Still, it's not as if he has been a complete dud when it comes to raising money. |
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Eerie blue-lit stemware suspended above the adjoining, glassed-in bar, as if some enormous jellyfish had just swum into view. |
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Also, she speaks rather more slowly, enunciating her words very clearly as if I am finding them difficult to understand. |
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It is not as if Bob has ruthlessly ditched loads of old duffers to make way for cutting-edge rock 'n' roll talent. |
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The article showed the people's pictures with captions beneath singing the band's praises, as if it were taken from their press kit. |
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It's not even as if the band is deafening, but everyone's just staring glassily into the middle distance. |
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The current of the river dulcifies as if in pacific obeisance to the night. |
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It's as if he feared his students in the audience were too dull to get the point. |
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I find it insulting that if they get a certain position they can talk to me as if I'm some sort of div. |
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The gun's explosion hit James as if it were the bulldozer itself, hammering his ears and dazing him. |
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It is as if each pestilence required its own accountant who is spared in order to put down the death roll of the community. |
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So far, it looks as if, through a series of subterfuges and evasions, there will be neither an adequate investigation nor any accountability. |
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If all players are even, then they stand up from the table and each draws from the deck, as if it were the beginning of the game. |
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But he is not in fact a trustee at all, even though he may be liable to account as if he were. |
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He plays from the dummy just as if it were a fourth player sitting opposite the Declarer. |
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If the dummy hand wins a portion of the pot, the player that it beats must match the pot just as if they were beaten by a player at the table. |
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Instantly, gray smoke erupted, flowing out of the cauldron, as if frozen in time. |
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Most of the taxis outside the entrance doors look as if they were salvaged from a rubbish dump, and the Air-Conditioning is usually long gone. |
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How jealous he felt as she looked at Jake, as if he was some delectable cream pudding she would like to eat. |
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When called in the early hours of the morning, as he frequently was, he was as even-tempered as if attending a social event. |
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Is this because many astrologers are still acting as if they are involved in an exercise in divination? |
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For a while they simply stared at each other, as if sizing up the opposition, divining out points of weakness. |
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The only way to get a really good signal is to wander around with the antenna stretched out, as if you're divining for water. |
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It felt as if she was jumping off the high diving board, terrified with air rushing past her. |
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When she turned to walk back up the short sand beach to the dunny, it was as if she was walking on the moon. |
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Then Walker stopped for a second, and in that instant, it was as if he experienced a moment of epiphany. |
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Then, as if we all have an epiphany at the same moment, we simultaneously yell out. |
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Why, then, relegate these exemplary films to the margins of cinema, as if they were only epiphenomena? |
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It sounds more as if there is a construct of divisionism on both sides that needs addressing. |
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Oedipus seems curiously at home everywhere, as if he were the Everyman of the 20th century. |
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She took his cue, and continued the conversation as if he hadn't said anything epithetical. |
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He does not presume on it, as if deliverance from God is a matter of fate or inevitability. |
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A sly glint came to his eye then, as if he was about to say something mischievous. |
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We don't want to do our country down, but please don't act as if we've got the problems under control. |
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It seems as if everyone is so concerned with reputation and wealth and well-founded gentlemen. |
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She wasn't eating and wasn't going to classes, just lying in her bed as if in a daze. |
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She rolled her pencil between two fingers as if it were a useless dustball. |
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Kingsley was a tall, dark, wiry man with messy grey hair that looked as if it could do with a wash. |
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When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a dustcart reversing. |
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Yet, there are people who argue as if doomsday is near at hand when they confront evidence of such increase. |
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When we arrived, we followed her around the central room of the temple as if she were a museum docent, listening intently to her stories. |
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His maddened eyes, as if by a miracle, was cleared of frost and he was able to see the glittering moon shining on the mysteries of the forest. |
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And why do batters feel as if they're hitting a bowling ball when they connect against certain pitchers' deliveries? |
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Nowadays it often seems as if studios employ script doctors not to remove four-letter words but to add them. |
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He doctored the roll-call records to make it seem as if he hadn't deserted. |
