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  • It was there that Astrid Kirchherr, paramour of the then Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, was the queen of the "exis" - the hip existentialists - and, vitally, influenced the group to change their hairstyle from duck's arse to moptop.

    Expecting Rain 2009

  • This means that the Korematsu brief was not even in exis-tence when Hirabayashi’s case was litigated.

    Is That Legal?: Who's to Blame? 2006

  • He also emphasizes the absurdity of this knowledge; the notion of the absurd being another feature which unites thinkers who can be called exis - tentialist.

    EXISTENTIALISM ANTHONY MANSER 1968

  • Through Voormann they came into contact with their first subculture, the "exis"

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • But I had just discovered them and I knew that I would never catch up with the others even if I tried — so I sipped my way through that month on crisp glasses of chilled gin and soothed my social awkwardness with the refreshing bite of the liquid entering my lukewarm exis tence, only to soften into the temperature of one who was destined to only watch and never dance inside the circle.

    The Juniper Days - Part I Alison Earls 2011

  • Q: Why focus on launching Daily instead of exis. brand?

    The Daily: Live tweeting the launch of the Rupert Murdoch-Apple iPad app Hayley Tsukayama 2011

  • Again, exis, my question is this: Why there is no problem depicting western religions in a goofy way -- and even outright defensive posturing in support of it, as you yourself have illustrated -- but a seeming unwillingness to treat Islam or other Eastern religions in the same manner?

    Lost: The Last Supper | /Film 2010

  • The last squire dragged out his exis - tence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.

    Sole Music 2010

  • Fluid is open source software that is focused on building commonly used pieces of functionality that easily integrate into exis

    Bookmarks for November 10 to November 24 | FactoryCity 2008

  • Hardly any happiness exis ts that I have not experienced.

    Paraphrase of Advice from an Experienced Old Man 2009

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