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As the ultimate urban aesthete, he suited perfectly as a guest artist on "Intricacy" and since he is also a great writer he was a natural choice to ask to write a short story for the "The Clock Strikes Ten" booklet.
Pop 'n Cherries 2008
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My Accounts must not be drawn into Intricacy nor Obscurity.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 21 February 1779 1973
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The Business I have had upon my Mind has been as great and important as can be intrusted to [One] Man, and the Difficulty and Intricacy of it is prodigious.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 24 July 1775, copy 1963
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When I reflect upon the Importance, Delicacy, Intricacy and danger of the Service, I feel a great deal of diffidence in myself.
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Intricacy was substituted for dignity and poetry for rhetoric; the basilica became an abbey and the hermitage a school.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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Intricacy full of delicate surprise; covered way in secrecy of accurate purposes, not a stone useless, nor a word nor an incident thrown away.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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Paper, Always esteeming it my Duty to Exert my best Abilitys for y [our serv] ice when [...] please to lay Yor: comands upon me; Hoping that if I have been wide of giving the Satisfaction you Expected -- it will be imputed to the Intricacy of the Subject and not to my want of Zeal for Yor: Service, being as in Duty Bound,
Letter from Thomas Hooper to Robert Carter, 1715 January 1 1715
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Rome, in the Intricacy and Disposition of the Fable; but, what
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The modern Tragedy excels that of _Greece_ and _Rome_, in the Intricacy and Disposition of the Fable; but, what a Christian Writer would be ashamed to own, falls infinitely short of it in the Moral Part of the
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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To every Man that knows the State of the feudal Countries, the Intricacy of their Pedigrees, the Con - fufion of their Alliances, and the different Rules of Inheritance that prevail in different Places, it wilt appear evident, that of reviving antiquated Claims there can be no End, and that the Poffefllon of a Century is a better Title than can commonly be produced.
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