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As rugged and foggy that area of Newfoundland is, its true beauty came through as if it were a gloriously sunny day. |
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When the news was wafted to his father's factory, all his colleagues dodged him as if they were avoiding a deadly plague. |
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Jacob looked into my eyes as if he were propositioning me to go back to his place. |
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According to Erewhonian law, offenders are treated as if they were ill whilst ill people are looked upon as criminals. |
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It was an old double-decker with a real dodgy paint job, as if done by a bunch of kids on day release. |
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Astrology observes the planets geocentrically, as if from the Earth's centre, and not topocentrically, from the actual place of the observer. |
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It is almost as if the more amazing our accomplishments, the more we must deprecate them. |
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She sounded almost as if she were depressed, or at least just generally unhappy. |
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After more than a decade at the helm it looks as if his endeavours may at last pay off. |
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Although meticulously handpainted, the glossy images have a machine-made look, as if they were, say, transfer decals or press-on tattoos. |
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Our standards of accuracy are so low that often erroneous forecasts are applauded as if they were precise. |
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Although called a charge, the lender is deemed to be in the same position as if he had been granted a mortgage by demise. |
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His limbs seemed to detach themselves from their sockets, as if they were prosthetics. |
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I hate to admit it but I feel almost afraid, as if I'm waiting in a condemned cell for the arrival of an executioner. |
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It's almost as if it wants to shoulder some of the responsibility for the gnarly places it is taking you to. |
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The offender is considered to be dead, and Hindu Law directs the performance of exequial ceremonies for him, as if he were naturally so. |
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It's as if they know, no matter how much they complain or protest, nothing will change. |
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Even as she gazed endlessly at her new domicile, Virginia did not feel at home, but rather as if she was being sent into a penitentiary. |
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A conservative practice would be to prorate the interest charges for the entire year, as if the debt had been existent for the entire year. |
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Sports cars, saloon cars and estates were crowded together, all gleaming and shiny as if they had just come from the factory. |
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Just before sunset, the army decamped as if to go east to meet Kerbogha in the field. |
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We'd like to think about our tools, ideas and practices as if we were native denizens of some wiser and more advanced civilization! |
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When we believe our own storyline, as if it were a novel that will reach its climax and denouement in tidy fashion, we delude ourselves. |
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So, when I pull into the parking lot and see the expansive empty area in front, it almost appears as if the store is closed. |
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And when I looked back he was leaning against his doorpost, his head in his hands, as if he'd just lost his nearest and dearest. |
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It's as if the gods were marking the individual as a special servant or mediator between the waking world and the dream, or etheric, world. |
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Slowly, she could feel an extraordinary force of power behind her, as if pricking on her skin to taunt her. |
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I kept experiencing these sensations of feeling really hot, as if in a fever. |
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The crowd seemed suddenly lifeless, as if all wind had expired from their lungs. |
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Tears pricked Melissa's eyes at the scorn in Marsey's voice and for a moment she looked as if she would crumble. |
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The nerve endings on his fingers had become ultra sensitive and he explored his hair as if it were the deep jungle of Viet Nam. |
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It is dotingly displayed, like everything else, under dramatic lighting that illuminates heirloom tomatoes as if they were heirloom diamonds. |
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All the children have double PE lessons so it is not as if we have banned all sports at the school. |
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True, it's not as if there isn't already a massive body of work extant on the subject. |
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The American agent looked at Logan as if he were a math teacher trying to explain a simple problem to a dense student. |
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Then when it looked as if the game would go into extra time, Parkville scored two goals. |
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His throat feels raw, prickling as if somebody had just dragged a bunch of thistles across it. |
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Collectively, we studied the mound that looked as if it might have been extruded by an elephant. |
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When I placed my hands in the hot water it felt as if thousands of needles were prickling them. |
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It was supposed to be the eye-catching hub of a new centre for Yorkshire businesses, designed to look as if it had been there for centuries. |
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He rubbed his eyes, which were smeared with faint lines of black eyeliner, and blinked at Alice as if in a daze. |
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One had an eyepatch, his other eye reddened and bloodshot, tired looking, as if he wanted to go home to his wife and take a bath. |
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She shook her head doubtfully, but smiled at me as if to say that she wouldn't be altogether unhappy if I was wrong. |
