| It is finely wrought and brilliantly realised, but devoid of charming idiosyncrasy. |
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| I've been wondering if you put some part of yourself, be that some weird idiosyncrasy, quirks, etc, into the characters you create. |
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| Duveen emerges as a character of almost Dickensian richness and idiosyncrasy. |
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| His work forms a single entity that is full of life, intelligent and open-minded, yet riven with doubt, idiosyncrasy, and contradiction. |
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| The idiosyncrasy of the Miss World contest is that despite being a truly international competition, it has retained much of its Englishness. |
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| This's a fair sketch of idiosyncrasy run amuck, but it's also a compelling portrait of mental and spiritual extremity. |
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| In fact, the idiosyncrasy of Tugu Park Hotel does not stop at Waroeng Shanghai either. |
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| Why should we not apply this argument to the idiosyncrasy of a nation, and pause in our haste to hoot it down? |
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| The caddies were quite surprised to see him disrobe, as he was already soaked to the skin, but assumed it was just another idiosyncrasy of the farangs. |
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| A CERTAIN genre of books about English extols the language's supposed difficulty and idiosyncrasy. |
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| George Sugarman, a contemporary of the Minimalists who daringly embraced ornament and idiosyncrasy as elements of his practice, became an inspirational figure. |
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| I became well used to her beautiful smile breaking over a lapse of memory or idiosyncrasy. |
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| After all, what electoral law can we impose on the indigenous Guarao or Yaruro or Cuiba, with their own criteria and their own idiosyncrasy? |
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| Despite the idiosyncrasy of the process that I have just described, I am truly honoured to take this oath today. |
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| Still, in its reasoning, the Court described section 23 rights as a constitutional idiosyncrasy. |
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| Nor is this any idiosyncrasy of the WTO but extends to the practices under regional trade agreements. |
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| Yet this is a peculiar American Orthodox idiosyncrasy from a community in which Rabbi Soloveitchik had played such a unique role. |
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| Should I do this or should I leave it as an idiosyncrasy of my blog? |
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| There are certain men and women who by reason of their genius, eminence, achievement, or idiosyncrasy seem to exercise a sort of magnetism on biographers and publishers. |
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| Thanks to the legendary idiosyncrasy of that computerised bureaucracy, it still shows the cover of the old edition, by which some readers have already been misled. |
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| They suggested that allergy and food idiosyncrasy may coexist. |
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| All that gnarled, virile, rugged language was a sign of the cross-grained idiosyncrasy of the freeborn Englishman, as opposed to the insidious smoothness of the effeminate French. |
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| The most special aspect of temperament in every human being is idiosyncrasy, or the proper and individual constitution of each person, and consequently different from others. |
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| Every mode of speech and every idiosyncrasy is intensely familiar. |
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| In order to lessen this, certain programmes, such as those in Mali, Niger and Guinea, have put in place call for proposal systems adapted to the idiosyncrasy of the grassroots organisations. |
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| Sleep is a sophisticated behavior, just like walking and thinking, with its own set of age-related norms and plenty of room for idiosyncrasy, aberrancy and downright criminal behavior. |
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| But as institutional archives grow, the days of intuition, idiosyncrasy, personality archiving, learning-on-the-job and making-it-up-as-you-go are passing because they are self-limiting. |
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| As the strategic calculus shifts to territory won or lost and casualties suffered, a new idiosyncrasy in human decision making appears: our deep-seated aversion to cutting our losses. |
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| Hydantoins and sulfonamides have been incriminated in hepatic damage either via idiosyncrasy or intrinsic toxicity. |
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| Mr Ruiz-Jarabo concludes that a penalty imposed by a final judgment which, because of a procedural idiosyncrasy in national law, has never been enforceable is not excluded from the protection of the principle ne bis in idem. |
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| Another idiosyncrasy of this agreement is that it is the only one in which shipowners do not have to pay a single tariff for carrying out their activities. |
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| But the polls are revealing an idiosyncrasy that suggests this may not matter as much as might be imagined. Large numbers of Italians now say they would back the Democratic Party, if only it would run alone. |
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| This is one more idiosyncrasy of this region. |
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| Its first idiosyncrasy is that it does not carry out the undertaking made in the Labour election manifesto to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into the law of the United Kingdom. |
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| The Coale-Trussell model is recommended for populations whose initial fertility distributions do not resemble any regional pattern, or have some idiosyncrasy. |
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| In Peru, we perceive a renewed interest in understanding these horizons which, originating in our native cultural cradles, continue to act in the idiosyncrasy of our peoples and sustaining their greatest realisations. |
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| That is part of our idiosyncrasy and is what makes us who we are. |
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| They embraced idiosyncrasy, while rejecting the idea of an underlying madness. |
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| Clearly, one criterion the AIF seeks in its photographs is idiosyncrasy. |
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| First, there is palilogia, which is an idiosyncrasy of certain rhetoricians and public speakers who deliberately repeat a word or phrase or sentence for the sake of emphasis. |
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