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PARK CITY, Utah — "Most-anticipated Sundance movies" lists are like New Year's resolutions: Everybody makes one, and they all come to pieces by the end of January.
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"I beseech those present to unite themselves with me in prayer for this child…" The only certainty in our lives at that moment was the sobering reality that we couldn't completely come to pieces.
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And while I find the film's ending unsatisfactory — it lets Gregory off the hook by painting him as less of a sociopath and more of a very determined and innovative thief — the scenes in which Gregory is flat-out lying to Paula, coolly watching her come to pieces, are utterly chilling.
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If it, God forefend, were put in the hands of the Ministry of Health like the NHS our guess is that it would soon come to pieces.
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The Ottoman Empire broke the treaty by invading the newly created First Republic of Armenia in May 1918. Joffe became the Soviet ambassador to Germany. His priority was distributing propaganda to trigger the German revolution. On 4 November 1918 "the Soviet courier's packing-case had 'come to pieces'" in a Berlin railway station;Wheeller-Bennett, 1938, p. 359.
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Rivermen assigned colorful names to the various features and hazards along their route down the Atamaha. Among the many "riverman monikers" was Old Hell Bight, where the river marks the border between Long County to the north and Wayne County to the south, and is a particularly troublesome bend, with associated dangerous currents, where a pilot and crew might lose "their wages, their timber, and occasionally their lives" Most rafts were sharp-chute, that is, V-bowed, rather than square- bowed. Raftsmen had learned that with a V-bow a raft was more likely to hold together and glance off if it drifted out of control and hit the river bank. As one old-time raftsman put it: “With a square bow you were compelled to hold the raft in or near the middle of the river: if it butted the hill it would come to pieces.
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