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"Just because people have addictions and dysfunction, that doesn't mean there isn't love in the family," said Macy, who began the session with a series of dry-witted comments about preparing to play hard-living alkie Frank Gallagher.
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Dr. Winn Barlow, a dry-witted scientist who grew up on the border of England and Wales, came to the U.S. as a Fulbright scholar to study the kidney functions of Arizona desert rats, she said.
Brearley's Barlow Returns Sophia Hollander 2011
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Author Rachel Shteir offers a few possible answers while presenting a complex view of shoplifting in her richly researched, dry-witted book.
Books on Fashion's Secrets, Even Theft Christina Binkley 2011
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Esposito will play Oliver, a dry-witted and sophisticated artist who once taught Georgette and who maintains a special fondness for his former student.
Exclusive: Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito Joins USA's Over/Under 2011
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The dry-witted conclusion drawn by the author glibly dismissed the real reason why superimposing market solutions for problems within a family is often an inefficient approach.
Closet Your Inner Economist?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In a mere two years Cera had become over-exposed playing that same dry-witted, bumbling, reluctant hero.
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Bright, a dry-witted former mayor of Montgomery, looks on paper like one of the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress, with a winning margin in 2008 of just 1,700 ballots, a district that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took in that year's presidential election with 63 percent of the vote, and a constituency deeply unhappy with President Obama and Democrats in Congress.
In Alabama, Rep. Bobby Bright avoids perils of anti-government mood 2010
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Bright, a dry-witted former mayor of Montgomery, looks on paper like one of the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress, with a winning margin in 2008 of just 1,700 ballots, a district that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took in that year's presidential election with 63 percent of the vote, and a constituency deeply unhappy with President Obama and Democrats in Congress.
In Alabama, Rep. Bobby Bright avoids perils of anti-government mood 2010
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In a mere two years Cera had become over-exposed playing that same dry-witted, bumbling, reluctant hero.
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In a mere two years Cera had become over-exposed playing that same dry-witted, bumbling, reluctant hero.
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