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So taken is Laura by Kant that she imitates his daily promenade, every day at the same time...unlike Kant, however, Laura's stroll happens to lead her past the door of the darkly handsome Algerian clandestine immigrant alongside whom she works as a janitor in the evenings.
Even a handsome newspaperman (Patrick Dempsey) can not sway her from her focus, although they remain friends.
Motivated by the prospect of a handsome reward, Harrison worked for decades to create the marine chronometer, a timepiece capable of keeping accurate time at sea over the course of a long voyage, enabling sea captains to plot their course accurately.
Technology has helped thoroughly globalize chess, with the Indian Vishy Anand now the first Asian world champion, and the handsome young Norwegian Magnus Carlsen having reached rock-star status.
After all, Richard Nixon’s race against John Kennedy in 1960 is said to have been lost on television: Kennedy looked cool and handsome, while Nixon scowled into the camera, with sweat trickling down his five o’clock shadow.
As even children know, the CAP is a handsome and totally undeserved present to wealthy European (especially French) farmers at the expense of the struggling farmers of developing countries and EU consumers.
I picture Wiesel in 1979 on the Cambodian border, where I met him for the first time, his familiar mop of hair a jet-black wing hovering over his lean, handsome head.
Chinese leaders value the lopsided trade relationship with India – exports are more than five times higher than imports – as a strategic weapon to undercut its rival’s manufacturing base while reaping handsome profits.
But, even if the highest estimate of $66 billion proved to be correct, poor countries would gain $13 worth of extra income per dollar spent – a very handsome return.
Like Russia, Iran has invested plenty of blood and treasure to save Assad’s regime – and reaped handsome returns.
The temporary "pain" paid handsome rewards.
France had just elected a clever, young, handsome, and brave new president, who seemed to match the city’s ambience.
The PRI’s political strategy was essentially the “golden boy” model: handsome face, cartloads of money, and the support of the television networks and Mexico’s dinosaur elite, which yearned for a return to power.
The fund grosses $11 million from the sale of the options plus 4% on $110 million in Treasury bills, which represents a handsome 15.4% return before expenses.
So a speculator who is quick on his feet can make a handsome profit and get out while the music is still playing.
Given China’s high growth rates in 2003-2012, the AMCs made handsome profits from those shares.
As Song Siming, a handsome, successful, and Audi-driving – but also married – secretary to the Mayor, tells her, “On those unsightly corners in the dark where dirt, flies, and rats wander, nobody's paying attention.”
He is tall, handsome, and smart.
All three of the leaders of Citizen’s Platform are handsome and bright, intelligent and funny.
Simone Veil is standing in the front row, a handsome woman lost in her thoughts yet still attentive.
He is young, handsome, smart, inspiring, educated, cosmopolitan, and above all, he promises a radical change from the most unpopular American administration in history.
The banks and speculators reap handsome gains, governments are overburdened with unsustainable commercial debts, the domestic productive sector is starved of medium- and long-term financing, and most people remain mired in appalling poverty.
One study finds that a handsome man enjoys an edge over an ugly rival that is worth 6-8% of the vote.
A handsome, charismatic populist born into the Party elite, Bo was known as a tough official, whose methods in fighting organized crime – and others who got in his way – were often unrestrained by law.
A tall handsome person enters a room, draws attention, and “looks like a leader.”
The brutal Caligula took a more drastic approach as his bald spot grew: Whenever he ran into a handsome man with a full head of hair, he ordered the offender shaved immediately.
A young, handsome rising political star in the 1990s, Nemtsov later refused to bend to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarianism and went into opposition, where he was harassed, imprisoned, and finally killed.
Charismatic, handsome, and extremely intelligent, he was also a great orator, and commanded the stage at rally after rally.
Macron AloneWARSAW – You can be talented, handsome, rhetorically skilled, and politically brave, and yet suffer for it.
The Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan recently framed the election this way, before complaining that Joe Biden “shouldn’t be seated in a handsome chair waiting for the crown to be passed, or going out for ice cream in a mask like John Dillinger on the lam.”
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