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  • A dozen years of utmost and post-nuptial possession of his wife had proved to him, so far as he was concerned, that she was his one woman in the world, and that the woman was unborn, much less unglimpsed, who could for a moment compete with her in his heart, his soul, and his brain.

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • On the outside, Singh looks like a cartoon of the last maharajah; unglimpsed, like the snowy mane under his Sikh turban, is the mind of the former finance minister who in 1991 opened India to a transforming flood of foreign investment.

    Christopher Lydon: This "Year of India": Rana Dasgupta 2009

  • "There is little that is muddy about Keith's review, and the one thing that was - his complaints about the unglimpsed violence, which seemed to be complaining about the lack of gore rather than criticizing the filmmakers for including this cheaply sanitized ugliness in the first place - he has thankfully cleared up in his response to Ed; a valid criticism which Keith duly responded to."

    On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008

  • There is little that is muddy about Keith's review, and the one thing that was - his complaints about the unglimpsed violence, which seemed to be complaining about the lack of gore rather than criticizing the filmmakers for including this cheaply sanitized ugliness in the first place - he has thankfully cleared up in his response to Ed; a valid criticism which Keith duly responded to.

    On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008

  • That vision had been no passing fancy; it had hinted at a terrible ordeal and danger as yet unglimpsed.

    Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983

  • A dozen years of utmost and post-nuptial possession of his wife had proved to him, so far as he was concerned, that she was his one woman in the world, and that the woman was unborn, much less unglimpsed, who could for a moment compete with her in his heart, his soul, and his brain.

    The Kanaka Surf 1919

  • Before the Cassini/Huygens mission, Titan was a cipher-the largest expanse of unglimpsed terrain left in the solar system, larger than the planet Mercury.

    Scientific American 2010

  • But recoiling from the shock and shame of her attack, she has shown viewers a previously unglimpsed vulnerable side.

    unknown title 2009

  • But recoiling from the shock and shame of her attack, she has shown viewers a previously unglimpsed vulnerable side.

    unknown title 2009

  • But recoiling from the shock and shame of her attack, she has shown viewers a previously unglimpsed vulnerable side.

    Home - BostonHerald.com 2009

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