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Dear Betsybounds: Cursing on this site may very well be apropros.
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That does seem apropros, given the use of Duckspeak in Orwell's 1984.
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| Reply | Permalink oh, apropros of Bosnia, I see a mention of Ron Brown.
Hillary Concedes She "Misspoke" On Bosnia Sniper Episode 2009
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Meanwhile, apropros of nothing, a writer friend, David Dickerson, describes Hilton as "the perfect celebrity for the Bush era: proud of her ignorance, too rich to care, to coddled to change, utterly stage-managed and artificial; the very embodiment of a morally empty concept."
Jennifer L. Pozner: Paris Hilton vs. Michael Moore? What about Paris Hilton vs. Darfur? 2008
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To put it in terms of food, which seems an apropros metaphor here; you would never allow your child to eat nothing but cake, chocolate, and pie for their meals, regardless of the incidental nutrition those things might provide.
Do fantasy stories undermine rationality in children? Ann Althouse 2008
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As a non catholic, I would respect the Pope as a leader of HIS people, but I certainly will not address him His Holiness, which simply happens to be a name given by his devout followers, one of which I am not- Mr. Pope is apropros just as Mr. President is.
Wait, What Did He Just Call the Pope? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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My favorite line in a second story on the topic is Mary Matalin's incredibly self-loathing comment, so apropros for a book by Mary.
03/29/2005 2005
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I left it on because I was too busy to shut the set after the news and it was so apropros of what I was talking about.
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And so apropros, cause today I was just lamenting about the fact that I was giving away so much to agents, managers, lawyers and book agents.
Writing: Agents & Managers Rogers 2005
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I feel there is no better writer on what happens to the young woman whose ordinary life broken into by violence--and of course in practice this is very apropros for almost everybody.
Two excellent books Jenny Davidson 2005
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