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even and concocted
Writing in The Times, Richard Morrison stated that " even by the bleak standards of Sixties architecture, Euston is one of the nastiest concrete boxes in London: devoid of any decorative merit ; seemingly concocted to induce maximum angst among passengers ; and a blight on surrounding streets.
Movies often went into production without finished scripts, with scenes and dialogue concocted on the set ; especially low-budget productions on tight schedules might even have actors mouth silently or simply count numbers, with actual dialogue created only in the editing process.
Well acquainted with the cinematic arts, he has manipulated data and even concocted events, drawing on his memory for plausible details.
* At one point, Sunny uses the word " Babganoush ", which literally means ," I concocted an escape plan with the eggplant that turned out to be even handier than I thought.
The player assumes the role of Joe King, pilot for hire and owner of the Amazon Queen airplane of the title, who crash-lands in the Amazon jungle and subsequently has to save not only his passenger, the famous movie star Faye Russel, but also an entire tribe of Amazon women and even the world from a mad scientist and his lederhosen company, who have concocted a vile scheme to turn Amazons into Dinosaur warriors using his DinoRay invention.
The essay, supposedly written by a Swiss scholar named Michel Desommelier, included concocted passages from Laura that fooled scholars and even Dmitri Nabokov.

even and silly
: The power which the strong have over the weak, the employer over the employed, the educated over the unlettered, the experienced over the confiding, even the clever over the sillythe forbearing or inoffensive use of all this power or authority, or a total abstinence from it when the case admits it, will show the gentleman in a plain light.
* In episode 6 of Fawlty Towers, " The Germans ," Basil ( John Cleese ) is impersonating Hitler and says, " I'll even do the silly walk ," goose-stepping in a similar way to his Python routine.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times commented that " The movie is silly beyond comprehension, and even if it weren't silly, it would still be beyond comprehension " but does comment that the film has its good moments.
Apreece even appeared and sat " open-mouthed and silly, in the boxes, to the delight of the audience, and mystified by the reflection of himself, which he beheld on the stage.
Occasionally, this process is extended to pronouns ( pouco, a little → pouquinho or poucochinho, a very small amount ), adjectives ( e. g. bobo → bobinho, meaning respectively " silly " and " a bit silly "; só → sozinho, both meaning " alone " or " all alone "), adverbs ( depressinha, " quickly ") and even verbs ( correndo → correndinho, both of which mean " running ", but the latter with an endearing connotation ).
" Writing in The Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips, in an otherwise tepid review, said of her performance: “ Every scene she ’ s in, even the silly ones, becomes better — truer, often against long odds — because she ’ s in it.
While France had not yet experienced the industrial revolution that was beginning in England, the rising middle class of the cities felt increasingly frustrated with a system and rulers that seemed silly, frivolous, aloof, and antiquated, even if true feudalism no longer existed in France.
The second series introduced even more new characters to keep the show fresh, such as Blaxploitation Pope, who is Lucius T. Kool III, a ghetto brother and leader of the Catholic Church ; President Umbukele, who is an expert in diplomacy and acquiring foreign aid, but then spends it all on silly things ; bad influence Granddad ; and a family of animated polar bears with Brummie accents, who live at Dudley zoo.
It has shone from him since " Pumping Iron ;" it has allowed him to surmount silly and unwise pieces of action ( such as the drunk scenes in one of the " Conans " and here ), and even his own awkwardness as an actor.
The New York Times Howard Thompson called the film " a real Christmas clinker " and a " silly, tired little frolic ," remarking " even staunch Presley admirers — and we're one of them when he delivers the likes of Fun in Acapulco and Viva Las Vegas — will have to strain to justify this one.
Other names are playful or even silly.
Drake is the game's ' silly character ', even to the point that if you are to unlock him, his proficient weapons are odd, such as Pie.
: This message was left anonymously on a phone-message service called the Apology Line, where people recorded their confessions and also listened to others admit to acts of intentional cruelty, silly screw-ups, unfortunate and unintentional mistakes and, on occasion, even murder.
As Sei's mentor, he trains her, and is not afraid to be strict or at times, even cold towards her if he feels she needs it, but he is more often found hugging, teasing or being silly around her, and is in fact noted to be " too soft " on her by his peers.
Although Bernardo is sometimes portrayed as a little silly even when no pretense is required, he is also a capable and invaluable disciple for Zorro and Diego, even wearing the mask himself occasionally when the need arises.
" My approach to faith does not include concepts of " conversion / reversion " or " propagation ", so the very idea that I would have even tried to " convert " Mr. Jackson ( or anyone else for that matter ) to my spiritual perspective, is silly.
Well, I could use some descriptive adjectives like, “ Crunchy ” or “ Squishy ” or maybe even “ Interesting ” to describe the bands ’ sound, but how about something like: “ Radiohead meets Pink Floyd at a middle school kickball tournament circa 1978 ″ or maybe “ Like a cross between vintage Eno and Ringo ’ s drumkit falling out of the back of a 12-passenger van “, or if I was feeling particularly inspired then maybe I could say something like “ The ghost of Curtis Mayfield in the middle of a heated funk workout with a malfunctioning R2-UNIT ”, however those descriptions would just make them sound pretty silly and pretentious and that is NOT the effect we are going for here!
Calling it a " lighthearted, slightly loony adventure film, there are some good silly gags, and the animals look relaxed even in their dizziest slapstick scenes.
Although Bernardo is sometimes portrayed as a little silly even when no pretense is required, he is also a capable and invaluable disciple for Zorro and Diego, even wearing the mask himself occasionally when the need arises.
because we'd been playing silly, up-tempo ... we were the piano band that rocks ... We couldn't even fit the song into a show.

