Scully leavened the valedictory aspect of the broadcast with humility.
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That's the Jewish ritual where no leavened foods are consumed.
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Baker's yeast has given us leavened bread for thousands of years.
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The stakes are only as high as your leavened bread will rise.
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The bleakness is leavened with uplifting episodes of resistance, devotion and faith.
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And while both are leavened with wit, they are fundamentally serious plays.
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Comic and disconcerting, these pieces leavened surrealist techniques with a critical woman's perspective.
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The gore and death is leavened by humour and well-observed family dynamics.
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The passage conveys unease, but one that's leavened with a touch of calm.
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Informative works are leavened by imagination, even humor, and left open to interpretation.
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The lack of mystery might have been leavened by wider insights or witty writing.
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But if the acidity is leavened with simple, rich food, you have beautiful harmony.
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Because dough used for molds is not leavened, it can hold a sharper design.
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Dysfunction is a continuing condition of Pizzolatto relationships, leavened occasionally by a good shag.
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Its Marxism was leavened by Christian liberation theology and an idealistic commitment to social justice.
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He has occasionally leavened his loathsome but lovable little men by playing a romantic lead.
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The tension of the escape was leavened by several cutaways to small, sad scenes elsewhere.
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This near-tragedy of neglect is leavened by the eccentric charm of its central figures.
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Night in the Woods game is leavened by its cartoony aesthetic and the animal characters.
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Thankfully, the narrative's multifarious hard-luck stories are also leavened with cunning flashes of humor.
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Like an Aero, wondered this diarist, meaning the English chocolate bar leavened by interior air bubbles?
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A self-referential twist is fine but works best when leavened with something — humor, magic, warmth.
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For that reason, observers refrain from eating bread (and other leavened goods, chametz) during the holiday.
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It's telling that all of these American reimaginings of Chekhov's bleakest play are leavened with comedy.
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Its crust is leavened to doughy perfection, and its shape is often more football-ish than round.
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The 74-year-old coach's philosophy is all about discipline and hard work, albeit leavened by laughter.
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This sponge gets most of its fat from the eggs which are leavened using the foaming method.
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You can also find artisanal leavened breads made with flours like rice and buckwheat at Chambelland (chambelland.com).
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We're going into Passover weekend, so if you observe that holiday, get your leavened snacks in now.
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Super-thin, super-flat rounds of naturally leavened dough are grilled on both sides and lightly topped.
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The grim cases are leavened with humor that's a little sharper than team-cop dramas usually provide.
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So the anticipatory mood is leavened by trepidation: People fear that instability may accompany this major political change.
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It was heavily drawn from taped interviews with actual dancers, leavened by a hefty dose of artistic license.
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Until now, the films of Corneliu Porumboiu have been austere, rigorously linear and leavened with understated, fatalistic humor.
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The leavened, olive oil-moistened dough is remarkably light and just sweet enough to be delicious on its own.
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New mobile-ordering and delivery services have leavened the bakery-café chain's growth rate, which could interest potential bidders.
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Each movie follows the same mixture of cartoonish fisticuffs leavened with jokes and an epic, universe-threatening CGI ending.
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But under Mr. Yu's baton, they summoned surprising extremes, leavened occasionally with the brisk lightness of a Tchaikovsky ballet.
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And as in every battle, moments of individual heroism, sacrifice, and tragedy leavened the spectacle with ground-level emotion.
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Discussions of technology's promise were leavened with contemplation of its darker side effects, such as fraud and data breaches.
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Along the way to this major achievement, Kantorowicz leavened his weighty studies with a great deal of breezy fun.
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But the violence was leavened with charm — "I Feel Pretty," which was now definitively out — and Robbins's seductive dancing.
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Indeed, the fruit flavor tended more toward the tart end of the spectrum, leavened with herbal and mineral touches.
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It's a tale of regrets and sibling rivalry and daddy issues and disappointment with life – leavened with late-flowering tenderness.
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For those of you who might not be aware, observant Jews abstain from eating leavened foods or yeast on Passover.
