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I saw this movie as a boy and it lingers after nearly fifty years as a haunting memory.
It may be what we now call noir, but the twinkle in Welles' eye also lingers, suggesting a gris texture.
Yet this show, with it s improbable cast of characters, lingers on in the collective memory of American TV memorabilia.
I've never been quite sure about the final scene of this movie: Lenny on the couch, quietly humming to himself, seemingly at a loss as the camera lingers on him for a thoughtful moment, is he already on his way to becoming dissatisfied again now that he has attained his desire or has he finally found some peace after his battle for Kelly?
This is the kind of film that just plain creeps you out,and lingers with you.
The way the camera lingers on the characters' faces and floats between them has great insight.
An absolute inability to consider the point of view of the other and to go beyond a sense of collective martyrdom still lingers, unequally to be fair, over the entire region.
But an uncomfortable question lingers: How is it possible for the world’s most powerful country and its oldest continuous democracy to exhibit a state of political discourse that is more reminiscent of a failed African state?
Neither of these alternatives is palatable, which may help to explain why the crisis of confidence gripping the eurozone lingers on.
The old-style right, with its fascist ancestry, lingers on.
In the US, despite a slight improvement, uncertainty lingers.
So long as populism lingers as a political threat, the risk of reactionary protectionist trade policies and higher capital controls will remain heightened, and this could derail economic growth.
It lingers, but without a credible outlet.
A century and a half after the abolition of slavery, the legacy of that system lingers.
The encounter between the images of today’s Middle East and the discontent of Muslim minorities (sometimes influenced by radical fundamentalist ideologies) should not be allowed to obscure traditional French anti-Semitism, white and bourgeois, which still lingers and is never far beneath the surface.
The Russian threat lingers, whereas the West is more likely than not to be too passive.
As debt mounts and the recession lingers, we are surely going to see a number of governments trying to lighten their load through financial repression, higher inflation, partial default, or a combinations of all three.
While popular skepticism toward American policies lingers, there remains a widespread recognition among Iranians that their country will never emerge from isolation or fulfill its enormous potential as long as its relationship with the US remains adversarial.
Israel last fought an interstate war in 1973, and the trauma of that fight still lingers.
There is by now little room for maneuver in the economy: the positive effect of devaluation has worn off, world oil prices are falling again (and with them the state's prime source of revenue), the debt crisis lingers.
People are more open about this than they once were, but a legacy of disapproval towards those who espouse tribal loyalties lingers.
LONDON – The developed world is slowly emerging from the Great Recession, but a question lingers: How fast and how far will the recovery go?
And, worst of all, the Games too often bring public corruption that lingers long after they’ve gone, like a chronic infection for the host city’s politics.
Although most stock markets are still well above their levels of last November, the question lingers: Did February’s reversal mark the end of the bull market, or was it just a temporary correction?
So the ghost of Augusto Pinochet lingers.
But the bitterness lingers among Shinawatra’s supporters – even now, when his sister, Yingluck, is Prime Minister.
The image of the warrior leader lingers in modern times.
Mellowed in the drowsy sunlight of a summer's afternoon, Wargrave, nestling where the river bends, makes a sweet old picture as you pass it, and one that lingers long upon the retina of memory.
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