It's really hard to make a character so devoid of morals so watchable and likable. |
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It's observation of character and situation is quite nice, but the drama is not only devoid of drama but also subtext. |
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Like Graham himself, the 24-minute announcement speech was solid and sensible but devoid of quotable rhetoric. |
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This encourages clam spat to settle out in areas of the flats currently devoid of clam stocks. |
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Hair is composed of non-living tissue, mostly of a fibrous protein known as keratin and is devoid of nerves. |
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Automotive Industries recently was shown a more potent Stratus, stripped of its chrome accents but also devoid of any wings or air dams. |
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You'd never guess such a thing from this 75-minute sample of puerile rubbish that is listless, witless, and devoid of anything resembling humor. |
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It is finely wrought and brilliantly realised, but devoid of charming idiosyncrasy. |
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Their evening had been idyllic, devoid of any type of confrontation, as always. |
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There was no replanting, no trees left standing for reseeding, and areas devoid of pines were left unsightly and environmentally devastated. |
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Everything bounces along with a youthful joy, devoid of cynical teenage angst, full of hope and dare we say it slightly soppy. |
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All we are left with, then, is a belief in participation for its own sake, devoid of any content or realised goal. |
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It is quite easy to observe the retinal image in the eye of a white rabbit, the choroid of which is devoid of pigment. |
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It is thirsty, hefty and devoid of interventionist driver aids beyond anti-lock brakes and a simple, easily-turned-off traction control. |
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It's fine when you're moving at a lick but it's devoid of feel at low speed. |
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The alkaloid was found to be devoid of analgesic properties but to possess central antitussive activity equal to that of codeine. |
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He is an unassuming man, devoid of arrogance, a few years too old to be called a prodigy. |
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It is completely devoid of his previous sensitivity, and to a large extent, of his artistic creativity. |
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Dry seeds are devoid of the ascorbate reduced form and contain only dehydroascorbic acid. |
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At the beginning, such reviews were a blend of descriptive reports and theoretical asides, frequently not devoid of controversy. |
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The floor was devoid of rugs, and all that adorned the walls were several large maps. |
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The man has clearly lost his head and his thinking is devoid of the wisdom he could have had. |
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Precisely because tango music is devoid of drums it makes it a perfect vehicle for remixers to superimpose beats and drum patterns. |
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In the wake of their travels, they have left half of the galaxy devoid of sapient life, primarily through the use of their Marauder starships. |
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That's not to say it's devoid of feeling, it's just there are no cloying resolutions or scenes written as tear-jerkers. |
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In Talk To Her he is greatly aided by the performance of Camara who plays Benigno as an innocent man child devoid of guile of malice. |
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Tying it secure, he thanked the Lord his head was devoid of hair, not having to worry about a bad hair day. |
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The crown of his head was devoid of hair but thick gray strands grew along the sides and a scraggly moustache fell around his thin mouth. |
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Playing the music without bars gives a free-flowing rhythm, devoid of jarring stops and starts. |
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A down to-earth matter-of-fact approach devoid of judgment is best, no matter how horrific the details. |
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The place was barren and bleak, and as far as she could see it was devoid of any inhabitants. |
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The media as a torchbearer of the nation should be devoid of negative tribalism and sectionalism. |
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It is often vindictive, lying, erroneous, deceitful, baseless, and devoid of any fact. |
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Why engage in artistic efforts at all if they are essentially futile and self-defeating and devoid of truth? |
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McCarthy need not have worried, because this film is devoid of self-pity or false sentimentality. |
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The music is devoid of melody, at least in the traditional sense, but it can grab the listener as tightly as any Big Tune, if given the chance. |
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Modern-day football for all of its media, money hype and merchandising is devoid of characters like Jimmy. |
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The Charnian Supergroup is a bedded sequence of volcanic rocks with, at the top of the sequence, a thick pelite devoid of volcanic input. |
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Due to the area's social homogeneity, Paraiso is devoid of the kind of social conflict that prevented collective organizing in Meru, Kenya. |