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It looks as if someone cares, which is more you can say for many towns with dying downtowns. |
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You could revise and refine your photo as if it were a rough draft of a story. |
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I'm talking about pages that Mr. Kirby never actually did but which are being marketed as if they're off his drawing board. |
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Characters float through scenes as if in a dream, yet always conscious of their surroundings. |
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The auras of time, spirits, and even ghosts filled him, and his mind felt light and airy, as if in a dream. |
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I'd get these eight-page denunciations, accusing me of didacticism, as if I hadn't already thought of that. |
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Yes, it sounds as if the modern digital cellular service has already gazumped the WiFi network idea. |
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I'm pulled, whirling through the water free and weightless, and the movements take on a dreamy quality, as if I'm in slow motion. |
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She was breathing hard, and her fists were clenched as if she were ready to deck the first person that got in her way. |
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The major shook our hands as if relieved from the duty of explaining drill and ceremony and invited us to stand in the detail formation. |
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I dropped my guard and I looked at the camera as if it was another person and expressed all the emotions I felt at the time. |
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Sinking into the large cushion on her armchair, she smiles slyly, as if just awakened from drowsing over the book shut on her lap. |
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I had this great adrenalin surge and I walked out feeling exuberant, almost as if I was drugged. |
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I felt as if I had stumbled back several millennia into some distant Druidical ritual. |
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On Jan. 27, searchers recorded pairs of loud raps, as if a huge woodpecker were drumming on a hollow tree. |
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It has the soft rock music, dry ice, sparkly lights and people floating around as if they are popping off to a masked Venetian ball. |
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I feel as if I'm still three or four weeks away, I just feel as if I'm not firing on all cylinders. |
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He was goggling at her as if she had suddenly sprouted a third arm and an additional head. |
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As my mother stepped out of the U-Haul, she stared goggle-eyed up at it, as if it were a work of art, a masterpiece. |
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You should value the stock as if the corporation was sold as a going concern to the highest bidder in a hypothetical market. |
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The predominant colour is gold and the red patterned carpet on the altar looks as if it belongs in an old woman's living-room. |
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Ysanne took the bottle from him carefully, as if it was full of gold dust or some other valuable. |
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It was almost as if the pair of eyes were telling him a story, a depressing story where no words were needed to be said nor heard. |
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When the time came to pay we were expected to cough up the same amount as if we had had consumed a far more expensive cut of prime meat. |
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When he was twelve years old he won a gold medal in a piano competition and it looked as if he would make music his career. |
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Suddenly, as if on cue, he straightened his shoulders and walked downstage to greet his public. |
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You can actually understand his words, and he declaims poetry as if he knows what it means. |
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You travel invisibly, whirling, blustering, tearing things apart, a vortex in grass flattened out as if a derro's slept there overnight. |
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Head lowered, she raised her arms, and the gloom descended to envelope us, as if she had pulled it down as a comforting blanket. |
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The street lights lit up the puddles on the roadsides as if they were pools of liquid light. |
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She mentally whispered the last part, as if she didn't want her secret getting out. |
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My dark green eyes almost looked as if they were going to swell shut with how puffy and pink they'd become. |
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They sound as if they've turned out to be fine people despite all the press stereotypes of them as good-time party girls. |
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Unlike most women in their 60s, she refuses to chop her long hair short as if to follow some desexualizing code. |
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Tahr took a pull of her drink, then stared at it as if wishing it were something stronger. |
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She couldn't even stand up straight and she had to stop a few times, as if pulling herself together. |
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He treats his lip-synch sequences as if he's goofing on us, going for laughs, instead of playing it straight. |
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In his portrait of Leonello, Pisanello places the young princeling in profile before a rosebush, the spines of its leaves as if beaten from gold. |
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Although the desk organiser is manufactured in one piece, the tubes look as if they are separate. |
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As if in pain, as if in despair, everyone felt the sadness and everyone felt fear as well. |
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Her husband beats her to a pulp while the security guard reads his newspaper as if nothing is happening. |
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We search the poems as if they are cryptic clues to some hidden meaning that might explain the desperate act. |
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In the sudden silence my ear drums continue to pulse, as if the barrage of sound jolted them still. |
