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But I'm excited that this may be the co-option of 'courtier's response' for ID – an anchored web of self-referential nonsense offered as an detailed exposition of design detection.
Blast From the Past 2010
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But I'm excited that this may be the co-option of 'courtier's response' for ID – an anchored web of self-referential nonsense offered as an detailed exposition of design detection.
Blast From the Past 2010
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In Velázquez, Mr. Bailey perceptively observes, "we detect a man, who, despite being a civil servant, cocooned in his courtier's garb, went on asking piercing questions and creating in his art a radiance of duality and doubt."
A Peaceable Canvas Jonathan Lopez 2011
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Geoffrey Rush is back as Jack Sparrow's perennial rival, decked out in courtier's finery from lace cuffs to long, curled wig.
Captain Jack Looks for Fountain of Youth in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' 2011
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RTH: But I'm excited that this may be the co-option of 'courtier's response' for ID – an anchored web of self-referential nonsense offered as an detailed exposition of design detection.
Blast From the Past 2010
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Geoffrey Rush is back as Jack Sparrow's perennial rival, decked out in courtier's finery from lace cuffs to long, curled wig.
Captain Jack Looks for Fountain of Youth in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' 2011
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The sun was bright but had no warmth and Hal's cloak was the typical courtier's wear -- short and made of thin silk trimmed in wolverine fur.
Dearly Beloved 2010
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The courtier's mask was firmly in place, he was as charming and urbane as ever, flattering the Queen and being the perfect son of the manor.
Dearly Beloved 2010
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Greene's point, needless to say, was not the emperor's cruelty -- the cruelty, vanity and greed of superiors is a given here -- but the courtier's mistake in trying too hard to win approval.
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"Self-assured" and "the most inner-directed man on the globe" are one way to put it -- the courtier's way, the way of the columnist eager to defend the indefensible and desperate for something nice to say.
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