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- adverb In a
towering manner.
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Examples
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Like Lincoln, Douglas hailed from Illinois, if less toweringly.
Fight, Vote, Fight Arthur Herman 2010
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Props in particular must go to Ralph Fiennes, who gives a toweringly understated performance as the cold-hearted insurance head honcho Mr. Kendrick.
CEMETERY JUNCTION; mature & charming | Obsessed With Film 2010
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The women all seem to be toweringly tall and stick-thin, and although Sophie Dahl with fiancé Jamie Cullum and Yasmin Le Bon attend, not all of them are supermodels.
Ginny Dougary: The Man Who Changed the World: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev Ginny Dougary 2010
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The women all seem to be toweringly tall and stick-thin, and although Sophie Dahl (with fiancé Jamie Cullum) and Yasmin Le Bon attend, not all of them are supermodels.
Ginny Dougary: The Man Who Changed the World: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev 2010
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The women all seem to be toweringly tall and stick-thin, and although Sophie Dahl (with fiancé Jamie Cullum) and Yasmin Le Bon attend, not all of them are supermodels.
The Man Who Changed the World: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev 2010
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For those unfamiliar with such places, figures like the sommelier and the grand maitre d'hotel were toweringly important and rather alarming.
The Pizza Principle 2009
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But Uncle Admiral is the type of figure, toweringly self-learned, the Ivy League dismisses as a "patriarch."
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The women all seem to be toweringly tall and stick-thin, and although Sophie Dahl (with fiancé Jamie Cullum) and Yasmin Le Bon attend, not all of them are supermodels.
Ginny Dougary: The Man Who Changed the World: An Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev 2009
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Still, "" Godzilla '' is toweringly mediocre, its characters and plot paint-by-numbers.
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But - what men don't seem to realise - the apparent shallowness of my motives doesn't make them any less toweringly important to me.
But seriously... juliette 2008
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