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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The once-loved President will leave office more hated than Bush.
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Also new right now, the divorce drama between another once-loved reality show couple, Jon and Kate.
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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
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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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