I emphasized how bookish I was and how serious I was.
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McAvoy's bookish charm and perfectly disheveled locks would definitely be fitting.
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Skinny and bookish, Umar Khalid doesn't look like a dangerous traitor.
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While Darlene is looking to get bookish, Abby (Margarita Levieva) isn't.
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The bookish side of the festivities has more recent, entrepreneurial roots.
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A bookish child, she overloaded on extracurriculars and got into Stanford.
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Book has blond hair, a Florida tan and big, bookish glasses.
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John, unlike the suave, popular Peter, is both bookish and charming.
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Cotton Mather was a "bookish" man with blood on his hands.
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Despite my track record, I tried to maintain my bookish persona.
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Also joining them was Foley, who played earnest and bookish RA Noel.
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The glasses would suggest he's more bookish than your average sexy secretary.
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Like Angela Merkel, he was a bookish centrist with few tribal allegiances.
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Authentic or not, the sturdy little Moleskine has legions of bookish devotees.
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Abercromby was the bookish great-grandson of a celebrated English war hero.
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Instead, America rejected the bookish know-it-all who appeared on stage.
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The adaptation was by Redgrave himself, and he played the bookish intruder.
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Lucy notices that Martin's bookish glasses aren't prescription, but doesn't let on.
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It connects them to the enduring Mattis brand of bookish military pugnacity.
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Emma Watson's Belle is not only bookish, but also a clever inventor?
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We're going to call you "bookish" or "professorial" if you do this.
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He enjoys the laid back atmosphere among the mostly quiet, bookish gamers.
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Shilpa was bookish and introverted, a straight-A student; she hated sports.
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I think a lot of bookish people go through a magic phase. Why?
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Hadley was 26 then, a thin, bookish brunette with big, expressive brown eyes.
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At first Protestants became more literate than Catholics; ultimately all Germans became bookish.
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Pandora's former logos featured a serifed navy P that had a bookish vibe.
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She was equal parts intellectual and quirky, beautiful and awkward, social and bookish.
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At the time, Obama's soaring rhetorical style appeared to irritate the bookish Merkel.
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Not long ago, we read a study that made our bookish hearts stir.
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Justice Kennedy is bookish and abstract, while Mr. Trump is earthy and direct.
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Bookish and serious, he sometimes lacks the charm or charisma of his competitors.
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Children's Books One risk of raising bookish children: You create little shut-ins.
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They were both only children, "short, pudgy, shy and bookish," in Schmuhl's retelling.
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There are many general bookish designs that don't relate to specific books, too.
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One of few Asian kids in his town, he was bookish and bullied.
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I've already been seen that way, given my bookish and non-athletic nature.
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He has a bookish assistant named Lillie who is not so fond of fighting.
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The folks behind The Bookish Box want to expand more than just your library.
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Bookish social network Goodreads has unveiled a new service to sell users discounted ebooks.
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More than anything else, these things reminded me of my aunt: funny, bookish, smart.
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Then comes Meg's opposite, fifteen-year-old Jo: bookish and boyish, loud and wild.
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Mattis grew up in Richland, Washington, in a bookish household without a television set.
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Having grown up as a scholar and bookish, he became somewhat of a ham.
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This is the Loves' account: Shelley was a shy, bookish eighth grader in 20183.
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But his political style was bookish, austere and far more subdued than Mr. Trump's.
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The bookish student was at first in awe at the brilliance of the capital's brightest.
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In the profile, O'Rourke comes off as earnest, bookish, enthusiastic — that loaded term "likable," even.
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By contrast, Michael Sheen is near-perfect as the bookish, overeager, and gleefully queer Aziraphale.
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The idea that contemporary singers belong in that lineage is gaining support in bookish circles.
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IN person, Mr. Royesh comes across as formidably intelligent, if a bit bookish and shy.
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Remember that episode of The Twilight Zone with the bookish guy and the broken glasses?
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The job also brought me — a bookish, city kid — closer than ever before to nature.
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Looking back, I think I created them for the exclusive amusement of my bookish colleagues.
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Before working in kitchens I was a bookish design student who loved weed and McSweeney's.
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So, one in New York, called Bookish, which was the book industry's attempt at Hulu.
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For example, Asma is known as the bookish sister, the one who wants an education.
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He was 11 — bookish, gawky, one of the few Jews in his Munich public school.
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The Bookish Box — starting from $250 per month See Details For book night and movie nights.
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Despite being "shy and bookish" at school, her accident led to her curtailing her educational pursuits.
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Amazon wants to attract a new type of subscriber — bookish children (or, at least, their parents).
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The most bookish states are in New England: Books topped the list in Maine and Vermont.
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Finally, surround her with items that will make her bookish life just a bit more glamorous.
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This means that students at elite institutions can study bookish subjects and still squeak by financially.
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He is bookish, but what he reads she could not say—she does not pay attention.
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Bibliophiles enjoying a staycation may relate to "The Bookish Life of Nina Hill" by Abbi Waxman.
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It was a journalistic open goal: a weighty, almost comic bookish cloak for the terrible reality.
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She recently became a member of the Irregulars, whose history and membership is much more bookish.
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Yet the comparisons only go so far, given Boris' bookish, multilingual, multicultural background and intellectual passion.
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One afternoon, Krens recalls, the lanky, bookish Raad met him in an East Village shisha bar.
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Michael Sheen plays the angel Aziraphale (bookish, insecure); David Tennant plays the demon Crowley (punkish, vulnerable).
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John Bradley is best known to us as the kindhearted, bookish Samwell Tarly from Game of Thrones.
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Quraishi was bookish and learned, and wanted a place where Muslims could deepen their knowledge of Islam.
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While Netanyahu is intense and bookish, Gantz likes folk-singing and jaunts on a Harley-Davidson motorbike.
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Emma Watson, who stars as the bookish heroine, said it's a concern she studied before signing on.
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Book-lovers also like surrounding themselves by all things bookish, from themed mugs to books about books.
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And despite her supportive, loving parents, bookish Sierra struggles to feel confident because she's not stick-thin.
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As a bookish girl in high school, I wanted to be Belle, or a version of her.
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In the books, Quentin's posse includes mouthy Janet, sophisticated Eliot, bookish Alice and slacker comic relief Josh.
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A bout of influenza at age five left him mostly deaf, leading to a lonely, bookish childhood.
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Bookish annotators, they provide context and commentary on a Pepys website, and quibble comically about petty details.
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Here's the best bookish writing the web has to offer for the week of June 20, 2016.
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I was even reprimanded for looking too bookish and told to replace my glasses with contact lenses.
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It seems a no-brainer, though, that therapists, bookish by nature, would adopt it in their practices.
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He grew up on Riverside Drive, in Manhattan, among the bookish élite of the Upper West Side.
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The initial suspect is her depressive and bookish Arab neighbor, long the object of her unrequited desire.
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Beside his more robust father, Bolaño was awkward, thin, and bookish, in a culture that valorized machismo.
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Allison's objections are dismissed by the bookish Dean, who has taken an eager — overeager — interest in Caitlin's endeavor.
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In 2008, it felt fresh, original, and hip—especially compared to Hillary's use of staid, bookish New Baskerville.
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Baby isn't a dancer in the beginning of the movie; she's a bookish girl who's never been kissed.
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Even on that early morning ferry, she's surrounded by others excited to see what bookish finds await them.
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The hundreds of Sherlock Holmes devotees who meet in Manhattan every January are getting younger and less bookish.
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His father, a prosperous Chinese-Malay businessman and immigrant, had always encouraged his bookish son to avoid politics.
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While university professors might be scorned as condescending eggheads, book smarts are prized when used against the bookish.
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Today's picks: • The bookish man who learned what it's like to be a feminist author attacked by trolls.
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Giddens, who was gifted at school, describes her younger self as bookish, withdrawn, not very social or popular.
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Bezos' love for the quote is also aligned with his bookish tendencies: He's known as an avid reader.
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Vanessa Wye is a lonely, bookish 15-year-old on scholarship at an elite boarding school in Maine.
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There's a "commitment to be bookish" with the body of the eOneBook made of paper behind the actual screens.
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Children raised in families with little tradition of literacy seldom do as well as those from more bookish backgrounds.
