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Brezhnev’s model resembled a bad marriage, exhausted of love or respect, in which the spouses constantly cheat, take advantage of each other, and grab each other’s property, though the powerful husband occasionally reminds his wife that he is boss and demands at least a formal pledge of loyalty – or else.

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We know from our formal model that the brain structure at the receiving end of the Critic's commentary is the Actor.

Humanitarian organizations mostly focused on the formal settlement in rural areas, and there was nothing in place for us.

Studies show that people who are overdetermined in their denial will resort to formal rather than informal language.

Or listening to the same MP3 as 3,000 other people and dancing silently in a park, or bursting into song in a grocery store as part of a spontaneous musical, or diving into the ocean in Coney Island wearing formal attire.

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