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  • He has been known to stand for something and highly-gifted

    Campaign advisers quit over foreign links, meetings 2008

  • Otherwise he would soon sink into indolence, and the more highly-gifted men would not be more successful in the battle of life than the less gifted.

    Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

  • "Maybe, it's purely random that I am here but I don't think so," says Risto Bimbiloski, a wild and highly-gifted designer who just started this season in New York after being the former Monsieur Knitwear for Vuitton.

    Prune Perromat: WATCH: Intoxicating Pain: The New Design Gang at New York Fashion Week 2009

  • Otherwise he would soon sink into indolence, and the more highly-gifted men would not be more successful in the battle of life than the less gifted.

    Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

  • Jansenism found its greatest stronghold at Port Royal (near Paris) where a group of highly-gifted laymen (known as Solitaires) and nuns built up on their heretical doctrines a gloomy but very influential system of education.

    Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Jansenism found its greatest stronghold at Port Royal (near Paris) where a group of highly-gifted laymen (known as Solitaires) and nuns built up on their heretical doctrines a gloomy but very influential system of education.

    Forerunners of the French Revolution. Part 2b de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Who was better framed than this highly-gifted youth to love and be beloved, and to reap unalienable joy from an unblamed passion?

    The Last Man 2003

  • The sons were remarkable chiefly for their hypocrisy, which promised, in the fulness of time, to throw their highly-gifted parent's far into the shade; and, secondarily, for their persecution of their helpless and indulgent mother.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

  • James M'Linnie was, at the time of which I speak, himself in Paris, and enthusiastic in his devotion to the indefatigable and highly-gifted teachers amongst whom he lived.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

  • The material advances and military exploits of this virtually agnostic nation must not blind us to other and less admirable features; it would, indeed, seem that this highly-gifted race, while frantically eager to "gain the whole world," has not yet discovered its own soul, and the familiar question, "What shall it profit?" inevitably suggests itself.

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

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