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  • If it's a highly-colored, fruit-flavored, gelatinous candy guaranteed to yank dental work right off your teeth, I guess it's the same thing.

    Gummi Bear Surprise Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Pardon my purist ethos, but I much prefer the Marvel Universe in which Thor could lay Hulk out in about one highly-colored page of titanic battle, and in which Dr. Henry Pym cherished his relationship with Jan, and did most of the mental heavy-lifting of The Mighty Avengers.

    Marvel Updates: Bucky in Captain America, Two-Sided Johansson, Another Movie for 2012 | /Film 2009

  • When Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, director of the French Académie de peinture painted a highly-colored vision of a turkish bath illustration, right, he made his eroticized Orient publicly acceptable by his diffuse generalizing of the female forms, who might all have been of the same model.

    Icons of erotic art #13, 14 and 15 « Jahsonic 2008

  • When Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, director of the French Académie de peinture painted a highly-colored vision of a turkish bath illustration, right, he made his eroticized Orient publicly acceptable by his diffuse generalizing of the female forms, who might all have been of the same model.

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  • When Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, director of the French Académie de peinture painted a highly-colored vision of a turkish bath illustration, right, he made his eroticized Orient publicly acceptable by his diffuse generalizing of the female forms, who might all have been of the same model.

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  • Following the final two-hour second installment shown on Monday night, further examination is in order of the highly-colored prism through which the producers peered in making a "docudrama" that notably strayed from history as it happened.

    William E. Jackson Jr.: The Path to 9/11: Where Does ABC News Stand? 2008

  • What you need to watch out for are highly-colored glazes (reds, yellows, deep blues, etc.) on low-fired pottery.

    Hot dishes 2004

  • Men of good appearance, with black cloth coats, chimney-pot hats, patent-leather boots, highly-colored gloves, and diamond pins in their necktie bows; and women in loud, imposing toilets, with flounced dressed and headgear of the latest style; and Indians, also on the road to Europeanization in a way which bids fair to destroy every bit of local color in this central portion of the district of the Amazon!

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

  • He fluttered freely around them like a lost, highly-colored page from Audubon's elephant folio.

    Glory Lane Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987

  • Moravian hymnody seem at first sight like a highly-colored and almost morbid growth that had been grafted from without upon the stem of

    Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

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