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They wore dancers 'clothes for So You Think You Can Dance and country-western outfits for the new reality series Nashville, about aspiring young country artists in the title city.
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Colin Farrell took his career to another dimension by playing a depressed hitman forced to hang around in the title city.
Tucson Weekly 2010
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His pale lips writhed as he soliloquized, for his conscience spoke to him while he thus addressed his will, and its voice was heard more audibly in the quiet of the rural landscape, than amidst the turmoil and din of that armed and sleepless camp which we call a city.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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His pale lips writhed as he soliloquized, for his conscience spoke to him while he thus addressed his will, and its voice was heard more audibly in the quiet of the rural landscape, than amidst the turmoil and din of that armed and sleepless camp which we call a city.
My Novel — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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His pale lips writhed as he soliloquized, for his conscience spoke to him while he thus addressed his will, and its voice was heard more audibly in the quiet of the rural landscape, than amidst the turmoil and din of that armed and sleepless camp which we call a city.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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I even Lived there for a year and worked for what you call a city.
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After “Third Man” I felt like I had been to post-war Vienna, just as “In Bruges” transports you to the Belgian title city.
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In fact, the only reason I got screens is because I called the city.
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From the doctors to the lawyers to cops to the mayor himself everybody is dirty in this little pigsty they call a city.
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KAGAN: And Jeff you've been taken about the spirit of not just this city, but the city that you call your city.
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