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Ms Winslet's tour de force as a hyperventilatory winner has been applauded by the critics, with Derek Malcolm of the Evening Standard describing it as 'a triumph of emphysematous excellence '.
Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Ms Winslet's tour de force as a hyperventilatory winner has been applauded by the critics, with Derek Malcolm of the Evening Standard describing it as 'a triumph of emphysematous excellence '.
Winslet Nominated for Further Award Dungeekin 2009
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But, even putting those theoretical hyperventilatory questions aside, there was the more practical matter of the movie itself—for he had let me choose the movie, and I of course chose the worst movie in the history of movies.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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But, even putting those theoretical hyperventilatory questions aside, there was the more practical matter of the movie itself—for he had let me choose the movie, and I of course chose the worst movie in the history of movies.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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To then go into hyperventilatory apoplexy and high-horse moralizing because the reporter QUOTED this extremely mild statement is just silly and trivial.
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