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  • Feeling a bit megalo these days, nothing to worry about really, never gets worse than, oh perhaps the impression, whilst zooming along through the corridors of "The White Visitation," that all the others seem to be frozen in attitudes of unmistakable parkinsonism, with himself the only alert, unpalsied one remaining.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Her half-palsied husband could respond only in weakest words to the appeal of his unpalsied wife.

    The Grimke Sisters Birney, Catherine H. 1885

  • And why may not our hand, withered somewhat though it be, but yet unpalsied, point out aloft to heedless eyes single light or constellation, or lily by herself or in groups unsuspected along the waysides of our mortal pilgrimage?

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

  • "The nostalgia for old Hollywood often seems to point to something beyond a desire for the comforting regularity of the well-run factories, for those assembly-line films that satisfy just by virtue of their refined craft, perfect lighting, unpalsied camerawork, spatial coherence and unrushed rhythms," writes excerpt).

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "The nostalgia for old Hollywood often seems to point to something beyond a desire for the comforting regularity of the well-run factories, for those assembly-line films that satisfy just by virtue of their refined craft, perfect lighting, unpalsied camerawork, spatial coherence and unrushed rhythms," writes excerpt).

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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