even and story
that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
Indeed, a tremendously destructive tsunami that arose in the Arabian Sea in 1945 has even revived the interest of geologists and archaeologists in the Biblical story of the Flood.
Many of you are familiar, I'm sure, with the story of my early struggles: the fire in January, 1947, that destroyed everything -- even our precious list of subscribers.
What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.
Plutarch tells a story that at Bactra, in 327 BC in a debate with Callisthenes, he advised all to worship Alexander as a god even during his lifetime, is with greater probability attributed to the Sicilian Cleon.
A 1950 cover story in Time even included photos of two of his employees, whose roles in the production were detailed by Capp.
The " shock ending " finale is effective even while it upholds horror-film convention, its suspense sequences are buttressed by teen comedy tropes, and its use of split-screen, split-diopter and slow motion shots tell the story visually rather than through dialogue.
Further editing was apparently done even after that-the silver quarter-shekel which Saul's servant offers to Samuel in 1 Samuel 9 almost certainly fixes the date of this story in the Persian or Hellenistic periods.
The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.
In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.
Cervantes's meta-fictional device was to make even the characters in the story familiar with the publication of Part One, as well as with an actually published fraudulent Part Two.
Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.
A film editor must creatively work with the layers of images, story, dialogue, music, pacing, as well as the actors ' performances to effectively " re-imagine " and even rewrite the film to craft a cohesive whole.
It can create sensually provocative montages ; become a laboratory for experimental cinema ; bring out the emotional truth in an actor's performance ; create a point of view on otherwise obtuse events ; guide the telling and pace of a story ; create an illusion of danger where there is none ; give emphasis to things that would not have otherwise been noted ; and even create a vital subconscious emotional connection to the viewer, among many other possibilities.
He kept all of the stories submitted to his magazine, even the ones he rejected ; Stephen King has stated that Ackerman showed up to a King book signing with a copy of a story King had submitted for publication when he was 11.
As proof of their story, Emmy presents to the Japanese government a copy of Terasawa's book, which he hasn't even written yet.
Being that ' Heart of Darkeness ' is such a relatively short story, it has perhaps generated proportionately more pure text of discussion-in the manner of interpretations of meaning, analysis, commentary, reviews, essays, and even provisions of historical context-than any other work in English literature.
Possibly written by Thomas Kyd or even William Shakespeare himself, the Ur-Hamlet would have been in performance by 1589 and the first version of the story known to incorporate a ghost.
The new understanding, even if it recognised the Israelites as Canaanites by origin, still treated the post-Conquest biblical story as real history.
It was harshly panned by both contemporary and later literary critics, with even kinder critics regarding the work as " a long-winded sob story " which many have found to be " simply unreadable ," and this negative response has been speculated to be the reason Salinger decided to quit publishing.
Then, in the later account found in the Syriac Doctrine of Addai, a painted image of Jesus is mentioned in the story ; and even later, in the account given by Evagrius, the painted image is transformed into an image that miraculously appeared on a towel when Christ pressed the cloth to his wet face.
Published before it was even certain that DNA carried genetic information, this story is about a series of engineered retroviral plagues, initially propagated by blood transfusion, that are genetically re-engineering the human race.
Additionally, in an article for Cryptozoology, A. C. Thomas notes that even if there were some truth to the story, it could be explained rationally as an encounter with a walrus or similar creature that had swum up the river.
Odin responds that even if this is true, Loki ( in a story otherwise unattested ) once spent eight winters beneath the earth as a woman milking cows, and during this time bore children.

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