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I also maintain that BD is almost unfilmable, and I honestly do wish that things were ending with “Eclipse” … show a scene with Bella vamped-up, and B&E hunting a deer … nice way to bookend it with the “Twilight” intro.
Twilight Lexicon » Hit Fix: Will Eclipse Make Less Money Than New Moon? 2010
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When the members of the G.I. JOE team are caught off guard after a vamped-up COBRA makes a surprise attack, they turn to SGT.
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero Season Season 2.0 on DVD on April 27, 2010 - The Retroist 2010
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Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, and Jackson Rathbone talk to Access Hollywood about the vamped-up action scenes in “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” and doing their own stunts in the film.
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Take a look and tell us what you think of the video and Beyonce's vamped-up noir look!
'Dance For You' Music Video: Beyonce Shows Off Sexy Moves, Goes Noir 2011
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Kellan Lutz, Ashley Greene, and Jackson Rathbone talk to Access Hollywood about the vamped-up action scenes in “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” and doing their own stunts in the film.
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The Flaming Lips capture the album title's mood on the stunning Pink Floydy Revenge, although elsewhere – especially on Pop's gloriously vamped-up Pain – things sound more playful than haunted.
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse: Present … Dark Night of the Soul 2010
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But for Painter and his school the Elizabethan Drama would have been mainly historical, and its tragedies would have been either vamped-up versions of classical tales or adaptations of contemporary
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Behold me established at Sydney, in a small house, a poor vamped-up building, more inconvenient, and far more ugly, than you can imagine, for which I pay a rent of £250 a year.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829 Various
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Fielding seems to have welded this latter together, rather than to have fused him entire, and the result is a certain lack of verisimilitude, which makes us wonder how his pinchbeck progressions and vamped-up virtues could deceive so many persons.
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Fielding seems to have welded this latter together, rather than to have fused him entire, and the result is a certain lack of verisimilitude, which makes us wonder how his pinchbeck professions and vamped-up virtues could deceive so many persons.
Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883
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