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In homely terms, Bowling posits the totalitarian hypotheses of Borkenau, Orwell, Silone and Koestler: " Old Hitler's something different.
Tusser includes a homely mix of instructions and observations about farming and country customs which offer a fascinating insight into life in Tudor England, and his work records many terms and proverbs in print for the first time.

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Recurring characters included the Friday Night Girls ( Walsh and Jones ), a homely, dateless pair of female friends whose Friday nights rarely consisted of anything more exciting than riding the Metrobus ; Dakey Dunn ( Walsh ), an unexpectedly insightful macho lout ; Frank Arsenpuffin ( Andy Jones ), a hapless talk show host faced with a succession of horrifying guests ; Marg at the Mental ( Sexton ), a patient in a psychiatric hospital ; and Jerome and Duncan ( Sexton and Malone ), a flamboyant pair of gay lawyers.
And many a Gospel preacher whose name is familiar amongst us to-day, received his early training at those homely gatherings, where anxious souls were won for the Master, and where it was indeed a rare occasion that the Holy Spirit ’ s power could not be felt in a very real way.

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Even in the afterglow of a wonderful evening, Marty is subjected the next day to ridicule from his friends, who insist that the girl is a homely loser not worth pursuing.
He says that the boy, Theaetetus, is a young Socrates look-alike, rather homely, with a snub-nose and protruding eyes.
Marty is the story of a lonely homely butcher from the Bronx in search of love.
She grows content only when her courtiers assure her that Octavia is homely by Elizabethan standards: short, low-browed, round-faced and with bad hair.
However, it is the homely, unpolished Abe who catches Mary's fancy, much to her sister's chagrin.
With all the majesty and stately elaboration and musical rhythm of Milton's finest prose, Taylor's style is relieved and brightened by an astonishing variety of felicitous illustrations, ranging from the most homely and terse to the most dignified and elaborate.
Ratri is exiled from heaven and condemned to wander the world in a series of homely bodies.
One of the little birds is perceived by the duck ’ s surroundings as a homely little creature and suffers much verbal and physical abuse from the other birds and animals on the farm.
There is no strained effect in it, no sentimentality, but a hearty, homely actuality, broadly, freely, and simply worked out.
In the southern Indian city of Mangalore, a spicy dish called rakti, made of heavily spiced porcine offal and cartilaginous tissue, is considered a homely indulgence by the local Christian community ( observant Muslims avoid pork products, and observant Hindus usually follow a vegetarian diet ).
The inscription on the memorial reads, " If I, a lowly singer, dry one tear, or soothe one humble human heart in pain, then my homely verse to God is dear, and not one stanza has been sung in vain.
This boutique type of accommodation has a nice homely feel where the traveler is the ' house-guest '.
Because Marla is homely, he rejects her, but Dottie and Kit refuse to go on without her, and her father makes an impassioned plea.
The benediction " Peace be to this house ", with which, in accordance with apostolic usage, he greeted every dwelling he entered, was not inappropriate to his figure and aspect, and it is said he took the people's attention wonderfully, the more especially after the magic of his personality found opportunity to reveal itself in close and homely intercourse.
A travel brochure of the time describes it as follows: " Sheltered from the untempered violence of the elements by the lofty ranges by which it is encircled, Dromana presents an air of homely comfort, singularly foreign to the majority of watering places.
The versatile D. Francisco Manuel de Mello, in addition to his sonnets on moral subjects, wrote pleasing imitations of popular romances, but is at his best in a reasoned but vehement " Memorial to John IV ", in the witty " Apologos Dialogaes ", and in the homely philosophy of the " Carta de Guia de Casados, prose classics.
Registered as The Parvis Flat, these living quarters are extremely homely and the roof-top balcony is ideal for summer entertainment
Jane Edwards ( Janine Duvitski )-Jane is Harvey's prudish, homely and devout assistant who always looks on the bright side of life and is thinking up new ideas, which are often backed up by Tom.
The manager of Bayview is Harvey Baines who runs the establishment with his assistant, the homely, spinsterish and pious Jane Edwards.
Its main purpose is the recommendation of the German middle class as the soundest element in the nation, but it also has a more directly patriotic intention in the contrast it draws between the supposedly homely virtues of the German, while presenting in negative light Poles and Jews.
One of Heda's early masterpieces, dated 1623 and in Alte Pinakothek, Munich, is as homely as a later one of 1651 in the Liechtenstein Gallery at Vienna.
Designed as a large homely cottage this brick and stucco building is located in the middle of the 1914 Myers Park.

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" by substituting the formalised language of the elaborated code for the homely immediacy of Freud's own language.

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He tilted his homely face toward the dry bed of the river.
Ben's eyes strained with the bitter hurt, his homely face slashed with gray and crimson.
Andrei glanced up over the top of the paper and looked into the mustached, homely face of Sergeant Styka.
and these, full of homely advice, are among the most human and revealing of Civil War letters.
George poised with the tack hammer, the homely, everyday atmosphere, all denied an attempt at murder.
Again the homely, everyday details of daily living refuted a vicious attempt to frighten her -- or to murder her.
The homely everyday details of living and domestic requirements also pressed upon her with their immediate urgency.
Now a little flush came on her pale homely face and enchantment in her eyes.
When a character in Aristophanes ' Knights says, " I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your head — out of a ladle ," the homely and realistic ladle brings the ineffable moment to ground with a thump.
In more ordinary cases Tsar Alexander III could be at once kind, simple, and even almost homely.
" However, his looks proved to be an asset in his personal and political relationships, as his law partner William Herndon wrote, " He was not a pretty man by any means, nor was he an ugly one ; he was a homely man, careless of his looks, plain-looking and plain-acting.
Stanley Baldwin, a master of the radio broadcast in the 1920s and 1930s, reached a national audience in his talks filled with homely advice and simple expressions of national pride.
Mr Collins recovers and promptly becomes engaged to Elizabeth's close friend Charlotte, a homely woman with few prospects.
This ' Plan Berlage ' decided the spacious and homely streets for several decades.
A very homely sort who doesn't mind the odd adventure.
Garfield observed that Lincoln was " distressingly homely ", yet had " the tone and bearing of a fearless, firm man.
In appearance he was homely, with a nose that he called " my most prominent feature.
Because of this, these middle-class kitchens were often more homely than those of the upper class, where the kitchen was a work-only room occupied only by the servants.
Because of his homely ways and strong Norfolk roots, he was often known to both friends and detractors as the " fat old Squire of Norfolk.

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