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I feel that I am hopelessly in love with her -- Platonically, that is -- but
The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story Arthur Twidle 1859
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Seneca also adopts metaphors or images that are associated with other philosophical schools, such as Platonically inspired images of the body as prison of the soul (e.g.,
Seneca Vogt, Katja 2007
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Then all the Deep Ones loved him (Platonically!) as they shouted out with glee, (Ftaghn!)
Just for fun: Rudolph the Pink Skinned Deep One « Third Point of Singularity 2009
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His argument at that time relied on the hypothesis that there is a uniquely possible and necessarily self-instantiating physics, and that this physics answers to a type of Platonically conceived cosmic computer program.
Big Bunny 2007
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They do not even have a strong tendency to read about what they write: the Platonically ideal man of letters is too comfortable in his ivory tower to care much about reviews and Press clippings.
Moorcock, Saruman and the Dragon’s Tail superversive 2006
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What if Obama Platonically, 'objectively' is in fact the best candidate?
"She seemed dogmatic, almost angry, like she was vicious..." Ann Althouse 2008
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“How we should live” is in a 77-year-old, 14-story, 24-apartment co-op designed by regal uptown architect Rosario Candela, whose units have mahogany doors and plaster moldings, plus unique and Platonically perfect floor plans.
You���re the Top! 2007
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He tried to love Platonically, came daily to breathe the air that she breathed, became almost a part of her house, and went everywhere with her, slave as he was of a tyrannous passion compounded of egoism and devotion of the completest.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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It's a relief to do something new -- not new Platonically but new for Moi.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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“How we should live” is in a 77-year-old, 14-story, 24-apartment co-op designed by regal uptown architect Rosario Candela, whose units have mahogany doors and plaster moldings, plus unique and Platonically perfect floor plans.
You���re the Top! 2007
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