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He may not seem like the bookish type at first glance, but dude loves to read, especially bedtime stories.
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Back in Indianapolis, he had been a fairly successful student, unathletic and bookish but also boyish and well liked.
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Bledel, of course, starred as the bookish and quick-witted Rory Gilmore on the WB series for seven seasons.
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How did "queer" ever come to mean a philandering penis and vagina in a roomful of bookish, egotistical people?
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And of course this is how people all over the globe can be drawn into the same bookish conversation.
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We soon learn that the bookish redhead is not the baby Claire and Jamie have been expecting all season.
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Over lunch at the Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, Mr. Gabai came across as bookish and a bit introverted.
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I confess that I don't really know what that means, either, but a bookish friend had suggested I ask.
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At 14, although fatter and more bookish than most, I had the typical sensibilities of a 1950s pre-man.
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Known for his bookish, calm demeanor, Haddad has played up his orthodox positions on inflation, exchange rates and deficits.
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THE OPERATION RAN until Stuart Thompson, a bookish Manhattan native, took over as chief financial officer at U.S. Tobacco.
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James possesses the rare gift to be able to do this: he is both bookish and a world traveler.
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Nevertheless, I was curious, so I asked some real-life bookish people to fact-check the show's literary world.
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The actress started playing bookish middle child Alex Dunphy on the family comedy when she was just 11 years old.
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The person who'd written all that Regency England-infused prose was Jordan Ifueko, a bookish teenager who lived in Oregon.
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And Emma Watson is playing a bookish rebel falling for a questionable guy (well, I guess not everything has changed).
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The leading candidates are the bookish, micromanaging incumbent, Ashraf Ghani, and the man he narrowly beat in 2014, Abdullah Abdullah.
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At 50, Doeleman is fresh-faced, with glasses and thinning hair that make him look every part the bookish scientist.
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I was a very bookish kid and very nerdy and a social pariah for a fair part of my childhood.
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My bookish temperament and the small, pedantic kindnesses of many librarians made me the writer and librarian I am today.
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The Morgan Library & Museum's most spectacular piece of bookish bling is now being seen in a new light — quite literally.
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She was a careful, prepared speaker with a bookish quality, a wry sense of humor and a tendency toward efficiency.
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To make up more ground, look toward bookish guideposts — publishers, international literary prizes and journals that specialize in global literature.
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Reading a great revisionist history of America is the bookish way to feel what it's like to be born again.
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Instead, I surrounded myself with AP classes, extracurriculars, and other bookish friends, like the ones I went to homecoming with.
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Rosa is shy and bookish, though she has a passion for poetry and one man in particular: family friend Jeremy Taylor.
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The person who emerged from these profiles turned out to be a bookish 22012-year-old who enjoys reading and writing.
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Since 2002 — eons ago in internet time — Bookslut has published smart, thoughtful bookish writing, heavily slanted toward small presses and women.
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I wanted to be like Morrissey—sensitive, bookish, lonely, cynical, outspoken, quite probably gay and with immaculate taste in absolutely everything.
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Growing up on Martha's Vineyard, Mr. Peters was bookish and interested in existential questions and distinctive clothing from an early age.
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Classic. A bookish French girl who succumbs to Stockholm syndrome with a little help from a candelabra, a clock, and teapot?
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The bookish, grandfatherly sweater vest has been reimagined for the spring/summer 2017 runway, in a variety of prints and patterns.
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Walt is a small-town furniture dealer and bookish dreamer who's been a regular presence in Orner's work since the beginning.
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Bookish Jeffrey Costello and Rob Tagliapietra, the "fashion bears" once known for their namesake women's wear label, are back with plaid.
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But many candidates' personas are inseparable from their looks, whether those looks cast them as bookish, nurturing, approachable or, yes, hot.
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And we've saved the "what you're planning to read" question for The Times's esteemed critics in other disciplines, bookish types all.
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Why have other bookish presidential candidates, from Barack Obama to Bill Clinton, not faced the same fate from their liberal constituents?
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Short and slim, with a buzz cut and glasses, Mr. Anaya, who practices yoga and meditation, cuts a bookish, boyish figure.
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Such is life for the bookish economist who leads the most powerful government office that most Americans have never heard of.
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The German pope is portrayed by Anthony Hopkins as lonely and bookish, with a teasing wit and a taste for elegance.
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He's bookish, too; he falls asleep studying Plutarch's " Lives " and has restless dreams in which philosophers bicker about socialism and autocracy.
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He was bookish but he didn't wear chunky glasses; he was more about motorcycle jackets and beautifully sculpted hair and sideburns.
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In their marrow, they've always been slightly sinistral, a trio of jazz obsessives and the bookish son of a music teacher.
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Lara Jean's father is white and her late mother is Asian, but she isn't shy and bookish because of her race.
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I'll go on a limb here and say that Little Women was, for many bookish young girls, a sort of Ocean's Eleven.
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It parodied Silver's bookish mien in the wake of his decision to oust Donald Sterling as owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.
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Of course, my mom didn't know her bookish but fast-talking elder son was in some abominable alleyway trying to score perico.
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The unexpected triumph of the mild-mannered, bookish, Occident-curious Mohammad Khatami in the 1997 presidential election fueled the possibility of change.
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BOOKISH Alternatively, I might get a massage or go to the New York Public Library or the N.Y.U. library to do research.
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The attendees looked mostly bookish; a few of the younger ones wore the beards and browline glasses favored by the transnational intelligentsia.
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The heroine, Tatiana, starts as a bookish teenager in the Russian provinces but ends up a great society lady in St. Petersburg.
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To the Brazenhead devout, he was the cherished conductor of a bookish universe that formed nightly within the walls of his apartment.
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Mr. Bannon, bookish and prone to surrounding himself with like-minded young acolytes, previewed Mr. Trump's media-bashing during the Thursday session.
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The bookish are a tribe in resistance now; this is the most essential change to our way of life as a people.
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But it's hard to imagine the country uniting around one work of written fiction in the manner that bookish folks fantasize about.
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Brooklyn is clearly a bookish borough: Witness the 40 authors and illustrators, all based there, who will attend this free annual festival.
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Earlier this week, bookish denizens of Twitter spent a solid day gleefully eviscerating a list of Jonathan Franzen's 10 Rules for Writing.
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But with the hustle and bustle of daily life, the question remains of how to set a bookish standard you can actually accomplish.
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Online networks have helped, not hindered, bookish engagement, with WhatsApp groups and online hangouts enabling real-time discussion between individuals across the globe.
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She's bookish and rebellious and curious while the other Gelflings are complacent, and she leverages her privileged position to get what she wants.
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From his unsavory but enjoyable sojourns among these bookish lowlifes—they all quoted literature—Hecht extracted something memorable, the myth of the newspaperman.
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" Ms. Gordon-Reed, who, as a bookish young girl in Texas became fascinated with Jefferson, clarified that she liked Jefferson "as a subject.
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He was quiet and bookish, and thrilled when he found faraway new friends in online discussion forums—an early version of the Internet.
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Mr. Redford plays a bookish C.I.A. researcher who leaves the office for lunch, returns and discovers that his colleagues have all been killed.
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With tons of free books available, a safe, secure Kindle might actually save you and your bookish kid money in the long run.
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Cusack is Lenù Greco, the bookish one who studies hard and escapes from their old, squalid Neapolitan neighborhood to become a celebrated novelist.
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He is "the path toward authoritarianism, and we are the path toward democracy," says his leading challenger, Carlos Mesa, a bookish former president.
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LeFou, for the uninitiated, is a bumbling manservant to Gaston, the egotistical hunter who is determined, muscles popping, to woo the bookish Belle.
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I had a very bookish older sister who I was always trying to get into conversation with, so my early reading was imitative.
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Mr. Dawkins — who is wiry, with short, thinning gray hair, a narrow face and watchful hazel eyes — comes across as a bookish introvert.
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It hurts because those Birmingham girls, often commemorated in what look like class portraits, could have been goofy, self-conscious, bookish, or disobedient.
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Eventually, prominent individuals on the island raised funds to send the bookish boy to King's College (now Columbia University) in the North American colonies.
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The bookish leader of the next biggest complained that it was easier to get people to go to a demonstration than to a library.
