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If it's a highly-colored, fruit-flavored, gelatinous candy guaranteed to yank dental work right off your teeth, I guess it's the same thing.
Gummi Bear Surprise Walter Jon Williams 2009
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Pardon my purist ethos, but I much prefer the Marvel Universe in which Thor could lay Hulk out in about one highly-colored page of titanic battle, and in which Dr. Henry Pym cherished his relationship with Jan, and did most of the mental heavy-lifting of The Mighty Avengers.
Marvel Updates: Bucky in Captain America, Two-Sided Johansson, Another Movie for 2012 | /Film 2009
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When Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, director of the French Académie de peinture painted a highly-colored vision of a turkish bath illustration, right, he made his eroticized Orient publicly acceptable by his diffuse generalizing of the female forms, who might all have been of the same model.
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When Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, director of the French Académie de peinture painted a highly-colored vision of a turkish bath illustration, right, he made his eroticized Orient publicly acceptable by his diffuse generalizing of the female forms, who might all have been of the same model.
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When Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, director of the French Académie de peinture painted a highly-colored vision of a turkish bath illustration, right, he made his eroticized Orient publicly acceptable by his diffuse generalizing of the female forms, who might all have been of the same model.
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Following the final two-hour second installment shown on Monday night, further examination is in order of the highly-colored prism through which the producers peered in making a "docudrama" that notably strayed from history as it happened.
William E. Jackson Jr.: The Path to 9/11: Where Does ABC News Stand? 2008
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What you need to watch out for are highly-colored glazes (reds, yellows, deep blues, etc.) on low-fired pottery.
Hot dishes 2004
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Men of good appearance, with black cloth coats, chimney-pot hats, patent-leather boots, highly-colored gloves, and diamond pins in their necktie bows; and women in loud, imposing toilets, with flounced dressed and headgear of the latest style; and Indians, also on the road to Europeanization in a way which bids fair to destroy every bit of local color in this central portion of the district of the Amazon!
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He fluttered freely around them like a lost, highly-colored page from Audubon's elephant folio.
Glory Lane Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987
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Moravian hymnody seem at first sight like a highly-colored and almost morbid growth that had been grafted from without upon the stem of
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976
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