How To Use So to speak In A Sentence
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Doing so would nullify one's neutrality so to speak.
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~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~ en tout cas = in any case; façon de parler = so to speak; à peu près = almost, more or less; le français (m) = French; l'anglais (m) = English; le bât (m) = packsaddle
Faux amis - French Word-A-Day
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He urged bluenoses to take ladies of the street into their homes until they got back on their feet, so to speak.
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His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
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God's difference is categorially different, so to speak, from one creature's otherness from a second creature.
Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
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Why," asks Poincaré, "do certain degrees of freedom appear to play no part here; why are they, so to speak, 'ankylosed'?
A Librarian's Open Shelf
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Americans also have a strong technological bias, and are a people of tools and gadgets, so to speak.
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This marked the end of the first phase of -- so to speak -- the scarabaean side of his life.
Something New
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Page 340, footnote 3. _idem etiam_, etc.: he says also that Jupiter is the power of this law, eternal and immutable, which is the guide, so to speak, of our life and the principle of our duties; a law which he calls a fatal necessity, an eternal truth of future things.
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
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I once got through half a sudoku puzzle while being on the job, so to speak.
The Sun
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The novel's title is apt - so to speak - since "Salute the Dark" is brutal with the characters who are treated mercilessly as befits persons caught in total war, while the atmosphere is tensioned and menacing almost end to end, keeping me to the edge until the final denouements.
"Salute the Dark" by Adrian Tchaikovsky with bonus first peek at its US cover by artist Jon Sullivan (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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But to Carlyle people in conversation requires constant practice with a master -- _consuetudine quotidiana cum aliquo congredi_ -- and he had for so long a time knocked everybody down without meeting the least resistance, that victory had palled upon him, and he had, so to speak, "vinegared" on himself.
Memoirs
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Elsewhere, again, might be seen the first awakening of this Maytime of the leaves, and those of an ampelopsis, a smiling miracle, like a red hawthorn flowering in winter, had that very morning all ‘come out,’ so to speak, in blossom.
Swann's Way
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Is it time to obfuscate obscurantism, so to speak, even to oneself?
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His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
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Now that everyone knows that Ikey cheated with Owen's wife, their relationship is "very fractured for a good long while ... and eventually Ikey will go over to the dark side, so to speak.
"October Road" Season Two Scoop from the Executive Producer
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prototyped," so to speak, by well-crafted animation sequences which illustrate the invention in action, resulting in a slick, 2-minute-long package of ideas, personalities and even the occasional funny gag.
GigaOM Network
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Mr. GOLIJOV: I wanted to surround that beautiful melody with what I call the seething anger of the Arab streets, so to speak.
Composer Golijov, Soprano Upshaw Unite for 'Ayre'
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In trying to find solutions to refugee problems everywhere, UNHCR must invariably "mediate", so to speak, between the concerns of states, and the rights, wishes and aspirations of refugees.
The Current Problems of Refugee Populations
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To stem the tide, so to speak, the Pebble Beach Company has undertaken major projects at major expense.
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So even when I read an old series that is done, I leave some time between the books to "decant" so to speak.
Reviews: MultiReal / Starship: Mutiny
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The negative attacks on Obama should have been begun from the get-go, so as to disallow Obama to get his message across and pigeonhole him so to speak.
Matthew Yglesias » Organizing Your People
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It was in the third scene of the second act; Spiegelberg discoursing with Razmann, observes, "An honest man you may form of windle-straws; but to make a rascal you must have grist: besides, there is a national genius in it, a certain rascal-climate, so to speak.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
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Well, if I'm trying to climb back on the blogging wagon, so to speak, I suppose I could do a lot worse than talk about a meeting - maybe it would be more accurate to say 'altercation' - that I had on the job with an angry, unhappy woman.
This Side of Glory
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It's one thing to put up a security fence, a barrier that is clearly on your property, the dividing line, so to speak, in order to protect yourself.
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M. ERIC DYSON: I think that, you know, we're engaging in some rhetorical fisticuffs, so to speak, a kind of pugilism of the domestic sphere.
CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008
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They might prefer to buy them frozen, defrost them at home and eat them freshly defrosted, so to speak, not after they have been sitting in a pool of water for several days.
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Perhaps the jewel in the crown, so to speak, of the Central Business District or ‘The Fort’ is the old colonial Army and Navy Store, built in 1889, when Victorian memsahibs with parasols went shopping with their servants.
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The cutters often worked in a vacuum, so to speak, relying on spot checks and routine searches during their patrols.
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The formation was not broken even then, each battleplane continuing to cover its individual bombing plane with the shelter of its wings, so to speak, though at the same time fighting off the aggressors.
Air Service Boys Flying for Victory or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold
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Well, I was kind of draggin 'a seine through my head, so to speak, tryin' to haul aboard a likely name for the critter, and fetchin 'the net in empty every time, when one day that -- er -- what-d'ye-call-it?
Fair Harbor
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They have had to seek work as labourers on the farms of the wealthy and become, so to speak, a rural proletariat.
Science, Technology, and Social Change
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Much of this will be a matter of uncapping the natural safety mechanisms against excessive strain that humans have evolved with - overclocking the grunt, so to speak.
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It could work in the same way that comic books bridge universes, so to speak.
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I ought not to tell you but I will, since you're in the family, so to speak.
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The “toe is in the door” so to speak, and instead of whining about repealing it, repugs should have some integrity for a change and actually try to help Democrats make it better.
Think Progress » Rep. Steve King frustrated that GOP leadership is not fully embracing ObamaCare repeal.
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Incidentally, the spurs which form the northern and southern jaws, so to speak, would not form a continuous ridge if the mouth were filled in, but would overlap (or to use a military term which expresses the idea concisely, they are "in echelon"), the one which comes from the north being some thirty yards east of the one which comes from the south.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure
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Therefore the robberee was the murderee, so to speak.
The Saint in Action
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They bought her, so to speak, in Cajun country from her mother for $500 and two dresses.
Interest Turns Away, But Gulf Coast Still Suffers
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It is, so to speak, the multiplication table of work design.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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If you think about the natural evolution of, for example, a “pidgin” language which then undergoes a process of “creolization” as its role slowly changes from a “lingua franca” used by speakers of two communities to the main vehicle of communication amongst a community of speakers, then you may see that this flattening-out so to speak of cultural peculiarities follows naturally from the participation of speakers from different cultures in its development.
“Who CARES what English people have for breakfast?” My contribution to the culture debate… « Ken Wilson's Blog
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In regard to my print book reviews, my editor is a lot like my radio producer; busy, not wishing to be put on the spot so to speak by an author or a publicist.
How to prepare an author for an interview « The Book Publicity Blog
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So your forte , so to speak, is defense, not scoring points.
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The Princess Zairoff, to whom men's admiration was as familiar as the air of Heaven, who possessed rank and wealth and loveliness such as dower few women, had yet never granted to one human being a sign of tenderness, or unveiled, so to speak, the deep strange depths of her strange nature, to any beseechment.
The Mystery of a Turkish Bath
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The sun of the Roman Empire set, so to speak, in the East, and it is to Byzantium we must turn our eyes for the continuation of the art of horsemanship as of the Fine Arts.
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On another similar occasion they rode their bikes, all seven of them, into the Big Yard of St Mary's College hooting and tooting, waving their blue and blue ensignias, raising hell, so to speak, until they were chased out.
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On May 17, 1792, after years of shouting out on the street, a group of 24 prominent brokers met under a buttonwood tree at what is now 68 Wall Street and decided to move indoors, so to speak.
Make Way for the Virtual Exchange
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Only at twelve noon it might be partly realized when the prolonged "toots" of seven factory whistles at once let off, so to speak, the hour.
The Imperialist
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I can't get it out of my head that we're being "gassed" so to speak by those who do such things.
Dear God - Most of Us Need to Talk to You About the Few of Us Who are Scaring All of Us
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The front row, arms linked, took the brunt but when the set scrum collapsed, so to speak, the greater danger fell to the second row.
