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sententia

There are sententiously literary writers who are never satisfied

—p.272 SOME OUTSIDERS (251) by François Truffaut
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salutary

This Japanese military tale relates the story of a corporal of an elite regiment who plays a kind of Burmese harp during the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1945, and evokes salutary, peaceful, amazing results.

—p.242 HURRAH FOR THE JAPANESE CINEMA (239) by François Truffaut
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subvention

The prison had to be territorially integrated with the city in order for Corcoran to receive its share of annual tax subventions from Sacramento

—p.163 Crime, Croplands, and Capitalism (128) by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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welter

The question remains as to how these changes came into effect, given the welter of laws and rules directing the uses of capital for public investments.

—p.22 Introduction (5) by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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rictus

Unforgettable, again, was the complicit rictus that Richard now laid at his feet.

—p.371 by Martin Amis
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