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  • plays in the storyline — will have conservative Western [audiences] looking askance at this kidpic oddity." Tom Horgen of the Minnesota Daily wrote that...
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  • lack the tav and the critical attitude it signifies. In other words, looking askance at a culture marked by dire moral decline is a kind of shibboleth for...
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  • the title to show a dyspeptic man eyeing askance a huge dinner, while hungry beggars and an importunate dog look on, in a work from 1826. Later on Charles...
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  • bad enough to make you look askance at Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, and Maya Rudolph, all of whom deserve a chance to do something funny other than pose as...
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    North. The modernizing Republicans who had founded the party in 1854 looked askance at the perceived corruption of Ulysses S. Grant and his war veterans...
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  • band's sound from this period; its lyrics look askance at the album-oriented rock format of many FM radio stations at that time, in contrast to the film's...
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  • disregard for his superiors and habit of speaking his mind is regarded askance by his superiors, who nevertheless respect his military abilities. Franchot...
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  • Enterprise," Kirk replied, feeling somewhat foolish saying this to what looked like his own navigator. Was Ilia really this incredibly sensuous? "I have...
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    Laude and proud: Looking askance". The Philippine Star. Retrieved December 4, 2014. "Tribeca 2018: The Best LGBT Films to See at This Year's Festival...
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    Andrew Carnegie (category Burials at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery)
    necessity for meeting the demands of our day, and as such should not be looked at askance, but be encouraged. There is nothing detrimental to human society...
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    He constantly flaunts his monetary wealth in front of Archie and looks askance at the way Archie lives, forgetting that he walked into a profitable plumbing...
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    Heinlein's later works. There is a willingness to look at society, humanity in a slightly askance manner, for example, Delilah and the Space Rigger argues...
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    American Culture. New York: Pantheon Books. Leja, Michael (2004). Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp. Berkeley: University...
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  • their misfits. In Egdon Heath, most people (particularly the women) look askance at the proud, unconventional Eustacia. Mrs. Yeobright considers her too...
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    the audience, looking at his hearers askance, and with a squint, too, as it seemed to me, but I may have been mistaken. There was something like a cynical...
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    brutality against civilians, expecting them to kill anyone that even "looked askance" at the German forces. Much of the partisan warfare became an exercise...
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    One reviewer noticed, "Millie [Mildred Wirt Benson] purists tend to look askance upon the Files series, in which fleeting pecks bestowed on Nancy by her...
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    nevertheless retained the director's askance conception of America. He wrote Night on Earth in about a week, out of frustration at the collapse of the production...
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  • 1000 years, in such a way that a Chinese will never again dare to look askance at a German. The theme of Hunnic savagery was then developed in a speech...
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  • June 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2019. Initially, SpaceX's competitors looked askance at the concept of vertically landing rockets, but as the company has...
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