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They both have 100% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and, last time I checked, 100% is higher than 96% leni on Jun 30, 2008
Wall-E Officially the Best Reviewed Movie of 2008! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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There is an expression that is used in parts of India to describe animals in a compassionate manner: "noru leni jeevulu."
Vamsee Juluri: Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering 2009
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Out of this fountain proceed all those cracks and brags, — [1929] speramus carmina fingi Posse linenda cedro, et leni servanda cupresso — [1930] Non usitata nec tenui ferar penna. — nec in terra morabor longius.
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They had a video that preyed on the aesthetics of leni riefenstahl's olympia movie, and even thought this was a relatively mild association there was quite an arousal, also in the press I remember there was something in the Süddeutsche, if you insist, I can do the full research, but after all it's well-documented
At a SOCCER game? 2006
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That's a leni (ph) that came from -- flying across the street and into the front yard of this particular home.
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The former again is mixed with strife and perturbation, but the latter hath the true character of Divine Presence, coming in aura leni, without noise or agitation.
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F litteram imum labium superis imprimentibus dentibus, reflexa ad palati fastigium lingua, leni spiramine proferemus.
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it Frances Ellen Lord
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Stet quicumque uolet potens aulae culmine lubrico: me dulcis saturet quies; 55 obscuro positus loco leni perfruar otio, nullis notaque litibus aetas per tacitum fluat. sic cum transierint mei60 nullo cum strepitu dies, plebeius moriar senex. illi mors grauis incubat qui, notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.
The Lot of Kings 1912
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And he claims that mark of a divine presence in his work, that its benefactions come, without noise or perturbation, _in aura leni_.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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