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Happily, Sundance programmers had chosen films from 40 countries outside the US, allowing me take a world tour to recover from American cinema miserabilis.
Sebastian Doggart: Sundancing Into the Apocalypse Sebastian Doggart 2010
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Happily, Sundance programmers had chosen films from 40 countries outside the US, allowing me take a world tour to recover from American cinema miserabilis.
Sebastian Doggart: Sundancing Into the Apocalypse Sebastian Doggart 2010
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This miserabilis Kevin Connolly, not the lunatic who shot the museum guard ties all three of the recent extremist US shootings together: the anti-abortion nut who murdered the practitioner of late-term abortions, the Muslim convert who murdered the US soldier and wounded another, and this latest lunatic.
OPEN THREAD. 2009
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If your prediction is correct then heaven help Londoners who are in for a quad annus miserabilis.
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But the last year was indeed annus miserabilis, a miserable horrible year, not only for Queen Elizabeth II, who made this bitter remark watching the fire at Windsor Castle, but much more so for millions of men and women in Bosnia and in many other parts of the former communist world.
Nothing Quiet on the Eastern FrontPost-Communist Europe and the New Historical Era 1993
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The one mention Ovid makes of the poems 'title is of little assistance:' inuenies, quamuis non est miserabilis index,/non minus hoc illo triste quod ante dedi '(_EP_ I i 15-16).
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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The _annus miserabilis_ 1917 had begun with the determination of the German Empire to render the seas impassable and to withdraw the pledge to President Wilson that merchant ships should not be sunk till the passengers and crew had a chance to get into open boats.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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Hippolytique parens Hippolytusque legant, quodque tenens strictum Dido miserabilis ensem55
Epic and Love Elegy Ovid 1912
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The year '49 was the' annus mirabilis 'of the great rush for gold across the plains, and it was also an' annus miserabilis 'on account of the cholera.
The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862
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Happily, Sundance programmers had chosen films from 40 countries outside the US, allowing me take a world tour to recover from American cinema miserabilis.
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