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  • Read the memoirs of Casanova if you have a free year, and you see how he used the intricacies and secrecies of Venice itself to act on his libido to its fullest extent.

    Sex And The City Of The Future 2009

  • One reason besides characteristic media disinterest in foreign affairs and any other topic which requires much thought for the limited coverage and spin-off analyses of Obama's trip is that with the lowered stature of the U.S. from the secrecies and atrocities of the Bush years, not many Americans are much interested in what Obama has to say or is doing regarding foreign affairs because not many foreigners are.

    William Bradley: Diminishing Returns for Obama's Summiteering? 2009

  • The richness of this perfume will reveal to you a little more of its secrecies: aoud, amber, sandalwood, patchouli, musk, broad bean tonka, and coumarin...

    Nejma One and Two by Pascal Morabito Marina Geigert 2008

  • The richness of this perfume will reveal to you a little more of its secrecies: aoud, amber, sandalwood, patchouli, musk, broad bean tonka, and coumarin...

    Archive 2008-01-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • There are, quite certainly, other states even of Matter itself; there is undoubtedly an ascending series of the divine gradations of substance; there is the possibility of the material being transfiguring itself through the acceptation of a higher law than its own which is yet its own because it is always there latent and potential in its own secrecies.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • There are, quite certainly, other states even of Matter itself; there is undoubtedly an ascending series of the divine gradations of substance; there is the possibility of the material being transfiguring itself through the acceptation of a higher law than its own which is yet its own because it is always there latent and potential in its own secrecies.

    In The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo has firmly established the possibility of the divine body Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • And soone after, it being discovered, that a great number of my Popish Subjects of all rankes and sexes . . . had a confused notion and an obscure knowledge, that some great thing was to bee done in that Parliament for the weale of the Church; although, for secrecies cause, they were not acquainted with the particulars. . .

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2006

  • And soone after, it being discovered, that a great number of my Popish Subjects of all rankes and sexes . . . had a confused notion and an obscure knowledge, that some great thing was to bee done in that Parliament for the weale of the Church; although, for secrecies cause, they were not acquainted with the particulars. . .

    Archive 2006-09-01 Flavia 2006

  • Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

    The Media: Public Interest and Common Good: lecture delivered at Lambeth Palace 2005

  • I lighted upon that bold woman, simple and knoweth nothing, shadowed out in Solomon, sitting at the door, and saying, Eat ye bread of secrecies willingly, and drink ye stolen waters which are sweet: she seduced me, because she found my soul dwelling abroad in the eye of my flesh, and ruminating on such food as through it I had devoured.

    The Confessions 1999

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