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This is not a story of a nameless survivor of war, and nameless refugees, whose stereotypical images we see in our newspapers and our TV with tattered clothes, dirty face, scared eyes.
Like the others, I wear a flickering, cheap flashlight tied to my head with this elastic, tattered band, and I can barely make out the slick tree limbs holding up the walls of the three-foot square hole dropping hundreds of feet into the earth.
He lived in constant fear every day that his precious, tattered motorcycle would be ripped away from him, as it had before.
And it was this tattered complexity in the rock record that obscured its meaning until relatively recently.
On the front, you can see the tattered black-and-white photo of a woman's face, and on the back it says, "To Judy, the girl with the Bill Bailey voice.
We all come to the classroom, to work, back to our homes, a little bit tired and a little bit tattered sometimes.
I see large groups of women in tattered uniforms surrounded by huge walls and gates, enclosed by iron barbed wires, and I get hit by an awful stench, and I ask myself, how did I move from working in the respected financial banking sector, having worked so hard in school, to now being locked up in the largest correctional facility for women in Kenya?
The orange filaments that you see there are the tattered remains of the star, and are made primarily of hydrogen, while the blue and red filaments that you see are the freshly synthesized oxygen.
They represent different jobs: a piper, a ballerina, a clown, a man in a tattered hat.
Buttoned-up Ray Milland makes an amusing foil for a Dietrich with black hair, tattered scarves, and tons of jewelry.
the movie opens with a beautiful lady in a tattered white gown running through a stereotypical eastern european town.
The third thread,the grungy tale of Blackie and his tattered little gang, gets us closest to a dark and frightening noir world.Palance's Blackie is as cold as a block of ice.
I feel that if I look down I will see the tattered remains of the person I was before I saw this movie floating in a pool of my lost humanity.
The color is primarily blue, a dusk or night scene of a ship with tattered sails, clouds suggesting the form of a skull, and the shadowy shape of a giant scorpion rippling in the water.
I was able to relate to the over-the-topness here, as I once had to race half a mile across a shopping mega-mall to retrieve my own son's tattered binkie remnant from the the shadows below the back seat of a new black pick-up truck he'd crawled through while it was on display in the mall's horse-track-sized center aisle.
He had a deeply tanned sun-worn, old-before-his-time look (may have been in his 30's, 40's or 50's; hard to tell), wore somewhat tattered clothes, and kept his old cowboy hat titled low over his eyes.
Now, as a 45-yaear-old teacher, I've found a tattered copy of the novelization in a used bookstore.
A bomb goes off right under your nose with loads of people lying dead and wounded but our various heroes barely have a scratch except for their tattered clothes!
When I reached the dilapidated school building, students were trickling in for the day in their tattered uniforms.
The conditions imposed by the “troika” – the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund – amount to an indefinite delay in addressing the needs of those asked to sacrifice and in repairing tattered social safety nets.
As tattered as that process may look, there is still plenty of room for further deterioration.
As a former home secretary, security is clearly her strong suit, and she has now gone a long way toward repairing her tattered authority in Parliament.
These families have lost everything but the tattered clothes on their backs.
Today, that illusion is tattered.
Given the feeble US response to the crises in Syria, Ukraine, and other geopolitical hot spots, the American security blanket in Asia looks increasingly tattered.
Five years later, the same question is being asked about the tattered, demoralised Conservatives, who seem on the verge of a party split which could condemn them to opposition for decades.
A different and healthy conservative response is possible if the tattered remnants of old threads, torn apart in the course of postcommunist modernization, can reconnect and grow together in a new way.
All these tattered arguments were replayed at the G-8 summit in Okinawa last week.
Only then will she be able to begin the job of repairing America’s tattered reputation by shoring up its neglected public diplomacy.
Those who remain must share tattered textbooks and do without crucial resources.
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