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Examples
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Look in the mirror and watch your lips form the same fish mouth when pronouncing the words "Quilty" and "waterproof."
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Andrew Quilty or The Wall Street Journal Bayer's Marijn Dekkers, shown in Sydney last month, says drug companies struggle with getting society to put value on what they do.
Bayer: Pressure on Prices Has Bad Side Effects Geoffrey Rogow 2012
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He even uses the character Clare Quilty to clearly delineate how there are monsters that exist who are even more terrible them Humbert himself.
Was RapeLay 'Asking For It'? SVGL 2009
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Quilty even tops Humbert in perversions; where Humbert is content with a single nymphet, Quilty needs to film a whole gaggle of children fornicating in novel formations in order to get it up.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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In the book, Quilty functions as a ghost, a phantom whose presence is felt throughout but whose actual appearances are sporadic.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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Just as there seems to have been no “real” Peter Sellers, Quilty is such a creature of the theater that he seems to exist only while pretending to be somebody else.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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When Humbert tries to get him to confess and atone for his sins at the end of the book—acting as a sublimely hypocritical priest/executioner—the best Quilty can muster is a bad vaudeville routine and a slapstick chase around his haunted mansion.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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I loathe the character HH and his equally sinister shadow Clare Quilty.
Archive 2008-03-01 ____Maggie 2008
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Humbert writes and teaches about art; Quilty creates it.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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That dubious honor belongs to Claire Quilty, shape-shifter, intellectual, appreciator/defiler of truth and beauty, sexual adventurer, orgy enthusiast, and child pornographer.
My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010
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