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Her tall, slender frame was encased in a lavender satin dress devoid of sleeves. |
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Heaven forbid that anyone should have a free second or film frame devoid of musical accompaniment. |
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I read the above essay and just see a bunch of topic sentences strewn haphazardly about, totally devoid of any supporting sentences. |
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Nicholas is so devoid of personality that he needs to sing something completely superficial and sexless next week to stop this happening again. |
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Higher buildings like church towers only have two traversable levels and much of the land is devoid of any low brush vegetation. |
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The company prides itself on an organization that is nearly devoid of middle management and values freedom for engineers and their work. |
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Suddenly this community is bereft of sporting success and devoid of any heroes. |
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She stared blankly ahead and spoke in a voice devoid of her usual devilish mischief. |
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Smil's unique biospheric narrative, devoid of hype and patriotism, transcends academic apartheid. |
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Since screens were done in triplicate followed by a confirmation procedure, we expect our data set to be largely devoid of false positives. |
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I feel sorry for today's youth being spoon-fed safe bland manufactured pop devoid of emotion. |
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From her point of view it was an event devoid of any significance whatsoever. |
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It's a deeply silly and trivial entertainment cheerfully devoid of any nutritional or calorific value whatever. |
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They insisted that they were devoid of any religious prejudice in their opposition to Mormonism. |
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The event being mounted in Boston is a media spectacle devoid of any real debate or struggle. |
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A compliance officer has since been assigned to ensure the campaign is not being unfair to traders and was devoid of any uncompetitive practices. |
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Am I that old and out of touch, so entirely uncool and devoid of reasonable advice and emotional support? |
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From there I became a clumsy little child, then blossoming forth into a uncoordinated teen devoid of all sporting ability whatsoever. |
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It concentrates on places devoid of human interference, focusing on patterns made on often extreme and uninhabited places. |
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They were lethargic, sluggish and devoid of any ideas of how to break down the defence of the Lions. |
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News reports come at us in brief snippets devoid of history or context that explain what they mean. |
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Any negative matter on the earth would have fallen up billions of years ago, making the earth devoid of any negative matter. |
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Not surprisingly, the pictures in this book are devoid of any real socio-political or historical content. |
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Totally devoid of any natural or scenic beauty, this sleepy town got on my nerves. |
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The performers recount their story at breakneck speed, completely devoid of inflection or emotion. |
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Short and breezy, with no chapter longer than 13 pages and devoid of citations, it makes for a fast-paced narrative. |
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The uttapam were virtually devoid of flavor, and the dosa was much too thick and way too chewy. |
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We were faced with a large indoor swimming pool room devoid of any decoration as it was a new build. |
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Jess, everyone called him, was tall with short straight, dark brown hair and blue eyes devoid of any emotion. |
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For instance, seed potatoes cannot be sold in the EU unless they are devoid of the potato brown rot agent Ralstonia solanacearum. |
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In the South African context of political reconciliation, the verkrampte protestation by Jubilee 2000 is just a smoke screen devoid of meaning. |
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The lives of bulimarexics are devoid of fun, humor, and genuine self-pleasure. |
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Looking back, you have to say that sportscasting had become almost devoid of critical content. |
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The film has a brilliant plot, devoid of holes or implausibility, but is only secondary to the characters. |
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Best of all, folks can make music through GarageBand even if they lack an instrument, can't read notes or are devoid of real talent. |
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Procalcitonin, the precursor molecule of calcitonin, is a 116-amino acid peptide that is devoid of known hormonal activity. |
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Mature red blood corpuscles are membrane bound and normally devoid of a nucleus, nucleolus, cell organelles, and inclusions. |
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She depicts an almost saintly figure, virtually devoid of human weakness or error. |
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In this cartoon, all elected representatives are self-interested liars, devoid of principle, who are making a hames of running the country. |
