And still, you'll never hear Yankee mentioned when people talk about the G.O.A.T., rap's most tiresome debate.
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Many aircrew or preregistered frequent flyers would welcome anything that speeded up one of the most tiresome parts of modern travel.
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We don't need, however, to enter into the balletomane's most tiresome game of comparing one dancer to the disadvantage of others.
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The subject of the letter is a "most tiresome and prosy" Gothic novel entitled "Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy", published by her contemporary Rachel Hunter.
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But already they're doing their best to dismantle one of the most tiresome and inaccurate stereotypes in politics: that women lawmakers are inherently more civil, more collaborative, less power-hungry and less personally ambitious than men.
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Being caught in a traffic jam on New Year's Eve is probably one of the most tiresome situations to find yourself in, but these commuters in Mumbai decided to make the most of it with an impromptu flash mob in the middle of the road.
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The most tiresome vaingloriousness may be more hopeful than hypercriticism and spleen.
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In recent years, the organizers had added awards that were for a single year only. The Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets category from the previous year was replaced with Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment, which "salutes the dearth of quality G and PG-rated movie fare in 2006". The category Worst Remake or Sequel was split into two separate categories: Worst Prequel or Sequel and Worst Remake or Rip-off. For the first time, the awards program was broadcast over the Internet on MSNBC.
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He was amiable and neat in person and language, but never terse; and his style in manners and writing were bountifully steeped with gushingly effusive, but also often grating, cordialities. The poet Leopardi complained that: > Cancellieri is insufferable from the outrageous laudations with which he > overwhelms everybody who goes to see him, ... (and) which renders his > conversation utterly uninteresting, since one cannot believe a word of it. > ... Cancellieri—an old fool, a river of chatter, the most tiresome and > insupportable bore on earth. He speaks of absolutely trivial matters with > the utmost interest, and of things of high import with the coldest > indifference.
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A man with a single wife has less help in cultivation and is likely to have little or no help for felling trees. According to Boserup's historical data, women living in such a structure also welcome one or more co- wives to share with them the burden of daily labor. However, the second wife will usually do the most tiresome work, almost as if she were a servant to the first wife, and will be inferior to the first wife in status. A 1930s study of the Mende in the West African state of Sierra Leone concluded that a plurality of wives is an agricultural asset since a large number of women makes it unnecessary to employ wage laborers.
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This gave Voltaire the opportunity to reply under a pseudonym with withering compliments ("Lettre de M. Thieriot à M. l'Abbé Nadal", 1725), commiserating with Nadal, that it was solely the machinations of Voltaire's intrigues "that one hears it said so scandalously that you are the worst versifier of the century and the most tiresome writer.""qu’on entend dire si scandaleusement que vous êtes le plus mauvais versificateur du siècle, et le plus ennuyeux écrivain." Voltaire's fine-honed savagery inspired Nadal to excise the uncomplimentary remarks about Voltaire in his prefaces when he came to collect and publish the plays in 1736 with others of his poems, in three small volumes. But it is in Voltaire's response that the abbé Nadal is remembered.
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