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“It was the year of The Doors and Cream -- and, if you were a Max's Kansas City habitue (and Max's in the late '60s was the hip epicenter of planet earth), of locals Tim Hardin and Richie Havens and Tim Buckley: brooding, eloquent, magisterial (Havens) or (the Tims) incipiently tragic.”
“I come from a long line of hollerin ', incipiently double-chinned white guys from the Carolinas.”
“Look, I'm a hollerin ', incipiently double-chinned white guy from the Carolinas.”
“If they were too common – if, say, iguanas drifted from Guadeloupe to Anguilla every year – the incipiently speciating population on Anguilla would be continually swamped by incoming gene flow and therefore could not diverge from the Guadeloupe population.”
“Liberalism is exposed as a manifestation of the mystery of iniquity, denounced by Saint Paul as a force acting incipiently in a covert manner already in apostolic times.”
“Such first principles of practical reasoning direct one to actions and dispositions and arrangements that promote such intelligible goods, and that directiveness or normativity is expressed by “I should ¦” or “I ought ¦” in senses which although truly normative are only incipiently moral.”
“The militia clauses of Article I allow Congress to reach deeply into whatever portion of the American public is thought to represent, at least incipiently or even latently, the mystical "Militia" of the Second Amendment and of the Constitution as a whole.”
“Mark Antony is splendid: James Purefoy presents well the aristocratic, calculating, incipiently bibulous ladies 'man of whom our sources speak.”
“And at least the run back on Sunday evening was not troublesome in the way the run out was... just tired and a bit fractious due to a cold that had set in for driver J and incipiently for passenger S.”
“DOBBS: That debate, John, as you've reported a number of times, incipiently between the State Department and the Pentagon.”
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