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Though the subject matter is somewhat similar, this is a straight drama, devoid of comic moments and Seventies retro. |
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In the end, the fear of ideas strangles the drama, because it renders the film's protagonists' struggle to survive devoid of larger meaning. |
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On the other hand, Walker's childhood was not devoid of exposure to oppression and injustice. |
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They have rigidly stuck to the same formula, devoid of originality or innovation, and bored everyone silly in the process. |
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The bed itself was devoid of such imagery, and the princely coronet on the headboard was heraldically appropriate. |
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Even though herbal medicines are not devoid of risk, they could still be safer than synthetic drugs. |
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The astral microtubule arrays around the centrosomes, like the nuclei, are visible as areas that are largely devoid of yolk granules. |
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The tract was kept deliberately short in order to make it widely accessible and the style of language was uniquely devoid of philosophy. |
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The couch was inviting, but the table in front was devoid of his charts and probe data sheets. |
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It's boring, absurdly overlong and, as far as I can tell, devoid of major new information. |
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I don't think I'm oversensitive to interpret your comments as saying my work is devoid of substantive content. |
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She screamed, a long, shrill scream, one devoid of any hope, a scream that emptied her lungs and chilled Jevantze 's blood. |
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When the skies were devoid of light, the German bomber planes honed in on Birmingham and nearby Coventry. |
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I tried my hand at stream of consciousness and, sure enough, the words came out but they were devoid of substance. |
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His uniform coat was tan, loose brown suspenders held up ill-fitting trousers, and he, too, was devoid of shoes. |
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Barnes's journalistic reputation is founded on his relaxed, anecdotal style, which is never entirely devoid of swank, clatter and show-off puns. |
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The tone in my voice, devoid of all compassion or even humanity, was much more frightening than my words. |
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For far too long now, election campaigns in this country have been devoid of issues and dominated by petty issues and personality clashes. |
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This middle layer is subtended by the hymenium which was also devoid of epiphytic organisms. |
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It gives me the right to be hyper and full of zest and energy, or slow and devoid of all unique thought. |
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All the work's possible dreams are gummed up to create a world that is glacial, hyperrealistic, and devoid of poetry. |
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It works well when hypodermically injected to tissue devoid of circulation and attains moderate bleaching effect when used as a pack. |
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She was supposed to live to a ripe old age and die peacefully in her sleep, devoid of any pain. |
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A carpet devoid of patterns covered the steps, a dark green wallpaper attempting to cover the walls but peeling away as well. |
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In hindsight this was already a fairly insensitive and stupid thing to do and almost entirely devoid of humour. |
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Often miles of river will be almost devoid of decent fish, whilst a few hot pegs will be flogged to death. |
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The oddest thing about this faery was that, unlike its smaller companion, it was completely devoid of wings. |
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But online stores are cold, impersonal places devoid of any sense of human contact, where every book is merely an itemised commodity. |
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Even the men's area was filled with bright colors, devoid of blacks and brown and filled with reds, yellows, and greens. |
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White's allegorical space is a vacant sprawling composition, slanting and inclined in a rigid fixture devoid of primary colours or people. |
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It's also a beautiful addition to indoor spaces that are usually devoid of life. |
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He has clearly lost the plot and is proving to be both inept and devoid of morality himself. |
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Work devoid of opportunities for participation can lead to strain and escapist behaviour as compensation for the sense of helplessness. |
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I know of nowhere else where love of country comes so easily and devoid of complication. |
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Despite the Opposition's election fever, the UNC benches in Parliament yesterday were devoid of tension. |
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They probably thought we were so inhuman and so evil so as to be totally devoid of feelings. |
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At autopsy, the airways are often devoid of inspissated secretions and contain more neutrophils and eosinophils in the submucosa. |
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The entrance seems to have been devoid of ornament, with windows cut plainly into the brickwork. |