A DEAD LIBERTY
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Now that he has put on Christ, he personates Him, so to speak, as a beggar in borrowed robes represents a king on the stage, walking as he also walked.
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To be honest the school itself intimidated her, with its stainless reputation, wealthy attendants, and so to speak beautiful people.
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And it is in this arena that the ‘earthliness’ of the Church often gets caught up with its divine aspect - where the rubber hits the road, so to speak.
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However, to date, the provincial government is dragging its travois, so to speak.
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Since they already owed everything to God before they sinned and incurred debt on top of that, they are in the hole of obligation to God, so to speak.
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God that he would make the word effectual to the salvation of the soul; still being grieved lest the enemy should take the word away from the conscience, and so it should become unfruitful: wherefore I have labored so to speak the word, as that thereby, if it were possible, the sin and person guilty might be particularized by it.
The Riches of Bunyan
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The pulpit is to all other professions what philosophy is to the various schools of science -- exercises supervisory power, and by a tap here and a prod there, makes them consentient with its own infallible scheme of things, so to speak.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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Tina and Bette are the glue that hold the friends together so them off into the NY sunset is a good way to "unglue" the collective ... so to speak.
AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
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The reason is plain: he was, so to speak, of two parties, yet of neither: the one could not forgive his early aspirations for liberty, uttered in imperishable verse; the other could not pardon what they called his desertion of their cause, when he saw that England was willing to do, and was doing, justice to Ireland.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
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The feat of imitating nature in the laboratory was a truly exciting experience — as Wöhler expressed it in his often-quoted letter to Berzelius: "I can no longer, so to speak, hold my chemical water and must tell you that I can make urea without needing a kidney, whether of man or dog; the ammonium salt of cyanic acid is urea.
Wöhler, Friedrich
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One would seek to undercut or outmaneuver countervailing coalitions, a latter-day British grand strategy, so to speak.
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It is however, of immense importance, so to speak, from another angle.
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They slam the door in your face, so to speak.
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He is, Himself, that outer, He the encompassment and measure of all things; or rather He is within, at the innermost depth; the outer, circling round Him, so to speak, and wholly dependent upon Him, is Reason-Principle and Intellectual-Principle-or becomes Intellectual-Principle by contact with Him and in the degree of that contact and dependence; for from Him it takes the being which makes it
The Six Enneads.
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The historian is like the connoisseur who recognizes the artist not by that which is characteristic of him (and consequently imitable) but by that which, so to speak, spontaneously 'escaped' him.
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The farmer is making a few last turns with his cultivator, sweeping up, so to speak, the last bit of straw left at the corners of the field.
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Thus Hecataeus conceived the idea of puri - fying tradition of its miraculous elements and of doing so, so to speak, on a psychological basis.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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I've just looked at the pictures of the fish, and it looks even less prepossessing than it did in the flesh, so to speak.
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If an autobiography is the true and full story of one's life -- the entire trip so to speak -- a memoir examines recurring scenes along the way.
Will Weaver: Making Sense of the Memoir
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Maybe what those sued should do being that they cannot win anyway is lay down in court so to speak.
Jammie Thomas: facing the RIAA alone
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And the deeper you go into the ocean, you know, the colder that water is, so that's going to upwell a little bit and it's going to lose a little bit of its octane fuel, so to speak, to feed that storm.
CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008
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I'd carved a very comfortable niche, so to speak.
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So we want him to kind of batten down the hatches, so to speak here, because I think the back side of the storm is going to be coming on through, and the winds should be picking up very dramatically, maybe even within the next half an hour or so.
CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2007
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So we're going to hear the title clip, so to speak, the title scene in which the police captain actually makes the proposition.
The Twisted Words Of Nick Cave
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We must remember that this psychic radar is a late-early twentieth century innovation, and that our forefathers were technologically unequipped, so to speak, either to broadcast or to receive such signals, that "[w] hile the [inner-directed] frontiersman cooperated with his sparse neighbors in mutual self-help activities, such as housebuilding or politics, his main preoccupation was with physical, not with human, nature.