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He conveys throughout an appropriate sense of disdain for Mr Trump's efforts, leavened by the fascination the president always elicits.
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They ask what makes this night different from all other nights: Why do we eat matzo instead of leavened bread?
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Then, the signature dish of Georgia arrives: khachapuri , a leavened flatbread, flaky on the outside, with tangy melted cheese within.
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The show's treacle content is leavened by the sense of genuine pain that courses through the music toward the end.
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And I wanted her to suffer through losing and disaster, because those things, when leavened with perspective, can be funny.
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He reduces complex issues of cyber and information warfare to essentials, and his polemic is leavened with humor and sympathy.
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And yet with their typically French éclairs and leavened breads made with good ingredients, Parisians have made gluten-free their own.
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The green, blue and grey military army tones were leavened by metal sequins, suede and golden accessories, including practical hobo bags.
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The journey mapped by the playwright, leavened often with sympathetic humor, is arduous and filled with twists that sometimes feel like detours.
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Its aromas of red and black fruits were leavened with herbs, and on the palate the wine had a pronounced earthy edge.
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His self-absorption, narcissism, casual cruelty, lack of empathy and penchant for self-pity have not been leavened by any redeeming qualities.
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Whatever else might be said about this, it's a recipe for nonstop political defeat leavened only by a sensation of moral superiority.
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Tokaji's dry wines are pretty good, too, like this one with peachy, apricot flavors leavened by a savory edge, gentle but persistent.
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The rebuilding was long and tedious, but leavened by the snappy banter between Susan Povich and Ralph Gorham, the pound's married owners.
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Elsewhere the memoir is leavened with waspish wit: Sir Nicholas's ear for comedy is as sharply attuned for the page as the stage.
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Just as one hopes that in a democracy, justice will be tempered with mercy, so should immigration policies be leavened with humane considerations.
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The Point: Corker's outspokenness has to be leavened with the political reality that he isn't ever going to run for anything ever again.
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Whenever I visited Clinton's campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, the youthful energy and confidence of the staff was leavened by a detectably uneasy undercurrent.
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I'm willing to bet it would be delicious that way, with the texture and flavor of naturally leavened bread right from the oven.
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NAAN is made from all-purpose white flour and is a leavened bread that is traditionally cooked in a tandoor, or clay oven.
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His astute observations were leavened with tart humor, and he was adept at using misunderstandings, either accidental or willful, as fuel for drama.
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This comprehensive and friendly survey of a "big sprawling mess of a subject" is leavened by an impressive data-to-silly joke ratio.
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Blacks and Puerto Ricans leavened the old Irish flavour of the clubhouse, with its photos of John Kennedy and Gerry Adams on the walls.
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"It took me a while to realize that Giuliani's confidence was not leavened with a whole lot of humility," the former FBI director writes.
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Managed trade in the United States is mostly a manifestation of crony capitalism (leavened by the prickly and capricious ego of our current president).
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His feature films hewed to a simple formula, depicting winter-sport athletes in challenging locales, leavened with wipeouts and shots of pretty female skiers.
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The unapologetic, sometimes heavy-handed literariness of "The Wild Pear Tree" is leavened by hints of grim comedy and sharp, if subtle, social criticism.
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Still taboo for all Jews during Passover are any foods that are leavened - called hametz - including such grains as wheat, barley, oats, rye and spelt.
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It stipulates that certified "Pizza Napoletana TSG" must consist of a base of twice-leavened, hand-shaped dough (no rolling pin), no wider than 35cm.
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Schilling Now that Freud, his Austrian brasserie, is up and running, Eduard Frauneder is working on this Austrian bistro leavened with touches of the Mediterranean.
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Besides steeply discounted tickets to star-studded events downstairs, the more spartan aspects of dorm life are leavened by free membership to the building's gym.
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This red blend from Odoardi, a very good producer, is almost half gaglioppo, a highly tannic grape, leavened by the addition of four other grapes.
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The flavors, too, give and take, pulverized peanuts leavened by ginger, sunny lemon pulled down to earth by cumin with its whiff of broken husks.
