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  • OH, and big congratulations to our dear Sue Richards for hosting this spectacular bit of Blog-liness more than 2000 times!

    Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2008

  • OH, and big congratulations to our dear Sue Richards for hosting this spectacular bit of Blog-liness more than 2000 times!

    Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2008

  • I have a sneaking suspicion that the scene was written with the sole purpose of arriving at its conclusion--Veronica about to commit murder and Logan demonstrating a glimmer of mensch-liness by talking her down--and that the only way that the writers could come up with to get to that point was to turn Beaver into a sadistic monster9.

    The Girl Detective On Her Second Outing: Scattered Veronica Mars Thoughts Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • I have a sneaking suspicion that the scene was written with the sole purpose of arriving at its conclusion--Veronica about to commit murder and Logan demonstrating a glimmer of mensch-liness by talking her down--and that the only way that the writers could come up with to get to that point was to turn Beaver into a sadistic monster9.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • Suggesting that the 'real' art remains in its maker's mind, and that what we see before us is a remnant of a thought process, conceptual art is in some measure about disembodiment and ghost-liness.

    Wölfli's Empire Schwartz, Sanford 2003

  • GRAHAMSTOWN (ECN Wednesday 10 September 1997) - The government wants every home to have an Internet address and a smart card - and massive plans are underway to provide another three million digital telephone liness over the next six years.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Other than a patina of unclean-liness which lingered for some time,

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • Other than a patina of unclean-liness which lingered for some time, Gunecvod had in-curred no harm as a result of the probe.

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • Amid the disrepair, stench, and sloven-liness he nevertheless stands out.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • It was all abruptly too much for her: his taking that loathsome job, his being so far away from her, her fearful lone - liness through the long nights while the deathless ghost of Saigo returned to hover over her, and now his inattention, mirroring her father's self-absorption when she needed him the most.

    The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

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