AFF Doublethink Online
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Ada predicted that a computing machine could compose music, draw graphics and find application, so to speak, in business and science.
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Robert BlyMinor poet who became chief drumbeater (so to speak) for the men's movement with his manifesto "Iron John.
The Newsweek 100
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We take the consuming trend seriously at any moment and focus on the manufacturing of creative and special product, So to speak, Beau Ideal is a bright star in Chinese seasoning industry.
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As to the question of hierarchy, it’s not directly based on the detestableness that I perceive, but the degree it is unwise for impressionable minds to blindly imitate, combined with those ideas that lack a rationally-based rationale so to speak... which, in turn, leads to the “detestableness”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Privacy Law and Ethics Questions:
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It's also one of the most deliriously iconic gay porn movies ever made, even though I'm not much of an afficionado of the genre (would rather do it than watch it, so to speak).
Trade agreement
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She impulsively threw in the last, so to speak a catchall, because the penultimate charge was more than a bit doubtful, Chuck’s not having performed unnaturally in bed, and in fact the previous one had slim support, for she had never seen his gun if indeed he had one.
The Houseguest
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Minutes as good will be sent by email to those who have been electronically up to date, as good as by unchanging mail to members who have been still ensnared in snail station (so to speak).
Archive 2009-11-01
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He is, so to speak, a bit too cruel to his wife.
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The cargoes are my wedding gifts and dowry, so to speak, only because she fears us.
The Towers of the Sunset
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Gledwood2. blogspot is my main place, my online "Secret Diary" where my confessions pour out - so to speak!
I am Awash in Memory
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It isn't recorded as 'Arthurian' till the 16th century, but it remained in the Britosphere well after the Arthurian tradition was established, so local folklore had something to hang its hat on, so to speak.
A Bishop of Chester?
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Secretly, he'd toy with the idea of outplaying his brother, wiping the court with him, so to speak.
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These points became more and more worthy of note as the war went on, and the North, after its first clumsy struggles, went to work with more earnestness, made a real blockade, and by enormous levies from a worthless population which it was only too glad to expend, measured its military purse, so to speak, against that of the South, but to a large extent gave counters for sovereigns.
London: Saturday, December 26, 1863
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He is, so to speak, a bit too cruel to his wife.
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The property you are about to buy should be in a place that's just a stone's throw away , so to speak, for the sake of convenience.
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In christening the play, the trio decided to take racism by the horns, so to speak -- hence the title appended to fliers posted around campus, circa 2003.
News from www.pantagraph.com
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As a result, two views of life, so to speak, were lodged in the corporal's incapacious head: on the one hand, he could not suppress his sense of injury against the German lieutenant who had thrown down 1,500 roubles and not a kopeck more; on the other, he did not dare forget that he had been initiated by the 'directing German representatives" into the whole German espionage system, including all its agents and banks.
My Life
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Try playing around with a few reports -- the Analytics interface is specifically designed to be intuitive and "discoverable," so to speak.
Google Analytics 101 (Part 1)
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Immediately over the "midship" section of the hull, and extending one hundred and fifty feet in either direction fore and aft from this point, placed upon the "back," so to speak, of the hull, was a superstructure shaped somewhat like the above-water portion of a double-ended Thames steamboat, with a deck, thirty feet in width at its broadest part, protected by an open railing in place of the usual bulwarks.
With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure
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[4] The Vulgate renders here, _cupio dissolvi_, as if _analysai_ meant, so to speak, to "analyse" myself into my elements, to separate my soul from my body.
Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
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But the real features of the Egyptian _serdab_, which was the essential part, the nucleus so to speak, of the _mastaba_, are best preserved in the so-called "holed dolmens" of the Levant, the Caucasus, and India.
The Evolution of the Dragon
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We lurked in the shrubbery until the last light had been extinguished, then broke in using the side window that Raffles had jemmied the previous evening -- the butler had evidently not thought it worth bolting the stable door, so to speak -- opened the safe, and took the stones, which were, Raffles whispered, quite undisturbed.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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Your body stores and releases glycogen from the liver during these active times, but it only has so much ... so when cycling for example, people will 'bonk' or 'hit the wall', where they just run out of juice, so to speak.
Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes
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And here's the fibre landscape, finished now (last night) except the finishing, so to speak - I am not quite sure how I am going to edge it, but I think the first order of business is another layer of pelmet vilene for stability, and then perhaps a nice fabric back (fused on) to be pretty.
Archive 2007-09-01
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The trick is to, so to speak, "prolong" eternity on this plane.
One Cosmos
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Thus a new saeculum might begin at any time, and might be endowed with special religious significance by certain solemn ceremonies; in this way the people might be persuaded that a new leaf, so to speak, had been turned over in their history: that all past evil, material or moral, had been put away and done with (_saeculum condere_), and a new period entered on of innocence and prosperity.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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Plato himself; a purely dramatic invention, it might perhaps have been fancied, or, so to speak, an idolon theatri -- Plato's self, but presented, with the reserve appropriate to his fastidious genius, in a kind of stage disguise.
Plato and Platonism
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You know, maybe that movie may have brought it to people's consciousness -- that it may have kind of amped things up, so to speak.
CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2007
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Or put it a third way, so to speak: things had better get better, and sharpish, if we're going to stay chums.
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Alternative versions of the same basic story will follow their own parallel paths, the sum of these versions constituting a plane, extending sideways, so to speak, in lateral time.
Archive 2007-12-01
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I mean, and given that Reeves has a year if not more of time to "get into character," and also that he is a fan of series, will again reiterate the perfection I feel he will instill in bringing Spike to life - so to speak. indigo86 (4/29/2009 8: 59: 12 PM)
Keanu Reeves Eager To Do ‘Something Good’ With ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Movie » MTV Movies Blog
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The two are not coactive, but the Evil is, so to speak, the only activity invading the passive sphere or abyss of
Christian Doctrine of Sin
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It's a conceptual tool for trying to evaluate enormously complex situations in the midst of a gospel that is, so to speak, biased toward blessing peacemakers.
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GREAT to hear from you, Liz (so to speak -- grin), and your insight is a welcome addition.
DISABILITY 101: SOME GUIDELINES
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The new procedures have been officially christened, so to speak.
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Its life is about short-term conflicts, blazing rows in the pub, so to speak, mysterious plots and unfathomable motivations.
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This was two silver tortoises against a brilliant red hare, so to speak.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your base of operations, so to speak, has been abstracted from the underlying computer.
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Let's also recognise that wherever we build in Basingstoke today, so to speak, tomorrow the planners will be looking elsewhere within the borough.
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These ‘miniature jobs’ so to speak tend to involve a lot of grit work and a bit of being a gopher, but they also provide a valuable learning experience.
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Translated into armor, the poulaine fad became downright dangerous: Austrian knights at the battle of Sempach in 1386 were riveted to the spot by their elongated iron shoes and were forced to strike off the points with their swords or be caught flat-footed, so to speak.
Futures Imperfect
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(Hey, did you know the Y chromo is shrinking - so to speak?
Think Progress » Bolton: ‘This is Put Up or Shut Up Time For Iran,’ Unilateral Military Action Is ‘On The Table’
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[ "Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, and now must my lord preach his first sermon to the Jews: as it was of old cared for in the merciful bowels of the Church, that, so to speak, a crumb at least from her conspicuous table here in Rome should be, though but once yearly, cast to the famishing dogs, under-trampled and bespitten-upon beneath the feet of the guests.
Dramatic Romances
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We have to pull down the barriers, so to speak, of poverty.
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At first, I thought the gunshot was the sound of the “nut cracker,” so to speak.
100 Mysteries: the Green Glove – The Bleat.
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The instinct to follow the herd can be rationalised as rational, so to speak, since everybody benefits in the short term by forcing the price up.
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Diene synthesis is a special case, where, owing to certain geometrical and arithmetical relations, growth of the atom chain by attachment of new molecules ceases. lnstead, the chain catches its own tail, so to speak, and forms itself into a ring which can grow no further.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950 - Presentation Speech
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Bombs are going off all the time, but we could call it a "banalization" of violence: people sitting in one room no longer pay attention to the bomb going off next door, so to speak.
