In particular, says Andrew, the Scottish double act in his second row has been spectacularly effective. |
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His willingness to fail spectacularly always seems to outweigh taking the easy option. |
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Even the much ballyhooed special effects manage to break down spectacularly in a couple of scenes. |
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For that average believer did not doubt that God's grace had been spectacularly displayed in the courage of the martyrs. |
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The second half continued in the same vein with Evans saving spectacularly from a Connor thunderbolt. |
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But it has spectacularly misfired in France, where they simply do not do things that way. |
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They had fallen spectacularly short at Euro 2004, eliminated in the first round. |
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Well it did well, it did spectacularly well, Mark, increasing the number of seats from around 50 to 150, tripling the number of seats. |
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In the end Mel lost out rather spectacularly to the two other, much less known, female singers. |
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But both of us know that he's just said something spectacularly ungenerous about the victims' families. |
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Yet it is for hitting form so spectacularly in Japan and Korea in the summer, that the award really must have his name on it. |
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Here is a city where we've dreamt brilliantly of virtue while doing spectacularly unvirtuous things. |
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The knights ride Andalusian crosses of sorrel and bay costumed spectacularly in body and headdress. |
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Its spectacularly veined silver leaves eject barbed blooms that can really bite. |
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At night, light from the interior radiates out in thousands of shimmering pinpricks, like a spectacularly illuminated porcupine. |
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He has seen Disney rise spectacularly from the ashes during his 11 years with the company. |
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Candelabras and aromatherapy candles are lit in the evening and reflect spectacularly in the large Venetian mirror. |
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He succeeds in becoming John Doe, even in the midst of such spectacularly false and manipulated media proceedings. |
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She's come a long way from being spectacularly awful as Michael Corleone's daughter. |
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He was yesterday sentenced to prison for his role in the fraud that led the company to collapse so spectacularly. |
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It's a non-trivial exercise and if something goes wrong, it can go spectacularly wrong. |
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We manage a whirlwind tour beneath some spectacularly striated sunset clouds of the older colleges, before changing for grad hall. |
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The new spectacularly rises from the old like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. |
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He examines sculpture, early printed books and wall-paintings in a spectacularly illustrated volume. |
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The systems failed spectacularly to meet the deadline for the new term, but we'll let that pass. |
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Another interesting charge is that the loss leading auditors are also spectacularly ineffective. |
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Their feelings festered until, six years later, it blew up spectacularly before the World Cup. |
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What it did do, spectacularly, was showcase how the loudest and best-connected Few can dictate customs to the Many. |
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Some trees produce spectacularly grained wood in curly, fiddleback, quilt, and bird's eye designs that are treasured by fine furniture makers. |
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The Sanctuary itself was spectacularly built and was very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. |
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The great crime-busting experiment did not merely fail, it flopped spectacularly. |
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Populated by some 68 indigenous ethic minorities, its spectacularly rugged countryside is dotted with their villages of stilted huts. |
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The reasons for the fomentation of militancy have been spectacularly perpetuated by your very own government. |
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As is now apparent, he and his cronies seemed to have lied spectacularly about it all. |
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The musical culture of Brazil is a spectacularly intricate one, rife with crossovers, subsections and variations. |
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The Muricidae includes many large, spectacularly spined and delicately fronded species which are favourites with collectors. |
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Home of the Bushmen, the arid reaches of the Kalahari has some spectacularly wild and remote game viewing areas. |
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She came up with several plans that failed spectacularly and finally decamped for England. |
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Coupled with a sincere belief in her innate cooking sense, this lack resulted in some spectacularly ghastly meals. |
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Geologically young, the Rockies exhibit faulting, glaciation, and volcanism, resulting in rugged, spectacularly scenic terrain. |
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A coastal path climbs spectacularly over a rocky promontory and brings you to L' Estagnol, where you will find a sheltered sandy cove. |
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Ordering pubescents about is a spectacularly unsuccessful way to influence their behaviour. |
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Around 18 months ago the issue blew up spectacularly after more than 40 party members signed a petition demanding that she be deselected. |
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Sadr and his fellow putschists have been spectacularly unsuccessful in winning popular support. |
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Screw up spectacularly just once and popular opinion will consign you to the cavalcade of history's bigger dills. |
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I must say Amsterdam is a great place, but my life expectancy would spectacularly diminish if I stayed there. |
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Today more than ever, this last frontier seems spectacularly attractive and remarkably enviable. |
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The demons dodged from side to side spectacularly avoiding the bullets as Scarlett knew they would. |
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Everyone is all courtesy and etiquette and even the ushers are spectacularly dressed. |
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Only a last-second jink to the left by Danny avoids a spectacularly violent end to their escape. |
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It is possible that a man might buy one because he was spectacularly well-endowed. |
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The Confederate navy was spectacularly successful with its commerce raiders, which harassed and destroyed Union ships in global warfare. |
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Mark and Scott had hit it off spectacularly, rattling on about soccer, airplanes, their favorite movies and t.v. shows, and the like. |
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The host's girlfriend is spectacularly out of her tree and makes no sense whatsoever, but is easily the most entertaining person present. |
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In addition, the Leader of the Opposition has twice been spectacularly wrong-footed over the aftermath of the conflict. |
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Young and old alike enjoyed taking walks to see the many houses that were spectacularly lit up for Christmas. |
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Twenty wolves were reintroduced in central Idaho, and the reintroduction was spectacularly successful. |
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Peter Bowler has spent years resurrecting old and forgotten words that are spectacularly precise in their meaning. |
