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Clearly these two gain some odd pleasure in being rude — maybe some over-compensation sort of thing — but it might be better if the two tried to distinguish themselves by addng value instead of simply being antisocial.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawsuits Against the Health Care Bill 2010
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And the mannerisms in many cases can no doubt be viewed as over-compensation, the literary equivalent of a bad actor putting the ham into Hamlet, declaiming a soliloquy in the most "theatrical" way.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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His manically joyful tenor was probably over-compensation for his own nerves.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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His manically joyful tenor was probably over-compensation for his own nerves.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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The $500 billion is from over-compensation that the govt is currently paying private insurers for Medicare.
Obama confident on health care reform despite raucous August 2009
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Pragmatic political participants will recognize that these systems are cyclical, reflect over-compensation and intrinsic problems in both left/right perspectives, and must facilitate argumentation, protest and discourse if the political system under either side is to survive.
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And the mannerisms in many cases can no doubt be viewed as over-compensation, the literary equivalent of a bad actor putting the ham into Hamlet, declaiming a soliloquy in the most "theatrical" way.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Clearly these two gain some odd pleasure in being rude — maybe some over-compensation sort of thing — but it might be better if the two tried to distinguish themselves by addng value instead of simply being antisocial.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawsuits Against the Health Care Bill 2010
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Included in this over-compensation was a deliberate broadening of Al Qaida's impact by emptying our consumer driven economy to rev-up a war economy for his pre-determined invasion of Iraq.
Kenneth Kales: Apple, Pear, Banana. Bush, Madoff, Enron. 2010
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Included in this over-compensation was a deliberate broadening of Al Qaida's impact by emptying our consumer driven economy to rev-up a war economy for his pre-determined invasion of Iraq.
Kenneth Kales: Apple, Pear, Banana. Bush, Madoff, Enron. 2010
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