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Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.
Like its predecessor, Modern Times employed sound effects but almost no speaking.
Like the term " tyrant " ( which was originally a respectable Ancient Greek title ), and to a lesser degree " autocrat ", " dictator " came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive, even abusive rule, yet had rare modern titular uses.
Like the LG cloches, they were almost completely covered by concrete.
Like the Kurzweil Reading Machine of almost 30 years before, the K-NFB Reader is designed to aid blind people by reading written text aloud.
Like Vulcans, Romulans are almost always depicted as having dark or black hair, though brown-haired examples have also been seen in various media.
Like horses and other ungulates, zebra can turn their ears in almost any direction.
Like almost any herbivore, they will consume many other plants if presented with them, but their diet in nature consists almost entirely of grass, with only minimal consumption of aquatic plants.
Like almost every other automaker, Dodge sold lightly facelifted revisions of its 1942 design through the 1948 season.
Like almost all sponges, the hexactinellids draw water in through a series of small pores by the whip like beating of a series of hairs or flagella in chambers which in this group line the sponge wall.
" According to Eagleton, " Like almost all diatribes against universalism, Fish's critique of universalism has its own rigid universals: the priority at all times and places of sectoral interests, the permanence of conflict, the a priori status of belief systems, the rhetorical character of truth, the fact that all apparent openness is secretly closure, and the like.
Like the Mediterranean Sea, it has almost no tides due to its nearly complete enclosure from the Pacific Ocean.
Like several other Kent constituencies, Chatham has proven to be a marginal seat, swinging backwards and forwards on the political tide and almost always following the national trend.
Like almost all Coraciiformes the bee-eaters are cavity nesters.
Like almost all other spiders, Argiope are harmless to humans.
Like almost any theist, I reject unguided evolution ; but the contemporary scientific theory of evolution just as such — apart from philosophical or theological add-ons — doesn't say that evolution is unguided.
Like other pure starches, however, arrowroot is almost pure carbohydrate and devoid of protein, thus it does not provide a complete substitute for wheat flour.
Like Young, she has overseen a large number of notable projects during her ( almost -) exclusive time working with Vertigo since April 1993.
Like the random walk, the Wiener process is recurrent in one or two dimensions ( meaning that it returns almost surely to any fixed neighborhood of the origin infinitely often ) whereas it is not recurrent in dimensions three and higher.
Like Blue, the film's cinematography makes heavy use of the title colour: the sky is almost always white, and a scene in Poland is filmed in a white snowscape.
Roger Ebert wrote that " Like almost all my favorite films, The Great Santini is about people more than it's about a story.
Like Woody, Winnie received a redesign that made her look almost exactly like Woody did from 1947 until 1972, with the obvious differences being that she was a female woodpecker and had blue eyes.
Like any clarified butter, ghee is composed almost entirely of fat ; the nutrition facts label found on bottled cow's ghee produced in the USA indicates 8 mg of cholesterol per teaspoon.

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Like everybody else, I'm holding my breath to July to see what's in there.
Like the annual Cadet Inspection, the Carol Service is mandatory and everybody from the student body must attend.
Like all of Cuba ’ s most important laws, the Family Code had been published in a tabloid edition in order for it to reach everybody in Cuba ; virtually every man, woman, and young parson who wanted to read and study it could have access to it.

Like and else
Like everything else in Rome, ruins and monuments alike, that house is lived in.
It was said that " Like everyone else … Clemenceau will not last long-only long enough to clean up war.
Like anyone else, there are some swingers who engage in unprotected sex, a practice known as barebacking.
Like everywhere else in Flanders, the Wars of Religion of the end of the 16th century caused widespread destruction.
Like, " What else would you expect him to do but to go off and be a nerd?
Like many autokey ciphers it used the plaintext to encrypt itself ; however, since there was no additional key, it is no easier for the intended recipient to read the message than anyone else who knows that the cipher is being used.
Like everything else it must be evolved gradually.
A comedy of wordplay and misunderstanding, People Like Us could be a metaphor for life, in that, while the protagonist is an idiot, everyone else is a bigger idiot-Mallard's questions are usually sensible yet misinterpreted.
Like everything else in his life, Cato took unusual care to study the background necessary for the post, especially the laws relating to taxes.
Like all the variants of the M16, the M4 and the M4A1 can be fitted with many accessories, such as night vision devices, suppressors, laser pointers, telescopic sights, bipods, either the M203 or M320 grenade launchers, the M26 MASS shotgun, forward hand grips, and anything else compatible with a MIL-STD-1913 Picatinny rail.
Like its closest relatives, it is oviparous, although little else is known about its reproduction.
Like everywhere else, there are those in Shara who can channel the One Power.
Like everything else in her career ( which began very modestly in Madrid, to end up at the Paris Opera ), it happened progressively.
: Like nobody else,
:" Like everyone else I have at my disposal only three means of evaluating human existence: the study of self, which is the most difficult and most dangerous method, but also the most fruitful ; the observation of our fellowmen, who usually arrange to hide secrets where none exist ; and books, with the particular errors of perspective to which they inevitably give rise.
Like everywhere else on this coast it is roasting hot in summer.
Like, " What else would you expect him to do but to go off and be a nerd?
Like traditional watermarks, digital watermarks are only perceptible under certain conditions, i. e. after using some algorithm, and imperceptible anytime else.
Like many other similar areas of Glasgow, relatives and friends tended to live locally ( often in the same building ), and everyone knew everyone else in the area, to a large extent.
Like everyone else he had suffered heavy losses from the land boom and its after effects, and in August 1892 he left for England and accepted the secretaryship to the agent-general for Victoria.
Like everywhere else in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, transport in common are very effective and fast, there are buses ( ecological hybrids ) that connect to Luxembourg City in 15 minutes.
Like " Grapevine ", the song is sung by an emotionally-wrought Gaye, singing the song in a preacher-like tone, who tells a woman to " forget " her lover now that that lover has gone off to someone else.
Like anyone else, these types of artists start up from the very beginning in fields that can relate to motion graphics, advertisement in television, and / or book ( or magazine ) publishing.

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