Iraq on the Edge
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Last season he still kept involved in the game, compiling scouting reports for clubs and also going to watch games just to keep his ‘finger-in’, so to speak.
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He has taken to singing a song of his own composition at the end of his speeches, in order to gee up the troops, so to speak.
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Among normally didynamous plants such numerical restitution, so to speak, is not unusual; thus, in _Veronica_ four and five stamens occur.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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I said I even thought it probable that their vivid feeling anticipated the day, -- that the interval between, so to speak, was "foreshortened" to them; but that
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
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Illuminator, aimer of light, chastiser of mankind, the poet is the possessor of a Sesame which in a mysterious way is, so to speak, the word of his destiny.
Vicente Aleixandre - Nobel Lecture
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This doesn't mean he won't fool around with men when it's socially demanded, or when it's convenient, because let's face it, he's an eighteen-year-old man in a homosocial society and honey, any port in a storm (so to speak) -- but to me at least it's pretty obvious that all his limerence is directed at women.
Criminal Minds 4x22 and 4x23
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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud
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Her posting raised the stakes, so to speak and the DI had to distantiate itself from suggesting that the SI’s sponsorship of the showing implied support for
Darwinbots and the Smithsonian 'controversy' - The Panda's Thumb
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This is not the only one of the relationships that is ‘theologized,’ so to speak.
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Google Earth enthusiasts have located various places and "bookmarked" them, so to speak.
Unusual Historicals
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Inside the word "burnish," by a neat linguistic accident, lies the word "burn" — the copper shines because of the burning heat of the sun, so to speak.
Emperor of Nostalgia
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That means if someone starts to campaign on their behalf, so to speak, and breaks the rules, they can be held liable.
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There is a twofold kind of debt upon the creature, one remissible and pardonable, another irremissible and unpardonable, (so to speak,) the debt of sin, and that is the guilt of it, which is nothing else than the obligation of the sinner over to eternal condemnation by virtue of the curse of God.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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In effect, the court constitutionalised, so to speak, an absolute limitation.
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What I knows, certain, is this -- we gets in here about eight o'clock this morning, and makes fast here, and ever since then them two's been as it were on the fret and the fidge, allers lookin 'out, so to speak, for summun as ain't come yet.
Scarhaven Keep
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Finally, I found the story consistent and true-hearted to the Warhammer Fantasy setting, which I appreciate, because I want to be drowned into it, so to speak.
BL Live « Chris Wraight
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Seems to me that part of the attraction of skinny-dipping is the element of excitement at the possibility of being discovered so, you may be the 'icing' on the cake, so to speak.
While on the Humptullips River, Wa. I came around a bend and upon three college girl types skinny dipping.
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If this instance be taken as typical of the process of evolution in general, then the course of evolution is not, so to speak, linear or rectilinear, but -- to use M. Bergson's word -- 'dispersive'.
Recent Developments in European Thought
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For example, poets not unoften use the walls to publish their work, so to speak.
Magicians of Gor
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Your base of operations, so to speak, has been abstracted from the underlying computer.
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He is, so to speak, a bit too cruel to his wife.
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Mr. Reesling was silent for a long time, letting the idea crystallize, so to speak.
Anderson Crow, Detective
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_Danville Quarterly Review_ for December, 1861, he argued, from the observed division of Biela, and other less noted instances of the same kind, that the sun exercises a "divellent influence" on the nuclei of comets, which may be presumed to continue its action until their corporate existence (so to speak) ends in complete pulverisation.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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They now have some rather fancy houses on floating structures that are ‘tied-down’ so to speak, to huge poles to keep them anchored.
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And the condition, which supposes that the maternal organism is, so to speak, infected, by the male congress, is called telegony.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Consciousness or "interiority" is posited (sensibly enough) as intrinsically heteronomousits own other, so to speak.
