Collectively, they are dullness fitted for starched pants and a belt.
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The tone is starched; each tight, tidy sentence has hospital corners.
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His posture was always ramrod straight, his uniform constantly and precisely starched.
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All the starched clothing and slicked-back hair has a stunning collective impact.
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The heat from the oven baked my neck under the starched shirt collar.
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Its pressed and starched urbane look is less Eddie Bauer, more Banana Republic.
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The Camdens are a starched caricature of an American family that probably doesn't exist.
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The cowboys were always wearing super-starched high-waisted jeans with big belt buckles.
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Mousasi had been starched and Uriah Hall finally had a big name on his record.
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The librarian sits in a wooden chair, dressed in starched, sharply pressed clothing, muted colors.
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Collapsing onto the starched white sheets of my violet-colored room, I began uncontrollably sobbing.
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Place settings, starched white linens, and tiny fish forks are irrelevant to a dining experience.
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Long creases run from his nostrils to his jowls, which sink into a starched collar.
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The service seems to have lost the lightly starched Middle-European rectitude that I remembered.
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Like Mr. Mueller, Mr. Goldstein wears starched white dress shirts to work and prizes secrecy.
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Sharkey starched former light heavyweight champion (but also barely functioning alcoholic) Jack Delaney in one round.
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He was recognizable for his white pony tail, high starched white collars, dark suits and glasses.
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In a starched cotton shirt and crisp trousers, Mr. Maske surveyed the camp with evident satisfaction.
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"It was very dressy, very starched, a necktie place through the '80s, no question," he said.
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He wears a starched black shalwar kameez that puffs around him and rustles when he moves.
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I felt exposed and small as they loomed over me, formal and serious in their starched uniforms.
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It's a spacious, elegant restaurant with a brick-walled main dining room, arched windows and starched linens.
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My preceptor in medical school was an elegant New Englander with polished loafers and a starched accent.
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More often than not, I tossed and turned, unable to sleep on the perfectly clean, starched sheets.
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It has been seven months since Jose Aldo was crisply starched at the hands of Conor McGregor.
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His character, Deckard, was basically a starched overcoat with a crew cut, mumbling through lines with little inflection.
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Andrei Arlovski was there, 18 years and 40 fights into his career, having been starched outright ten times.
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There are thousands of people gleefully wringing their hands in anticipation of Brooks getting starched in humiliating fashion.
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He caught Franca with this in the first round of their fight and very quickly starched Andrew Holbrook.
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In a beat this was followed by the Groenhart knee right up the center which starched Ward outright.
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But he is a sprightly 45, allies say, despite any suggestions that he was born in a starched shirt.
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Just a few weeks earlier Nelson had cornered Cheick Kongo and starched him with an overhand along the fence.
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Frazier starched Ellis with his left hook in the fifth round and became the WBC and WBA heavyweight champion.
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You can put on a great show against Romero and still get starched when you slip up or get complacent.
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"White tie is fancier than black tie; it's a black tailcoat over a white starched shirt for men," he explained.
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With its beef-driven menu, starched tablecloths and dark wood trim, it is a favorite of locals and can seat 300.
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The Super Eagles, as the team is known, arrived looking crisp in starched white traditional attire, known locally as the kaftan.
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The gender pay gap conjures visions of old men in starched shirts, hankering for the days of dictation and Martini lunches.
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It's that dry analytical look—everything from his half-rimmed eyeglasses to his seemingly starched dress shirts—that turns her on.
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From line cooks at neighborhood joints to chefs who wore starched whites, their advice was always the same: Learn the basics.
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If you are working in a farming community, starched denim and a polo shirt may be more appropriate than a suit.
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Dukakis, stylishly dressed in a starched white blouse and royal blue sweater with pearls, was seated on her living room couch.
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Their poses reflected the portraiture styles of the day; their suits, elaborate dresses, and starched collars, and pocket watches exude affluence.
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Except, since that UFC debut, Almeida has had three more fights against more respectable opponents and has starched each and every one.
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"I feel a little bit like jack-in-the-box," Mr. Kirk, wearing a starched white shirt and purple tie, said dourly.
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Fabricio Werdum was famously starched by Stipe Miocic as chased after the title challenger with his hands down by his waist, swinging.
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No matter where they take place, long rows of starched blue uniforms and crisp salutes line the path from hearse to sanctuary.
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Namajunas would know ... she just starched Joanna Jedrzejczyk -- the most dominant fighter in the UFC since Rousey -- to win her first belt.
