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  • Extravagantly lit, blown up to one metre high and composed in the unforgiving style of police mug shots, Deane's portraits will give visitors a fresh perspective on these presumably once-loved toys.

    Doll Face 2010

  • While it is true that a fondly-loved favorite is granted a golden glow by the magic of memory, it is also true that one can rewatch a once-loved movie or reread a favorite book and look at it with adult eyes, and see how the memories match up.

    MIND MELD: The Future of Star Wars 2008

  • What I love about Canada is that there are houses like this all over our country, these once-loved, once lived in houses that now lay sitting alone and empty, with only memories and ghosts left to haunt their hallows.

    Friday Photography « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • What I love about Canada is that there are houses like this all over our country, these once-loved, once lived in houses that now lay sitting alone and empty, with only memories and ghosts left to haunt their hallows.

    2009 January 02 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • For instance, over the past year or two, the meltdown in once-loved sectors like financial and energy stocks has bruised many active portfolios that overweighted those areas compared with stock benchmarks.

    Managed Funds Offer Little Cover From the Bear 2009

  • Baidu shares have rebounded 36% from of their lows since plummeting on the CCTV report, but investors should know that there may be more shoes to drop for the once-loved Chinese search engine.

    Baidu May Be Set for Costly Changes 2009

  • The once-loved President will leave office more hated than Bush.

    The Coming U.S. Budget Attack 2009

  • Also new right now, the divorce drama between another once-loved reality show couple, Jon and Kate.

    CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2009 2009

  • Abraham's idea that mania "revers [es]" the "retentive tendency of melancholia": mania celebrates the ego's sudden triumph over both ego ideal and the once-loved, lost, and subsequently introjected object.

    'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

  • Merely as the children of a once-loved wife, now fallen from her position, they have a claim to an assured existence.

    Gobseck 2007

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