Reply to Theresa Kelley
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The tuft of his grey hair, his eye, the brow of which was raised by his monocle to emit a smile, the red flowers in his buttonhole formed, so to speak, the three mobile apices of a convulsive and striking triangle.
The Guermantes Way
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In the original single-batch versions of vapor phase, a large vat, so to speak, contained a fluid that had a specific boiling point - usually around 210°C, not coincidentally the full liquidus temperature of SnPb37.
Undefined
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Hence it is most apt to occur precisely at, and immediately following, that period of life known as matureness, when the sanguineous system becomes fully developed and gains the mastery, so to speak, over the lymphatic and nervous systems.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
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Besides, although I'm not a father I am a lawyer and I can assure you that you can take his submission as gospel truth, so to speak.
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They have the same ethereal qualities so to speak, as angels, and they're also messengers because an angel is also a messenger.
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If instead of the soul's desire being simply the victory of love over malice it were, so to speak, the "material fruit" of such a victory -- namely, the survival of personality after death -- then, in place of the struggle between love and malice, we should be compelled to regard _personality in itself_, apart from the nature of that personality, as the secret of the universe.
The Complex Vision
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If you have your own set of burning questions, you will have to do your own legwork, so to speak.
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Year round, it was always just airish enough to keep the reptile population in her lean-to down to a bare minimum, and with the deck chairs she had sitting around her card table, it was easy not even to take notice of them, so to speak.
DEFILEMENT OUTSIDE OF HEAVEN, TWO MILES
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Bacon, who laid out the plan of a universal dictionary of sciences and arts _at a time when there were, so to speak, neither sciences nor arts_. "]
The Eve of the French Revolution
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No doubt the trombone is a little cracked and brassy, so to speak, because of a hinfluenza as has wonted him for some weeks; but there's good stuff in 'im, sir, and plenty o' lungs.
Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn
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Lizards and mice can lose their eyesight in a blink ( so to speak ) inhabiting lightless caves.
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As someone who gets travel sick on occasions (never on a plane or boat though), I have to say I have never lost the use of my legs (I've never been legless, so to speak) when I was ill.
I always feel sick when I see David Amess, so perhaps he caught sight of a mirror ?
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Now, after having dabbled in the dark percussive arts whilst enjoying my teenage years, and a spate as the crash-cymbalist in our high-school concert band, it has been a while since i've hit the skins, so to speak.
Ringo, eat your heart out!
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He focused, so to speak, on the pragmatics of the signifier rather than on the vicissitudes of the signified.
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It sounds kind of pulpy, from the reviews I've read, which is very much up my alley so to speak.
Contentious Curmudgeon says … | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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I understand that you don't wish to take an hypnoanalysis training at this point, but it seems a lot more cost effective to go to a competent practitioner and deal with it at the get-go than to screw around looking for processes to get to causes . . . especially since you may not even need to get to the cause so to speak in order to approach this particular issue, whatever it is.
Hypnoanalysis . . . . . . a query with some thoughts
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military-grade, virtually invisible, and indestructible film" which is currently adorning thousands of gadgets as it prevents bumps, scratches, and dings from "defiling" the iPad, so to speak, thanks to a lifetime guarantee.
Ubergizmo
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Certainly that was his formulation in the early years, that as the child's objectivity waxed, so to speak, so his imagination and fantasy life would be inclined to wane.
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The constitutional catechism that Supreme Court nominees must recite is a way of taking the temperature, so to speak, of particular constitutional controversies and the degree to which they have reached settlement.
Balkinization
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‘I've remorselessly agitated for a full public inquiry but the powers that be have just kicked me into touch so to speak,’ he said.
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Oh! that you were more acquainted with this, this aprication, so to speak, that is, sunning yourselves and warming in the sun, the exposing and opening of your hearts frequently in secret, before this sun of
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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Heidegger suggests two paths toward understanding 'expropriation': the event supersedes epochal-destinal unconcealment in such a way that, firstly, "it can be retained neither as being nor as time; it is, so to speak, a neutrale tantum, the neutral 'and' in the title "Time and Being.'