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Its curators, Juliet Kinchin and Andrew Gardner, have leavened the standouts with endearing oddballs like a shag-carpeted inner-tube chair by Davis J. Pratt.
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Now, for the span of the seven-or-eight day holiday, eating leavened bread and any amount of wheat, barley, rye, oats, and spelt is forbidden.
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Tender introspection is leavened with periods of action—the wartime scenes electrify—and the performances of Ms Blige, Ms Mulligan and Mr Mitchell are especially compelling.
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This characteristically libertarian perspective would then be leavened by the traditional liberal reliance on social policy to ensure that the benefits of growth are widely shared.
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" Francis compared them to "a little yeast that Mother Church wants to mix in with a great quantity of flour until all of it is leavened.
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Using naturally leavened dough and a short shopping list of ingredients, Mr. Mangieri makes what is unmistakably the finest sit-down pizza in the five boroughs.
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As directed by Alexandra Bassiakou Shaw, the story, captivating and sad and beautifully delivered, is leavened by its pacing and its charmingly low-tech special effects.
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We walk you through all the key steps and concepts a first-time sourdough baker needs to bake naturally leavened bread at home with great results.
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It's based on the Book of Daniel...He's a guy who only ate fruits and vegetables and grains and didn't have any leavened breads or animal products.
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If anything, Garland's portrayals seem reverential, leavened by distortions that occasionally make an overstuffed chair resemble the 80-year-old grandmother you would imagine sitting in it.
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For now, however, those feelings are leavened by satisfaction at seeing career diplomats trained to shun the limelight step forward to defend American ideals under enormous pressure.
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Another comes with chicken breast that seems to have passed several lifetimes simmering with chicken ends and bones, the earthiness of the stock leavened by ají amarillo.
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To make panettone — traditional panettone, coaxed from a stiff, naturally leavened starter — is to embark on a long, expensive and unpredictable journey, risking disaster at every turn.
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Her adventurous life and fierce political struggles — which included harrowing stints in prison — are explained in a simple, inspirational way, and leavened by Ana Sanfelippo's charming illustrations.
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Mets 9, Cubs 4 Candid answers leavened with a healthy dollop of humor are a standard features of Mets Manager Terry Collins's pre- and postgame interview sessions.
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Here are two young improvising musicians and bandleaders to watch: Gray is a drummer with a busy, pattering style leavened by his awareness of space and dimension.
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In all of them, though the style varies widely, Mr. Terna's zeal in gathering visual details is leavened by the obvious joy he took in recording them.
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He leavened the speech to lawmakers, the first such address by an international leader since Pope Francis' in September, with jokes about Congress' bitter partisan divide and yoga.
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But any meat or animal products like eggs are banned, along with dairy products, sweeteners like honey, processed and fried foods, leavened bread and solid fats like margarine.
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No One Can Pronounce My Name has similar concerns and Satyal's point of view remains warm-hearted, though leavened with enough humor that it never slips into sentimentality.
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The misery is leavened by the return of the men's mother (an appealing Marylouise Burke); Hawke plays Lee's reaction to her with quiet, abashed politeness, shrinking into himself.
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When she was a child, her dad always brought a bright blue tin of the leavened, sweet butter cookies home after his last day of work in December.
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The white bread was one of the most common brands in Israel (think, Wonderbread), made in an industrial factory with additives, preservatives, and leavened with an industrial yeast.
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And the contemporary pop voice of Liisi LaFontaine, as the Diana Ross figure who becomes Effie's rival onstage and in bed, could be leavened with more period silkiness.
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Her remarks on world affairs are usually leavened by slogans — "call them out" is one of her favorites when referring to nations that run counter to American interests.
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Hailing from Russia, piroshky are totally leavened hand-held pies which have way too many different spellings, including piroshki, pirozhki, pyrizhky, and "poopskies," as my nephew calls them.
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For a holiday all about freedom, Passover dietary restrictions — no bread or leavened goods and, traditionally, for Ashkenazi Jews, no legumes, rice or corn — can be quite taxing.
