She is pithy and chatty and beguilingly quiet by turns.
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This wine is beguilingly delicious, and is worth your attention.
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Rice flour is the secret to the quesadilla's beguilingly springy texture.
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Its view of the world, rooted in classical texts, was beguilingly simple.
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Google even started out with a beguilingly simple motto : Don't be evil.
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The track is short and beguilingly sweet, its message not political but practical.
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Ms. Haldeman's beguilingly sensuous imagery verges on a peculiar sort of soft cartoon pornography.
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Lafawndah cuts an enigmatic figure, and that air of secrecy lingers beguilingly across her work.
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In fact, Anderson's gonzo journalism, if it can even be called that, is beguilingly timid.
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At once starkly real and beguilingly impressionistic, the film resonates as an electric meditation on anxiety and heartbreak.
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Although you can tell almost immediately that the image must be doctored, it beguilingly retains its formal integrity.
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A modern Little Red Riding Hood is beguilingly clueless as a menacing wolf character hovers in on her periphery.
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As with one panel beguilingly titled, "The Needs of the Human Soul," Büttner piques both intellectual and aesthetic interest.
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The larger, so-called Stout version of the Staad, which I've been using, is still a beguilingly slim and minimal bag.
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" The New Republic's own film critic Tim Grierson said there is "something beguilingly mysterious about her that you can't quite quantify.
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The music is a beguilingly weird blend of oompah, disco, hair metal and techno, with songs about polar bears and red horses.
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Kennedy, as struggling musical theater actress La La, high-kicked and sang aimlessly, and BeBe, as the Queen, was beguilingly odd, per usual.
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But that beguilingly simple summary omits the fact that, even while they were losing, the Patriots had their offense on the field much longer.
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In the middle of that triangle, "these pages" sit, a little island of words whose relation to the triad is, at first, beguilingly unclear.
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In the song "Comanche," from his album "Resurrect" (1998), Mr. Taylor beguilingly juxtaposes a series of seemingly unrelated declarations to form a seamless whole.
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Old-fashioned, mellifluous songs of courtship and marital bliss float beguilingly through Trip Cullman's carefully assembled production, which opened at Playwrights Horizons on Monday night.
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And Jabarri, he said, was "the cutest little boy" who had smiled beguilingly at him from a hospital gurney even after being shot in the leg.
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For Suzy, California feels beguilingly outside of time and history, buoyed along by the raw electricity of the Rolling Stones and an endless supply of weed.
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In this beguilingly written and illustrated tale, Monty is a scraggly black-and-white street creature who stumbles upon some poodles living in luxury at Poodle Mansions.
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The Edwardian era never looked quite as beguilingly sinister as it did through the gimlet eyes of Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name, Saki.
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That's Abigail, the girl who cries "witch" and who, as Ms. Ronan so beguilingly plays her, has the power to become alternately invisible and radiant with focused intent.
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Before our eyes, Guillot's instincts seem to be transformed from an aesthetic outlier's to those of an old-school formalist, while Gold's beguilingly retinal maneuvers yield uncannily somatic results.
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Sundance invariably includes work that's somewhat off-center, like "Hale County This Morning, This Evening," a drifty, beguilingly elliptical documentary from RaMell Ross about everyday life in Alabama's Black Belt.
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Even Civilization VI, with performance requirements that can be beguilingly high on later levels with tons of per-turn processing, is better than ever thanks to the fast SSD storage of the One.
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The darkly tropical "Somerton Beach" (below) a beguilingly creepy Christmas cover of "Walking in the Air" and singles "Night on Earth" and "Little Boring Thing," themselves tales of fractured love and deep longing.
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Crete-born, Los Angeles-based producer Evangelia Lachianina aka Abyss X has shared the beguilingly opaque video for "Razor," a track off her recent Mouthed EP for Houston producer Rabit's Halcyon Veil imprint.
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For an organization that's smart enough to recognize Daniel Johnston but beguilingly not David Berman in its "In Memoriam" segment, the Grammys have a long way to go to work out its issues.
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You have to be careful, when writing about a place like Zanzibar, to not reduce it to a series of prosaic meditations on brilliantly sunny skies, blindingly white beaches and beguilingly azure waters.
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On Thursday, 15 boys of the Saint Thomas Choir on Fifth Avenue, accompanied by harpist Bridget Kibbey and under the direction of Daniel Hyde, gave a tender, cleanly executed account of Britten's beguilingly modest piece.
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MMM's response, and logic, was beguilingly simple, and typical of the hook, line, and sinker approach scammers use: Until enough people invested to get the wheel turning again, Diane wouldn't be able to remove the profit.