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The ground tissue is devoid of intercellular spaces and possesses only a rudimentary vascular bundle. |
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He said it in a flat, almost conversational way, devoid of tone or expression. |
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They had been preaching and pointedly praying from their respective pulpits for an election devoid of violence. |
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It is an election devoid of drama and excitement as the result seems a foregone conclusion. |
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He is a rare bird in the strange world of theatre crit, a theatre fan devoid of cynicism. |
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The lines and silhouettes throughout the room were smooth and clean, devoid of frills or embellishments. |
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I cycle down the two-and-a-half miles of Southampton Road which is unusually devoid of traffic. |
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Sunshine fell through the plastic windows of the hexagonal room and landed on containers of earth now devoid of the necessity for protection. |
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This muteness is unsettling, somehow pregnant with infinite meaning and utterly devoid of any at all. |
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Marriage is a very real commitment and is devoid of the romantic notions and premonitions we have about it, and that we carry before engagement. |
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Oblivious to cues, devoid of gaydar, I shuffle through my days, despondently convinced that no one could possibly find me attractive. |
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This album exposes him as an unremarkable singer, largely devoid of charisma or vocal prowess. |
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However, the wall of the pseudocyst, by definition, should be composed of connective tissue devoid of epithelial lining. |
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The epidermis is devoid of blood vessels but is nourished by diffusion from capillaries in the underlying dermis. |
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What was once our sustenance has become carcinogenic and devoid of goodness and nourishment. |
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His half-hour speech was designedly devoid of eye-catching announcements and surprise stunts. |
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On the subject of alleviating clutter after installing Windows XP, the desktop is devoid of icons except the Recycle Bin. |
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Without faith of some sort, life is a constant bafflement, apparently devoid of any detectable meaning. |
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England's captain and vice-captain find themselves in a team devoid of leadership. |
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However, the piece quickly turned into a rant so devoid of content it made me laugh. |
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The second half was largely devoid of incident until the latter stages, when Elgin had good chances. |
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The documents are good on events, but short on emotion, so what results is devoid of soul. |
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Obtusely, in a country devoid of trees, the houses turned out to be prefabricated wooden boxes. |
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The only problem with these theories is that they are entirely devoid of evidence. |
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Their comeback might even be viewed as a sign that the Govan men are not entirely devoid of ruthlessness. |
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The ones I have seen are devoid of any character, any energy and any facilities worth mentioning. |
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They looked devoid of inspiration for a long time but they found it again when they needed it most. |
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Near the Gulf of Mexico is a giant dead zone devoid of fish and other aquatic life. |
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It really does bother me so that things have become entirely devoid of wit and creativity. |
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This is not to say that, beneath the sparkling verbal surface, the novel is devoid of seriousness. |
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There was also a mysterious strip in the north end zone which was devoid of grass. |
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If, as some say, life is essentially devoid of all meaning, then what are you going to do? |
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It is a slippery path, at the bottom of which lies a hollow curriculum, devoid of meaningful content. |
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She saw his face and tried to determine how he felt, but his face was devoid of emotions. |
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It shows the artist hard at work in his studio, a room entirely devoid of visual stimulation. |
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How were ancient peoples able to construct monumental Egyptian pyramids in an age devoid of the tools of modern technology? |
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His diatribes preserve the syntax of logical argument but are devoid of sense, which I think is symptomatic of a form of mental illness. |
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Musically, the group captures a pressing sense of urgency devoid of anything trite or gimmicky. |
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The field was huge, and devoid of anyone else other than occasional walkers at the edges. |
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The more lengthy and discursive notes of the original forces give way to a short, punchy, military style, often devoid of emotion. |
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Partly, I suspect, this is because many health campaigners dispense factual information devoid of social context. |
