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"Overtones, " she corrected him, with a tolerant smile, and then concluded her story.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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"Overtones, " she corrected him, with a tolerant smile, and then concluded her story.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Much better stuff is to be found in "Overtones," "The Pathos of Distance" and "Ivory, Apes and Peacocks" -- brilliant, if not always profound studies of Strauss,
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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Writer’s Block is featured on his second album, called Overtones and released in January 2007 for Mercury Records.
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"Overtones" are not an issue, nor do I think you could point out a 'problem sample' which fails due to the presence (or lack) of "overtones."
doggdot.us 2008
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"Overtones" are not an issue, nor do I think you could point out a 'problem sample' which fails due to the presence (or lack) of "overtones."
doggdot.us 2008
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"Illuminati in Drama Libre," similar in style to "Waiting for Godot," but written 35 years before Becket's Vladimir and Estragon walked the boards; "He Said and She Said" about a busybody who questions why the unmarried Diana spends so much time with her best friend - and her best friend's husband; and "Overtones," the most talked about play of the 1915 Broadway season, where, for the first time on stage, two characters talk to their alter egos.
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If you shoved Michael Bublé, a Bugsy Malone DVD, five Moss Bros shop-dummies and a jug of Vaseline into the matter transportation machine from The Fly, the Overtones are what would come shoop-shooping out the other side, jauntily clicking their fingers and walking in formation like an Olympic Synchronised Bellend squad, before lunging at your poor old mum, and robbing her purse.
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The manband in question, the Overtones, are both dull as dishwater and half as attractive in total as the cleft in Gary Barlow's chin, but they do add a layer of crapulous doowop harmony that really does make everything better.
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Weidig's solo show "Small Things/Te Voglat" was featured at Overtones Gallery in the fall of 2007.
Kimberly Brooks: Being a Mother is the Ultimate Artist: Alexis Weidig 2010
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