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Sleeveless silk dresses with matching jackets rippled with elegance, as did cotton dresses with puffed oversize sleeves and starched wide-leg pants.
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The machine they came up with looked a lot like Rosie, the robot maid on "The Jetsons," minus the starched white cap.
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Evans showed an all around game when he famously starched Chuck Liddell—level changes, kicks, movement and Liddell wound up coming to him.
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Four men in starched business shirts and ties sit in the corner, talking about the election, but pointedly not discussing the presidential race.
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Unfortunately this opened him up to counters and he was dropped by Travis Browne and starched by Stipe Miocic's favorite counter right straight.
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Abbott had starched two opponents earlier in the night with his incredible punching power and dropped Frye with a jab off the bat.
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I didn't study very hard at school and never thought I'd have the kind of job where I need to wear a starched shirt.
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I met him at Noma, where the rest of the staff was busy working lunch service, sharply dressed in their starched shirts and aprons.
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Most recently Hooker starched the very highly regarded Gilbert Burns in a higher paced affair where he took a few more shots than usual.
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The strangest part of this whole debacle is the number of fans keen to see Brooks starched brutally because he accepted a huge payday.
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You get the slightly starched impression that the characters could be actors, mounting an Amherst production of a lesser-known play by Oscar Wilde.
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Maids curtsied in starched peaked caps so white they hurt your eyes and you knew the war was coming from nowhere, swift and bloody.
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This was only a rehearsal, so all the musicians were in everyday clothes — the starched shirts and black dresses wouldn't come out until evening.
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While it can include a white jacket in some regions, the more common attire would include a black tailcoat over a white starched shirt.
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It shows that society is more complex and that there's a way to tell the period story that's not starched white—white people, white hegemony.
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This Luddism was part of their commitment to living like Victorian-era dandies: They strutted around in top hats, starched collars, and cutaway suit coats.
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While other dress shirts are stiff from being starched and ironed, the Twillory Performance dress shirt feels similar to wearing a long-sleeve t-shirt.
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On a bustling Manhattan street corner, Lillian Harris Dean stands in a starched gingham dress, her fingers resting on the handlebar of a baby carriage.
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It's a reminder that despite the stage lights and the starched suits, these broadcasts are still happening in the real, unpredictable world where we live, too.
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But the rules remains the same: competing waitstaff must run in what they wear to work—even if this no longer involves starched collars or tailcoats.
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Testifying before Congress, North donned his full dress uniform, the starched olive-green jacket studded with ribbons and medals, and offered a just-following-orders defense.
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"Visiting Hours" will probably dredge up memories for anyone who watched an unwell loved one seem to disappear into the starched sheets of their assigned bed.
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And here is "The Pious Oreo Peacock" from the spring '1 collection, a ruffle-lined disk with a starched Wednesday Addams collar but no arm holes.
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EARLY 20TH-CENTURY Modernism swiftly kicked aside the starched Edwardian aesthetic, so it was hardly surprising when the art of the time literally began to move.
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Starched ruffled collars and cuffs featured prominently throughout the collection, as did platform and knee-high combat boots, which kept the looks grounded in contemporary times.
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William Westmoreland in his starched and immaculately creased uniforms, the word was that even the most hardened doubters would become believers before the year was out.
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This leads to an awkward silence and a rapid evacuation of the stadium the moment that Mauricio Rua or Vitor Belfort gets starched in the main event.
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The first are the suited workers of Wall Street, whose starched-cotton shirts in shades of blue and white are a standard uniform south of City Hall.
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As the starched collars around Buckingham Palace would likely mutter in agreement, from that perspective, just maintaining the appearance of being regal can be half the battle.
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I gave up the freedom of my youth, folding myself into the starched uniform of the elite all-girls high school where I started the seventh grade.
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He wore a starched lavender shirt and dress pants and gazed out his floor-length window at the palm trees, which barely concealed an iron border fence.
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There is a different kind of beauty in the pictures Mr. Frank made in Mabou, many of which feature words or crude pictures starched onto the negative.
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By busload, the men in their pressed costumes and starched distracted glances returned with an appetite for waving goodbye and an eye toward the glass-knobbed door.
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The yearbook includes page after page of seniors posed in starched white military shirts, or sometimes informally, accompanied by breezy descriptions of their sports and social activities.
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It's a common enough trope — the Wall Street guy who favors sartorial armor, usually worn with a starched white shirt and Windsor-knot tie — and for good reason.
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His yellow shirt and brown khakis are starched to an inch of their life, so much so that even the strong wind is unable to stir the fabric.
