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It puts this pressure on me to where I feel like the emperor's new clothes.
Shredding the Definition of the Guitar Hero Andy Beta 2010
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Museums increasingly deploy such techniques to suggest context, but here they also feed into one of the show's main themes: the emperor's interest in the play between illusion and reality.
A Paradise of Illusion Lee Lawrence 2010
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When you was spieling that Adam Strang yarn, I remember you mentioned playing chess with that royal souse of an emperor's brother.
Chapter 16 2010
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Bernardino de Sahagún, in the Florentine Codex, describes the banquets he witnessed at Moctezuma's palace, where three hundred dishes a day were prepared for the emperor's personnal approval and satisfaction.
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For the uninitiated, this might sound a little like the story of the emperor's new clothes, but fine wine should be identifiable by where it is produced.
Brad Haskel: Terroir: The Dividing Line in Wine Brad Haskel 2011
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These, he said, were hugely admired by American visitors, like the emperor's new clothes.
Why has Ed Miliband finally decided to wed? | Alexander Chancellor 2011
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But at last, a debate is percolating about the extent to which the emperor's clothes exist.
Andrew Luck, Mortal Darren Everson 2011
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Patronising Holloway for saying so is a bit like shushing the child who saw through the emperor's new clothes.
The more I hear of the World Cup bid the more I like bog-snorkelling Paul Wilson 2010
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Hours later, when nearly 400 bodies had been removed from the smoldering ruin, the policeman heading the recovery operation reported to the emperor's famously tender-hearted cousin, Archduke Albrecht, "All saved, Your Imperial Highness."
Modernism's Austrian Rebels Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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For the uninitiated, this might sound a little like the story of the emperor's new clothes, but fine wine should be identifiable by where it is produced.
Brad Haskel: Terroir: The Dividing Line in Wine Brad Haskel 2011
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