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  • If the counterculture movement had spurred a shift from occasion-specific clothes to aggressively casual ones, Liz Claiborne was not so much destructive as renovative of sartorially demarcated space.

    All Dressed Up With No Place To Go Paula Marantz Cohen 2010

  • If the counterculture movement had spurred a shift from occasion-specific clothes to aggressively casual ones, Liz Claiborne was not so much destructive as renovative of sartorially demarcated space.

    All Dressed Up With No Place To Go Paula Marantz Cohen 2010

  • At the same time this renovative trajectory is juxtaposed, say, with what happens when the poem is read from back to front: a movement towards the silence of unanswered questions.

    Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' 2003

  • Each is a version of the renovative paradigm of visionary poeticsfar from either the consoling vision of an all-knowing but enigmatic urn or the ironic and skeptical vision of incomplete but theoretically possible knowledge.

    Deforming Keat's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' 2003

  • Christianity, in this dispensation, is designed to call out witnesses of its truths, in every land, the elect of God, rather than to be a universally renovative power on human institutions.

    The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852

  • One area that continues to mitigate revenue pressure is our renovative ancillary income initiatives which continue to augment earnings each year.

    US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • One area that continues to mitigate revenue pressure is our renovative ancillary income initiatives which continue to augment earnings each year.

    US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha 2010

  • The tree and brush removal is just one of many renovative projects the museum board of directors is undertaking in its effort to give the building a facelift, according to museum Director Elizabeth Thatcher.

    Salem News 2009

  • According to a Hanoi radio broadcast, he was accused by the authorities of delivering three sermons on the subject of repentance, namely repentance for individuals, repentance for the church community, and repentance for the national community ” with the aim of attacking the communist party and the socialist regime, distorting our party and state's renovative line, and inciting Catholics to demand human and civil rights.

    Return to Vietnam: An Exchange Bergerud, Eric M. 1992

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