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Khanor was only watching, devoid of emotion, and Brooke could distantly hear Katsi moaning and sputtering in the front seat. |
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Often this is a love devoid of content, that exalts unity over truth to avoid confrontation. |
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I am impatient with critics who find the musician devoid of expressiveness. |
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If people are viewed externally, devoid of internal character and spirituality, they are stripped of their unique gift and strength. |
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The rumour-mongers have portrayed me as a hard-bitten political adventuress devoid of all human feeling. |
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He was now dejected and devoid of his trademark bow tie, which was a clue from the wardrobe department that he was a dastardly dandy. |
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Things with no eyes flitted about at the corner of the trio's vision, having no fear in this place devoid of emotion, of warmth. |
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Ever since my first encounter with French literature in my teens I have always thought French culture was endemically corrupt and devoid of any morality. |
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Of course it doesn't help that a lot of conceptual art is devoid of substance and that those cards are mostly self-serving inane twaddle, but the principle is there. |
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I had wrestled my hair into a French plait which hung in a thick rope down to my waist, and my emerald eyes, as always, remained devoid of any make up. |
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The cello adds an elegant dramatic touch to a song many have found rather devoid of emotion. |
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The bit sits in a part of the horse's mouth called the diastema, which is a section devoid of teeth that lies between the front incisors and the back pre-molars and molars. |
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Yet, not all places were quiet and devoid of activity on Tuesday. |
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In other instances, some of these learned men and women, devoid of principles, have thought nothing of taking up watertight and indefensible cases just for the money. |
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Old Bagan, which is nearer to the ruins, is now devoid of inhabitants and only hosts a few sleepy old hotels. |
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Maintaining total radio silence, the Strike Force took a route through the North Pacific, which had proven wholly devoid of shipping under normal circumstances. |
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Ten years passing only heightens his status as a true street poet, devoid of current bling-bling pretense and full of scathing wit and sharp charm. |
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It is a hollow, empty show, utterly devoid of substance and reality. |
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Don Pedro's arc moves him from proud hidalgo to magnificent obsessive, an all-macho embodiment of the extremes of empowerment, totally devoid of any self-doubt. |
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Much research about medical education proceeds devoid of theory. |
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Rather it is a wordy exercise devoid of critical intelligence. |
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Butter has been found in hollowed trunks of trees, where it had been hid so long, that it was become hard and almost friable, yet not devoid of unctuosity. |
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Furthermore, it is known that the proton translocation does not proceed if the bR is devoid of cations, which can be imposed by deionization, chelation, or acidification. |
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Never let it be said that the US judicial system is devoid of any benevolence, particularly when guilty parties hold up their hand and confess to their crime. |
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They are cunningly manipulative narcissists devoid of consciences. |
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Although such ammonites are known in the English Jurassic, it clearly does not apply to these Lower Lias ammonites from Dorset which are largely devoid of epifauna. |
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Dostoevsky evinced the conviction of having been divinely commissioned in a manner that was diffident, almost shy, and utterly devoid of braggadocio. |
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It's consistently lucid, but nearly devoid of the lingual delights and challenges that draw enthusiasts to poetic culture, of any form, in the first place. |
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Under the unwatchful helm of a writer-director and a co-screenwriter, however, the results are less than admirable and almost completely devoid of any comedic inspiration. |
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It was pretty, but also slow and notably devoid of drivers for CD-ROM burners, DVD players and other peripherals essential to the modern desktop computing experience. |
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And unlike his two compatriots, Mehrjui's work is mostly devoid of the artful interplay between life and art that is so characteristic of their work. |
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If you find yourself devoid of both deodorants and cruciferous vegetables, baking soda and cornstarch can work in a pinch to kill bacteria and absorb perspiration. |
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She claims that Ewe Rente is strictly pictorial, when, in fact, certain regional styles of Ewe weaving are completely devoid of representational imagery. |
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While I have tried to identify as many poems as I can, many have remained true to their seventeenth-century nature and are still devoid of ascription. |
