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  • And I saw how much the Obama vote is the gullible, sically taking a naive vote.

    Top Republican: I'd Rather Run Against Obama And His "National-Security Deficit" 2009

  • Jonas had never spoken to the Good Man himself (and never wanted to; Farson was reputed to be whim-sically, dangerously insane), but he had had dealings with George Latigo, who would probably be leading the troop of Farson's men that would ar-rive any day now.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • She wore a clas - sically styled blue-and-beige tweed blazer.

    Give Us Forever Peale, Constance F. 1982

  • Wagner who was to reveal its esoteric meaning mu - sically, at the time that bourgeois marriage, sufficiently established, permitted and encouraged a psychological and dramatic form of escape in a dream of passion with its culminating climax in death, beyond the prison of the body, in the ectasy of the union of souls, the

    LOVE DENIS DE ROUGEMONT 1968

  • Whatever its literal truth, this anec - dote suggests that the artist's imagination remains ba - sically iconic, and hence ready to find images where none were intended, even under the discipline of an abstract style.

    CHANCE IMAGES H. W. JANSON 1968

  • Ba - sically, the modi significandi are an attempt to define the functions of the different parts of speech.

    STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

  • This powerful result led Riemann to envisage intrin - sically curved three-dimensional spaces; and, thus emboldened, he considered intrinsically curved spaces of higher dimensions.

    RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

  • As if he was incapable of seeing certain things, grasping certain ideas, though his reasoning faculties were intrin - sically as good as mine.

    Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964

  • He sat up and lay his head against her breasts like was trying to decide if he was still alive or He got ... uh ... well, he responded to her sically, and knew he wasn't dead. "

    Breakfast In Bed Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1983

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