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But perhaps in my neophyte's enthusiasm I will be able to convince others that this way of getting around -- which is still amazingly underused in New York -- deserves to be given a chance.
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So Matt walks through his own process of how he figured those things out, accompanied by a remarkable honesty about the intimidating situations and neophyte's mistakes he encountered along the way.
Blogs of the Year: Ask the Wizard and Fortuitous - Anil Dash 2007
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"This isn't a neophyte's film; it's a film made by somebody with an innate understanding of cinematic language and a striking personal vision," writes Andrew O'Hehir, who also talks with Polley for Salon.
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Her lack of adaptation to circumstance may be a neophyte's stiffness, for back in Alaska she adapted often if not always well; she may just need time to roll with the stump speech.
Mayhill Fowler: Palin (And McCain) Say Little And Fire Up The Faithful In Ohio 2008
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It should be evident that this footnote amounts to a neophyte's overview of a field.
Notes on 'Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality' 2006
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But, second and more pertinently here, despite the above presentation of the dispute, my neophyte's reading of this historical debate leaves me entirely persuaded by the argument made by the critics who follow Dover and Foucault and more particularly by Halperin's account of it in his two books.
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The brown wincey and the coarse apron seemed to her the neophyte's robe, betokening
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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It was the final trial of his life, the supremely bitter drop in his chalice, to assist at the disenchantment which followed so closely upon the blissful intoxication of his gentle neophyte's first initiation.
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The clothes fitted excellently, and Berry saw to the neophyte's make-up, painting and powdering him dexterously, and dressing the virginal beard and moustache with a dark cosmetic.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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She had the neophyte's shock of discovery that, outside of tracts, conservatives do not tremble and find no answer when an iconoclast turns on them, but retort with agility and confusing statistics.
Main Street 1920
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