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The problem is that while they aren't dead, they aren't quite alive either: distant and removed, the resurrected live among themselves in Cold Towns, forming a whole population, an entire world, apart from the rest of still-alive humanity.
Robert Silverberg's "The World Inside": Overpopulation, Sex and Sensibility 2009
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When the world kept on trucking, leaving the still-alive followers destitute and homeless, Miller claimed he had miscalculated the date, leaving tens of thousands of Adventists waiting anxiously, as their descendents still do today.
Jeff Schweitzer: Rapture Rupture Jeff Schweitzer 2011
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The story says that a woman, distressed at the seeming death of her beloved, climbed the steps, hurling herself into the ocean, just in time to be witnessed by her still-alive paramour, who then killed himself to be with her.
Birds of Prey #104 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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I found the dialogue unintentionally laughable and the art cliched -- in fact, what amused me most about the book is that while the plot involves a still-alive Frankenstein creating an army of creepily perfect artificial people, it was impossible to tell his creations from anyone else in the story, as EVERYONE is creepily perfect, in a boring superhero comic kind of way.
Archive 2009-03-01 Book Nerd 2009
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I found the dialogue unintentionally laughable and the art cliched -- in fact, what amused me most about the book is that while the plot involves a still-alive Frankenstein creating an army of creepily perfect artificial people, it was impossible to tell his creations from anyone else in the story, as EVERYONE is creepily perfect, in a boring superhero comic kind of way.
The Handsell: Comics Roundup! Book Nerd 2009
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Of course, the cover of issue 8 which features our heroes battling a still-alive maxwell lord and an army of OMACs doesn't help either.
About the Latest Booster Gold… | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Two of my cats — the late Gilgamesh and the still-alive Enkidu — both urinated in unusal places.
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Star Tribune: Carpenter makes casket for his still-alive granny
Archive 2005-07-01 2005
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It is not exactly anonymity, though it is related; it is rather a fully present quietness of self which allows those other voices, the voices of the dead and the gone, to be heard, the voices of the artists and history makers who helped form the self-consciousness of the still-alive.
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So you grimace and bite your lower lip, raising yourself to your elbows shouting to the ghost of the still-alive Julie Andrews:
Archive 2006-04-02 Miss Snark 2006
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