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Hitchcock, writes film historian David Thomson, had "the style of an immense, premeditative artist--much like a Bach, a Proust, or a Rembrandt."

John W. Whitehead: Alfred Hitchcock Never Won an Oscar: Go Figure John W. Whitehead 2011

GRRM has a knack for writing scenes in such a way as to feel very cinematic and built in a narrative style conducive to film. this is not a coincidence, but it wasn't premeditative either.

AV Club discusses books as TV series 2009

Today, North Korea accusing the United States of being provocative by sending a spy plane into its air space four days in a row from Friday to Monday, accusing the United States of a premeditative move to find an opportunity to mount a pre-emptive attack.

CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2003 2003

The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion and premeditative defecation (holy of holies): the bath

Ulysses 2003

It was not strictly logical, in that the herbs need not be picked by hand nor in any particular order since they were later sorted into different mixtures for the various teas, but the ritual also served as a premeditative exercise.

Dwellers in the Crucible Margaret Wander Bonanno 1990

As they had been promised before, so again were they assured, that when they would stand before councils, magistrates, or kings, the words they should speak would be given them in the hour of their trial, and therefore they were told to take no premeditative thought as to what they should say or how they should meet the issues confronting them;

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

And withal, what a strange proof is it of Cromwell's being the premeditative ever-calculating hypocrite, acting a play before the world, that to the last he took no more charge of his Speeches!

The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885

And withal, what a strange proof is it of Cromwell's being the premeditative ever-calculating hypocrite, acting a play before the world, That to the last he took no more charge of his Speeches!

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

He analyzed intercepted messages suggesting General Yamamoto flight patterns, and, as a result Yamamoto was assassinated Stevens knew of Yamamoto, who was friends with many American officers and he felt that there was a great difference between a targeted, premeditative assassination and a trial in which people might or might not be convicted.

Brennan Center for Justice brennancenter@nyu.edu 2010

Clinton County DA Andrew Wylie said, "You would see, in reading New York State Penal Law, murder in the second degree is intentional, premeditative murder."

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