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Since there was no real effort to persuade, the Pennsylvania ratifying debates included a lot of showmanlike oratory, but they did not proceed according to any obvious plan or to achieve any clear purpose.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Since there was no real effort to persuade, the Pennsylvania ratifying debates included a lot of showmanlike oratory, but they did not proceed according to any obvious plan or to achieve any clear purpose.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Since there was no real effort to persuade, the Pennsylvania ratifying debates included a lot of showmanlike oratory, but they did not proceed according to any obvious plan or to achieve any clear purpose.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Blagojevich – known for his showmanlike, over-the-top personality – showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
Blagojevich Verdict: Guilty Of Lying To Feds, Mistrial On Remaining 23 Counts 2010
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And with the boy's imagination, with the whole show presented through the mind of the boy, you can immediately do things in a much more showmanlike and showy way, and at the same time most sincerely, because, after all, there is no more sincere mind than the mind of a child, and not a more fervent imagination than the imagination of a child.
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Gaddafi has been one of the most recognizable figures on the world stage in recent history, reviled by the West for many years as a supporter of militants and revolutionary movements while at the same time cutting a showmanlike figure with his flowing robes, lofty pronouncements and bevy of glamorous female assistants attending him in his Bedouin tent.
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What is most striking is the caution with which Curiger stakes out her curatorial dominion, especially when compared with the abundance of ideas, cultivated idiosyncrasy and showmanlike panache Szeemann evinced in his long career as a curator, though hardly most brilliantly in Venice.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Blagojevich - known for his showmanlike, over-the-top personality - showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
RutlandHerald.com 2010
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Blagojevich - known for his showmanlike, over-the-top personality - showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
Durangoherald.com 2010
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Blagojevich - known for his showmanlike, over-the-top personality - showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
FOX23: Local News 2010
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