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That ambivalence can clearly be seen throughout Luck, where the beauty of sun-dappled Santa Anita is relentlessly contrasted with the beaten-down gamblers scrabbling around the sport's edges.
After John From Cincinatti, David Milch spies a change in his Luck 2012
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Vancouver, on a sun-dappled Saturday afternoon, seems an unlikely place to meet Elvis Costello.
Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay' Tim Adams 2010
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While others may have photos to share of drinking wine at sun-dappled cafes, smiling from seashores or summits of mountains, I share no Facebook shots of what consumed me this summer: signing checks and charging to Mastercard the rehabilitations of the many, many broken parts of my domestic life.
Michele Weldon: How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Broke But Now Unbroken Michele Weldon 2011
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Mine did this and it was way too dark, and now in all our wedding photos, my hair looks sun-dappled and he looks like Eddie Munster.
William and Kate: It's Panic Time Samantha Bee 2011
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While others may have photos to share of drinking wine at sun-dappled cafes, smiling from seashores or summits of mountains, I share no Facebook shots of what consumed me this summer: signing checks and charging to Mastercard the rehabilitations of the many, many broken parts of my domestic life.
Michele Weldon: How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Broke But Now Unbroken Michele Weldon 2011
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A pair of telephone bidders -- one from Russia -- got into a lengthy bidding war over Pierre Bonnard's "Terrace at Vernon," a large sun-dappled landscape that was only expected to sell for up to £ 4 million.
Chicago Museum Sells Four Works to Pay for Malevich Kelly Crow 2011
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It's a sun-dappled love letter to youthful indiscretion that pulses with all the verve and passion of that time.
MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!) 2010
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Across the expanse of sun-dappled water, the Great Blue Heron sat, as if ready to answer all of my unanswerable questions.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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He thought he spotted a painting by Paul Henry in the hall, and he was sure the enormous oil painting above the fireplace in the sitting room she led him into was by William Orpen: a glorious scene of a young woman in a white dress reading in a sun-dappled green garden.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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On a sun-dappled day, in a packed Candlestick Park, this one for a long time looked like a replay of the 1990 NFC Championship between these two teams.
This Time, Late Heroics Elude the Giants Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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