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I liked the more contemporary parts -- the battemants and developpes, and the wide-legged jump.
Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Week 7: Can it Be, a Week Without Injuries? 2010
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Nigel had said last time he did a solo that we already know he can do developpes so he needs to stop doing them all the time.
Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Week 7: Can it Be, a Week Without Injuries? 2010
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Part really owns the role of Nikiya, the temple dancer, from her expressive, Indian-style flourishes of the wrist, her heavenly developpes of which she is the queen (lift of the leg at the knee, then slowly unfolding to a full, skyward extension), and her gorgeously, almost tragically poetic arabesques (lift of the back leg).
Tonya Plank: Marcelo Gomes and Veronika Part's Luscious, Heartbreaking La Bayadère 2008
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On ne peut guere echapper a la conviction que toutes les solutions des questions philosophiques n'aient ete developpes on indiquees avant le commencement du dix-neuvieme siecle, et que par consequent il ne soit les difficile, pour ne pas dire impossible, de tomber, en pareille matiere, sur une idee neuve de quelque importance.
Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868
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C'est surtout, lorsque les heureux talents d'une fille cherie se seront developpes davantage, que je me flatte de voir ce but atteint.
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Vol. 1 of 2 Wallace, Lady 1866
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Gratiolet's words are (loc.cit. p. 39): "Dans le foetus dont il s'agit les plis cerebraux posterieurs sont bien developpes, tandis que les plis du lobe frontal sont a peine indiques."
Note on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and the Development of the Brain in Man and Apes Charles Darwin 1845
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Do they prefer higher arabesques and developpes as opposed to lower, correct arabesques?
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Dans les pays developpes, pres de 90% des cas de diabete de type 2 sont relies a une prise de poids.
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