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  • You have latent amortal tendencies that may well develop in future.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • She is amortal, like my father her ex-husband; both parents are long remarried to younger partners and many in our wider family.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Yet amortal impulses are by no means confined to boomers.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Bona fide amortal: You have strong amortal inclinations and are already living agelessly, at least in some respects.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • But if there is a weakness to amortal parenting, it is that amortal parents may be better friends to their kids than they are parents.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • The svengali behind many of the shows is Simon Cowell, who is on the evidence of his own utterances one kind of amortal archetype.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • But genes don't make us amortal; our socialisation does that, and the elements of that socialisation have changed dramatically as the culture of deference died, and traditional forms of authority ceded dominance to a makeshift cast of celebrities and scientists and a globalised, digitised range of cultural influences.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Is paft, forgotten, and refign'd to fate t Why fliould, alas I amortal man, at I,

    The Works of the English Poets 1779

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