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These are the sort of longings lying semidormant in the heart of a man busy in the stratagems and persiflage of the art market.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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These are the sort of longings lying semidormant in the heart of a man busy in the stratagems and persiflage of the art market.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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These are the sort of longings lying semidormant in the heart of a man busy in the stratagems and persiflage of the art market.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The Andromatic robot aroused itself from the semidormant state it assumed to recharge its batteries and repair any minor wear and tear its mechanical components had sustained during its last active period.
Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001
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That little semidormant spark of wickedness and criminality which is perhaps in every mother's son and daughter of us had been fanned to a flame by the lawlessness of
The She Boss A Western Story Arthur Preston Hankins 1906
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In order to reverse the process of the Fall by which part of man's soul came under the domination of the devil, it is necessary first of all to regain consciousness of the lost psychic elements that lie in dormant or semidormant perversion in the nethermost depths of the soul.
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