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But this is lost on ordinary North Koreans, who admire the displays and pose beside them for photographs.
He showed me his driver's license with a $100-dollar bill tucked beside it.
(Lagarde has done a good job, rather than kowtowing to Europe, but that is beside the point.)
In her brief lifetime, she was often lauded for qualities (her beauty and style) that were secondary to her life’s work, and derided for other aspects of her character (her emotionality and chaotic personal life) that were equally beside the point.
Khodorkovsky's arrest did not galvanize ordinary Russians, who increasingly see elections as beside the point in their difficult lives.
While that may be true, it is beside the point.
But it is, I fear, beside the point.
But even the optics of the announcement – with Trump standing beside Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and no Palestinian anywhere to be seen – revealed just how disingenuous that claim is.
Calling the Joint Declaration an international treaty and lodging it with the United Nations was beside the point, because neither Britain nor anyone else was going to go to war to defend it.
To many in Asia, the inward-looking debate in the West often seems both tone deaf and beside the point.
(Suleimani was actually standing beside Mughniyeh at the time.)
They would prefer if the US stumbled along beside them and was forced to concoct cooperative ways of boosting global growth.
A waitress standing beside me was nearly in tears.
The young deacon, the two halves of his long back clearly distinguishable through his thin under-cassock, met him, and going at once to a small table beside the wall, began reading the prayers.
The latter, an old man with a thin grizzled beard and kind, weary eyes, stood beside the lectern turning over the leaves of a missal.
Oblonsky, standing in a comically-solemn attitude beside his wife, took the icon and told Levin to bow to the ground; then he blessed him, smiling a kindly amused smile, and kissed him three times.
She was looking at Kitty and thinking of the time when she would be standing there beside Count Sinyavin, just as Kitty now stood, and how she would then remind him of his joke.
When Anna returned with her hat and mantle on, and stood beside him toying with her sunshade with quick motions of her beautiful hand, Vronsky with a feeling of relief turned from Golenishchev's eyes which were fixed on him plaintively.
An hour later Anna, seated beside Golenishchev with Vronsky facing them, drove to a new ugly house in a distant quarter of the town.
'Come, tell me what it was,' he said, sitting down beside her and watching the circular movement of her tiny scissors.
CHAPTER XVIWHEN LEVIN CAME UPSTAIRS his wife was sitting beside the new silver samovar with a new tea-service before her, reading a letter from Dolly, with whom she kept up a regular and active correspondence.
There was no trace of dust left about; there was a mat beside the bed; on the table medicine bottles and a bottle of water were neatly placed, also a pile of folded linen which would be required later, and Kitty's embroidery.
'Well, lay me down if you like.'Levin laid his brother on his back, sat down beside him, and holding his breath gazed at his face.
He went down frowning to his rooms, and taking a seat beside Yashvin, who sat with his long legs stretched out on a chair drinking brandy and seltzer, ordered the same for himself.
The act had just finished when he came in, so before going to his brother's box he went up to the front row and paused beside Serpukhovskoy, who was standing with his knee bent, tapping the wall of the orchestra with his heel.
Beside the Oblonskys with all their children and their governess, the Levins had other visitors – the old Princess, who considered it her duty to watch over her inexperienced daughter in that condition; and also Varenka, Kitty's friend from abroad who was keeping her promise to visit her friend now that she was married.
Levin sat down on the window-sill beside his brother.
When he came nearer he saw, sitting beside Oblonsky, a stout handsome young man wearing a Scotch bonnet with long ribbons streaming behind.
Vasenka came over to the ladies, and took a seat beside Kitty.
'You'll see!To-morrow...Oh, but we are going out to-morrow.'CHAPTER VIIINEXT DAY, BEFORE THE LADIES WERE UP, the vehicles – a cart and a small trap – stood at the porch waiting for the sportsmen; and Laska, having long ago made out that they were going shooting, after yelping and jumping about to her heart's content, was sitting in the cart beside the coachman, regarding the doorway whence the sportsmen had not yet emerged, with excitement and with disapproval of the delay.
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