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Based on the young coconut braised in its own milk and topped with wedges of steamed taro—or even the beguilingly unusual steamed coconut sticky rice topped with flakes of salty-sweet dried mackerel—the answer is yes.
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To the Editor: Re "Linking Dogs With People With a Lift of the Brow" (news article, June 18): Perhaps just as beguilingly "human" in canine behavior is the cock of the head when you speak to a dog.
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The new $2199 Symfonisk Wi-Fi bookshelf speaker and the new $2179 Symfonisk table lamp with Wi-Fi speaker both deliver the excellent performance and sound quality that's expected from the Sonos brand, in beguilingly practical everyday designs created by Ikea.
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Over the course of four private press LPs in the 80s, Spike crafted a beguilingly singular sonic world: imagine the Cleaners From Venus on a very strong dose of LSD getting locked in a room with a very blissed out John Martyn.
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Cult knob-twiddler, Aphex Twin, shared a beguilingly odd new music video today for "CIRKLON3 [ Колхозная mix ]," off his forthcoming Cheetah EP. It marks his first video 17 years, and comes directed by a 12-year-old from Dublin, Ireland Ryan Wyer.
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That familiarity extends to the project's poppy defacto single "Qué Pretendes," its muted rhythm and lowpass filtered melody evokes something beguilingly tropical even as its far less inviting lyrics depict the repudiation of a former lover and her social media spy game.
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Gold highlights glitter beguilingly in the gloom, set amidst white walls that are intermittently sullied by dark crimson splashes of blood — an effect achieved using red acrylic that has become something of Qureshi's trademark since he picked up the practice in response to suicide bombings that struck Lahore in March 2010.
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London producer Parris has shared a haunting new track entitled "My Beautiful Fantasy," off his forthcoming Your Kiss is Sour EP. Using a sample of a mid-20th century analog synthesizer, the Soundman Chronicles boss emphasizes its beguilingly eerie tone by placing it front-and-center, and leaving it mostly unadorned.
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Cape Town producer ANGEL-HO arrived on the scene last year with a succession of deafening releases, like the "Death Drop From Heaven" mixfile and Ascension EP. With this April's Red Devil mix—comprised exclusively of original material—the NON WORLDWIDE co-founder proves that their plummet into beguilingly unsettling sounds has enduring value.
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Jamison, who is the author of a novel, The Gin Closet, and a lauded collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, is preternaturally canny about the so-called "confessional" genre she has chosen to write in, sidestepping most of its potential pitfalls—such as an atmosphere of claustrophobic solipsism—while retaining its aspects of immediacy and beguilingly unhip self-revelation.
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A MINUS Lord Huron: Strange Trails (IAmSound) Repurposing sonics from Buddy Holly and Workingman's Dead, this beguilingly melodic and cheerful-sounding record is about love and death at the end of the world—a world that for metaphorical purposes is barely settled woods and wilderness without a trace of the urban jangle and connected chaos that drive so many under-30s to distraction.
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More solo work—proggier, hairier, wilder solo work—followed, and last year he hooked up with Emil Nikolaisen and Todd Rundgren for the wonderfully beguiling, beguilingly wonderful Runddans LP. Next month sees Lindstrøm return to slightly clubbier fare with the Smalltown Supersound released Windings EP, a spacey and seductive three tracker that's been enjoying repeat plays our way ever since we go our hands on it.
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This, it turns out, is the root of that vaunted gift for mimicry, which, along with their striking plumages and beguilingly fixed, wide-eyed stares, has long induced us to keep parrots — neuronally hard-wired flock animals with up to 60-to-123-year life spans and the cognitive capacities of 4-to-5-year-old children — all to ourselves in a parlor cage: a broken flight of human fancy; a keening kidnapee.
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Just below were the words "Schwäbisch Gmünd," a little town in southern Germany, I soon learned, where the 83-year-old company makes many of these beguilingly lifelike beings: wild creatures from around the world, all rendered with such precision that you can see and feel a sea otter's wet and rippling fur, or the weathered cracks and crevasses of an elephant's skin, or the scalloped feathers of a macaw's upraised underwings.
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"Mount Sour" (2016), a scattered installation of furniture — benches, stools, tables, and screens — designed by KAIYINSTITUTE, acknowledges the ubiquity of such fixtures in temple complexes and stages a playful yet noncompetitive group of counterparts characterized by material intrigue: beguilingly brittle form and ostensibly industrial materiality, which nevertheless complements the temple's texture and color scheme thoughtfully, rather than through a cheap shock of jarring contrasts, which so often plagues installations involving elements of the past.
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Robert Cummings describes it thus: > The song consists mainly of the melody, its second subject, and repeats. Yet > the craftsmanship here is deftly wrought, the melodic goods instantly > memorable, and the words sincere and beguilingly innocent. The piece became a standard at wedding ceremonies, and a mainstay of barbershop harmony arrangers and singers.