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A bitter bark of laughter escaped her, utterly devoid of humor. |
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Though alcohol need not be eliminated from our lives, it is of interest to note that it is devoid of any nutritional value and can be turned into fat, adding flab to the body. |
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The shell surface is apparently devoid of ornament, except for the anterior margin of the trail which bears faint, irregular, undulating, and lamellose growth lines. |
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The whole episode was devoid of any graciousness, and perfectly reflective of a new mood in publishing. |
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In this context, extreme sports may reflect an atavistic desire to artificially inject risk into lives that seemed devoid of the excitement that only risk can provide. |
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Platonic love is devoid of any physical attraction or sexual interest. |
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To Western eyes and ears, sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. |
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Because her poems are not strained or contrived they are devoid of the madding pursuit of the intellect or craft, which kills many of our modern poets and their poetry. |
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He was a great big fellow with a florid complexion and blue eyes, and was utterly devoid of fear, nothing that came in his direction being too hot for him to handle. |
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Thousands of previous instances of cars moving on streets tell us that cars usually populate streets, so much so that a street devoid of cars is rather eerie. |
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A few of Celtic's players also looked like they had been burning the candle at both ends, despite a preceding midweek for once devoid of a fixture. |
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Few books about spirituality are so devoid of portentousness or pretense. |
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The ability to grow plants devoid of secondary phenolics for several vegetative generations could yield important insights with regard to these, and other processes. |
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Business decisions sometimes operate in a sphere almost devoid of morality. |
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Such a view also has the unappealing consequence that a life devoid of ambition is more likely to be meaningful than one full of ambition, and this seems counter-intuitive. |
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He has a genius for creating emotional drama that is devoid of pathos. |
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They require total compliance with the line and they are devoid of humour. |
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They moved out, leaving few original inhabitants, and after a 1957 earthquake, the village was completely devoid of inhabitants. |
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They were sprawls of monotonous matchbox houses devoid of color. |
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It was a speech devoid of any new proposals and lacking even a hint of comprehension of the intense political, economic and social crises that are racking American society. |
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The world had become a barren place thanks to the bombing, devoid of anything similar to vegetation or existence, save for a few spots of land that had escaped the war. |
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His reputation is based upon offerings that are simply offensive and vulgar graffiti, lacking in humor, without wit, and devoid of intelligent satire. |
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Though Jaffa remains a mixed Jewish-Arab city, Ben-Ami says the city center is long devoid of its Arab character and inhabitants. |
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It was pointed out at the meeting that any area devoid of people is dead. |
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Fortunately on this day the place is desolate, devoid of any human sign. |
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At one extreme, imagine genetically engineered minds devoid of conscience or empathy and at the same time highly calculating and ruthless in the pursuit of their own desires. |
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He was faced with a monolithic obelisk of pumice with long turquoise strips running along it vertically, the area around it devoid of any tombstones. |
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Several bullous mucosal lesions, devoid of typical viral cytopathic features, were present in a background of scant submucosal mononuclear inflammation. |
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Even the most magnificent landscapes are powerless without figures, not forgetting Poussin's Arcadia, were it devoid of the shepherds and the sepulchral inscription. |
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This prediction is consistent with the actual rise of casual cohabitation and of sexual contacts devoid of preconditions, as well as increased divorce and serial monogamy. |
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On the other hand, no Leydig cells were seen microscopically in case 8, with tubules containing only Sertoli cells, being absolutely devoid of germinal cells. |
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Yet despite this, his shots are stark, bare and almost devoid of emotion. |
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It is a heavy tome, utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability. |
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In other words, much of metazoan evolution was cryptic, bound up in tiny animals devoid of skeletons and perhaps surviving as interstitial benthic microfauna. |
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How parliaments make swine and vermin of men, who are destitute of morals and devoid of human attributes, is no more in the realm of magic, neither in that of magic realism. |