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London Bridge is a transport hub and nearby Borough Market is a fashionable warren of alleyways leavened with bars and restaurants that is always bustling on a Saturday night.
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The resulting haze of numbers may befuddle a jury unless they are leavened with a few spicy details—exotic code words, say, or (even better) suitcases filled with cash.
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"In Eastern Orthodoxy, for example, the fasting rules are pretty elaborate -- no milk, no eggs, no meat, no fish with blood systems, and sometimes no leavened bread," Valantasis said.
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Its saving graces include casting the able Elba in a heroic role leavened by comedic fish-out-of-water moments, such as encountering Earth's great wonders, like sugary soda.
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In fact, the leather was shaved to considerable lightness and leavened further by the sprightly game of peekaboo Ms. Castiglioni seemed to be playing with all the other clothes.
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But by the late 1990s, some of Bollywood's most successful films were showcasing gaudy, Trump-style consumerism, leavened by a hypermasculine Hinduism, in which women always knew their place.
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Hugh Jackman began the 2009 Oscars in just the right way, bringing to the show energy and Hollywood glamour that was leavened by just the right amount of irreverence.
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Prosperity and security But the President leavened the bile with a more conventional approach, seeking to draw in wavering mainstream Republicans and independents left uncomfortable by his populist, nationalist creed.
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He was, by his own admission, a pretty awful candidate—awkward, pompous, long-winded, and lacking a gift for the sound bite, which has since leavened his geeky public persona.
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Anna described "Hot Coals" as a universal story about facing your fears, leavened with the twist at the end (what Snap's animators call a "bonus") when the character catches fire.
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Wilson — it's not clear if that's his first or last name — is a misanthrope with a sentimental streak, a guy whose grouchiness is leavened by oddball touches of Minnesota Nice.
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Where malignant people intruded, Mr. Booker leavened their presence with humor: Strom Thurmond, the South Carolina senator who embodied virulent racism, became the subject of a laughter-inducing vocal impression.
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It's simple in ingredients — flour, salt, water, and starter if you're working with naturally leavened breads — but complex in the number and variety of ways you can mess it up.
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Before boarding, you can pick up some leavened provisions at the nearby Stiftsbäckerei St. Peter, Salzburg's oldest bakery, whose wood oven has been baking crispy sourdough bread since the 12th century.
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In his remarks on Tuesday, Mr. Trump leavened his familiar complaints about the situation he inherited from his predecessors with the hope that the latest North Korean overture might be different.
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First Class Jill Pearl, who taught Airman Chialastri in the high school's Junior R.O.T.C. program, recalled him in a phone interview on Saturday as serious and studious but leavened with humor.
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FOR PUPILS at St Thomas Aquinas, a state secondary in Glasgow's suburbs, the post-summer return to school was leavened with the promise of a gift: an iPad for every child.
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A lot of millennials and members of Gen Z no longer want to be paid in cash; they prefer payment services like Venmo, leavened by emojis, to pad their digital wallets.
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Specifically on the complicated topic of the idea of the attorney general's loyalty, he writes: How to manage the paradox — loyalty to the president leavened by rock-ribbed integrity of judgment?
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You can still see this symbolism at play in traditional springtime desserts, including the egg-enriched Easter sweet breads common across Europe, and in the egg-leavened nut tortes served for Passover.
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But the gloom is leavened by the author's deep understanding of young people's shifting emotional landscapes, and by the respect she shows, in her finely wrought sentences, for their sophisticated literary tastes.
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People line up for Bread and Salt's Roman-style pizzas, but the same slow-rising, naturally leavened dough, baked without toppings and sliced open, makes a gloriously crisp and tender sandwich bread ($212).
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It was leavened with a bit of self-deprecation, as Mr. Obama referred to "No-Drama Obama" in noting his own optimism, as if mindful of the years of melodramatics that might follow.
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She first journeyed to the Flemish countryside for a temporary stint, where she developed In de Wulf's bread program and ignited Mr. Desramaults's excitement for naturally leavened bread made with stone-milled local grains.
