare it no longer and self consciously shed my clothing and inch my way painfully across the rocks that form a natural rampart at the shoreline. |
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| My chest was heaving painfully, and my breath was coming in shallow rasps. |
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| They do not mind a bit exploiting the skills which were so painfully and expensively acquired, and are so desperately needed in their home countries. |
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| As a nation painfully picks up the pieces of its shattered character, its people know they have a while to go before they eventually heal from years of pain and abuse. |
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| It's been downright merciless, transforming a highly regarded play about four desperate lives in 1950s New York into painfully embarrassing dross. |
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| The opera as realised by Berio ends quietly, uncertainly, even painfully. |
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| Songs here are lush with bongo breaks, Hammond organs, brass hits, sparse cuts of old school rap and the recycled wails of some painfully soulful women. |
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| Spasms shook every inch of my skin, and my muscles contracted painfully. |
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| He had made it painfully obvious that she no longer belonged in his world. |
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| Swords flash, the clang of sounds echoing painfully in tender ears. |
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| He beat the count, but as Scott landed a big right it became painfully obvious that Sheika was no longer able to continue because he simply could not defend himself anymore. |
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| It'd make a change from the painfully bad music he's made in the past. |
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| Matt's throat constricted painfully and he dashed, trainers squeaking on the shiny floor, to the high bed, only just stopping himself jumping onto it. |
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| His hand shot out and grabbed my arm, twisting me back painfully. |
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| Nowhere has the deficiency been more painfully on display than with regard to the Middle East. |
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| A sampling of comments on various news sites makes the political divide surrounding this ad painfully clear. |
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| He dangled lifeless for a moment, making sure he regathered his energy before swinging his body up over the wall and landing painfully on the other side. |
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| She was painfully thin, you could see every rib and back bone on her. |
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| Picture a Julius Caesar recovered from his murderous assault to confront a repentant Brutus, who must painfully work out the consequences of his actions. |
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| Physically, he looks no older than any man who will be 70 in February, but the spark, the MacLeod zest for life, has painfully and obviously gone. |
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| By uncoupling our emotions from the film's many acts of violence, he frees us to draw parallels and make connections with painfully recent history. |
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| With painfully fixed smiles, the children kept the curious foreigners entertained for a while, and then at the end invited us to dance a traditional folk dance with them. |
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| In his latest essay, he grapples with the fact that those costs have become painfully evident, and the larger concerns of security, justice and freedom increasingly elusory. |
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| At the moment, that process is very complicated and painfully slow. |
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| His maid is painfully dishonest after years of unwavering loyalty. |
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| Maugham was painfully shy, and Haxton the extrovert gathered human material which the author converted to fiction. |
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| American Hustle is a painfully funny and scattershot film that attempts to con us into believing it is smarter and funnier than it is. |
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| They are painfully debeaked and detoed without anesthetic to offset the destructive effects of overcrowding, boredom and frustration. |
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| The one who stands, literally, by her man, grinning painfully as he reels off a list of infidelities to the Press? |
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| While this too may appear painfully obvious, it is amazing how easy it is to sometimes overlook the little things. |
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| A painfully shy geologist, named Timothy, is also accepted by the children and included in their adventures. |
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| So that old chestnut of eventually sounding like your parents is painfully true. |
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| Market participants are painfully learning the limits to slicing and dicing mortgages to a fine fare-thee-well. |
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| It was painfully low-budget and amateurish, available only on YouTube. |
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| That role was no longer militarily or financially feasible, as Britain's withdrawal from Greece in 1947 painfully demonstrated. |
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| The unsufficiency and uncandidness of his answer became painfully apparent in the dead silence of the room. |
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| While the occasional wry witticism seeps through, overall Shipler is painfully conscientious about trying to offer both sides of any debate. |
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| The wife he lost is painfully near as this riveting book gets underway. |
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| The boy dragged on his rope reins, stirred a bit painfully in his seat, and drove slowly and knockingly away. |
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| A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. |
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| And, as Bush learned painfully, there are plenty of McCainiacs in pivotal Michigan. |
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| The Imphal operation was finally broken off early in July, and the Japanese retreated painfully to the Chindwin River. |
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| This helps to remove hair from the roots gently and less painfully than dry epilation, the statement added. |
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| The MobilePro 790 doesn't require painfully slow handwriting recognition or hunt-and-peck typing. |
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| Despite misdating that crucial artifact Flashdance, Boswell's sense of the period's pop culture is sure and almost painfully exhilarating. |
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| At the zonal and subzonal level, the lack of capacity is painfully evident. |
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| It was a painfully slow process and, worse yet, not a lot of fun. |
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| Because silverswords had evolved in the absence of ungulates, their unbranched structure and single rosette of leaves made them painfully vulnerable. |
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| Their final embrace makes it painfully obvious that because their torsos are forever oriented in opposite directions, their relationship is unconsummatable. |
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| But eldest daughter Maggie is made of equally stubborn stuff and defies her dad to marry painfully shy bootboy Will Mossop and set up a rival shop. |
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| Unless he was one of that small band of irreverential fans who painfully seemed oblivious to the fact that 96 fans once lost their lives at a football match. |
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| As she took to the sea in St Lucia, Amy's sad transformation from curvy jazz sensation to wretched druggie in just three years was painfully obvious. |
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| England's lack of cutting edge was painfully apparent in defeat to Australia but their scamble defence was solid and neither team will be easily breached. |
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| Amid the silence, the dead calm of the noble breast, Tennyson's pensive imagination felt Hallam's absence most painfully in the inaudibility of his voice. |
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| Itchings, hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead. |
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