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You can imagine him as a sort of bookish Indiana Jones, traipsing around the world, uncovering the mysteries of human existence as he went.
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Messenger planet Mercury enters analytical Earth sign Virgo on July 25, which will sharpen your mental acuity and put you in a bookish mood.
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Given her advanced economic courses and obsession (OBSESSION) with school, clearly Paige is supposed to be bookish (but with perfect eye lashes and hair).
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The bookish Mr Davutoglu, a former foreign minister, may have quietly sparred with Mr Erdogan on occasion, but generally tried to play down divisions.
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In the snap of a shutter, an era is captured: Mongiardino's bookish, handmade elegance meshing seamlessly with the red-Ferrari cool of the Cinecittà.
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Command Ops is a very bookish simulation of 20th century combat command, of course, while Radio Commander is aiming to be something very different.
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That made the band a perfect obsession—and style inspiration—for the bookish, sensitive types who would become the clubs kids known as goths.
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SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a bookish billionaire — as we've reported before, he has a love of all things science fiction.
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Almost instantly, images comparing his bookish look of 1998 to 2017 went viral with commenters saying how this reflected the increasing dominance of Amazon.
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He can casually dismiss the work of Philip Roth in one post and express nostalgia for the bygone era of bookish braggadocio in another.
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But just below his own bookish calm — and the not-so-secret hope that Amazon will help sell more books — there are wider concerns.
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Bookish political operatives and labor organizers in the Democratic Socialists of America — whose membership has increased by nearly 21990,22001 since 21960 — revere Ms. Piven.
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He comes across as a bookish introvert, quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald, Horace, Socrates, Pablo Neruda, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams during our conversation.
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He would very much like that wife to be Chava (Lucy DeVito), the shop's bookish and skeptical clerk, whom he's been eyeing for weeks.
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Instead of wallpaper, she has covered the walls in soft brown wrapping paper, creating the kind of bookish, smoky mood that can mimic time passing.
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We corresponded over email, and eventually she invited me to her airy, bookish apartment for a party she was hosting for a local literary journal.
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If I was isolating myself more and more at school, retreating to the library as often as possible, well, I'd always been a bookish child.
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But it is also clear that the bookish Mr. Cruz is particularly appealing to a certain sort of young voter, or soon-to-be voter.
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Following behind that is Disney's live remake of Beauty and the Beast, which updated its bookish Belle (Emma Watson) to include a passion for invention.
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" She built a reputation that stressed how "bookish and serious" she was, which resulted in her earning a reputation for being "prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious.
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Age, however, could be the least of many challenges the bookish Kuroda faces in his second term, as his quantitative easing (QE) experiment becomes prolonged.
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She spent five years there, helping her mother-in-law in the kitchen, a territory she had rarely explored in her bookish childhood in India.
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I took it and found myself exactly in the middle — a so-called androvert, sort of surprising because I was a shy and bookish teenager.
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Sangay, a self-described "party boy" also studying finance at Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan, wondered how he would get on with his bookish buddies.
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That was the branch on Osborne Terrace, about a mile from his home, where his first bookish love was the baseball novels of John Tunis.
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I'm a bookish, nervous woman staring down midlife, someone who likes to be quiet and who tries hard not to go out in the sun.
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Bars try to cultivate an environment — raucous or bookish, lavish or Irish — and upsetting that quality can mark a patron in the eyes of staff.
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Ms. Genao was aware of her limits and self-conscious about them, never seeing herself as bookish like her cousins or studious like her classmates.
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The nerdy, chubby kid who geeked out to novels and cartoons did not pose as much of a threat as his less bookish football teammates.
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The bookish nerdy kid was relatively uncommon in mainstream adult fiction before King came along; now we recognize such characters as hallmarks of genre literature.
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It might not redeem the whole of lo-fi house for skeptics either, but its sweeping, bookish observance of house music history is something to behold.
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A bookish conservative from the Atlanta suburbs, Price has worked closely with House Speaker Paul Ryan to assemble GOP budgets aimed at reducing the annual deficit.
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Sure, you've made the bookish Ignatz an archer, but given all those axe troops, you could find space to re-equip the Axebreaker passive on him.
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Portman), is bookish and melancholy, haunted (at least in her son's recollection) by memories of her home in Ukraine and plagued by headaches and other ailments.
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The other is a more bookish kind of escape, and culminates in a moment of transcendence achieved mostly by literary style and authorial sleight of hand.
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It has only slightly more bookish allure than the nail salons and hardware stores that surround it on a commercial block of Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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They are two bookish friends, ages 27 and 29, who until recently lived across the street from each other on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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So when Witherspoon optioned Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, a new import from the UK, the bookish people of the world sat up and took notice.
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It's a Grand Central Terminal for the bookish, complete with (in more ordinary times) crowds of tourists snapping photos from a designated zone near the entrance.
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To many, the initiative felt like an advertising ploy that reeks of fake corporate wokeness; and bookish social media users were quick to point this out.
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Jenny Chey (Ellen Wong) becomes a martial artist named Fortune Cookie, while Arthie Premkumar (Sunita Mani), a bookish Indian student, is cast as an Arab terrorist.
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"Firebird" explores his mother's alcoholism, the challenges involved in being a "chubby smart bookish sissy with glasses and a Southern accent," and how art saved him.
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Watchful, bookish Cat and reckless, alluring Marlena have plenty of literary and pop cultural antecedents, but Buntin, through closely observed detail, makes these two her own.
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She saw Federico Fellini's hallucinatory "8½" and thought of her high school where she was a bookish freak, with all those other kids staring at her.
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I mean, he's kind of bookish and vague and absent-minded and rumpled, and all the things that you wouldn't think that Warren Beatty would be.
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Aria (played by Lucy Hale) was the resident goth; Spencer (played by Troian Bellisario) the bookish smartypants; Emily (Shay Mitchell's character) the jock; and Hanna, the hottie.
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Mr. Davutoglu, a bookish and professorial counterweight to the brash and abrasive Mr. Erdogan, agreed in 2014 to be prime minister when Mr. Erdogan was elected president.
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Bookish and curious, he tries to break the monotony by reading histories he salvaged from his father's bookstore, which burned down in 2012 when protests turned violent.
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" Laura Bush is "quiet and bookish," Barbara writes, but then again not: "Beneath her flats and cardigans, my mom is in fact our closet hippie and Rastafarian.
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Many of those carousing belong to Belarus's sprouting technology industry — young, savvy and forward-looking designers, bookish and shy engineers, and many others who aspire to belong.
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Babitz is aspirational to certain bookish women not merely because she is as smokin' hot as she is poetic, she's implicitly assigned as a prototype for beautiful genius.
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A bookish student and violinist at an Ivy League university, he chose to become a paratrooper in the American army, and later worked as a mercenary in Africa.
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Martha, a bookish overachiever, inhabits the body of the Lara Croft-like badass Ruby Roundhouse (Karen Gillan), and the popular Bethany is now Jack Black's Professor Shelly Oberon.
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Was it in The Princess Diaries, where the 19-year-old perfectly embodied the awkward and frizzy-haired Mia Thermopolis, who goes from bookish wallflower to confident princess?
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It isn't hard to draw commonalities between the two: Both are Massachusetts natives who were raised in bookish families, and both draw heavily from metaphysics in their work.
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" Bookish, uninterested in sports and laid up with meningitis at 15, Giraldi decides to "make my own creation myth, to renovate my pathetic vessel into a hero's body.
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Bookish, contrarian and given to speaking in staccato bursts, this skinny computer geek from North Brunswick, N.J., is like the anti-Anthony Robbins, the strapping self-help star.
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I think there's sometimes an assumption, ''Oh, this is a guy who likes the superficial things in life,'' and then, ''This is a guy who's bookish and introverted.
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In fact, "Armenia!" is a rather bookish sort of blockbuster, concentrating heavily on illuminated manuscripts, and presented in low lighting to protect the gospels and romances on view.
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A bookish young boy, Xi Jinping "hardened into a combative street survivor" during the first two years of the Cultural Revolution, when he was a target of abuse.
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The achievement of his early movies, culminating in "Annie Hall" (his seventh feature as a director) was to turn a scrawny, bookish, self-conscious nebbish into a player.
