But it was monklike, and there are no monks around there.
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"I gave Glass this sort of monklike hood lined with beaver fur," she said.
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Moitessier, a monklike eccentric, didn't even carry a radio, instead using a slingshot to hurl film canisters containing messages to nearby ships.
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"Embah was a remarkable human being, a monklike artist who was also very funny, and whose work had magical properties," Doig said.
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When Nishiyama, bespectacled and monklike in his movements, grew interested in flower arranging while an art school student, he joined an ikebana club.
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It wouldn't be so crucial if it only worked to protect speech that our politicians find palpable (a category that would quickly disintegrate into monklike silence).
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His head was shiny bald except for a monklike tonsure, and rather red— very red after he had started drinking for the day, which was at lunch.
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It was a tale told on the runway and off, in the way they imbued the house with a high romanticism married to an almost monklike purity of line, a youthful lightness of being with its own discipline, and in the alacrity with which customers responded.
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He's a monklike and macho character, a conscientious objector who is also a brilliant military tactician, and while there is nothing wrong with putting that kind of figure into a war movie, at a certain point you do have to wonder why Edgerton and company bothered naming him Falstaff at all.
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This time around, her efforts took the shape of monklike cashmere and wool tabards, trousers and dresses, in a calming palette of dove gray, peach, burgundy, olive green and black, rising in a curve at the neck and falling to midcalf in what appears to be the length of the season.
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While it is popular now to build a house that blurs the distinction between outside and in, that usually requires massive sliding doors — which would preclude the almost monklike approach Nevins has taken with her home, where she lives alone, designed in collaboration with the New Haven architect Peter de Bretteville.
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To sustain himself during this period, he opened seven other restaurants in Manhattan and a nightclub in East Hampton, N.Y. (He sold them all before opening the cafe; today he owns the Water Club, on the East River at 30th Street; Pershing Square, across 42nd Street from Grand Central Terminal; and the Liberty Warehouse, an event space in Red Hook, Brooklyn.) Perhaps as compensation for his monklike patience, the city leased Mr. O'Keeffe the land at a "rock-bottom" price, he said — so low, in fact, that he insisted it be tripled.
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