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Here, spectacularly large groups of scolecite, heulandite, apophyllite, and associated minerals occurred in cavities in flood basalt. |
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Tonight it's given a spectacularly literal-minded and heterosexual interpretation and, for some reason, a cockney accent. |
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This stupendous sum has failed spectacularly to improve the lot of its intended beneficiaries. |
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When they brought their spectacularly lengthy and overwrought country rock show to town last year they attracted only a fraction of tonight's capacity crowd. |
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But I also felt called to sound a note of caution, even at this spectacularly joyful moment. |
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Lacking devoted patronage, there Telugu evolved into a spectacularly hideous argot. |
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Although there is an oversupply of holiday property in some areas, property prices in the more sought-after Turkish resorts have risen steadily rather than spectacularly. |
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The best new show of the year, which ended as spectacularly as it began, was unable to crack a well-established drama field. |
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Not all the manuscripts on show are spectacularly illuminated. |
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But even political columnists are bound by ordinary rules of inference and logic, and it is on this score that her book fails even more spectacularly. |
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You'll be glad to hear that my Christmas cacti are now dripping with pink buds and the geraniums on my frost-free balcony continue to bloom spectacularly. |
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That these qualities could desert him so spectacularly at the club's training ground in the face of one legitimate question is revealing, if not even alarming. |
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If you are being suspected of a little dodginess yourself, you don't want to spend your time consorting with a person of such a spectacularly dubious reputation. |
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The Waterford keeper advanced from his line to spectacularly parry Holt's thunderous shot from 18 yards before the ball had been hacked to safety. |
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They had been grazing in one of Crete's dozens of fabulous gorges, where sheer cliffs soar spectacularly on either side as you head for the Mediterranean Sea. |
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Adjoining the Music room gallery is a spectacularly decorated Music Room. |
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Similarly bold plans have misfired elsewhere, most memorably with the U.S. firm Iridium, whose scheme to provide global satellite phone coverage failed spectacularly. |
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At Zephyros, in 30m of water, the flukes of a sizeable anchor are visible, the chain running along the base of a cliff which rises spectacularly some 10m off the seabed. |
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He continues to manage the National Football League spectacularly, expanding globally and continuing to develop the top spectator sport in America. |
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I grew up in Massachusetts, where the bicentennial was a spectacularly big deal. |
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Still the Big Boy on the block, the American economy is growing, albeit not spectacularly. |
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Achieving warp speed, it turns out, is a spectacularly simple idea. |
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But his desire to prove a point backfired in a grim and unambitious contest which spectacularly failed to live up to its pre-fight hype as a clash between two big punchers. |
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The management of transport policy over several decades has been spectacularly inept, aside from the understandable underestimation of population numbers. |
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They sought to transform such pagan revelries into the feast of Christ's circumcision, a calendrical amputation that proved spectacularly unsuccessful. |
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He was spectacularly ugly, with not a redeeming physical feature. |
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The public is invited to a weekend open house to tour the new facility, which is the spectacularly renovated Riverside Silk Mill on the bank of the Grand River. |
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The man already has been discredited by the inexcusable mismanagement of his portfolio and by his spectacularly somnolent performance in the house. |
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The brothers had spectacularly yo-yoing lives, but all the expeditions to far-flung places and fraternal love-hatred have not been harnessed into a shapely book. |
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With the exception of the Bay of Pigs, the agency has succeeded repeatedly, sometimes spectacularly. |
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He did well during his plebe year but not spectacularly, earning a class rank of 161st out of more than 800 classmates. |
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The returning train was derailed by the drunken pachyderms, and by the time the line was cleared and we arrived back in the capital, I was feeling spectacularly rough. |
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The brooches, which had been very large and spectacularly ornate, gave way in the later ninth century to smaller, monochromatic silver and black pieces. |
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Their attacks on military targets have failed spectacularly. |
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Richly glazed and often spectacularly potted, the sources for these works include Anglo-Saxon cremation urns, Peruvian vases and, on at least one occasion, a Fijian carving. |
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This comes with the warning that this plan can backfire spectacularly. |
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So why would conservatives keep giving money to groups that are losing so spectacularly? |
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This humble plant feeds the greatest gatherings of wildlife found anywhere on Earth as this programme so spectacularly shows. |
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The next flight on October 15 failed spectacularly when the second stage ignited on the pad and took off by itself. |
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He just shot a spectacularly over his head round of golf and beat all of us. |
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This groundwater later flows back to the surface in springs, or more spectacularly in hot springs and geysers. |
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The Zulu nation spectacularly defeated the British at the Battle of Isandlwana. |
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The reforms proved spectacularly successful in terms of increased output, variety, quality, price and demand. |
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After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent tail. |
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That may work spectacularly well, or it may alienate some users. |
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More spectacularly, the end of Protoarchaeopteryxs tail sported a fan of feathers that are vaned, suggesting the presence of barbules. |
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Close up, either full-face or in profile, he was surpassingly handsome, even spectacularly so. |
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Yet when the spectacularly successful Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel murders Thatcher in a new story there is talk of reporting her to the rozzers. |
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Roberts fell out spectacularly with Souness at the end of the 87-88 season and quickly discovered that his gaffer had no intention of forgiving or forgetting. |
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As the movements progress, the prominence of the piano diminishes spectacularly, though it remains there as an orchestral vamper right towards the end. |
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Mind you, BLUE MURDER was so spectacularly dreadful it needed a star of monumentally mind-numbing dullness, so a touch of rigor mortis was a definite advantage. |
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Little of Moray's spectacularly successful campaign is recorded. |
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