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That's because Reese Witherspoon nearly always plays driven, bookish women who we see reading onscreen, which is to say characters who we are meant to understand as smart.
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Joss Whedon (Creator/Executive Producer): Alyson Hannigan played the shy, bookish one, and what's great about her is that she is also someone you just respond to emotionally.
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The 17 students in our class were introduced to two fictional candidates: a smart if slightly bookish-looking cartoon tortoise named Greenie, and a cool-looking jaguar named Speedy.
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Olga was the dreamy, bookish one; Tatiana was the poised beauty; Maria the sweet, soft-hearted daughter, but Anastasia was the hell-raiser—a Bart Simpson among Bronte sisters.
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Naz doesn't answer, but it's the wish he's currently fulfilling as a shy, bookish Pakistani-American from Queens who's driven his father's cab all the way to toney Manhattan.
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Mr. Conover, a bookish-looking fellow, adopts a mildly irritating know-it-all character who pops up unexpectedly and divests actors in a skit of their long-held misconceptions.
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I don't at all mean to suggest that "Martin Eden" is a frivolous pleasure, though for a bookish, voyeuristic, history-obsessed cinephile like me, it is an absolute blast.
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The play, too, is a feminist act, placing a Hermione type — a bookish, whip-smart woman — at its center and forcing her to do something about her own loneliness.
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Hawarden Journal HAWARDEN, Wales — Flitting from the origins of mountaineering to the writing skills of recent archbishops, the bookish talk at the breakfast table seemed to suit the setting.
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Professor Panjshiri was eulogized as a popular, bookish man who had worked on cultural issues after retiring in 2015, following 30 years as a geology professor at Kabul University.
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Bookish, sensitive, twenty-three, and already considered a bit of an old maid by her family, Jakobe had been a sickly child, and the target of anti-Semitic bullying.
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"Clearly you've read Borges by now," the faculty adviser remarks to one of these iterations of Archie Ferguson, a character who, like most of Auster's heroes, is fanatically bookish.
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Bookish, though not without a touch of the trader's swagger, Mr. Broeksmit was also a man of loyalties, always quick to share the burdens of a friend in need.
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The fictional protagonist always has an identity: In the subway story, "you" are depicted as a bookish intellectual who takes the 7 train to Columbia University for a lecture.
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"We were bookish people, steeped in a conversation about books that had already lasted years," he writes in his prose fantasia The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading (2003).
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Given that I'm a bookish woman who sees things that aren't there, it probably wouldn't have taken long for a seventeenth-century cleric to accuse me of being a witch.
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By then, Babitz's tidal pull — sumptuous prose organized into vignettes of hedonism without the weight of moral consequence — had lassoed the attention of bookish women, and, seemingly, everyone else too.
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The protagonist, Lara Jean Covey, is the daughter of Korean and white parents, a bookish, nerdy teen who loves reading romance novels and watching rom-coms like, well, Sixteen Candles.
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Over the years, partly because applicants from bookish families better survive the marathon years of preparation required to get in, ENA has admitted fewer, not more, pupils from poorer backgrounds.
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Both the priest and his mother encouraged young Robert, a bookish and solitary child, to dream of a great future, while also drumming into him the habits of Catholic piety.
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In the latest act of bookish resistance, school librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro sent a letter to Melania Trump on Tuesday, rejecting the Dr. Seuss books FLOTUS donated to Cambridgeport School.
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She still lives with her parents, accompanied by her sister Kitty, and while she is less given to preaching than she was when she was younger, she is still bookish.
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Though an independent operator in her own right — she brings along the young, bookish Petey because he seems the most harmless partner — Laurie greets Looking Glass's operation with withering contempt.
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Books of The Times Robert Gottlieb, the celebrated editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker, was a pale, bookish, sensitive, rumpled and vaguely mousy young man.
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The series started out strong: bookish, curly-haired Felicity Porter (Keri Russell) impulsively follows her high school crush, Ben, to NYU after he wrote a thoughtful note in her yearbook.
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Aaliya, who has (for her own pleasure) translated 37 books into Arabic over a half-century, delivers a long, delightfully digressive, conspiratorial monologue that takes one bookish detour after another.
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Naked as the day he was born, the bookish 25-year-old had been invited on stage by one of the strippers hired for a party at the Atlantis Gym.
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Mom had been a bookish kid and knew that being different had its downsides — but just as many upsides that, in fact, made life worth living for we, the weird.
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All this, combined with the throngs that turned out for her public readings, conspired to give Ms. Oliver, fairly late in life, the aura of a reluctant, bookish rock star.
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As an introverted, bookish, biracial child, Kristil was subjected to bullying at school, and the fact that we had to move so many times as I changed jobs didn't help.
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As an introverted, bookish, biracial child, Kristil was subjected to bullying at school, and the fact that we had to move so many times as I changed jobs didn't help.
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It's not quite famous, even among Smith's works (her most famous title would be 101 Dalmatians), but for a certain kind of reader — mostly women, mostly bookish — it is perfect.
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Emma Watson is certainly one of the film's stronger elements as Belle, the bookish and beautiful free spirit whose imagination and ambitions are too big for her small, provincial French village.
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Electric vehicles tend to be designed with a certain customer in mind, and typically this imagined buyer is probably bookish, possibly vegan and mostly concerned with getting around in maximum efficiency.
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And what more glorious fantasy existed for all of us bookish, imaginative kids than the idea that our minds could make miraculous things happen, even in the world beyond our heads?
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Billy's father returned for a bit of one day, with a new wife and son, who refused to enter her bright and bookish house or even accept a glass of water.
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Beneath his cowboy hat and gruff exterior, he's a dreamer — something he shares not just with his chef and artist grandkids but also with Erik, who reveals a sensitive, bookish side.
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On Saturday, Kid Flicks One, for ages 3 to 211, brings together characters that include a bookish mouse, a struggling tadpole and a checkers-playing cat, as well as some humans.
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Though he is not particularly bookish, Mr. Kushner is an admirer of "The Count of Monte Cristo," the story of an innocent man seeking vengeance against people who have wronged him.
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She also captures the affection of Edmund Brundish (Bill Nighy), a bookish recluse who looks down in disgust at the town's provincialism from his manor at the top of the hill.
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My father was a successful small business owner — a meatpacker — and though my parents were street smart and financially secure, to me, their know-it-all, bookish daughter, they seemed unrefined.
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It's a sly turnabout for Mr Gekoski, a British-American academic and rare-book dealer known for chronicling the bookish life in broadcast, and in books such as "Outside of a Dog".
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The elf assassin Rayla (Paula Burrows) has a crush on the bookish prince Callum (Jack De Sena), and hasn't told him that she knows his stepfather, King Harrow (Luc Roderique), is dead.
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The ordeal had been devastating for the bookish 43-year-old, who was jailed in 2013 after he worked to set up kindergartens and other schools teaching children in the Uighur language.
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His sweeter moments generally come with the women in his life, from beloved mum Betty, of a similarly bookish bent, to his friend Linder Sterling, who spies his promise from early on.
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Until recently, the trend for barista-made coffee and high-speed Wi-Fi was considered by some in the city's bookish crowd to be ruining London's centuries-old tradition of disconnected browsing.
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It's full of contradictions—at least they're contradictions if you're looking for generic cut-outs (the shy, bookish best friend Needy comes from a broken home and is sexually active, for example).
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A controversial novel aptly titled Bear published in 1976 by Canadian author Marian Engel told the story of a a bookish woman who falls in love and has sex with a bear.
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Thirty years ago, a short-lived movement catapulted me into the public eye, turning me from a shy, bookish student of history into a passionate and idealistic leader of several million protesters.
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Reserved and bookish, he spends most of his time, friends say, working or spending time with his wife and children, including frequently shuttling his two teenage girls to soccer and softball games.
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Once again, we find the bookish Belle (Emma Watson) living in a village, worshipped by her father, Maurice (Kevin Kline), and wooed without cease—or success—by the vainglorious Gaston (Luke Evans).
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And I studied at the University of Chicago, a cloister of academics and bookish young people that is a world away from the low-income neighborhoods nearby, or the city's industrial roots.