Enowning
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(_Gentz_, Werke, V, 62.) _Huskisson_ rightly calls a depreciated paper currency a much worse thing than clipped coin: the clipping of the coin is, so to speak, one great blow after which people can again calculate with certainty; but bad paper money is one continual fluctuation.
System der volkswirthschaft. English
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Elsewhere, again, might be seen the first awakening of this Maytime of the leaves, and those of an ampelopsis, a smiling miracle, like a red hawthorn flowering in winter, had that very morning all 'come out,' so to speak, in blossom.
Swann's Way
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The canonic male point of view is put in question by being reproduced, and so to speak re-framed, within a female artist's discourse.
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I write, as much as anything, so I can figure out what I'm thinking--get the thoughts out of my head, and hang words on them so that I can see *what* I'm thinking . . . the words are the bandages around the Invisible Man, showing the shape, so to speak.
Honest faith
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So to speak, polysaccharides extracted from hyphostroma can effectively enhance the ability of anti-oxydation in the organism.
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The set is made up solely of movable sea-blue coloured flats, so to speak the empty hull of a baroque stage apparatus.
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At the square end of the horse-shoe, so to speak, stretched the imposing canvas screen, painted in a most elaborate style, by the hand of some artist whose name unhappily has not been preserved for the benefit of posterity.
Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge
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We have rehabbed 1,600 schools since the war ended, so to speak.
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Well, I was kind of draggin 'a seine through my head, so to speak, tryin' to haul aboard a likely name for the critter, and fetchin 'the net in empty every time, when one day that -- er -- what-d'ye-call-it?
Fair Harbor
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Too, of course, the stab from a shorter distance at closer range, point-blank range, so to speak, is likely to be more accurate.
Cinnamon Roll
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Again, much of the modern rhythmical complexity strongly resembles, in essence, the machine-made experiments of mediaeval times; and the peculiarly fashionable trick of shifting identical chords up and down the scale -- the clothes'-peg conception of harmony, so to speak -- is a mere throw-back still farther, to Hucbald and the diaphony of a thousand years ago.
Recent Developments in European Thought
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Then a struggle ensued between the Curial bureaucracy and the non-bureaucrats, so to speak, on the revision of the documents.
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I refused to see my john any more, but after a five-year relationship (so to speak), he did not take my ‘no’ seriously.
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The single utterance is what is necessary, a real freshness of vocalization which is, so to speak, the singer's own throat.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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My uncle was maimed, as I have said; Pippi, like all impostors, was a coward; it was my unrivalled skill with the sword, and readiness to use it, that maintained the reputation of the firm, so to speak, and silenced many a timid gambler who might have hesitated to pay his losings.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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I'd advice you take everything I write with a pinch of salt anyway, so to speak.
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By the fourth I was utterly alone and totally in the dark about where I was, so to speak.
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The committee can feel proud of their efforts and this award is due recognition for the amount of hard work and time that was invested in restoring the Shrine to it's former glory so to speak.
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The cutters often worked in a vacuum, so to speak, relying on spot checks and routine searches during their patrols.
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If ecclesiastics and theologians decide to engage the Faith at Work movement-to get into the Integration Box, so to speak-I envision great possibilities for the church at large and the society it serves.
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We have to pull down the barriers, so to speak, of poverty.
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I see the critical-versus-commercial tension as coming out of two different choirs trying to outsing each other in the same church, so to speak.
More Aesthetics
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He is, so to speak, a bit too cruel to his wife.
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All we have to do is get in and establish a bridgehead, so to speak.
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The next morning found me at the wheel, so to speak, of my dog sled.
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For some reason, the public responded negatively to this, forcing Shockley to, uh, pull out, so to speak.
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They were all very similar. All cut from the same cloth, so to speak.
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Suspended below the bag was a framework, in the center of which was built a pilot house with a short "deckhouse," so to speak, extended astern of it.
The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest
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The reason I ask Kris is, from previous posts, you seem to have a similar sort of process where you explore the story and kind of unearth it so to speak.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch » Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Giving Up On Yourself Part One