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This second letter was printed in a regular font, as if it were taken from a plain-text file. |
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His pupils seem dilated, as if he's so pumped about his mission that he's fully transcending the here and now. |
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Individual investors jumped all over the information, gobbling it up and treating it as if it were the gospel truth. |
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How does the seasonal cycle of fashion whispers spin itself into fact, broadcasted through the glossies as if it was absolute gospel? |
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In New Testament terms, it is as if the Epistles were preserved, without any of the four Gospels or Acts of the Apostles. |
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Although you're dressed up in basque and suspenders, you've got this strength, it's as if nothing can destruct you. |
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Macmillan held his earpiece again as if hearing something new, and then turned to the printer just as it began to print. |
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She turns her face to me then, looking as if she's ready to gouge my eyes out with the fork in her hand. |
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All the youngsters look terribly puny, as if they need to sign up for a bodybuilding course. |
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The detective inspector looked at the other musicians as if he was thinking about having them searched. |
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I felt as if I were surrounded by the austere puritan heritage of a Protestant church in New England. |
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Corridors are floored with black linoleum, which deadens noise and adds to the devout atmosphere, as if science were some kind of holy order. |
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Every move was deliberate and purposeful, almost as if she were executing some sort of martial art act. |
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The days are gone of National's tired old mantra of attacking unionists as if they were evil and devilish. |
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He patted me on the back and gave me a slight push to the door as if I should do it right now. |
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To start with, I was quite offended by people pushing in front of me as if I didn't exist. |
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In fairness, I was caught up in this book and wanted to devour it as if I hadn't had anything to read but comic books for a year. |
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The small-winery owner looks as if he belongs on the granola side of the argument. |
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It looks as if the government will wait until the spring before announcing formally that only one or two proposed eco-towns are viable. |
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With the lukewarm at-best reception that production received, it looked as if grief counselling might be in order. |
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On the other hand we meet people much younger who behave as if they were decrepit and refuse to keep up with the times. |
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It's as if they want to specifically cater to the prepubescent girls and write songs just for their palate. |
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But as Jack drew near, he saw that the reins were firmly grasped in one hand, as if the rider had been riding Western style. |
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Vega narrates his personal story over footage culled from newsreels and other films, as if he was in the process of writing his letter. |
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For a very brief moment the edifice of post-cold war global capitalism looked as if it was gazing over a very steep precipice. |
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The voice was deep and gravelly as if the person had a sore throat and was hoarse. |
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I let out a strangled gasp, recoiling from the corpse on the pyre as if its cold skin had burned my fingers. |
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She speaks of feeling as if her identity was being effaced by the requirement to appear neutrally Western. |
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He always looks as if he might suddenly revert to his real Pythonesque character. |
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He grasped his hands together and shook them above his head as if in a title prizefight. |
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Grant pronounced each word slowly, with careful diction, as if Eric were a simpleton. |
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My mother speaks of my great-grandmother as if she knew her, even though she died many years before her birth. |
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Sandrine noticed that the girl's eyes were red and swollen, as if she'd been crying. |
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He didn't seem to have control of it, it was as if he was having to fight to stop it going the other way. |
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Before the eating of chicken wings began around 8 a.m., 29 contestants made grand entrances with their entourages, as if this were a prizefight. |
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It's a grey day but this place feels as if it would be dismal regardless of the weather. |
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Despite the assurances given at that time, the state bureaucratic delays continue as if to prove the truth of the adage that old habits die hard. |
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As you have just described, it seems as if the approach has been reactive rather than any proactive work. |
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He really did look it too, his face was pale and almost green, and his body jerked as if he were about to throw up. |
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It feels as if only the ultimate extinction of the human race will able to stop that deadly spiral. |
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You were supposed to read it once and then remember it, as if you were an eidetic reader who recalled every single word with equal intensity. |
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The prince drew himself up, nostrils flaring as if he was going to say something. |
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The remains of 10 individual houses have so far been uncovered and it looks as if more could be found as the dig continues. |
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The children sprung out of the car as if I had ejection seats, and were soon playing giant chess on an adjacent lawn. |
