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  • The non-parallel planes of joy, sadness, and yearning form this sacred trinity.

    Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain Tamsin Smith 2011

  • The non-parallel planes of joy, sadness, and yearning form this sacred trinity.

    Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain Tamsin Smith 2011

  • Reporting many literary and historical examples of non-parallel usage, it concludes:

    Not only . . . but (also) . . . 2009

  • Each analyzer has the property of separating light incident upon its face into two outgoing non-parallel rays, the ordinary ray and the extraordinary ray.

    Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009

  • It creates an alternating series of forty-two hundred force fields that borrow from the energy matrices of forty-two hundred non-parallel dimensions not yet tapped by physical probes.

    365 tomorrows » 2007 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

  • This has nothing to reflect the non-parallel technologies and everything to do with showing how waves of occupation and changes in trade affect daily lives.

    Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009

  • Law and sport are two different non-parallel universes.

    In Boost To Franken, Minnesota Restores Missing Ballots To The Count 2009

  • Anybody else notice the non-parallel nature of questions 3 and 4?

    Status Quo Forever Michael Turton 2009

  • This has nothing to reflect the non-parallel technologies and everything to do with showing how waves of occupation and changes in trade affect daily lives.

    gillpolack: I have all sorts of exciting things to r gillpolack 2009

  • I mean that I downright stole specific moments of his style in its high, descriptive mode: multisyllabic active verbs with lots of hard, aspirated consonants; tumbling, high energy, non-parallel lists of objects, sites and sights; lotsa onomatopoeic single syllable nouns of violently or powerfully connotative landmarks; less reliance on metaphor than on direct description -- and therefore a tendency to throw more words at a thing.

    China Miévilling 2006

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