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In trying to steer a course between education and entertainment, the show ends up becalmed, devoid of the giddy momentum that insight or cheap thrills would provide. |
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Also all these species have Type 2 pollinaria, which are devoid of stipes. |
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At last he reaches the final few notes, his body devoid of tension and he adds a slight delay as if playing with the listener, dangling the promise of an encore. |
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Many villages in the regency are devoid of young people as they have all migrated to Medan, Jakarta, Surabaya and other urban areas due to a lack of jobs at home. |
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The protracted dry season has created problems for many sheep producers throughout the agricultural region with paddocks devoid of green grass and pasture. |
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Just about every speech is systematically travestied or butchered, not just to be different, which would be bad enough, but to be rendered devoid of meaning. |
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Even now, her skinny blue-jeaned legs still betraying an awkward coltishness and her porcelain features devoid of makeup, she could pass as a pre-teen. |
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Commonly, pilgrims misperceive this vision and incorrectly assume that the vision is a piece of land devoid of rocks and stones upon which something may be built. |
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It's a curious mix of film-set kitsch and rustic country village, but it's pretty and tasteful and devoid of the kind garishness that taints Christmas here. |
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Too, a tract devoid of any winged life other than dragonflies and mosquitoes this week might just be covered with the feathered gray darters come the first of September. |
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Streets devoid of any sign of human life had been taken over by swirling rubbish, rolling through city centres like tumbleweed in an old ghost town. |
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The Superman blockbuster Man of Steel is a monotonous CGI extravaganza devoid of any humanity. |
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It was a terribly wifty idea, devoid of any rationality or common sense. |
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This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity. |
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Harry Redknapp suggesting Hodgson was an FA gimp picked for his clubbiness and his malleability, devoid of inspiration. |
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The first impression he must have made on the heathen chieftains was that of a man unintimidatable and devoid of fear. |
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I will be the first to concede that my writeups for the fourth season of The Simpsons have so far been suspiciously devoid of criticism. |
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White sugar is acidifying in nature and devoid of all trace elements, enzymes, and vitamins, which is not easily converted by the body. |
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Although not devoid of occasional prosaism and infrequent rhetoric, this verse is superbly crafted, achieving at times high levels of precision. |
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The problem with the UAE's desert soil is that it is largely devoid of carbon sources and these helpful microorganisms. |
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Anatomically, the posterior wall of the left colon, which is devoid of serosa, is directly opposite the anterior surface of the left kidney. |
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Hence, as with Montreal Massacrist Marc Lepine, who murdered 14 women in 1989, it was an act devoid of anything other than personal context. |
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Food abundance does not appear to be a limiting factor as many ectoproct colonies are devoid of janolids. |
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In these urchins, the upper surface of the body is slightly domed, but the underside is flat, while the sides are devoid of tube feet. |
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They can be blocked, devoid of loo roll, flooded, and generally over wrought with over use. |
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It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. |
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Many scenes are left incomplete and devoid of humour in the absence of Will's lines, and the overall effect is one of extreme disjointedness. |
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To avoid markers with a propensity for homoplasy, we used only those indels with 2 allelic variants and devoid of substantial sequence repeats. |
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The European-specific centre stack controls for climate and the Sony audio system are devoid of North America's SyncMyFordTouch folderol. |
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I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon. |
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The rocks formed at that time were stained red by iron oxides, the result of intense heating by the sun of a surface devoid of vegetation cover. |
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It is an elegantly simple machine, devoid of all but the most essential instruments and controls. |
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A new pack is usually founded by an unrelated dispersing male and female, travelling together in search of an area devoid of other hostile packs. |
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When a granitoid is devoid or nearly devoid of plagioclase, the rock is referred to as alkali feldspar granite. |
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Any sentence that is not purely logical, or is unverifiable is devoid of meaning. |
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In his view, Hermia lacks in filial obedience and acts as if devoid of conscience when she runs away with Lysander. |