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Passover tourism is common, as the holiday requires the observant to remove all leavened products from their homes, use separate dishes that only come out once a year, and deep clean their cooking equipment.
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This one, made from listán negro grapes grown in Ycoden Daute Isora, the western region of Tenerife, is reminiscent of good cabernet franc, pure red fruit leavened by the strong presence of herbal flavors.
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It's not all that Chapo Trap House (for example) does; a lot of the show features conventional punditry and political analysis from a socialist point of view, leavened by a heavy dose of irony.
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Abrams' campaign, driven by a progressive policy agenda and political vocabulary, but leavened with friendly appeals to the state's cautious business community, would be held up as an outline for how to win it.
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At Passover, flat matzo, rather than regular leavened bread, recalls how the Jews were forced to leave Egypt in such a hurry that there was no time to wait for their bread to rise.
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This despair is leavened by what Hemon so beautifully and concretely conveys in "My Parents," with Hemon as a middle-aged son who is carefully and movingly trying to make sense of it all.
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Its granular coverage of everything from ministerial summit meetings to regulatory committee hearings is leavened with tidbits from errant emails and restaurant recommendations, as well as revealing anecdotes about the biggest power brokers in Brussels.
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That film, by Orlando von Einsiedel, is also full of harsh images, but they are leavened with heartening comments by some of the volunteers about why they run toward danger while others are running away.
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Mr. Obama's rise was leavened with fear: fear that he would be killed, a reminder of all the fears that other black Americans share every day, fear there wouldn't be another chance at this office.
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Those who celebrate host and attend two seders (a traditional meal with extended readings, prayers and rituals) on the first two nights, and abstain from eating leavened bread and grain-based products for the entire week.
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It had partaken of the irony and inevitability of dramatic tragedy, compounded by the twenty-plus years that Walt had then devoted to listening to Fran, leavened only by the tenderness of his solicitude toward her.
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But it was leavened with an understanding that the win may have done little, for now, to change the beneath-the-underdog status of Democrats in a Deep South state still under near total Republican control.
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Although the seder is the most significant Passover celebration, Rabbi Rapport says that some people keep observing the holiday after the second night by continuing to avoid leavened breads and reflecting on absent or deceased loved ones.
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Soon after sunset on the last night of the holiday (observed this year on Friday or Saturday), they indulge in the first leavened food since Passover began: moufleta, a pan-cooked cake smeared with butter and honey.
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The penovani khachapuri is somewhat in a league of its own, as it doesn't belong to any particular region; its name comes from pena (ფენა), meaning "layer," due to its yeast-leavened puff pastry (like a croissant).
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Matzah is part of Passover because, in the Passover story, the Hebrew slaves fleeing Egypt didn't have time to let bread rise; so keeping kosher for Passover meant no leavened bread (or baked goods generally), I figured.
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In yeast-leavened bread, explains Rasmus, the acidic bonds don't get broken down, which means that we can't take up the nutrients from the bread and that our intestinal tracts instead try to break down the acidic bonds.
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But the foregoing discussion suggests that Trump — as opposed to his administration more generally — is more interested in show for domestic political consumption — perhaps leavened by some atavistic desire to wreck some multilateral institutions — than actual policy implementation.
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And it may drive his statements and actions in ways less leavened by cognitive capacity and attention span, or by empathy and the ability to imagine the impact of one's actions on others, or by intelligence or prudence.
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To his credit, in his short time in office Mr. Moon — who, by the way, was one of Mr. Roh's top advisers during those troubled years — has leavened his own sunshine yearnings with a strong dose of realpolitik.
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Made with a naturally leavened high-gluten dough, they're super thin and super flat, though still chewy, pale in color, and, most important, cooked on a hot grill instead of in an oven and branded with diagonal black lines.
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The largely sober event was leavened by laughter when a State Department employee asked the top US diplomat if he enjoyed his job -- indirectly raising the elephant in the room of alleged tension between Tillerson and the White House.
