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  • If I were to have a mounted head on my wall (as opposed to, say, the casts of a saber tooth tiger or garial or camarasaurus or ankylosaurus that I do have) - but if I were to have a stuffed head of a modernday animal, I would want one of these.

    Neil Gaiman owns a Jackalope frankwu 2009

  • The writer-director Bernard Rose takes a highly indulgent view of its hero, seeing him as a modernday Robin Hood running rings around the absurd sheriffs who pursue him as he provides a public service.

    Mr Nice – review Philip French 2010

  • Similarly in the modernday, we often use chess as a metaphor of a battle of wits, although I have yet to hear someone say that someone was "checkmated" as a circumlocution for "dead".

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Also as I read further on the functionality of these clay sealings as "modernday padlocks" for ancient trade, I may be overemphasizing the significance of depicted scenes stamped on the clay in relation to the accompanying writing.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • Similarly in the modernday, we often use chess as a metaphor of a battle of wits, although I have yet to hear someone say that someone was "checkmated" as a circumlocution for "dead".

    Symbolisms behind the Egyptian Sinat game 2009

  • I´m sure king Abraham, David, Solomon and many of the other biblical heroes would be convicted of rape in a modernday court both in America and Europe for having sex with underage girls.

    What Is Good? James F. McGrath 2009

  • And I would bet that Jesus view on Adam and Eve was a lot closer to the reading modernday fundamentalists make than the reading a liberal Christian like you prefer to make.

    Evolution and Liberal Christianity James F. McGrath 2009

  • Also as I read further on the functionality of these clay sealings as "modernday padlocks" for ancient trade, I may be overemphasizing the significance of depicted scenes stamped on the clay in relation to the accompanying writing.

    Clay seals and goddesses 2009

  • To Jesus, Paul and the others the Devil existed and they, like modernday fundamentalists, probably read him into all kinds of places in the OT.

    Evolution and Liberal Christianity James F. McGrath 2009

  • This is going to be just how a modernday “Alice in Wonderland” adaptation should be.

    6 movies we’re anticipating in 2010 2009

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