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Sometimes it is the natural environment in largely unaltered form.

Chanel lets in the inspector, who promptly demands that she surrender the family’s forbidden microwave oven.

Pouring the tea into a dainty cup, feeling its warmth in my hands, I sank into the cushions and inhaled the scent of ground leaves.

“They are one of the most genuine families,” she said of the Petersens. Seattle Times (Dec 24, 2013)

The store owner said the man had an incendiary device inside his coat.

Cohen is also a magician, and his coat pockets are filled with novelties for gags and tricks.

In fact, conducts most its conjugal activity inside the larvae of moths, beetles, mosquitoes and other insects, rather than in the soil. Scientific American (Sep 3, 2013)

Not all low status groups are in this invidious position.

Many are taught that science moves forward in discreet, cumulative steps; that truth builds upon truth as the tapestry of the universe slowly unfolds.  Scientific American (Dec 4, 2013)

We both got what we wanted, with a bit of agitation.

As in the past, Mr. Feinstein was very clear about distinguishing the secular from the religious aspects of Christmas.

Another shouted "coconut" - a derogatory term that means you are brown on the outside but white inside.

Yet, time and again, independent India has proved that elections, and not melodramatic mass protests, are the true revolutions in a democracy.

She drew a more elongated eye, very feline and Bianca Jagger.

The 114 partners, mostly men, reported low desire, primarily because of fatigue and stress.

The path was well beaten, but rendered incommodious by the large stones which lay along it. Mackenzie, Alexander

"They feel they should give dignified care to all those patients on their shift."

But his aunt began using the money to make extravagant personal purchases, he said.

Next thing you know, a bone was protruding from his skin.

An incurably sick child, a request to die, a lethal injection.

He just calls me insensitive and callous for keeping him from his family while his mother is ill. Slate (Jan 7, 2014)

Muslims and Christians, he later argued, were fighting an inexorable war.

Follow There are few things Americans dislike as much as Europeans being sanctimonious.

Or it could approve a broadly drawn, but vacuous resolution, handing the president a blank check. Salon (Sep 9, 2013)

He looked carefree, but who knows what such an unctuous person really feels?

How is Lydia, craven capitalist that she is, really worse than Walt? Slate (Sep 30, 2013)

If you try to do that, it becomes insipid, unsubstantiated, and usually, little more than promotion.

Of all the fatuous statements made in these dispiriting hearings, this was the worst. Slate (Oct 25, 2013)

You're entirely as pusillanimous and deceitful as the politicians you describe.

He tries to bully her, but she is the daughter he raised: smart and obstreperous. Time (Sep 23, 2012)

As usual, when one person loves the other much more than is reciprocated, the power is all on the side of the less loving. Slate (Dec 13, 2013)

The distance between us had become unfathomable, and my spirits sank to a depth I had never known.

Fear of social ostracism drives many to take risks.

Have contingency plans ready if news requires a quick shift or decision at the end of March through April, and at some point in October.

He is expected to remain in hospital for a further week, followed by a period of convalescence of about two months.

In a dark suit and white, open-collar shirt, Prince is sitting warily in a hotel suite above New York’s Times Square.

This ravenous desire for food was new to him, or at least he had no memory of experiencing anything like it.

She’s stunning, sassy and a bit standoffish, which turns Jon into a puddle glistening with hair oil.

Apocalyptic scenes of dense smog have recently forced major cities including Shanghai and Harbin to virtually shut down.