| When he does mention the unmentionable, as an aside, the effect is callous. |
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| The matter of discrimination stays out of the picture, the great unmentionable that might spoil the happy day. |
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| They do business with China, but they have to treat Cuba as the great unmentionable, the pariah. |
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| One unmentionable aspect of the war is the role of this mutlibillion-dollar corporate war machine. |
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| This particular kind of death makes people skittish, thinking suicide either a shameful or unmentionable kind of death. |
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| The youth-fixation of television and, particularly, Hollywood, has made ageing the great cultural unmentionable. |
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| There are bones, there is blood, there are intestines, and all manner of unmentionable parts. |
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| There are other unmentionable things that may put us on stable financial ground but mentioning such things is verboten. |
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| The second unmentionable is that even if we do get the Rolls, odds are we'll immediately crave another. |
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| Now this habit, once almost unmentionable in bien-pensant musical circles, seems to be spreading to some of the most august names in the pianists' pantheon. |
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| This was the great unmentionable fact when I was working there. |
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| Today as I wandered down, crunching on broken glass and avoiding unmentionable messes, I saw the corner of a bed in the corner of a window in the corner of an apartment. |
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| And in her agony, in her utter helplessness, mentioned the unmentionable. |
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| Unfortunately, it's the unmentionable that gets the most mention. |
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| Amongst those whom I brought with me to remove the scales from his eyes was a present county councillor who was a former independent and who is now an unmentionable. |
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| There's a pattern here, but it's hard to see because gender is the great unmentionable in public life, and women are especially invisible as citizens in a time of crisis. |
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| Some are unreliable in the company of other dogs, other try to eat postmen, and some like to vacuum up unmentionable things in the park! |
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| What misery to live among such unmentionable filth, with scarcely the strength to pick the lice which inevitably swarmed over them. |
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| Social conventions may render these people almost invisible in a community: uncounted, unmentionable, unconsulted. |
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| The third voice is that of music, the art which can probably approach the unmentionable and unimaginable more closely than any other. |
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| If these remain shrouded and unmentionable, unnecessary anxiety will affect the teacher's life and work. |
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| This repulsion is particularly tormenting as oral malodour still appears to be an unmentionable fact rather than a curable condition. |
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| Reappropriation worked interestingly when African-Americans took back their unmentionable word and yelled it ironically to one another in the street, while rendering non-African-Americans dumb. |
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| But worse was to follow,' he faltered hesitatingly, 'the young females rolled me on my side and forced a tube into an unmentionable portion of my body. |
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| Watching fellow competitors stagger around camp like zombies in the mornings – tired, sore and nursing crocked knees, blistered feet or chafing in unmentionable places – was comic at times. |
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| Immigration, once unmentionable in polite political circles, will be one of the big issues in a painfully protracted campaign. British antipathy to immigration is not new. |
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| The unmentionable image rattles down to the core of our brain. |
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| The formerly unmentionable disease has, to some extent, overcome the stigma, not least because of advances in medical science, giving hope to patients and families. |
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| Forjas 2000, stainless steel products range, offers you unmentionable possibilities that will allow you put your personal touch to all your jobs like windows, doors, fences or stairs. |
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| Modern standards ³and the financial assistance to implement them ³go straight to the heart of boosting trade flows and address the persistent, if unmentionable, problem of corruption in developing countries. |
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| With the word 'baby' unmentionable and unhintable, we all had to go on pretending that my mother was in bed for some slight cold, or other indisposition. |
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