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"I don't know which is the dinkier," she observed finally, "-- owning a few little acres and the team you're driving, or not owning any acres and driving a team somebody else owns for wages."

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Remove Thursday night's previews and Monday's numbers, however, and you get Pirates 'dinkier $114 million total.

Erik Lundegaard: It's the Sequel, Stupid: What The Opening Weekend for Pirates 3 Says About Pirates 2 2008

While such motels inevitably look rinky-dink, the Rest-Eaze looked even rinky-dinkier, like it was made from Tinkertoys and Lincoln Logs.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

The perennial dilemma of wireless Mac junkies is whether to buy the sexy, powerful G4 Titanium PowerBook, or the slightly dinkier G3 iBook.

Boing Boing: October 13, 2002 - October 19, 2002 Archives 2002

"My little milliner was to have had a couple of hats ready for me this afternoon, which means she will arrive with a perfect avalanche of boxes, each containing a dinkier hat than the last, and I shall fall a helpless victim."

The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

"I don't know which is the dinkier," she observed finally, "-- owning a few little acres and the team you're driving, or not owning any acres and driving a team somebody else owns for wages."

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This isn't simply a matter of building better-looking Web sites or creating dinkier apps, although both are important (another area of chronic stagnation and resistance to change: newspaper design); it is the reimagining of content through technology.

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