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I do not find their presence infuriating and they do not find my presence to be soul-crushingly emasculating.
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I do not find their presence infuriating and they do not find my presence to be soul-crushingly emasculating.
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Haag offers the analogy of what she calls the desiccated American Beauty marriage: It offers the husband, played by Kevin Spacey, two roles: to live either as a sexless, soul-crushingly dutiful and henpecked husband, or as a pot-smoking, self-absorbed adolescent who lusts after the high school cheerleader.
Bella DePaulo: Don't Want to Divorce? Indulge Your Polyamory or Asexuality, Have Your Affairs, Live Apart Bella DePaulo 2011
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I quote Tom above: “soul-crushingly disappointing”
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"To lose the goal was really disappointing and it was a real battle from then on," bleated Fletcher, whose fans booed the Liechtenstein anthem because it borrows this soul-crushingly dull tune.
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I'm struck that I had expected this interaction to be banal at best and soul-crushingly bureaucratic at worst, and matter-of-fact decency just feels that much more poignant.
Matter-of-fact decency speedyima 2007
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Betty later explained that she hadn't been paying much attention lately to the soul-crushingly high unemployment rates (9.4% in May).
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Kurt Raab's later iMmortal portrayal of real life serial killer Fritz Haarmann in THE TENDERNESS OF THE WOLVES 1973 is better known but this earlier film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the one to watch... an intentionally mundane and soul-crushingly drab portrait of an unexceptional officeworker with a wife and child who spirals from mild annoyance to full-blown psychopathy in the course of a few short days.
Absent friends Arbogast 2009
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It was simultaneously inspiring and depressing, confusing and clarifying, and a ton of fun and soul-crushingly sad.
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True, being a greeter at Wal-Mart is soul-crushingly inane.
Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Rhetoric and reality in the Donlands 2008
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