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Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
Neither was he very powerful of build.
He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.
He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.
For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.
Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.
As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.
He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.
He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.
he was very thirsty, but he must observe water discipline.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
He was over six feet tall and very thin.
The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.
`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.
It was very widely read, too ; ;
She was now enjoying the voyage very much.
Ann was very troubled.
Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.
Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.

was and absurd
It was absurd and dramatic.
It was absurd.
To be passive, to be girlishly shy was palpably absurd.
For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.
It was Capp's finely tuned sense of the absurd, his ability to milk an outrageous situation for every laugh in it and then, impossibly, to squeeze even more laughs from it, that found such favor with the public ," ( from Don Markstein's Toonopedia ).
Adams responded in the February 2, 1998 strip and in his book The Joy of Work, simply by restating Solomon's argument, apparently suggesting that it was absurd and required no rebuttal.
Stone suggested that there was nothing absurd in this view, and noted that many entities now regarded as having legal rights were, in the past, regarded as " things " that were regarded as legally rightless ; for example, aliens, children and women.
While colloquially, a person may term a law suit to be frivolous if he or she personally finds a claim to be absurd, in legal usage " frivolous litigation " consists of a claim or defense that is presented where the party ( or the party's legal counsel ) had reason to know that the claim or defense was manifestly insufficient or futile.
c. BC ) opposed the concept of a spherical Earth, because he considered that in an infinite universe there was no center towards which heavy bodies would tend, thus he considered the idea of animals walking around topsy-turvy under the Earth to be absurd.
In the Bab Ballads and his early plays, Gilbert developed a unique " topsy-turvy " style in which humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd.
He, too, was a first-rate practical musician ... As he was the most absurd person, so was he the very kindliest ..." Fred's creation would serve as a model for the rest of the collaborators ' works, and each of them has a crucial comic little man role, as Burnand had put it.
Lewis has long remained popular in Europe: he was consistently praised by some French critics in the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma for his absurd comedy, in part because he had gained respect as an auteur who had total control over all aspects of his films, comparable to Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.
Ciano said that it was absurd to believe that the Reich could attack Poland without triggering a wider war and that now the Italians were left with the choice of either going to war when they needed three more years to rearm or being forced into the humiliation of having to violate the terms of the Pact of Steel by declaring neutrality ( which would make the Italians appear cowardly ).
Its main purpose was to offer a wider group of citizens an alternative way of opposition against the authoritarian communist regime by means of a peaceful protest that used absurd and nonsensical elements.
Another sports analyst wrote Limbaugh's viewpoint was shared by " many football fans and analysts " and " it is ... absurd to say that the sports media haven't overrated Donovan McNabb because he's black.
In 1616, the Roman Inquisition's consultants gave their assessment of the proposition that the Sun is immobile and at the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it, judging both to be " foolish and absurd in philosophy " and that the first was " formally heretical " while the second was " at least erroneous in faith ".
" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.
Each alternative seemed absurd to Albert Einstein, who was impressed by the ability of the thought experiment to highlight these issues.
In several years, an entry was submitted that was so patently absurd that it required a new definition of some of the rules for the next year.

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