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Their heady perfumes, their rich colors, their enormous blossoms – all combine to bring a gracious presence much needed at this time of year when my garden is beginning to look rather shop-worn.
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Their heady perfumes, their rich colors, their enormous blossoms – all combine to bring a gracious presence much needed at this time of year when my garden is beginning to look rather shop-worn.
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He doesn't see the story as a shop-worn anachronism (it's set in 2001, but it feels like 1944), and he doesn't milk it for heart-wringing sentiment (the plot does all the milking on its own).
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At slightest 8 houses in the area were shop-worn by debris, as well as fire officials pronounced several were set ablaze.
Kenner, LA Jet Crash Kills Over 150, July 1982 | GenDisasters ... admin 2009
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These stories are commonplace, shop-worn tomes to anyone familiar with education reform.
Brian Ross: The (Other) Palm Beach Story: Feds & States Tinkering with Education Get Unplanned Results Brian Ross 2010
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At slightest 8 houses in the area were shop-worn by debris, as well as fire officials pronounced several were set ablaze.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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You know an idea is getting shop-worn when major food retailers commandeer it, bumper stickers champion it, and no one blinks an eye when you talk about being into it.
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Because when I look at American poetry from the perspective of a fellow traveler, I see an art invested in various complex, fascinating, historical, and sometimes shop-worn literary debates.
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Because when I look at American poetry from the perspective of a fellow traveler, I see an art invested in various complex, fascinating, historical, and sometimes shop-worn literary debates.
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For me, the take-away from the four hours of sitting through well-practiced, shop-worn speeches is this: There are a good many people who are ill-educated, brainwashed, and plain scared that an acknowledgment of diversity, regardless how that word is framed, will be considered by their god to be a turning away from the "natural truth".
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