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In his previous works, these encounters have usually been laced with social critique (as in his images of homeless people and day laborers) and/or leavened with physical comedy (a spurt of milk, a wind-tossed sheaf of papers).
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"Up through about the early 1970s, it had been a fairly straightforward working-class party, but after a generation of reform, under Bill Clinton it stood for a muddle of capitalism worship leavened with means-tested welfare programs," Cooper contended.
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OPS Many timely buttons are being pushed at this Bushwick pizzeria named for a Roman goddess of the harvest: naturally leavened pizza dough baked in a wood-fired oven, a natural wine list, craft beers and drinks that include amari.
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For a young refugee named Bashar al-Sulaiman — who has learned German, found local roommates and assimilated at a blazing clip — integration is both a challenge and an adventure, leavened with homesickness and permeated with a sense of constant dislocation.
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They swing from dark to light with liberating ease, constantly aware that our highs and lows are always leavened by an insistent reality, never completely surrendering to cloying contentedness or existential dread (or, in my little Sam's case, existential crankiness).
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His narratives about combat as a Marine in Vietnam and his insular life on the reservation, woven together like the traditional birch-bark baskets he made with his wife, Pat, might be heartbreaking or ribald but were typically leavened by his dry wit.
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The latest project by Alexei Ratmansky, American Ballet Theatre's choreographer-in-residence, is a reconstruction of Marius Petipa's comic 1900 ballet "Harlequinade" (at the Metropolitan Opera House, June 4-9), based on a mountain of archival sources, leavened by his own fanciful imagination.
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Like Mr. Puiu's depressing 2006 masterpiece — "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," a portrait of a dying man being callously shuffled from hospital to hospital as he expires — "Sieranevada" has an unsparingly cynical view of the world leavened with a dry gallows humor.
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While the story of "Onward" is personal for Scanlon, whose father died when he was young, Ian and Barley's journey plays as disappointingly routine, a checklist of mechanically foreshadowed heart-to-hearts and lessons learned, leavened by the occasional offbeat sight gag.
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A timid high school intellectual who gained his powers when bitten by a radioactive spider, Spider-Man was prone to soul-searching, leavened with wisecracks — a key to the character's lasting popularity across multiple entertainment platforms, including movies and a Broadway musical.
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Descended from Irish Catholics, just like the Kennedys, whom she regarded with a hauteur only leavened with a respect for their money, Janet claimed kinship with the English upper class broadly, and even a specific relation to the lineage of Robert E. Lee.
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It was not only anti-elitist but anti-intellectual, "a religion of the heart, as opposed to the head", in which puritanical harangues were leavened by the promise of a widely shared salvation and, after a born-again experience, a direct relationship with God.
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Any analysis of how this happened must consider Anthony Mangieri, the blustery, self-taught pizzaiolo from the Jersey shore, one of the first in the U.S. to devote himself slavishly to the craft, using naturally leavened dough, imported ingredients, and a wood-fired oven.
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And all the confrontations are considerably leavened by humor, particularly when Chris must rope in his brother, the laid-back Brad (a hilarious Joe Tippett) into representing him during the bride price ceremony, because it's improper for the groom himself to partake directly in negotiations.
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After Reynolds came the more bland, pretty-boy variants, such as Brad Pitt, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, but these days the heterosexual premium has been leavened by an infusion of perceptibly vulnerable and slightly androgynous types like Ryan Gosling, Matt Damon and Casey Affleck.
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In brown, gray and black leavened by soft yellows and blues, Smith's ardent paintings capture the brilliance of the sun on the sea and the smudgy darkness of a mine with equal intensity, creating an exquisitely personal feeling of the movement of time and history.
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He rushed to the terminal with just his phone and began to livestream the protests, connecting couch-bound gawkers to the remarkable scenes developing on the frigid concrete off Jamaica Bay -- a swirl of dread and panic leavened by the intoxicating sense of something new.