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It is also frequently contrasted with the Guangdong model championed by Bo's predecessor and political opponent Wang Yang. Whereas the Chongqing model placed emphasized the role of the state in economic and social life, the Guangdong model is characterized by comparatively liberal economic and political policies.The Economist, The Guangdong model: One Chinese province adopts a beguilingly open approach—up to a point, 26 November 2011.
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The music, Lang says, flows "beguilingly" from the spacious overture; the quieter, emotional passages are illustrated evocatively, while in the more spectacular moments Handel's innovative use of brass is exciting and inspiring.Lang, pp. 119–20 The sudden blast of trumpets which announces the march in act 3 provides, say Dean and Knapp, "an effect of splendour and exhilaration that time has not dimmed".Dean and Knapp, p.
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In paintings, she is usually recognized as a saint with a halo above her head and she often holds an ointment jar. In the Baroque era, the image of Mary Magdalene went through a change. If the medieval Magdalene was shown as a former sinner who was saved through salvation, Mary Magdalene during the Counter-Reformation was depicted as beguilingly seductive. Like other saints, Mary Magdalene was often used as propaganda for the Catholic sacraments.
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Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, writing, "The whole movie has a winning sadness about it; take away the story's sensational aspects and what you have is a study in loneliness." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune also awarded 3.5 stars out of 4 and called it "an honest, compelling drama that sheds a little light in some beguilingly dark places."Siskel, Gene (February 1, 1980). "'Gigolo' airs the dirty linen of the silken set".
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The novel, Yates' first in over six years, was generally well received, with Associated Press book reviewer Phil Thomas calling it "absorbing" and "superb" and New York Times reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt terming the work "absorbing" and "beguilingly vivid" despite complaining that characters' lack of self-awareness became "ultimately tiresome."Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. "Richard Yates' novel vivid but irksome," Pacific Stars and Stripes (Tokyo, Japan; reprinted from The New York Times), February 3, 1985, page 16, "Pacific Sunday" section.
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It is a book described as "a magical meeting place of travelogue, memoir, and poetry," covering a period of three years when the author lived in the midwestern United States. It is "a quiet, reflective book", "by far a rather enjoyable read." Petero Kalulé calls him "a poet who writes so freely, so playfully, so beguilingly about the everyday and its “effing possibilities.” JM Schreiber says it has "an uncluttered vision—emotionally contained and all the more powerful as a consequence.
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Harrison's musical training is reflected in her poetry: "she was adept in her handling of the rhythmic complexities of poetic forms such as the sonnet and the villanelle. Like other Canadian poets of the late nineteenth century, her prevailing themes include nature, love, and patriotism. Her landscape poetry, richly influenced by the works of Charles G.D. Roberts and Archibald Lampman, paints the Canadian wilderness as beguilingly beautiful yet at the same time mysterious and distant." Harrison was a master of the villanelle.
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Müller's 1879 account was one of the earliest uses of a mathematical model in evolutionary ecology, and the first exact model of frequency-dependent selection. Mallet calls Müller's mathematical assumption behind the model "beguilingly simple". Müller presumed that the predators had to attack n unprofitable prey in a summer to experience and learn their warning coloration. Calling a1 and a2 the total numbers of two unprofitable prey species, then, Müller argued, if the species are completely unalike they each lose n individuals.
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The Guangdong model refers to a series of social, political, and economic policies adopted in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. It is generally associated with Guangdong's Communist Party secretary and politburo member Wang Yang. The Guangdong model is characterized as being comparatively liberal in its economic and social policies, and is frequently contrasted with the Chongqing model, which emphasizes the role of the state.The Economist, The Guangdong model: One Chinese province adopts a beguilingly open approach—up to a point, 26 November 2011.
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Causton is best known for his work in acoustic contemporary classical music. He first came to attention with The Persistence of Memory, which drew significant attention when premiered at the London Sinfonietta's 1995 'State of the Nation' Festival. He has been hailed as "a beguilingly gifted young composer" creating "moments of exquisite timbral sensitivity" (Robin Holloway in The Spectator), "nothing if not distinctive in his approach to composition" (www.classicalsource.com) and as "one of the finest of the new generation of British composers" (The Guardian).
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The critic from the Sydney Morning Herald wrote the musical "had an entertaining and beguilingly tuneful premiere in a smoothly organised live production" despite "the lack of colour and space in which create spectacle and the effects which properly, and uniquely-belong to the stage." However: > Nine numbers in a 75-minute show is pretty fair value, and the... tunes and > lyrics were fluent, neatly turned and literate. Equally important. they > arose naturally from the situations arranged by the... book, and always took > the story-line, and characterisation, a step further.
