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  • There does not appear to be anything in the 17th amendment to contradict this broad brush-stroke indication of the causes of Vacancies.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional 2010

  • Unfortunately it gets painted with the same shitty brush-stroke as Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

    Top 10 Films of 2009 « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • There does not appear to be anything in the 17th amendment to contradict this broad brush-stroke indication of the causes of Vacancies.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Recalls of U.S. Senators Are Unconstitutional 2010

  • In these books Obama strips away the layers of identity and self-deception that most of us do not bother to peel away and essentially reconstructs himself before us, documenting the process like the way that one painter on PBS used to describe each brush-stroke he was making.

    Ali Eteraz: Obama is Nietzschean 2008

  • Training at Noble House encompasses other artistic hobbies such as origami (paper folding), ikebana (flower arrangement), and shodo (Japanese character brush-stroke writing).

    Live by the sword; In kenjutsu, the ancient art of Japanese swordsmanship is taught 2007

  • Training at Noble House encompasses other artistic hobbies such as origami (paper folding), ikebana (flower arrangement), and shodo (Japanese character brush-stroke writing).

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • But they want to talk about this broad brush-stroke picture of this war on terror.

    CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2006 2006

  • In a painting, a small brush-stroke, a specific shape and colour placed in a key position, can change the balance of the whole; in life, a small adjustment in precisely the right place and time may have more effect than an enormous effort elsewhere and later.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • In a painting, a small brush-stroke, a specific shape and colour placed in a key position, can change the balance of the whole; in life, a small adjustment in precisely the right place and time may have more effect than an enormous effort elsewhere and later.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • Films about painters can be spectacular, as they go about recreating every stage of a famous painting's evolution, from the first penciled line to the final brush-stroke.

    Wislawa Szymborska - Nobel Lecture 1996

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