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Set during the last hurrah before high school graduation, the film follows two, yes, bookish best friends—Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) and Molly (Beanie Feldstein)—as they try to actually party for once.
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Clinton's loss would cause women to retreat from running for public office, turned off by the combat and nastiness ushered in by a reality-TV star who vanquished the bookish, dutiful woman.
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By sharing her bookish posse, Beckinsale joins the ranks of fellow celeb bookworms Emma Roberts and Mindy Kaling, who post their literary selections on Instagram and provide reading-list inspiration for their fans.
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The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 218.
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It's a bit dry and bookish for my tastes, but at the same time I'm kind of speechless that Polyphony has the freedom to basically make iRacing for consoles with a bottomless budget.
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"I'm the lead electrical engineer, making sure the motors and sensors are working," Brady Knight, a bookish twenty-three-year-old from the Bay Area, wearing a black-and-white gingham shirt, said.
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In Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis," the seed of possibility is planted when the artist, still a bookish girl, fashions herself as "the last prophet," destined to end inequality and the suffering of the elderly.
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She'd also like her to take the time to date and find a partner, maybe a professorial, bookish type who lives a quieter life, preferably someone who could cook and stock the fridge.
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The teenage characters here take the form of the typical love triangle, including bookish but vaguely popular Nancy (Natalia Dyer), brooding and nerdy Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), and heartthrob bad boy Steve (Joe Keery).
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When the Germans occupied Poland, Raizel was conscripted to work, but Sala, shrewd and resourceful, felt her older sister was too bookish to weather the camp and volunteered to take her place. Mrs.
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Insiders will recognize real-world touches: the bookish spectacles one defendant dons for court, the feral dogs that roam gang neighborhoods, the civilian police employee who passes tips to her gang-member nephew.
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Now operated as a 38-room hotel set on 376 acres about 30 miles west of London, the estate generates its own intrigue, albeit of the bookish kind, with its Cliveden Literary Festival.
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But because they are spoken by someone who looks and talks like Badgley, a dark-haired heartthrob famous for playing Dan Humphrey, the bookish outsider on " Gossip Girl, " Joe gets away with murder.
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Mr. Silvers preferred to mine the tastes and opinions of gifted writers and editors whom he chose for being able to offer all manner of bookish recommendations and delights, not least some serendipity.
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Funny Weather is a culmination of all her criticism thus far; it includes interviews with Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith and has already attracted early praise from bookish celebrities like Carrie Brownstein. —T.
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Tiffany Schmidt is the author of the Bookish Boyfriends series: The Boy Next Story (2019); A Date With Darcy (2018); Talk Nerdy To Me (May 19, 2020), and Get a Clue (January 2021).
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Greetings have barely been exchanged before the brothers make clear their differences: Samad is more expensively educated and bookish, while the leaner, more impulsive Tom gives off an energy that Samad can't match.
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A thin, bespectacled man of 53, Mr. Thomas had on wool trousers paired with a green corduroy blazer and blue cloth tie, and exuded an air of bookish intelligence and modest British eccentricity.
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Rosie's father could be one or the other of a pair of Anglo-Bengali twins — the bookish, fully Anglicized Millat Iqbal (Assad Zaman) or his radicalized brother, Magid (a notably intense Sid Sagar).
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Even the critics who turned up their nose at the bombast of Van Halen in favor of the bookish pop-rock of "Armed Forces" weren't exactly innocent of such blinkered, ego-driven pathology.
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I've seen him with the beaming tourists who sit in his studio audiences and the awe-struck, bookish kids for whom he was the host of the National Geographic Bee for 25 years.
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When Bendta Schroeder, for instance, finished a literature Ph.D. and was deciding whether or not to stay in academia, she worried leaving her field also meant leaving the bookish people she'd swarmed with.
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"The Book of Memory" contains all the elements of made-to-order profundity, copied from the familiar templates: the depressive mother; the isolated, bookish protagonist, scarred by her fraught past; the inoffensively experimental prose.
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As young as six years old, watching a CBBC drama with a fey, bookish protagonist being tormented by older boys, I would feel an excitement I can only explain as the beginning of desire.
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" Quipped Colbert in response, referring to the black-and-red plaid shirt his guest is wearing in the photograph (and his signature specs, of course), "He's looking at you like, 'Who's this bookish lumberjack?
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Sao Haymar Thaike, a childhood friend and the daughter of Burma's first post-independence President, told me that Suu Kyi was a serious, bookish girl, raised by a "very strong, kindhearted" mother, Khin Kyi.
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A bookish woman who failed to meet contemporary beauty standards, her family saw her as the perfect candidate for the nunnery and a means to redeem their shame after her brother defected to protestantism.
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The catalogue for Delacroix, presenting both the paintings on exhibition and many of his other works, is an unfocused, bookish summary of the literature; the lighter, cheaper Devotion to Drawing catalogue is mercifully brief.
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Out came a white, bookish, curly-haired guy who started rapping about the harrowing process of sending emails while stuck in a k-hole, sort of like the raver version of Weird Al Yankovic.
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Like Eduoard Louis's best-selling French novel "The End of Eddy" (2014), "Returning to Reims" portrays a gay, bookish youth growing up in a provincial, blue-collar town where homosexuality and intellectualism are anathema.
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His main character is Ciccio, a teenager living in 1960s São Paulo whose bookish parents leave him mostly to his own devices and to whom the rare books in his home's library are forbidden.
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Before his fingers had reached the volume knob to turn off Steely Dan, I already knew: My bookish and tightly wound father was about to tell me something I did not want to hear.
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Marina was a bookish, unhappy child who saw ghosts, developed a mysterious bleeding disorder and attempted to break her own nose so that the doctors would reconstruct one that looked more like Brigitte Bardot's.
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A bookish young woman, an outcast in her small-minded French village, is taken captive in a castle, where the servants have been magically turned into household objects (a feisty candelabra, a fussy clock).
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If anything, Mr. Kwiecien (as the dashing, aloof aristocrat Onegin) and Ms. Netrebko (as the bookish, impressionable Tatiana, who falls for him at first sight) were dramatically sharper and vocally bolder than in 2013.
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I delight in her wit and intelligence, and find her criminally underappreciated by bookish people, perhaps because she is subtle, and because her light beams outward into the world, not back to illuminate herself.
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But I could dress in ways that signaled I was emo, mod, a vintage clotheshorse, a Carrie wannabe — anything but the kind of socially awkward, bookish Asian girl John Hughes might have cast me as.
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That evening, in an old warehouse in Berlin's east, Mr Varoufakis takes to the stage before a young, bookish, international audience at the launch of European Spring's manifesto for May's elections to the European Parliament.
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Our guide, Andrei Stancu, a slender and bookish man in his mid 20s, told us that the Ceausescus, both born into peasant families, always took off their shoes at the door to preserve the carpets.
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The latest fairy tale follows Belle, a bookish girl in France played by Harry Potter film veteran Emma Watson, who helps a tortured Beast (Dan Stevens of "Downton Abbey" fame) break out of his shell.
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We've got a fairy-tale-style omniscient narrator who notes the exact years, months and days since certain events; oddball aunts who raised a bookish niece; and police investigations that are more whimsical than gory.
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Once the action moved inside, the episode turned into a horror movie, with Arya dodging the more bookish wights in the library before joining Beric and the Hound in the zombie-plagued hallways of Winterfell.
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Leonard, a bookish youngster, attended Syracuse University for one semester before transferring to Columbia College in New York, where one of his teachers, the literary critic Lionel Trilling, sparked his interest in Freud and psychoanalysis.
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I've never known a writer to make otherwise sensible, not especially bookish women chase down first editions "as investments"; to cling to, as my sister does, a childhood copy of "Frenchman's Creek" in unspeakable condition.
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Catherine, now in her thirties, is still haunted by her past and the ghost of her former best friend, Marlena, who was amazing and dangerous and everything shy and bookish Cat believed she could never be.
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"There are plans for management reforms," said one of the individuals, adding this would involve expressing the willingness of Chairman and CEO Shigehisa Takada, the bookish grandson of the group's founder, and other executives, to resign.
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Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, a former state governor, polls well as a potential candidate, despite an inability to control spiraling violence, while bookish Health Minister Jose Narro is among others also being spoken of.