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The New York Times also gave a favorable review: > Mr. Curtiz and his players have got it snugly draped around Mr. Presley's > shoulders. And there it stays, until a limp melodramatic home stretch, even > with eight or so of those twitching, gyrating musical interludes. ... These > also perfectly typify the Bourbon Street honky-tonks that Mr. Curtiz and his > fine photographer, Russ Harlan, have beguilingly drenched with atmosphere. > Matching, or balancing, the tunes are at least seven characterizations that > supply the real backbone and tell the story of the picture.
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The plan of the church is beguilingly irregular, with the chancel decreasing in width towards the east end. A pilaster strip in the south wall of the chancel curiously tapers with the narrow portion at the bottom: the whole building has a gnarled, irregular appearance which is a mark of Anglo-Saxon construction. Even the corners (quoins) are of flint, although these are somewhat larger on the whole than those built into the body of the walls. There is even, surprisingly, an attempt at herringbone-work, all in flint, and round splayed porthole windows dressed entirely in flints, not quite perfect circles.
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Playin' ain't Payin, AM New York, Feb. 4, 2009 She responded to the headline with a new alias and blog, NYCsubwaygirl, where she highlights the advantages of the MUNY program. She has performed in Joe’s Pub to a sold out crowd (June 2010). Joe’s Pub listing “local singer-songwriter and activist Cathy Grier plays a mean slide guitar and sings twice as beguilingly as pretty much any American Idol starlet half her age; at her best, she sounds like a bluesier Carole King.” A favorite performer for non-profit organizations Cathy has entertained to benefit Art For Animals, Habitat For Humanity, NY Junior League, to name a few.
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He calls the melody "bewitching" and adds: "part of the joy of the piece is the finely judged lyrical ambiguity that, along with the beautiful spaciousness of the arrangement (all flutes, recorders, bass harmonica and whispery brushes on the drums), allows a myriad of implied meanings to float beguilingly into the imagination of the listener." In 2012, "The Fool on the Hill" was ranked the 420th-best classic rock song of all time by New York's Q104.3. In 2006, Mojo ranked it 71st in the magazine's list of "The 101 Greatest Beatles Songs". In 2018, the music staff of Time Out London ranked it at number 34 on their list of the best Beatles songs.
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Rick Anderson of AllMusic described the track as "a song that is unsettling and slightly scary, but still great for singing along to" and wrote that the song "proved a couple of things: first, that [Costello] really did know how to write for his own voice, and second, that his voice really wasn't all that bad". Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone noted the song as well as "New Lace Sleeves" as "the album's undisputed twin highlights". Noel Murray and Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club named the song as a highlight from Trust and called it "beguilingly paranoid". Jim Miller of Newsweek wrote, "On 'Watch Your Step' he builds a complex mood out of the title's admonition, turning the song into a bittersweet tribute to suspicion".
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" Unknown Memory was number 28 on Pigeons & Planes' list of their favourite albums of 2014, with Joe Price calling the LP an example of why hip-hop doesn't always need to be taken seriously. He also wrote that "It's hard to even call this rap at times, but how it avoids genre conventions is how it remains so exciting throughout its running time. Rarely is music this fun without compromising individuality." A critic for The Observer opined that "If Unknown Memory doesn’t quite merit the excited bafflement that initially greeted Lean, its nagging hooks and queasy introspection still make for an intriguing trip", while a Fact reviewer said there was something "beguilingly decadent about Unknown Memory: the way Lean’s confessions of world-weary ennui flow seamlessly into brags about wealth and status; how those dreamy, new-age synth lines play out beneath raps that sound spiritually hollow.
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" PopMatters noted that the film has "enough originality to nag at patient viewers and get at least partially under our skin" and critic Michael Atkinson wrote that it is a "weird, restless, beguilingly offbeat bit of dreamwork." The film was presented for the first time at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1977, it has won a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival and was recently called "seminal" during a screening at a repertory cinema, "a strong and humoristic showdown" at another and "a sonically-complex, montage-rich, darkly funny and uriniferous cornerstone of avant-garde cinema" during a screening at a New York University class. Critic Peter Hajek wrote in the Austrian newspaper Kurier that "Valie Export presents this psychopanoptic view of the present in solid, striking images and often in unexpected humorous passages." Critic Chris Holmlund, author of the scholarly article "Feminist Makeovers: The Celluloid Surgery of Valie Export and Su Friedrich," referred to Invisible Adversaries as a feminist version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, noted that the film includes references to famous paintings and to Un Chien Andalou, and wrote that therefore it "is visually rick, entertaining, striking, but also demanding.
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