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If I'm honest, I've been wondering if he might be inclined these days to reconsider his condemnation of my fierce defense of people's right to live their lives on their own terms, free from the oppressive vicegrip of sanctimonious wankery—or if my use of the f-word still renders me offensive, irrespective of what I'm using it to say…
Edwards 2008
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If I'm honest, I've been wondering if he might be inclined these days to reconsider his condemnation of my fierce defense of people's right to live their lives on their own terms, free from the oppressive vicegrip of sanctimonious wankery—or if my use of the f-word still renders me offensive, irrespective of what I'm using it to say…
Edwards 2008
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A sex scene shot in syrupy elipses is self-consciously arty, as if Friedkin were trying to remake THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964) but overall the result is lean, mean, occasionally gross (one bit of vicegrip dentistry will bring feet off the floor) and often slyly witty.
Bug is a four letter word Arbogast 2007
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But when you're in the later levels and you're trying to twist a weirdly-shaped object like a vicegrip around to form the body of a whale, the extra sensitivity of control is appreciated.
IGN Wii 2010
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Not to mention the side benefits of getting off fossil fuels like reduction in deaths from cancers caused by fine particle pollution on the coal side and getting our balls out of the vicegrip of oil-producing countries in the Middle East.
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Commentators of prestige and insight albeit whose peckers are in Murdoch's vicegrip, like Kaletsky, see beyond the petty fack of the UK's bankruptcy.
British Blogs 2009
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Commentators of prestige and insight albeit whose peckers are in Murdoch's vicegrip, like Kaletsky, see beyond the petty fack of the UK's bankruptcy.
Guy Fawkes' blog 2009
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Not to mention the side benefits of getting off fossil fuels like reduction in deaths from cancers caused by fine particle pollution on the coal side and getting our balls out of the vicegrip of oil-producing countries in the Middle East.
Popular Posts Across MetaFilter Neilopolis 2009
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Praise the Lawd that I didn't really stick my hand in that slop news vicegrip.
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I am considering making myself officially Unitarian, though, just as a way to release the church’s vicegrip–and so I can get those blasted men (home teachers? ward missionaries?) from knocking on my door every couple of months to tell me where the church is and which ward I’m in (my dad gave them my address–errrggghh).
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