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I am the father of two young children — including a bookish 2194-year-old boy who hid a handwritten note in my luggage, saying how much he would miss me while I was on the ship.
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He captured the mystical air of the city, how it was transformed with the birth of the state, his own bookish youth and his mother's depression, which led to her suicide when Mr. Oz was 12.
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Like "Cursed Child," it rewards the bookish connoisseur of arcana; unlike the witless "Cursed Child," however, "Travesties" has a verve and humor that stand on their own, and a truly delicious lead performance by Tom Hollander.
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Bookish Asma is "not in any hurry to embrace all the joys of love in one gulp of intoxicating ether"; when she marries an ambitious artist, she leverages his desire for status to complete her education.
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Inside the List A BOOKISH NEWCOMER You arrive at a certain age where you are in awe of younger people who are succeeding at something you wouldn't have had the guts to attempt at their age.
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First performed in Bologna in 1811, when Rossini was 19, the "bizarre misunderstanding" concerns a bookish young woman named Ernestina — sung by the brilliant young mezzo-soprano Teresa Iervolino — who would like to marry a philosopher.
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First performed in Bologna in 1811, when Rossini was 19, the "bizarre misunderstanding" concerns a bookish young woman named Ernestina — sung by the brilliant young mezzo-soprano Teresa Iervolino — who would like to marry a philosopher.
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Boys and girls develop quirks and habits fairly early, but it's nothing like what happens later on, when they become artsy 8-year-olds, bookish 10-year-olds, athletic 12-year-olds, or what have you.
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Kudrin, a bespectacled 55-year-old economist with a bookish manner, instead took on a part-time advisory role as deputy head of the presidential economic council, with the job of drawing up proposals for economic reform.
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Yes, Andrew Eldritch, Gene Loves Jezebel, Robert Smith of the Cure, Siouxsie Sioux, and even Celtic Frost are all characters in Darnielle's songs, but the songs still sound like the Mountain Goats' brand of bookish indie rock.
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With his bullish figure typically dressed in elegant suits, and a magician's just-you-wait smile often hovering over his face, he cuts a striking figure in a city arts scene dominated by bookish executives and technocrats.
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Despite his influence, Mr. da Silva was not able to pull off the last-minute transfer of votes to the candidate chosen to replace him on the ballot, the bookish and urbane — but less charismatic — Mr. Haddad.
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Mr. Wulp — whose oddball charmer of a musical "Red Eye of Love" got a New York revival a few seasons back — is making a kind of bookish joke here, yet there are stretches where it wears thin.
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With some seven million volumes and 8,000 manuscripts housed in a modernist 1970s-era building in the decidedly uncharming environs of the Termini rail station, this is clearly a place for serious scholars, not dreamy bookish tourists.
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If PRI party members open a path on Saturday for the finance minister to compete in next year's election, the bookish, technocratic Meade is likely to face current presidential front-runner, combative leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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As a band they were pegged as thoughtful, bookish outliers in London's tight-knit music scene—they knew tons of people in bands, but preferred to stand a little to the left of the Dalston party scene.
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One of his former teachers, in a text message to a handful of Mr. Patterson's classmates, said the man accused of the kidnapping and killings was "not the quiet, smiley, bookish boy in the classroom" she knew.
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Jane Mount's Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany is an absolute gift to book lovers, covering things like literary trivia, bookstore cats, profiles of bookish people, so many recommendations, and guides to beloved libraries and bookstores from around the world.
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Delving as deeply into his father's vulnerabilities as his demons, he makes James into a narcissistic monster, a good ol' boy who affects the bookish, bohemian persona of David Foster Wallace while nursing a breathtakingly abusive mean streak.
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But not that far: Thanks to my "stay connected whether you want to or not" iPhone, I get updates at all hours of the day and night from Bookish, Goodreads and Lit Hub bannering the new Hot Titles.
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Believe it — along with Karen Gillan as his bookish crush turned martial arts master, Kevin Hart as a gridiron powerhouse knocked down to size and Jack Black as a queen bee trapped in a middle-age man's body.
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The story you know: Beautiful, bookish Belle (Emma Watson, Hermione of the Harry Potter movies) is held hostage in that castle by the Beast (Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens), a prince transformed into a fairytale Chewbacca because of his horribleness.
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It's no wonder that a cult following has emerged in the U.S., driven by bookish, Jo-ish, Elena-like, author-worshipping women, giving the books a reputation that has sometimes reduced them to a universalizing primer on female friendship.
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After having his bed set on fire in the previous episode, Naz realizes that keeping his head down isn't the strategy that is going to work for a bookish Muslim charged in a high-profile rape and murder case.
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We follow Andrei as he learns to navigate the Moscow subway, searches for Wi-Fi, joins pickup hockey games, is dragged to nightclubs and ultimately falls in with a crowd of bookish and genial subversives and would-be socialists.
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I had assumed that I was just like any white guy in movies—I could be the protagonist, the ladies' man, the punk, or even maybe the bookish Hebrew scholar from The Chosen, but that was all gone now.
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The most moving parts of the book are those that step back and let the events and the actions speak for themselves, as when one character (the shy, bookish one from high school) recalls his three tours in Afghanistan.
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While bookish types such as myself are mustering evidence and reason behind a dispassionate analysis of the facts, he argued, the gun-grabbers and other demagogues are getting the rubes all riled up (I am rephrasing) to do . . . something.
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Typically, this involves a figure who resembles — well, Bob Dylan: a countercultural, bookish wanderer who does something involving words, and who is eloquent yet mysterious, wise yet innocent, charismatic yet elusive (and also, perhaps not coincidentally, a white dude).
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From the get-go he comes off as clever and likable, even as his fellow academics dismiss him as a basket case, and as the movie progresses he uses his bookish expertise to guide an expedition to Atlantis itself.
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But Johnson's fame has never dispelled the idea that the lexicographer is a humdrum, bookish type who reads for precision and who dutifully approves the "right" meanings of "good" words while preventing "wrong" definitions and "bad" words from entering the dictionary.
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Though the story starts small, with a series of terrible things happening to three sibling orphans, it gradually expands to a global conspiracy: the good guys are bold and bookish nerds, and the bad guys are greedy, narcissistic anti-intellectuals.
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Instead, he organises his book around seven themes, of which the other six are satire aimed at Jewish norms; bookish and allusive wordplay; vulgarity and the body; mordant metaphysical irony; the folksy quotidian Jew; and the ambiguous nature of Jewishness.
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D. The trailer also provides a quick glimpse at Selma Blair and Shannen Doherty (who played the shy, bookish Heather Duke in the original movie) and a blink-and-you-miss-it moment that shows Veronica wearing her iconic monocle.
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He was the son of Everard Digby, a Gunpowder Plotter condemned to death for conspiring to blow up King James I. Yet Kenelm charmed his way into becoming a courtier to James's son Charles I. He had a bookish, sheltered upbringing.
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Still, there is plenty to bait any connoisseur of bookish in-jokes, not least the copy of Thomas De Quincey's essay " Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts " that is found, defaced with savage ravings, in the British Library.
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The President may not be bookish, but he surely knows that words matter, otherwise he wouldn't trumpet dog whistles like "globalists" and "America First" whenever he feels like tossing red meat into the bread and circuses of those frenzied red states.
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A bookish boy from the New Jersey suburbs, I tried to steer clear of the Rockaway ruffians — they always seemed to be throwing some hapless boy into the pool — but we inevitably met on the baseball field and became friends.
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In the weeks following her triumph, I became increasingly aware of a wish I'd long harbored: to be seen — not as a bookish outcast or a sidekick-in-the-making, but as someone with power and potential of her own.
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The Saturday Profile PARIS — He is the intellectual much of the French left loves to hate, the writer whose rumpled look has racked up multiple magazine covers, the bookish essayist turned omnipresent media star and boogeyman for proselytizers of painless multiculturalism.
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I'd put this clue in the "Salutations, Bookish Folks" section, for those of us who didn't spend enough time in a fraternity basement to catch every product placement at a beer pong event (or a keg jump, or a hazing).
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Marianne arrives at university with a new persona, transformed by the status afforded to the wry, bookish and rich, while Connell, despite the superior test scores that got him into the school, feels out of place among the would-be intellectuals.
