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    their target or at least demoralised its personnel; a Hedgehog miss was discouragingly quiet. The Royal Navy launched Hedgehog so seldom in early 1943 that...
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  • grim but irrepressible sense of humor," it left her "thoroughly and discouragingly unmoved." The novel was also a major artistic inspiration for the post-apocalyptic...
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  • in The New York Times, deemed the show "encouragingly ambitious and discouragingly unfulfilled... the production comes into its own only in the sweetly...
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    study of income inequality (by Djavad Salehi-Isfahani) found levels as discouragingly high (a Gini coefficient of above 0.40) in 2002, over 20 years after...
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  • Hollywood Reporter wrote a largely negative review, finding the film "a discouragingly limp movie in which nothing is at stake. A character can 'die,' then...
    171 KB (18,390 words) - 18:00, 4 August 2024
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    spread to his aorta. One lung was removed. Yet, despite the disease's discouragingly high mortality rate, it became clear after radiation treatments that...
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  • prospectors discovered that the gold deposits in these streams were discouragingly poor and quickly exhausted. When rich gold deposits were discovered...
    92 KB (11,721 words) - 13:33, 13 July 2024
  • same literary well. Not only is the plotting in 'Premature Burial' discouragingly predictable, but its gloomy and cavernous interior setting is peculiarly...
    13 KB (1,583 words) - 05:38, 27 July 2024
  • and other proposals for changing education and social insurance seem "discouragingly shopworn". Libertarianism portal 2011 in literature Free to Choose –...
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  • Thumbnail for Albert M. Todd
    Todd won just under 19,000 votes in the 1894 Gubernatorial campaign, discouragingly finishing in fourth place behind the candidates of the Republican, Democratic...
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  • equator-crossing ceremony. I appear to be wearing a hula skirt and a discouragingly small bra made from two segments of a cut-up egg carton. Around my neck...
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  • about a move upwards, into Formula One. However, there had been several discouragingly recent examples of teams, such as Coloni and Onyx, which had graduated...
    66 KB (5,506 words) - 15:06, 29 June 2024
  • Club's Evan Rytlewski wrote that the song opens Looking 4 Myself on a "discouragingly perfunctory note", though complimented Usher for not using auto-tune...
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  • Gene Krupa and Jim Chapin. "The belief that anyone can beat a drum is discouragingly popular!" - Sanford Augustus "Gus" Moeller Gus Moeller is usually associated...
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  • "Scream" as two "overinflated dance numbers" that open the album on a "discouragingly perfunctory note". He concluded by stating that: "If there's a bright...
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    dysentery and malaria with its associated complications, and their discouragingly slow progress with the Kâte people. Despite these problems, Flierl started...
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