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It appeared as if they used the bucket of the digger to try and lift the ATM machine off the ground. |
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The hunt for a house has been a gigantic part of my life for the last year so I'm bound to feel as if there's something missing. |
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His hair was starting to grey, but he still looked as if he could give anyone a good beating. |
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She uttered this deadpan, as if this was inescapable logic that justified everything that was happening to me. |
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The buildings were all made of white stone, built carefully with elaborate details, as if every family lived in a miniature castle. |
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What's causing you to dignify it by acting as if it's a worthy endeavor rather than yet another unnecessary cash-in attempt? |
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He reacted as if it were an amiable proposal that he should visit the vet and be gelded. |
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She's been grilling me about what happened last Saturday with Owen, as if anything's going to happen, for hours now. |
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They joke grimly about a mythical tour called Ladies of the 80s, as if to remind themselves how it could have turned out. |
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It does look as if it is to aid the taxpayer though, does it not, because it is then subject to defeasance, if you like, under itself. |
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They smiled innocently up at the men, who looked down at them with silly grins, as if they had never seen a woman before. |
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Rich touches upon life as if it were an electric eel, both organic and shocking. |
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In the initial interviews, Albert spoke very little and only through third parties, as if he only existed by procuration. |
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His whole body seems to awake as if a finger has prodded nerve spots of his nostalgia. |
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Your manner was as sharp as if I had actually proposed to you to start a sly-groggery. |
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However, he shot me a disgusted look, as if he was grossed out or something. |
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And I write the update as if any reader, given a little prod, will see the joke. |
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Remember to write as if you are facing the person you are directing your comments to. |
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Many Americans now expect their job to feel as if it were an emanation of their own desires and on their own time. |
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Often it feels as if their constant, innocuous grumblings are just a set-up for a legitimate complaint that never comes. |
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Passing cars repeatedly force him to squeeze to the edge of the road, as if emblematizing his outsiderness. |
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She looked as if she had seen an angel in disguise, perhaps a guardian angel. |
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It's as if a person's tentative tone allows them to retract the statement if it is met with criticism or disapproval. |
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She hated letting other people see her cry, as if it was a point of shame to possess human emotions. |
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The State Forest Minister even said that the locals will be allowed to act as porters and guides when tourism starts, as if it was a favour. |
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He discerns a vague sense of creepiness, as if the shadows of the night are trying to communicate the strange message he is delivering. |
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And then, he slowly discerned the shape of a grotesque beast, clamping to the trunk as if its skin and the brown bark were one. |
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They began to discern shapes, touching them and discovering them again as if from new. |
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The complete article shows quite clearly how the reporter resented being treated as if she had no discernment nor common sense. |
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Why do professional mountain guides always look lean, cut, and as if they could jog to the summit without breaking a sweat? |
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I remember every minute of being presented with that medal as if it was yesterday. |
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Kylie repeated her words with special emphasis, as if talking to a very slow person. |
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Soldiers, as if they don't have enough to worry about, are often the guinea pigs for military experiments. |
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She returns to Paris, continues lecturing at the university and talks about him in the present tense, as if nothing has happened. |
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I clamped them together around the brim of my hat, as if in defiance of them being taken. |
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The students had gullibly accepted this boiler-plate personality description as if it applied to them uniquely as individuals. |
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The discontent voices really didn't seem that incensed, and the energy of the crowd as if it was felt wanting in resolve and determination. |
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It is right, as he submitted, that such passages are not to be treated as if they were statutory enactments. |
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Letter writers gratuitously laced their responses with profane and vulgar language, as if it were a badge of honor. |
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Our surroundings encompassed us so completely, it was as if we were in this world all on our own. |
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It sounds all gushy, I know, but it was as if for the first time I could see how beautiful the world was. |
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This one sounded tired, as if the owner had just run from one end of the world to the other. |
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It seemed to me as if the sky split open from one end to the other to rain down fire. |
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At the end of the journey, I feel as if I've reached a sort of Velocipede's nirvana. |