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It begins with a meet-cute: Guinevere Beck (Elizabeth Lail), an aspiring writer in her early 20s, walks into a bookstore managed by Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley, best known for a bookish "Gossip Girl" character who was also arguably a stalker).
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Just a few weeks ago she was a shy, bookish high school student from a small town in the Indonesian province of East Java who liked to raid her local library and pull books randomly from the shelves.
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There are the then-bookish, now-serial killer men brought to life by Penn Badgley, the pick-a-flavor benches of hunks in Pretty Little Liars and Riverdale, and guys who broke the internet like Noah Centineo and Manny Jacinto.
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"Beauty and the Beast" decisively removes itself from such company by insisting on the heroism and competence of its heroine, Belle, a bookish and ingenious young woman who lives with her father (Kevin Kline) in a picture-book French village.
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During his three-year tenure, Mr. Cryan, a bookish Briton who speaks German fluently, helped Deutsche Bank begin to crawl out from under the legal problems that had weighed on the bank's reputation and cost it billions of euros in fines and settlements.
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He's bookish to the point of being a geek, is obsessed with environmental issues, and is not content to just scratch the surface of a problem — he delves deep, traveling the country in order to understand the science and politics of global warming.
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Woolson's bookish father, a prosperous New England stove manufacturer, was an insecure man whose deafness intensified his inherent melancholy, and the deaths of three of her older sisters, weeks after Woolson's birth in 1840, so devastated her mother that she never recovered.
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Belle & Sebastian was among the first indie bands to gather a frankly unwieldy amount of musicians together (ten people total perform on 1998's The Boy with the Arab Strap, not counting an entire string section) to play gentle, bookish pop songs.
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Each city's arrangement differs slightly, but all offer an incentive such as a discount or giveaway entries for visiting multiple stories, usually in a single day (although some regions such as Cape Cod spread the bookish rewards over a longer time period).
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They were a bookish family: his uncle, Ashok Mehta, remembers buying a copy of " The Day of the Jackal ," by Frederick Forsyth, its binding badly worn, and watching the Ghemawat children read the broken book together, passing pages along as they finished.
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"They looked pathetic; even I am taller than they are," said Srdjan Puhalo, a bookish, ethnic Serb psychologist who posed with the bikers for photos outside Christ the Savior Cathedral in Banja Luka, perhaps the most enthusiastically pro-Russian city outside Russia.
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It causes me some shame, now, to look back on those years; I think I resisted Mr. Gilbert's performances, his presence — genial, bookish and curious, and utterly without glamour — because they didn't meet my sense of what a conductor was supposed to be.
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We are still watching a bookish university professor from the West, who tried to anonymously report an alleged blight on the character of a man about to ascend to a lifetime of power, get smeared as a demanding, mixed-up, uptight, loony fantasist.
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Two things were happening simultaneously for me during that period: firstly, I was extraordinarily bookish, and a pop idol that threw around big words and quoted Oscar Wilde as if he were scripture was something I didn't know existed and was in desperate need of.
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Brainy, bookish, and shy, with a dyed-blue streak in her mousy brown hair that suggests "the possibility of boldness," Greer grew up in a working-class town in Massachusetts, where she and her boyfriend, Cory, were at the top of their public-school class.
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In five bookish scents — Leather, Paper, Wood, the cedar-and-patchouli-spiked Havana and a fresh vanilla-sandalwood option called Culture Lounge — the set, or any single one, would also make a good holiday gift for the man (or woman!) who always stumps you.
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More than 50 years since it first captured the hearts and expanded the minds of bookish young misfits, dreamers and in-betweeners around the world, "A Wrinkle in Time," Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 coming-of-age-as-interdimensional-odyssey novel, has finally materialized in theaters.
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These are their names because I was 22-years-old and about to graduate with a liberal arts degree when I got Gatsby, and because my now-husband was my new boyfriend who wanted to impress me with his bookish bonafides when we got Killer.
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An intensely bookish young man who passed his post-collegiate years in Central and Eastern Europe as a correspondent for The Jewish Daily Forward, Cohen affects a personal style, to judge from photographs — round-rimmed glasses, melancholy gaze — of a Russian Jewish intellectual circa 1910.
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Pippa was bookish where Gillian was capable; she wore her hair pinned up, or in a long plait on one shoulder, which someone had once said—long ago, when it was still a rich chestnut brown—made her look like an Augustus John Gypsy.
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The careful, aloof, patrician George H.W. Bush was succeeded by the charismatic, brilliant, relatable Bill Clinton; Bill Clinton's successful but seedy presidency gave rise to the disciplined, religious, and decidedly non-bookish George W. Bush; W's blunt, divisive nationalism led to Barack Obama's hopeful, cerebral cosmopolitanism.
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Maybe they were helped out of depression by your works, maybe they drew strength from the knowledge that Neville grew up to be a hero against all odds, maybe you taught a bookish boy that there are friends to be found between the pages of a novel.
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A stage regular who is infrequently seen in Shakespeare, Ms. Fairley counters the outsize bombast of a rhetoric-heavy play with a whispery quietude that prompts one to consider Cassius and Ben Whishaw's angsty, bookish Brutus not just as conspirators but also as would-be lovers.
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For over ten years, Watson and Felton starred in the series as Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy, and while the bookish witch ends up with Grint's character Ron Weasley in the end (spoiler alert?), Grint says the real chemistry was between the two supposed enemies while filming.
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Fortunately, Jones (whose resume includes the "Star Wars" prequel "Rogue One" and playing Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and Redmayne are good company, even if the latter's bookish, awkward genius feels a little too much like a Muggle version of his New Scamander character from the "Fantastic Beasts" movies.
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San Francisco is proud of its long literary history, and it's impossible to ramble for long here without coming upon bookish landmarks: Mark Twain Plaza, Alice B. Toklas Place, Frank Norris Street, Jack London's birthplace, Robert Frost Plaza, Bob Kaufman Alley, the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial.
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Despite the stereotype that Angelenos aren't a particularly bookish bunch, "the truth is that there are pockets of young people publishing various sorts of alternative publications all over the city and beyond," as artist and former Printed Matter president AA Bronson told Hyperallergic at the time.
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In school, Northam had a reputation for being somewhat socially-awkward and bookish, so much so that someone close to him questioned whether the inclusion of the photo on his yearbook page was a gag designed to rag him by classmates who had given him a hard time.
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Since everything from the aforementioned Mindhunter to CW monster-of-the-week mystery series Supernatural has given viewers the old "likeable handsome guy and his bookish, less cool, but equally handsome, partner solve crimes" premise, Fanning's Sara gives The Alienist the extra spark it needs to truly pop.
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" Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff, whom The Guardian calls a "bookish chap," put it much less academically than Greif when he told the paper in 2014, "I like lyrics—I like writing, I like words—but I don't feel like good lyrics are a prerequisite to music being good.
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He is a prodigy, voraciously bookish, who plays Bach al fresco on the guitar and then inside on the piano, in the manner of Liszt and of Busoni, with Oliver standing in the background, contrapposto, with the elegant tilt of a statue, drinking in the sound and the skill.
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Which isn't to say that he's spent that time sitting around getting through the extensive stacks of first editions and paperbacks that litter his flat, a collection crammed with the kind of esoteric material you'd expect from a songwriter beloved by a certain kind of bookish music fan.
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It's a kind of Woodstock for the ultra-bookish, where museum-like displays of stunningly bound 16th-century volumes and illuminated manuscripts are surrounded by booths specializing in rare maps, historical documents, vintage crime novels, counterculture ephemera and just about anything else, as long as it's (mostly) on paper.
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For much of the 1990s — when an earnest, bookish California teenager named John Walker Lindh first felt himself drawn to the study of Islam — the United States lent its support to plans by an American-led group of businesses to develop an oil pipeline that would run through Afghanistan.
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The more sympathetic members of the McAllan clan — Laura, a bookish, musical, cultivated woman dragged into the mud by the blunt force of her husband's will, and Jamie, a dissolute, poetic soul of the kind Tennessee Williams would have recognized — are in some ways more dangerous to the Jacksons.
