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Despite a certain patness in the structure (Helen's father learns to be easier on his son as he is learning to be harder on his daughter; Annie's own damaged heart opens in concert with Helen's ability to interact usefully with the world), it's a lovely play, well-written, well-woven, a little sentimental, but not excessively so.
The Miracle Worker deliasherman 2010
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Despite a certain patness in the structure (Helen's father learns to be easier on his son as he is learning to be harder on his daughter; Annie's own damaged heart opens in concert with Helen's ability to interact usefully with the world), it's a lovely play, well-written, well-woven, a little sentimental, but not excessively so.
The Miracle Worker deliasherman 2010
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You spend 6 years building up that amazing well-woven mystery wrapped in a puzzle covered in an enigma blanket and then you end with the heavenly light bit.
What A Completely Stupid Ending – WTF Lost? - Pink Raygun.com 2010
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It was a very carefully planned bed, more like a well-woven rug than like a vegetable patch.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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You spend 6 years building up that amazing well-woven mystery wrapped in a puzzle covered in an enigma blanket and then you end with the heavenly light bit.
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“Eight layers of well-woven good Northumberland sheep shearings, Sir John, nine if one counts the woolen drawers.”
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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Then it was that from their well-woven cars they both leaped straight to the ground, the son of Zeus and the son of the
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The charioteers standing on their well-woven cars, urged on their swift horses with loose rein; the jointed cars flew along clattering and the naves of the wheels shrieked loudly.
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Among other things, we have recently seen an outbreak of great social instability across Europe and other reactions of the poor to their miserable conditions in different parts of the world, always putting into question the image of seemingly harmonious well-woven tapestries of diverse groups because, in good measure, we continue to fail to implement our own decisions of the United Nations World
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Given such a grand, intricate and well-woven web of deceit, the imprudent rush to rally around the Bush administration with blind patriotism and support an unjust war comes into focus.
Conduit of Control: Rumsfeld and Cheney's Quest for Supremacy Exposed 2006
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