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Comparing a reader full of e-books to a room full of paper books is like comparing a pocket shrine to a temple; we are still monkey-like enough to be awed by size and number, and a good library trips the same circuits in my brain as a house of worship.
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It involves some sort of animated monkey-like Alex Ovechkin figure dancing to disco music on what appears to be a Swedish Web site.
Ovechkin as a dancing monkey Dan Steinberg 2011
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Afterwards, as Alder lay dead, monkey-like noises were detected on the audio tape.
Government to apologise to Alder family over police cell death 2011
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Immediately Tudor's monkey-like impishness left him, and he was once more the cool, self-possessed man of the world.
Chapter 26 2010
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If you want to see the evidence for human evolution face-to-face, the Human Origins hall is the place to indulge that monkey-like curiosity.
Smithsonian human origins exhibit elicits awe, protests 2010
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Star-Born One, this mysterious deity, as bestial-conducted as the black and kinky-headed and monkey-like human beasts who worshipped it, and whose silver-sweet, bull-mouthed singing and commanding he had heard at the taboo distance for so long?
THE RED ONE 2010
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The movie depicted blacks as buffoonish, monkey-like legislators and murderous ex-slaves intent on raping white women.
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In essence, meditation is simply about calming our chattering monkey-like mind and being aware and present in this very moment.
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The story is simple: Uncle Boonmee is dying and his sister and nephew show up ... followed shortly by the ghost of his dead wife and the hairy, monkey-like visage of his son.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Eight and Nine: Carlos Is Caught 2010
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Four other dancers stamp and clap in aggressive unison? while another man creeps around, monkey-like, on all fours.
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