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On the self-descriptive "Easy," guitarist Martin Courtney's lyric about "floating on an inner tube in the sun" feels all the more halcyon now as winter approaches.
Kings of New Wave and an R&B Queen Andy Beta 2011
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To steal another self-descriptive from Frog, it reads like "jerky nervous diversionary chatter."
Narrative Strategies 2009
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While my sympathies actually lie with Greenfield (especially after a weekend getting my mom setup on Facebook so she could send me photos without clogging my inbox with 80MB emails … a deficiency in the design of the technology, not my mother mind you!), I also see the promise of a more self-aware, self-descriptive web.
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How befitting then, your unintended, ironic, Freudian slip of a self-descriptive example: "semi literate pedant".
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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A grape nut looks like a kidney stone, but the name, unlike shredded wheat's, isn't self-descriptive.
No Grapes, No Nuts, No Market Share: A Venerable Cereal Faces Crunchtime 2009
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Jeez, for someone who's not "spoiled", she sure came up with a lot of self-descriptive adjectives, didn't she?
Allie Is Wired! 2009
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I'm shocked, shocked at the rank incompetence of this bunch of career paper-shufflers whose favorite self-descriptive word is "smart".
"Not only is the Obama administration planning on freeing some detainees on U.S. soil..." Ann Althouse 2009
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Alex CF's blog/website, Many Dead Things, has quite a self-descriptive title.
More Bits and Bobs and LOOK! Look what I found! Heather McDougal 2007
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The other is the 'net capital outflow', which is fairly self-descriptive.
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This really does sound like a self-descriptive statement, after all.
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