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belaboring and is
Without belaboring the point too much, this is one of the most ridiculous movies I've seen in a long while.

belaboring and we
The world might ring with the struggle, if we devoted ourselves exclusively to belaboring each other ''.

belaboring and by
Gary Arnold, in his review for the Washington Post, wrote, " Stripes squanders at least an hour belaboring situations contradicted from the outset by Murray's personality.

is and course
Part of it is, of course.
The answer is, of course, yes.
What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.
Of course, there must be clarity: a single distinct impression is more valuable than many fuzzy ones.
Such a response, of course, misses the point that in crisis order is going out of existence.
That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.
In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;
What is the probable course of future developments??
I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.
Whether or not Danchin is correct in suggesting that Thompson's resumption of the opium habit also dates from this period is, of course, a matter of conjecture.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
There is, of course, the doctrine of original sin, which asserts that each of us as individuals partakes of the guilt of our first ancestor.
Each will decide on his own course somewhere between these two extreme cases according to the sense of responsibility which is determined for him by the particular circumstances of his own life.
True reality, of course, is the ideal, and the poet knows nothing of this ; ;
One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.
On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
And this, of course, is exactly what Madison Avenue has been accused of doing albeit in a primitive way, with its `` hidden persuaders '' and what the space merchants accomplish with much greater sophistication and precision.
Of course it is.
Now Richards, of course, is known as a deep thinker as baseball managers go.
`` I try to treat Daniel as if he were normal, though of course I realize he is far from that at present.

is and jocular
Apart from journalese and vaudeville gags, the anatomical is also found in jocular literature.
Guising is devoid of any jocular threat.
There is a significant difference from the way the practice has developed in North America with the jocular threat.
Baʿal ul bayt in modern Levantine Arabic is widely used to mean the head of the household, literally ' Master of the House ' and has a somewhat jocular, semi-mocking connotation.
In this usage, the term denotes a literary technique employing a generally light-hearted tongue-in-cheek imitation of another's style ; although jocular, it is usually respectful.
" Fruit machine " is a jocular term for a device developed in Canada that was supposed to be able to identify homosexual people, or " fruits.
Rivalry between Australia and allies such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand is friendly and jocular in nature, as Australians often view these nations as members of an Anglosphere cultural tradition which has significant overlap with their own.
Because of the block's presence, Cinemax is most commonly given the jocular nickname outside the network, " Skinemax ".
This is a jocular look at some clichéd expressions in the popular literature of the time.
Also, whereas Paddy is often used in a jocular context or incorporated into mournful pro-Irish sentiment ( i. e. the songs Poor Paddy On The Railway and Paddy's Lament ), the term Taig remains a slur in almost every context.
* Turtles all the way down is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the " unmoved mover " paradox
The jocular word mugwump, noted as early as 1832, is from Algonquian ( Natick ) mugquomp, " important person, kingpin " ( from mugumquomp, " war leader ") implying that they were " sanctimonious " or " holier-than-thou ," in holding themselves aloof from party politics.
Citing Leno's larger audience and earlier time slot, Fletcher agreed to appear on The Tonight Show, where he presented Leno with a Louisville Slugger baseball bat and traded jocular barbs about the relative advantages of Kentucky and Los Angeles where The Tonight Show is filmed.
" Turtles all the way down " is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the " unmoved mover " paradox.
Cartoon physics is a jocular system of laws of physics that supersedes the normal laws, used in animation for humorous effect.
* Lo Fat-Lo Fat is the jocular, Chinese-American owner of Lo Fat's Laundry ; a Chinese laundromat in New York City.
Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe " seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects.
The term comedy of menace, which British drama critic Irving Wardle based on the subtitle of The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace ( 1958 ), by David Campton, is a jocular play-on-words derived from the " comedy of manners " ( menace being manners pronounced with a somewhat Judeo-English accent ).
However, in American English the-ess suffix is only marginally morphologically productive, and the-ette suffix can indicate a feminine version of a noun without a change in size ( though many such words in-ette were intended to be jocular when they were first coined ).
The term is used as a proud or jocular self-description.
The term " Herman the German " is also commonly used by English speakers as an affectionate name for the Hermannsdenkmal-and also as a jocular term for ( male ) Germans in general.
The " War of the Whiskers " ( c. 1152 – 1453 ) is a jocular term for the long conflict between medieval France and England, referring to the refusal of Louis VII of France to shave his newly acquired taste for a beard ( i. e. " whiskers ") he had grown while fighting during the Crusades.
Rarely, the term is used as a jocular, possibly slightly flattering description.
Although the term with its current meaning has sometimes had negative connotations and sometimes jocular connotations, in recent years its pejorative qualities have lessened so " bimbo " is now often used as a more neutral, or even friendly, term.

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