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Somewhere around the "Quid sum miser" or "Rex tremenda" Runnicles finally got everything under control, and the Requiem came together at last, with shape, confidence, and momentum.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lisa Hirsch 2009
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Somewhere around the "Quid sum miser" or "Rex tremenda" Runnicles finally got everything under control, and the Requiem came together at last, with shape, confidence, and momentum.
Auf wiedersehn, Donald Lisa Hirsch 2009
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Cum tibi-illius patefit potestas daemonum vires abigens tremenda, tu fide gaudes potiore necti grata medenti.
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That was, as they say in Spanish, una tonteria tremenda, and he probably did it just to satisfy the anti-immgration know-nothings on the right and the Minutemen who probably think that the last two words of the national anthem are "Play Ball!"
April 2006 2006
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Guardian | An inability to tolerate islam contradicts western values Aceitar a liberdade de expressão como um dos valores basilares na nossa civilização é uma tremenda responsabilidade.
Leituras Artur 2007
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He entered the Metropolitan Opera auditions, blew everybody away, had a huge career, and died–as did Caruso–on stage at the Met in 1960, as he was about to sing the words “Morir, tremenda cosa”.
Car phone salesman gets his moment | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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Ainda não foi desta que me livrei da tremenda estopada que é a administração do condomínio.
Festa? Artur 2006
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Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna, in die illa tremenda:
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Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna, in die illa tremenda:
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Here the emphatic _me_ is preserved, but in neither version is the true meaning of _salvandos_ even hinted at, and in both we miss the tenderness of the _fons pietatis_, with which the _tremenda majestas_ is balanced and softened.
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