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[Individual results may vary] (Laughter) The thinner I was, the longer I was able to hold my breath.
This is 100 times thinner than a human hair.
Characters are thinner than cardboard cutouts, behave stupid and without any real motivation.
I thought that Mr T looked thinner though, but it was still great to see how he looked after all this time.
The father of the dead gypsy woman places a curse on the 3, with our main character, Billy (the lawyer) getting thinner and thinner by the day.
You can't miss his voice and facial expressions, even though he's much thinner and younger than in the SNL days.
This does not bode well for the Cat in the Hat, an even thinner tome that Universal is prepping for this Christmas.
It looks like some amateur high on paint thinner made this film.
With a plot thinner than depression era cabbage soup, horrific acting, and special effects that look like they came out of the "Thunderbirds" TV series, it is amazing that Widmark didn't kill the director for putting this black mark on his resume.
I'm just amazed how such established actresses as Lange and Paltrow have been agreed to take part in this 'plot is thinner than silk-paper'-film (blackmailing?
Carole Bouquet is the thinner Conchita who is somewhat severe.
Other cast include a younger and thinner Anthony Lapaglia of Without A Trace fame, Mark Boone Jr. who now appears in the FX series, Sons of Anarchy, and a special appearance by Samuel L. Jackson.
There is absolutely no difference between the cut-out and the real thing except that the cut-out is carved on the sides to make it look thinner.
The victims are hooked up to various apparatuses - one guy is pumped full of blood thinner until he bleeds to death, another is scorched with heat-lamps - all hooked up to the web with the equipment increasing with the view toll...
The three girls in it are outgunning each other to see who can play it worse...I give it to the girl with the glasses simply because of the glasses..they just add that bit of unbelievability that clinches it for me...the plot is thinner than Kojack's wig...the script was written by someone clearly drunk...and the score...well...defies belief.
One explanation could be that trading is often thinner during the holiday season, so any disturbance inevitably has a bigger impact.
Even as reputable firms ensure the quality of all their inputs, this loophole can allow unsafe products to enter the market, as occurred in 2008, when at least 81 Americans died after receiving doses of the blood thinner heparin that contained adulterated Chinese material.
Wealth would grow, Marx argued, but would benefit the few, not the many: the forest of upraised arms looking for work would grow thicker and thicker, while the arms themselves would grow thinner and thinner.
Moreover, after a seemingly unending litany of stories about tainted Chinese products, a row has now erupted between China and the United States regarding contaminated Chinese heparin, a blood thinner.
The reason is that the ice is also getting thinner.
If the ice cover simultaneously shrinks and gets thinner, then the shrinkage in area is first steady but then accelerates towards the end, when the remaining ice becomes ever thinner and more vulnerable to melting.
They are more fragile, and their households’ economic buffers and safety nets are thinner.
And, where possible, manufacturers should “down-gauge” materials (make parts thinner).
These assets are much thinner in European militaries.
As a result, global leadership and cooperation will remain in limited supply, requiring a carefully calibrated response in the world economy’s governance – specifically, a thinner set of rules that recognizes the diversity of national circumstances and demands for policy autonomy.
Similarly, a particular gene seems to control sensitivity to warfarin, a blood thinner, so knowing about an individual’s variant of that gene can help a patient’s doctor to set the right dose.
Deregulation meant competition and thinner margins.
But agreement is thinner than it appears.
And it is getting thinner.
But sea ice is not only covering less area; it is also thinner than ever.
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