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We have The One again, a New One — another lanky, bookish, handsome man with an attractive young family, a thin résumé, an exotic name, a hip affect, a rock star aura, an enticing smile, a liberal press corps ready to fluff his pillows and a frothing Fox News.
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On the more bookish side, in 1966, Lebel's French translations of the writings of his Beat friends — including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, Bob Kaufman, and Jack Kerouac — were published in La Poésie de la Beat Generation (The Poetry of the Beat Generation).
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He has intrigued and befuddled a growing audience since the late nineteen-seventies, when he emerged, in Hermosa Beach, California, as a bookish surfer who made flyers and album covers for the punk band Black Flag (his older brother Greg Ginn was the founder and guitarist) and a flurry of zines.
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Gert (Ariela Barer) is a bookish feminist with a pet dinosaur; Molly (Allegra Acosta) is a naive but feisty fighter; Nico (Lyrica Okano) is a burgeoning sorceress; Karolina (Virginia Gardner) is a lesbian flying alien, while dumb jock Chase (Gregg Sulkin) and supersmart nerd Alex (Rhenzy Feliz) rely on inventions from their parents.
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At the time, they found themselves lumped in with the early-00s glut of UK indie MOR bands such Coldplay, Travis, and Embrace, but Elbow were always a different beast: softer, more bookish and witty, happy to linger on the more genuinely painful side of love and life without resorting to grand melodrama.
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The cliché about bookish women and the novels of the 19th century is that you have to pick from three authors, and you're only allowed to love one of them: Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, or Emily Brontë — you have to have one favorite, and whichever one it is says something profound about you.
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But it's a minor inconvenience for Sam, whom John Bradley-West plays as jolly comic relief amidst the Sturm und Drang, and whose wonder at the massive library is a touching moment of recognition for any bookish type who recalls visiting their university's library or a big-city bookstore for the first time.
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Swet Shop Boys: Cashmere (Customs) Rat-a-tat-tatting his rhymes grime style, Riz MC—better known as Oxford-educated, Anglo-Pakistani big deal actor Rizwan Ahmed—might better captivate American ears with his bookish smarts and common touch if his gritty high baritone was more resonant and his flow more fluent.
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Pamela Paul, writing in The Times on the book's 50th anniversary in 2012, opined that "bookish girls tend to mark phases of their lives by periods of intense literary character identification" and "for those who came of age anytime during the past half-century, the most startling transformation occurred" upon reading this book.
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Books like Frederick Forsyth's "The Day of The Jackal," about an unnamed assassin hired to kill President Charles de Gaulle of France, found particular resonance, as did films like "Three Days of the Condor," in which a bookish C.I.A. researcher finds all his co-workers mysteriously murdered and tries to uncover a conspiracy.
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Their story, narrated by Lenù, is one of intellectual entanglement; over the course of their lives, the two women's thoughts and impressions overlap, fuse together, and despite their undeniably distinct personalities (Lila plays the fearless, life-hungry foil to Lenù's bookish reserve), it becomes unclear where one voice ends and the other begins.
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His third novel, "What Hell Is Not," based on a true story and translated by Jeremy Parzen, follows Federico, a bookish teenager from Palermo who, just before a summer of study in England, is recruited by his teacher, the kind Don Pino, to mentor children in a poor neighborhood plagued by Mafia violence.
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Some may prefer to trace the internet's rise to the wizards who stayed up late connecting computer centers across the globe or to the bookish Tim Berners-Lee weaving the World Wide Web from his Swiss lab, but the unsavory characters at the heart of "The Players Ball" are a better fit for today.
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The skinny nerd has transformed into a smoldering, ripped explorer (Dwayne Johnson); the jock has lost a foot and a half off his height and become the zoologist (Kevin Hart); the bookish girl has become the badass commando (Karen Gillan); and the queen bee, to her initial horror, is now a bearded, paunchy male cryptographer (Jack Black).
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" In another scene, he speaks with the 11-year-old Joliet, Valencia's bookish daughter, about school, role models and whether she sees herself represented in film and TV. When he asks her to tell him the secret to being happy, she responds, in part: "You have to know what you want, not what everyone else wants.
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On Mr. Ambedkar's anniversary millions of Dalits honor him by garlanding his statues, which reproduce an iconic image of the bookish messiah: Mr. Ambedkar wearing a pair of rectangular glasses over a blue three-piece suit, a copy of the Indian Constitution in his left hand, the index finger of his right hand pointing at a distant horizon.
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His presidential ambitions appeared more on display in a colorful basement classroom earlier this month in the Cresco Public Library, though, where the 45-year old congressman from Niles, Ohio found himself at a seven-person event to kick off a door knocking session for Tim Knutson, a bookish man running to represent the area in the Iowa House.
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In "Salvage the Bones," a father struggles to fortify his home against the coming hurricane, but fails to notice the rise of quieter waters: his young daughter—the narrator, a bookish girl named Esch—is hiding a pregnancy; his son steals to feed the pit bull he is training to fight; his children are going hungry, foraging for eggs in the yard.
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Books of The Times In the annals of literary treachery, there is a special place reserved for David Plante and his memoir "Difficult Women," a portrait of three of his friends (or so they believed): the novelist Jean Rhys; the feminist writer Germaine Greer; and Sonia Orwell, George's widow, who presided, in her depressive fashion, over London's bookish set in the 1970s.
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Laissez-faire tags are common on social media; if I post an aesthetic photo of a book I'm reading on Instagram, I have over 23 relevant tags to choose from, such as #book #books #readers #reader #reading #reads #goodreads #read #booksofig #readersofig #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #readstagram #bookstagram #bookshelf #bookshelves #bookshelfie #booknerd #bookworm #bookish #bookphotography #bookcommunity #booklover #booksbooksbooks #bookstagrammer #booktography #readers #readabook #readmorebooks #readingtime #alwaysreading #igreads #instareads #amreading.
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" The bookish and rail-thin poutinologist, who appears not to pig out on his subject, stressed that the exaltation of poutine as one of the top 10 Canadian inventions of all time — up there with insulin and the Wonderbra — belied the fact that it was once ridiculed by Canadian elites to "tarnish Quebec culture and undermine its legitimacy of self-determination as a nation.
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Mistakenly thinking that the scarcity they're sold to believe in represents the only option they have, each character struggles to be born anew, whether that be Maradona of the many identities; Mendaus, who goes from a bookish rascal to a movement leader; or Ihechi's cousins, Tessy and Effy, who slip in and out of clothes just as easily as they do their adherence to their faith.
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That is as true of Perry as it is of Jonathan Pine, in "The Night Manager" (recently dramatized and shown on AMC), although, in the case of the bookish Perry, you are tempted to ask, Does the fun of the film—a shoot-out in a forest, a midair explosion, and so on—take place for real, or could it all be unfolding inside his brain?
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His pop perspective was shaped by other vintage installments, also written by Serling: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" and "I Am the Night — Color Me Black," which dealt directly with societal bias and racism, and cruelly ironic episodes like "Time Enough at Last," in which Burgess Meredith plays the bookish survivor of an atomic apocalypse, stranded with a lifetime supply of reading material and a pair of broken glasses.
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He does not use bookish words, or delve deeply into policy detail, but, early in the race, at the request of an Oslo camera crew, he did speak some words of Norwegian—a language he said he had taught himself in order to read the untranslated work of the novelist Erlend Loe—and when an exchange student from Gaza posed a question about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict he replied, briefly, in Arabic.
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The second title in a nicely bookish series, this one highlights the formidable memory and ratiocinative skills of Ambler, the curator of crime fiction at the landmark New York Public Library building on 42nd Street, whose work on a planned exhibit called "A Century-and-a-Half of Murder and Mystery in New York City" (and doesn't that sound positively delicious!) is interrupted by the discovery of a corpse stuffed among the shelves of murder mysteries.
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Rating From Iron Man to Guardians of the Galaxy to Thor, the company has honed a rhythm and a pattern that encourage consistency; the result is that none of the studio's films, regardless of who's in the director's chair, will ever stray too far from the crisp, almost bookish Marvel formula (good guys don't know they're good guys; good guys squabble; jokes are made; bad guys acquire devastating weapon; more jokes are made; good guys come together to defeat the Big Bad, etc.).
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