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As others in his inner circle struggled to process the disappointment of Johnson's having to withdraw from a major he was favored to win, his brother leavened the mood by threatening to buy Johnson the nonslip grip socks commonly used in yoga and barre classes.
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These vivid, unsparing portraits are leavened with the kind of humanizing moments that evoke a total world within their compression, as when the cloth merchant delivers last rites to his brother or when Sofia realizes that the person who knows her best is the chauffeur.
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The questions that crop up — about the illusion of choice and the fateful hand of luck, of birth — form the philosophical core of the novel but luckily, they come to us largely through Amar, and are handled lightly, leavened by his sarcasm, his mournful wit.
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Sing Sing's aura derives from its lyrical name and its location on prime real estate "up the river" from New York City, along with its nearly 218-year history of harsh conditions leavened at times by progressive penal reforms, and its role in many classic films.
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But when a feeling of stability returns, when there isn't a cascade toward economic debacle, foreign-policy catastrophe or late-1960s civil strife, these voters drift back toward mixed feelings, lukewarm support, dislike leavened by skepticism about removing Trump via impeachment rather than the 2020 vote.
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His guitar playing was nearly as incendiary as the Purple One, too: When his backing band leavened their hypnotically funky desert blues with an amiable reggae beat, Bombino kicked up his knees in a high-stepping skank, his spindly fingers a dizzying blur on the strings.
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We shared nary a word about where I maybe could find some matzo, and he provided precisely zero tips on how on earth I could survive the Passover holiday without eating leavened bread in a city rife with bakeries like Il Forno, Antico Forno Roscioli and Pizzarium.
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The bizarre landscape they must navigate -- trying to reach the point where The Shimmer originated, and thus unlock some answers -- is fraught with peril, creating an odd sense of tension, leavened by occasional moments of dark humor thanks to the sheer absurdity of the obstacles they encounter.
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Indeed, while Kimmel might have become a more polarizing figure with his entry into the healthcare and gun-control debates, he again brought a genial persona to the emcee role, one that somewhat leavened the seriousness and bouts of pretentiousness that can drip into the ceremony.
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Two months later, I saw his fall 2017 couture presentation, another paradox: Here were rustling swaths of silk whose formality was leavened by loose, almost louche necklines that gave the dresses an insouciant air; serious, sophisticated gowns in children's shades of lizard green, bubble-gum pink and crayon blue.
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" He spread his wings at Smithsonian, where, in an easy, elegant style leavened with humor, he contributed articles on topics as varied as Zane Grey, the Hollywood makeup artist Michael Westmore, the history of aspirin and the blind anthropologist Marsha Ogilvie while writing a monthly science column, "Phenomena, Comment and Notes.
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In the two years since Piccioli became its sole creative director (from 225 to 221 he shared the title with Maria Grazia Chiuri, who left to be Christian Dior's artistic director), Valentino has retained its original dolce vita grandeur, but it has been leavened with a particular ease and modernity.
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Holyfield, 210, is now trying to make it as a boxing promoter and using the same qualities in his new role that he used as a fighter: determination, self-reliance and supreme confidence in his own abilities leavened with a dash of modesty and perhaps more than a touch of naïveté.
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Passover ends this weekend and, as our colleague Ron Lieber reports, that's cause for leavened excitement among those who have observed the holiday: pizzas and brownies and bagels after days of avoiding rising foods in a nod to ancestors who had no time to let bread dough rise while fleeing Egypt.
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In expectation of more environmental regulation therefore, as global warming proceeds, many big emitters would rather write the existing rules into their investment plans, ideally leavened by Mr Pruitt's revisions, than suffer the uncertainty of a hapless effort to scrap the endangerment finding, which would invite a backlash from the next Democratic administration.
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More broadly, his performance, leavened at times by a more reassuring tone, left his fellow leaders struggling anew to judge whether he was posturing in an effort to win a better deal for the United States, moving to weaken institutions at the heart of the post-World War II order or both.
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" The peripheral sadness is mostly a result of Ezra's physical frailty (aqua fitness, a quintuple-bypass scar, 27 pill bottles in the bathroom), which is relentlessly remarked upon, both by Alice and by Ezra himself, though almost always leavened with sly deadpan exposition: "She gave him a cord for his reading glasses.