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When they are separated, the two branes are perfectly wrinkle-free, representing a universe nearly devoid of matter. |
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Apart from a few renditions of Hymns and Arias before kick-off the place was unrecognisably devoid of atmosphere. |
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Many US embassies are built like prisons, devoid of character. |
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If this is institutional racism, then the term is devoid of meaning. |
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Bellicose attitudes of Cameronian magnitudes, completely devoid of common sense. |
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Each individual object is portrayed as small blocks, almost Cubistic with simple form and devoid of unnecessary detail. |
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The cytoplasm in some sections became electron-lucent, devoid of ribosome and contained dense bodies and membrane whorls. |
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Left unchecked, urchins devastate their environments, creating what biologists call an urchin barren, devoid of macroalgae and associated fauna. |
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Contempt for flunky failures NOTHING A J Hubble writes is devoid of right wing prejudices, again he fails to make valid comparisons. |
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Since television has come to dominate our culture, political campaigns have largely become beauty contests devoid of substantive content. |
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His own corpus is not devoid of humour, notably his sixth prolusion and his epitaphs on the death of Thomas Hobson. |
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In Gironde and in Gers, the same Neolithic corbelled vaults, devoid of any passage, incorporated within a huge tumular volume, are to be found. |
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And the psychiatrist himself did not feel totally devoid of some symptoms of molysmophobia, the obsessive fear of contagion. |
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Unlike other parts of the west coast of Scotland, the Solway Firth is generally devoid of islands. |
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Even his version of Claudius' Lyons tablet speech is edited to be devoid of the Emperor's personality. |
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The lower neck, throat, neck, and the region between the forelegs are devoid of spots, or have bear them only distinctly. |
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Due to the extreme karst nature of the whole peninsula, the northern half is devoid of rivers. |
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The ends were sheenier and my colour was richer, but devoid of shine at the roots. |
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In contrast, other nations are virtually devoid of sheep predators, particularly islands known for extensive sheep husbandry. |
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Of the intervening gills, Scaley Beck was reckoned the most practicable, the other three being overly rough and devoid of interest. |
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Smooth slopes, lacking vegetation at higher levels but also devoid of any real interest, run down toward Burnmoor and the head of Wastwater. |
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One effect of this pollution was that the upper and middle reaches were completely devoid of any fish life. |
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A massive cyberintelligence system was required to run the ship, of course, but, as we now know, intelligence devoid of emotion is nonfunctional. |
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The early Irish laws are devoid of a state centred enforcement mechanism and at least some of the judges were outside the state apparatus. |
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The talkless 24-hour period was devoid of advertisements, record intros and all other spoken words. |
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The nonpraying contributors may be persons whose lives are devoid of traditional virtue. |
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Entering the overclass cities being impossible, commoners left outside are faced with a new world devoid of high technology, but rich in spirit and imagination. |
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The teeth are devoid of carinae, lacking any kind of ornamentation. |
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The state of Wisconsin, once one of the cooler hotbeds of faanish endeavor, today lies fallow, barren and all but devoid of the faintest crepitance of crifanac. |
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The child will devoid the garbage after he devours his sandwich. |
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Peace having been concluded, he returned to the arms of his mother. His life illapsed in a calm and uniform tenour, devoid of strong passion or perturbation of any kind. |
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Some adhere to a diet that is devoid of meat, eggs, and seafood. |
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The lyrics ultimately paint a picture of dystopia, the inevitable result of a world devoid of empathy and compassion, answering the question posed in the opening lines. |
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While land seems to have been devoid of plants and animals, cyanobacteria and other microbes formed prokaryotic mats that covered terrestrial areas. |
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Tundra is largely devoid of poikilotherms such as frogs or lizards. |
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Yet for long spells Villa looked laboured and devoid of ideas. |
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Within only a couple of seasons, the lagoon was nearly devoid of whales. |
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The central and southwest provinces are practically devoid of any forest. |
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