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Another striking similarity among good problem-solvers is that they're all pragmatists.
Over the course of Anna’s childhood and adolescence, Alexios fought constant military campaigns to secure the frontiers of his empire, even striking up an uneasy alliance with the Crusaders.
What was striking was just how much trouble we were having being taken seriously.
But what was really striking about it was not just that it fooled so many people.
Imagine you and a friend are strolling through an art exhibit and a striking painting catches your eye.
A very striking learning experience for a twenty-year-old.
There are striking similarities, I think, to the Internet boom.
"Websites attract striking writers: operators of sites like MyDamnChannel.com could benefit from labor disputes."
Another striking image comes from Brendan McMahon for the "Huffington Post," saying that out of the one trillion dollar budget for military and defense-related spending, if only 0.05 percent were allocated to the arts, we would be able to pay for 20 full-time symphony orchestras at 20 million dollars apiece, and give over 80,000 artists an annual salary of 50,000 dollars each.
What's so striking for Vinny is that this is his first time off of court supervision since his injury more than 15 years ago.
When Einstein died in 1955, one striking tribute to his global status was this cartoon by Herblock in the Washington Post.
And they tried it, and the results were nothing short of striking.
The striking answer is that I think you would have done the same.
But I'm not saying growth is wrong, but it's very striking that throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better.
And what's striking though, is that in society there's almost nothing comparable, no comparable investment, no systematic experiment, in the things capitalism isn't very good at, like compassion, or empathy, or relationships or care.
After moving to New York, she was increasingly drawn to the clean lines, striking composition and vivid colors of Japanese art.
In rare but striking instances, a single lie told by just one entity in this honeycomb can lead to real trouble.
Modern, striking engineering marvels were going up literally everywhere.
But what is most striking is who is carrying those cell phones.
This is India, and of course it's all the more striking because it was four years later that we all applauded the U.S., the oldest democracy in the modern world, more than 220 years of free and fair elections, which took till last year to elect a president or a vice president who wasn't white, male or Christian.
Compare them to the tools our ancestors used; they bear a striking resemblance to Kanzi's.
So, this is really striking, because this device measures seven things that are very much vital signs for monitoring someone with heart failure.
Well, the striking patterns of human social networks, their ubiquity and their apparent purpose beg questions about whether we evolved to have human social networks in the first place, and whether we evolved to form networks with a particular structure.
Such small differences in the way we administered the activity yielded striking differences in how well they performed.
But I had a really striking experience once, when a group from Afghanistan came to visit me, and we had a really interesting conversation.
I was initially interested in this film after reading a synopsis and seeing a few striking screenshots, and the promise was there for a gripping horror film of the Dario Argento style.
While the film has one redeeming feature, namely some striking shots e.g. the shot of the sheep hanging from the tree, the scene of the funeral procession on the raft, or the scene of the boats leaving the village (which seemed influenced by the scene when the warships approach in the fantastic "Fellini Satyricon"), these were more photographic than cinematographic, and would have been better appreciated hung on a wall in an art gallery than embedded in a painfully slow-paced film that comes in at a whopping 162 minutes and suffers from terrible dialogue, extremely poor character development, over-acting, uninspired symbolism and heavy stylisation.
Evans is warned by Katona Chief Storm Cloud(Michael Horse)that an ancient demon, the Bone Eater, has been loosened and can only be stopped with a sacred war axe(..the axe was removed by a worker who found it's remains with the weapon lunged inside)now in the back seat of his daughter Kelly's(Clara Bryant, who wears tight jeans and shirts to reveal how daddy's girl has grown into quite a striking lady)boyfriend's truck.
Judy Dench is a GREAT actress, but Lady Catherine is supposed to be tall and striking.
This film is striking only in its banality and use of cliches.
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