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The premise is great, the art is eye destroyingly bad.
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Noun The distress created within an educator when a person, usually -- but not always -- a child under their supervision, confidently and perhaps innocently avers a soul-destroyingly false thing they have been taught by unscrupulous and/or ignorant-as-a-stump adults.
One Definition of "Teachable Moment" Heo 2008
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Dull dull dull in an impeccably middle class, cost-effective and soul-destroyingly unimpressive sort of way.
Archive 2008-03-01 juliette 2008
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Dull dull dull in an impeccably middle class, cost-effective and soul-destroyingly unimpressive sort of way.
crap date alert juliette 2008
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Noun The distress created within an educator when a person, usually -- but not always -- a child under their supervision, confidently and perhaps innocently avers a soul-destroyingly false thing they have been taught by unscrupulous and/or ignorant-as-a-stump adults.
Archive 2008-02-01 Heo 2008
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But over two hours standing in a cold, bleak, graffitied room with distressed and anxious people who just want to hand in a form/sign something/pick up a dead man's effects/collect lost property...and for long, long periods there is nobody at the reception desk who will help you is soul-destroyingly frustrating.
Archive 2006-12-01 Rachel 2006
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But over two hours standing in a cold, bleak, graffitied room with distressed and anxious people who just want to hand in a form/sign something/pick up a dead man's effects/collect lost property...and for long, long periods there is nobody at the reception desk who will help you is soul-destroyingly frustrating.
Struggling for democracy Rachel 2006
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Attrition has worked in the past, but it has also failed (Vietnam) or proven enormously, almost civilization-destroyingly costly (WWI).
Letter from a Marine's father Steve Sailer 2005
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Attrition has worked in the past, but it has also failed (Vietnam) or proven enormously, almost civilization-destroyingly costly (WWI).
Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog Steve Sailer 2005
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Attrition has worked in the past, but it has also failed (Vietnam) or proven enormously, almost civilization-destroyingly costly (WWI).
Archive 2005-11-13 Steve Sailer 2005
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