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JVC -- It seems to me that you think there's something called "story" that's completely separate from the style and form in which the story is told, and further that you think that story is the only thing really worth talking about, as if the story is the nut inside the discardable shell of the way it is told.

Jordanian hiatus Adam Roberts 2010

Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they presumably know or is really a discardable limb.

Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

By divorcing three times and marrying for a fourth, you are teaching children that marriage is a temporary and discardable institution, and that it is not a commitment to be taken seriously.

2010 June « The View From LL2 2010

If it didn't involve Winston Churchill, or the U.S. occupying Germany or Japan successfully after World War II, or thrashing the Soviet Union in the Cold War, it was largely discardable bunk.

Tom Engelhardt: Who's Next? Lessons from the Long War and a Blowback World 2009

Now to preserve her power in the Democratic party by riding forth once again to defend the folks in the media and Team Axelrod that also treated her like an unattractive discardable old bitch until they "need her! they need her!"

"Obama to Dispatch Female Surrogates" -- that NYT headline I flagged last night -- is now: "Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin." Ann Althouse 2008

The rest of the movie is discardable, like the wrapper around a fast-food burger.

The Movie Report stevietee 2005

Any comedian who adopted the Izzard Method is an a position to discard it - the question is how much Izzard 'adopted' the Izzard method, and how much of his act is simply HIM, and thus un-discardable.

Secret Policeman's Ball annawaits 2006

If it's the console market, I have no idea--but throwing away your current subscribers in favor of a speculative console market is either very bold, or their current subscribers were a very small and discardable group.

Order 66 2005

A dull, tepid and uninspiring weekly pamphlet that's utterly discardable and forgettable.

REASONS TO REJOICE # 1 TEV 2005

A dull, tepid and uninspiring weekly pamphlet that's utterly discardable and forgettable.

The Elegant Variation: TEV 2005