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Our flat merely looks as if a Pickfords van flew through the window and disgorged its contents all over the wall-to-wall. |
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The vases are lain on their sides as if disgorging their invisible contents. |
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I sit here, my whole body aching and groaning, as if I've been bashed and left in a gutter by the side of the road. |
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I don't think you can really deal with the issues Woodman raises about subjectivity as if they were gender-neutral. |
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In its own harsh tones, almost guttural as if coming from a throat not designed with speech in mind, it spoke to him. |
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When you agitate the contents with a swirling motion, it will feel as if there were liquid in the pan until all the gases have been given off. |
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Perhaps they will turn away in disillusionment, as if such discord mocks all meaning. |
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Neither liking nor disliking him, she tried very hard to live her life as if he didn't exist. |
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Jacob looked utterly defeated at that moment, as if I were a disobedient child that refused to be punished. |
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A quick press and the car eats traffic and hills as if they simply did not exist. |
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Debb led her through a maze of corridors, up stairs, through rooms, as if trying to confuse or disorientate her. |
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The clouds as if by divine interposition were entirely dispersed and I was once again invited to the grateful task of repeating my observations. |
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For a moment, it looked as if the company's implosion would be the disgraceful disproof of that. |
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It seems as if the main aim of the analyses offered in this collection is not to prove or disprove a given model. |
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Ellie was enrapt through my entire explanation, with a glossy look to her eyes as if I was her favorite soap opera. |
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And then we dissolved back into the crowd, as if we'd never been there, which we might as well not have been. |
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So we got the whole thing annulled, dissolving the marriage as if it never took place. |
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She waited and waited until it felt as if her nerves were being pulled taut as spun wool and whirled dizzily on the distaff. |
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The dragon roared again, a sound like distant thunder, and opened its mouth as if to swallow her. |
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He was still the same, attentive and distant at the same time, while Alex tried to act as if they were just friends. |
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It's as if the poetry you write is what you don't seem to be able to express in your ordinary day-to-day transactions. |
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That is why it has hit a generational nerve, as if no one had told that story before. |
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He looked dapper in a blue suit, jacket unbuttoned, showing a stomach distended as if he had swallowed a basketball. |
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There is always a euphonious tone when her name is said, as if honey was rolling off the tips of their tongues. |
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Nevertheless, they will continue to act as if commodities are animate entities. |
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It is almost as if two unrelated entities are commiserating over a shared experience. |
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He was impressively polished and distinguished looking and I felt as if I were developing a crush. |
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We buy and sell football players, as if they were servile gladiators in Ancient Rome. |
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Their distorted faces look flattened, as if they'd pulled pantyhose over their heads. |
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Earlier issues in this series were compromised by distorted sound, as if the original Columbia LPs had been played with a dull stylus. |
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To the boy's surprise, it spread a pair of tan and gold wings that were prodigious in size, which caused it to appear as if it were towering over him. |
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After the hot summer days the mist sometimes hung over the moorland as if a whole lake were behind the old trees, among which the crows and the daws were fluttering. |
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Many looked gaunt, clothes hanging off them as if draped on clothes racks. |
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He scoured the gaunt landscape as if his primordial authority was enough to plunge the lid of the monochrome building down to floor level to allow him a cowardly escape. |
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She frowned a little, as if displeased with what Asha had told her. |
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I felt as if a deadweight had just been dropped into my stomach. |
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And people look as if the poor old dear has said something obscene. |
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It seems as if a self serving biotechnology industry is deliberately using genetic pollution to ensure organic farmers lose the ability to serve those markets. |
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Without others who are willing to gently talk and encourage, the grieving person may feel alienated or as if no one understands or even wants to understand. |
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In the split second that their gazes locked, that same prickly sensation consumed his mind as if the blood flow to his brain had suddenly been cut off. |
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It appears as if it is the mark of nobility, decorousness and civicness for a people, society or nation to make laws by which to govern themselves. |
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So far I have been assuming an understanding of ghosts and ghostliness, blithely employing these terms as if they were commonly understood, let alone accepted. |
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It had been as if some irresistible force had drawn him in her direction. |
