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- noun Alternative spelling of
calling card .
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Examples
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But Nolan was already in Hollywood making Memento before the critics saw this calling-card film.
Britain's best film directors show some early promise Philip French 2010
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The London Short Film Festival‘s Leftfield & Luscious programme of experimental shorts is a good halfway house between the ascetic contemplationism of the LFF’s Experimenta weekend, and the calling-card aesthetics of most other shorts programmes.
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Glossary of Terms A layman's guide to calling-card jargon
Leaving the Right Impression Lesley M. M. Blume 2011
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Strauss's "Four Last Songs" is a veritable calling-card for Fleming, but on Saturday it fell curiously flat.
Audience enthusiastically greets imperfect NSO opening gala Anne Midgette 2010
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The London Short Film Festival‘s Leftfield & Luscious programme of experimental shorts is a good halfway house between the ascetic contemplationism of the LFF’s Experimenta weekend, and the calling-card aesthetics of most other shorts programmes.
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So I wrote Clarice Bean not as an exercise in becoming a children's writer, but as a calling-card to show to a director.
A life in books: Lauren Child Sarah Crown 2010
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The Bolshoi's calling-card in this mode is Grigorovich's Spartacus, a butch sword-and-sandals spectacle that wows audiences with sky-scraping lifts and big, dam-busting bounds.
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According to Cedric, while neither he nor Malcolm came up with the catchy moniker, it has become a bit of a calling-card.
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The Centennial IPA, a classic American IPA in the hoppy, West Coast style that has become the calling-card of Founders' non-stout beers.
Michigan, A Recap, Part 2 - Founders, New Holland, Bells 2009
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I recommend you get your calling-card out and go for a visit. at comments
Archive 2007-05-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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