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It is beneficial for us to understand what is happening and be able to see, with an eagle-like vision, our relative experience in the context of the whole, because it affords us not only clarity, but also a sense of belonging.
Mijanou Montealegre: Great Transformation Happening on the Planet Mijanou Montealegre 2011
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It is beneficial for us to understand what is happening and be able to see, with an eagle-like vision, our relative experience in the context of the whole, because it affords us not only clarity, but also a sense of belonging.
Mijanou Montealegre: Great Transformation Happening on the Planet Mijanou Montealegre 2011
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When SF posits sentient mammal-like aliens, it usually opts for predators high in human totem poles Anderson's eagle-like Ythrians, Cherryh's leonine Hani.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: "Are We Not (as Good as) Men?" Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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His flesh hinted of grossness, especially so in the eagle-like aquiline nose that must once have been the other's, but that had lost the austerity the other's still retained.
CREATED HE THEM 2010
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The eyes had narrowed till they were eagle-like, and Martin almost caught his breath as he noted the eagle beak with its dilated nostrils, defiant, assertive, aggressive.
Chapter 31 2010
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An eagle-like man, who, by keenness of brain and force of character, has carved out a fortune of hundreds of millions.
THEFT 2010
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His features had the eagle-like quality that is so frequently found in those of the North American Indian.
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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His was the same eagle-like nose as his brother's, save that it was more eagle-like, while the blue eyes were pronouncedly so.
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He had the curly hair, the aquiline nose, and even the aquiline eye—an eye so eagle-like that a second lid would not have surprised me—of an unusual and dominant nature.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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He had the curly hair, the aquiline nose, and even the aquiline eye—an eye so eagle-like that a second lid would not have surprised me—of an unusual and dominant nature.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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