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Then there were cheap action movies like the one starring Christopher Lambert, of Mortal Kombat fame, which featured less than lapidiary lines like: "The only thing that keeps me from becoming evil is fighting evil."
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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Then there were cheap action movies like the one starring Christopher Lambert, of Mortal Kombat fame, which featured less than lapidiary lines like: "The only thing that keeps me from becoming evil is fighting evil."
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He used to talk about "transpontine utterances" and "lapidiary prose" and make me go to the dictionary to look the words up if I said I didn't understand them.
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Not for nothing did prime minister Stanley Baldwin attack them for the exercise of 'power without responsibility', adding the lapidiary coda that this constitutes 'the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages'.
David Osler 2010
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Not for nothing did prime minister Stanley Baldwin attack them for the exercise of ‘power without responsibility†™, adding the lapidiary coda that this constitutes ‘the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages†™.
Dave's Part 2009
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