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He holds it out in his hand to me as if he is offering the balm of Gilead or all the riches of Babylon or something precious and extravagant like that. |
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Her ginger cat came sauntering into the room as if he owned it. |
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James was about to prod Savage into moving, but the assassin was already heading towards the center of the courtyard as if he had accepted his own fate. |
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It's a ghost story, about the almost-killed being viewed as if they were. |
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Some people gurn and grimace and pull strange faces whenever a camera is waved near them, as if being caught without making a face would be somehow sneaky. |
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Any profanity or harm to the parent is as if we've profaned God. |
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And as if by magic, all the balloons immediately drooped, deflated. |
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This auburn light danced and glinted on my companion's drooping gold earrings as we surveyed the cars below, and held his face in profile as if he might only be a photograph. |
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The government could simply tell its bureau to act as if it were a profit-making enterprise and to establish itself in the same way as a private business. |
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It seems as if viruses are proliferating more rapidly than ever. |
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Pioneers to this region must have been astounded to find massive tree falls that had literally been turned to stone, as if it were an eccentric display of some fabled deity. |
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This it does either by specifically compelling the promisor to perform or by awarding the promisee damages to put him in as good a position as if the promise had been kept. |
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First, when considering the first prong of the test he deals with the differing conduct of the various appellants as if it were all essentially the same conduct. |
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It was this committee that took the deliberate decision that the coronation of Charles II would be conducted as if the previous ten years had not happened. |
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Tobacco was a useful prop, and it helped to prevent his opponents from watching him too closely, as if he could literally hide his thoughts behind a cloud of smoke. |
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She rests a proprietary hand on the man's shoulder, as if for security, and the little finger of her other hand-it almost makes you wince to see it-is extended primly. |
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The equation between proper dress and proper speech is made explicitly in Victorian etiquette manuals, where proprieties of language are spoken of as if they were cosmetics. |
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It seems as if the creative class is linked to the dematerialization of the economy, to the rise of design and brand experience and critical business issues. |
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He liberally cites, for instance, all the protocols of the party congresses and conferences published throughout the 1950s and 1960s as if they are reliable. |
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Then you go back to work and suddenly the day is so dense with activity you feel as if you've done three or four days' worth of mindless tearing around in a few hours. |
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Anya frowned at the English guy as if he were particularly dense. |
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I pull out my lunch bag and begin tearing off pieces and throwing them to the fish who gobble them up as if they hadn't eaten in days, maybe weeks. |
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The use of gobos to project different shapes onto the walls behind the actors seemed arbitrary, as if they just used whatever was left in the kit. |
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But the daughter now lectures the Mayo voters as if she had a God-given right to their support within the sacred scriptures of Fianna Fail opportunism. |
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By a unique, transcendent agreement between the persons of the Godhead, God sent and dealt with His Son in our nature as if He, and not us, had been rejected. |
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His incredible Salaam Cinema is aggressive and psychodramatic, almost as if to directly confront the restrained, patient elements of Kiarostami's style. |
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It's not as if the food is vaguely edible, it tastes like chemical goo. |
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Life on Earth looks as if it's descended from a common ancestor. |
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They move instead, as if they are inside out, everything about their desires, dreams, hopes and fears is exposed leaving them to clearly react against one another. |
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With a pleasantly vengeful fury, as if performing a valuable task, we pursued every last component with our mallets until we had pulverized it into unrecognizability. |
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I found myself chuckling, as if she had just said something funny, or as if a friend we hadn't seen in a long time had just played a silly joke on us, ha ha, gotcha. |
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Indeed, by now it was almost as if no self-respecting collection of Greco-Roman antiquities could be considered complete without some examples of Egyptian art. |
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His perspectives, building across the paper horizontally, were slightly tilted and cut by occasional diagonals, almost as if caught by an amateur's camera. |
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The taste was so putrefying that I felt as if I were about to double over. |
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It looks as if pure puzzles really are what mystery readers like best. |
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They're so effortlessly natural it's as if they're not acting. |
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She couldn't stop smiling, as if she had a secret she was dying to tell. |
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And as if getting all that stuff in each disc case wasn't enough you also get three racing team decals and three die-cast metal cars in a gift box. |
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