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By the time he moved to Rome, he had already spent seven years working at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and had acquired a Jamesian aura — an East Coast establishment sensibility leavened by a passion for the ancient cultures of Europe, which the Edwardian novelist once called ''my choice, my need, my life.
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Starting the week somberly with the Polish writer Tadeusz Borowski's "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," a volume that, as it happened, had provided inspiration for the 1984 Style Council song "Ghosts of Dachau," Poe then leavened his offerings on Day 2 with a pulp fiction comic of the 1940s.
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Bush, the wife of the 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush, and the mother of the 43rd, George W. Bush, was lauded as an inspiration both to the country and her loved ones, a woman who leavened a strong sense of decency and honor with a self-deprecating wit she employed to great effect.
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For many weeks, representatives of Christendom's east and west wrestled over the issues that divided them: they ranged from liturgical details (should leavened or unleavened bread should be used in the ceremony of Holy Communion?) to subtle theological matters concerning the relationship between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the three persons united in a single God.
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The rest of the menu is noodles: anchored with chile-strafed fish cakes, the scent of garlic mounting; creamy from coconut milk, under a thatch of fried noodles; and beautifully enmeshed in tamarind and fish sauce, with studdings of dried shrimp and caramelized onions like insistent asterisks, all leavened by red cabbage with its clean finishing crunch.
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But when President Trump suspended nearly all American security aid to Pakistan on Thursday for what he called the country's "lies and deceit," any jubilation in the halls of power in Afghanistan — and there was some — was leavened with worry over how the move might affect a complex war that has pushed the Afghan government to the brink.
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I'll spare you (and him) the jokey part and all the flourish, and say only how transcendent it was, as a super-religious, super-isolated kid, to find my universe represented on the page, to see my questions and concerns wrestled with bravely and honestly and with their weightiness leavened, again and again, by good cheer.
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The biblical laws of kashrut (the rules for permissible foods) specified the types of animals that could and could not be eaten, forbade the mixing of milk and meat and, on Passover, prohibited the eating of leavened bread (as a way of commemorating the Israelites' hasty flight from Egypt, which did not allow time for dough to rise).
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And so if we are willing to bring to the time of Covid-19 a level of intention that we too rarely visit upon our regular gatherings, this heavy time could be leavened by the new rituals it created, the unlikely intimacies it fostered and the ways in which it revealed that convening people is a special privilege that ought never to be taken for granted.
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To follow, there are "snacks," which seems, at first, far too pedestrian a word for, say, handsome canelé-shaped fritters, dusted in chili, mustard, and lime powders and oozing obscenely with Gruyère, or for an impressively airy white-bean hummus, swirled with spicy 'nduja, sprinkled with pine nuts, and accompanied by bubbly-skinned, stretchy fried bread, leavened with yogurt and as puffy as a blowfish.
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There were some latex halter tops too, and sheer lace bra tops, some leather and feather chubbies, and then more latex in push-up bombshell dresses and halter ruffle-necked cocktail numbers, the dichotomy between sex and self-conscious stolidity leavened only a little by a terrific periwinkle chiffon cocktail frock, a ruby velvet dress and the occasional culotte-and-sheer-pussy bow-blouse combo.
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A comedy of manners that recounts the trials and tribulations of a government minister in Delhi saddled with a stolid wife and more than a dozen children, that book was an exercise in light social satire, which, like all successful entries in its genre, worked by achieving a narrow consistency of tone, the antic goings on at Parliament and the dinner table leavened by the amused detachment of the voice recounting them.
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The two men like to arrive in this manner, with a more or less friendly greeting, and this might remind us of the fact that all humans, no matter what they do, like very much to be liked, even if it's for only an hour or so before they are feared or hated—or maybe it would be better to say that they like the fear that they inspire to be leavened with other things, such as desire or curiosity, even if, in the final analysis, fear is always the greater part of what they want.
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