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The effect is a series of pearl-like vignettes stretched out along a narrative string.
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I asked the rather stern looking monk for a blessing and after reciting a few prayers, Akhyuk Rinpoche reached towards his chest and pulled from his bare skin a ringsel, a kind of pearl-like relic that is often found in cremation pyres of saints.
Matteo Pistono: Meditation Master In Tibet Dies Matteo Pistono 2011
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Inside, the bunny had been stewed until all muscle-memory had collapsed and it was just thick strands of meat spun through with hunks of salty bacon and soft pearl-like silverskin onions.
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I asked the rather stern looking monk for a blessing and after reciting a few prayers, Akhyuk Rinpoche reached towards his chest and pulled from his bare skin a ringsel, a kind of pearl-like relic that is often found in cremation pyres of saints.
Matteo Pistono: Meditation Master In Tibet Dies Matteo Pistono 2011
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And the moon was centered in the sky, its pearl-like face streaked by wisps of thin clouds.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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And the moon was centered in the sky, its pearl-like face streaked by wisps of thin clouds.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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Bubbling, pearl-like bundles of egg and sperm swarm the coral reefs; whole colonies cross-pollinating in such a bright storm it is like swimming through glowing green galaxies.
Brenda Peterson: Gulf Oil Spill Meets Dead Zone: What Lies Beneath 2010
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Stringing together pearl-like moments of real-time wonder, the film taps into the most primitive form of family voyeurismâstaring at babies as they try to invent themselves, and master their bodily functions, one embryonic thought at a time.
Documentary tourism - Brian D. Johnson Unscreened - Macleans.ca 2010
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It also drops the pearl-like hardware button for closing apps, leaving that job to a swipe on the gesture bar.
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And the moon was centered in the sky, its pearl-like face streaked by wisps of thin clouds.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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