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  • The young fellow's innicence of the world had been startling to the case-hardened manager, but he had found him nobody's fool/Virgin though his mind was, untouched by all save a narrow mountain experience, nevertheless he had proved possession of a natural keeness and shrewdness far beyond the average.

    Chapter II 2010

  • What Michael Ondaatje does is to write with a keeness of perception that I am now in tune with, the pulse has been found and I have my finger on it and for me Anil's Ghost was the key.

    45 entries from March 2008 2008

  • What Michael Ondaatje does is to write with a keeness of perception that I am now in tune with, the pulse has been found and I have my finger on it and for me Anil's Ghost was the key.

    Ondaatje divides and rules 2008

  • What Michael Ondaatje does is to write with a keeness of perception that I am now in tune with, the pulse has been found and I have my finger on it and for me Anil's Ghost was the key.

    Ondaatje divides and rules 2008

  • Finally, to be fair, Sir, sounds like your Hate Crime Unit go out to jobs, ours have been around long wnough now not to care about impressing SMT with ‘keeness’ and stay firmly rooted within their plush refurbished office, writing drivel all over our crimes.

    The Sky Above Was Candy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • And the third part is the sheer itchy-fingered keeness to give this a go - after all, he makes it sound so enticing!

    Shoe blogging I'm now used to - but bespoke tailoring blogging? jinty 2008

  • Political Betting speculates that the turn out will be very low, as there is quite a lot of "who cares?" out there, and that this could favour Cruddas with the edge on keeness of cohorts.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • The move, which is somewhat unorthodox, is believed to be due to the BBC's keeness to keep both Russell T. Davies as producer/head writer and David Tennant as the Doctor.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Adam Whitehead 2007

  • The move, which is somewhat unorthodox, is believed to be due to the BBC's keeness to keep both Russell T. Davies as producer/head writer and David Tennant as the Doctor.

    TV Update Adam Whitehead 2007

  • Political Betting speculates that the turn out will be very low, as there is quite a lot of "who cares?" out there, and that this could favour Cruddas with the edge on keeness of cohorts.

    Archive 2007-06-03 2007

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