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- noun Plural form of
distillation .
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And so I thought you saw in just these many distillations those two different personalities and probably the more useful for the Democratic administration in the next six weeks would be listening to Bill Clinton.
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And so I thought you saw in just these many distillations those two different personalities and probably the more useful for the Democratic administration in the next six weeks would be listening to Bill Clinton.
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Anyway, here's Jarre conducting the Lawrence overture — one of the all-time great distillations of classical-music exoticism. posted by Matthew @ 11: 13 AM
Archive 2009-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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His purist distillations of flat color and simple geometric shapes are refreshingly straightforward; at times dynamically Neoplastic, Constructivist or Suprematist, especially when seen among the Minimalism with which his art is often aligned.
Contradictions, Equivocations Lance Esplund 2011
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The gallery's press release appropriately evokes the haiku a a kind of verbal equivalent of these distillations of pure presence into a single, intense moment of insight.
Peter Clothier: Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station Peter Clothier 2011
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Anyway, here's Jarre conducting the Lawrence overture — one of the all-time great distillations of classical-music exoticism. posted by Matthew @ 11: 13 AM
"Knowledge of music... knowledge of literature... knowledge of... knowledge of... you're an interesting man, there's no doubt about it." Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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In "The Gun," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former Marine officer and Persian Gulf War veteran C.J. Chivers sets out to "lift the Kalashnikov out of the simplistic and manipulated distillations of its history."
A history of the gun that made history IV Mark A. Keefe 2010
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We watch Degas return habitually to certain poses, changing their meaning from explicit narratives to near-abstract distillations of the body in motion.
Museums Reveal Degas's Nudes and Islam's Splendor Karen Wilkin 2011
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In "The Gun," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former Marine officer and Persian Gulf War veteran C.J. Chivers sets out to "lift the Kalashnikov out of the simplistic and manipulated distillations of its history."
A history of the gun that made history IV Mark A. Keefe 2010
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What else had set her upon her long solitary walks, her quests for powerful and forgotten herbs, her brews and distillations?
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