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Meanwhile, adorable Orlando (Shemar Moore), comes into Helen's life with sweeping cornrows, wearing a bandana in place of a crown, ready to be her knight in starched denim.
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The adults mingled — the men, freshly shaved, their shirts starched and white, and the women, bathed in fabrics of every color, dotted with jewels, and clutching new purses.
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Across from them were the ticket counters where employees, young urban women with tight, shiny ponytails, crimson lips, and starched collars, offered comfortable transport to anywhere in Latin America.
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But as Lockhart's treatments progress the lid starts to come off this creepy place, where the nurses wear starched uniforms and everybody just gives off the air of Nazism.
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Finally, as the doctor waved at the referee, desperately trying to stop the fight, the already smoked Greene took another unnecessary shot flush on the chin, which starched him.
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He spends almost an entire chapter mocking the true-blue city of Boston, with its "lab-coat and starched-shirt" economy and its "well-graduated" population of overconfident collegians.
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Those who stayed up into the early hours of Saturday morning were treated to a vintage Ngannou performance in Beijing, as he starched Curtis Blaydes in under a minute.
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The performance is a marvel of sardonic voice-over and subtle eye acting as Offred tries to make sense of a mad world from inside her starched white bonnet.
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Dissatisfied with her starched, white-gloved life, she lies to her mother and persuades Effie to sneak off with her to the "gypsy" encampment on the outskirts of town.
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But for Zumas, the complete erosion of women's rights doesn't need Atwood's genre-defining crimson cloaks or starched caps — just the enthusiastic signatures of a few charismatic, white-haired senators.
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It could be a barn burner, but you are more likely to see a measured, technical contest with a good chance of Koreshkov getting starched if he makes a mistake.
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With a sun-bleached, palm-lined view, kombucha on tap, and a common area shared with startup founders, the office bears little resemblance to the DCCC's starched-shirt national headquarters.
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When dos Santos last stepped into the cage, against then heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, he was walked to the fence and starched with a right hand in under a round.
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However, the Mexican's power soon caught up with the chinny Khan and the Englishman of Pakistan origin was starched by the stinging overhand right of Alvarez in the sixth round.
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He seemed to live up to every bit of the hype in his UFC debut as he brutally starched Paulo Thiago and left him face down in just forty seconds.
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The angel my great-grandmother crocheted of white string and starched into a stand-alone shape that allows the angel to balance in place at the top of the tree.
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Not that he's a particularly moving stylist; Boot's clean, starched prose marches forward with all the spontaneity of a military parade (he's uncommonly fond of words like "pusillanimous" and "japery").
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Gone are the golden days of rail when wealthy snowy-bearded travelers in three-piece suits dined on starched tablecloths while nervously flicking the brass clasp of their pocket watches.
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There are even two paintings that refer to therapy: "Transference Portrait of my Shrink in Her Starched Nightgown with My Face and Her Hair" and "Transference Portrait" (215 and 1996, respectively).
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Second-day hair has a little oil at the roots, nothing a spritz and a tousle can't hide; fourth-day hair, addressed incorrectly, can look like you're wearing a starched wig.
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Nearly a month after the on-demand laundry service Washio shut its doors, its assets have been starched, pressed and folded into the operations of one of its main competitors — Rinse.
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What's more, Dos Santos is fresh off of a shocking knockout loss at the hands of Alistair Overeem, when Overeem himself was flat out starched by Rothwell just a year earlier.
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Andrei Arlovski is in a rough spot: he has been starched in his last two fights and the most recent victory on his record was the atrocious snoozer against Frank Mir.
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Edwards caught most fans' attention when he outright starched Seth Baczynski in just eight seconds, but Edwards has gone on to round himself out in the clinch and on the mat.
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Fallon interrupted his monologue to give an impersonation of Buttigieg, slicking down his hair, rolling up the sleeves of his starched white shirt, and pitching his voice up just a notch.
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George Cables, a pianist, is the rare performer who can produce scintillating, even ecstatic, music that doesn't need to compromise itself in a room as starched and proper as the Kitano.
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By early September, the overlooked mounds of dark green leaves sprout dozens of flowering stems, which are held stiffly upright from each leaf node as if they were bleached and starched.
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T.J. Dillashaw knocked out Cody Garbrandt in an exchange that could have seen either man starched were one a little slower, and Rose Namajunas won that Gameplan of the Year award.
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Our morning routine consisted of my mom combing my jet-black hair, applying Johnson's baby powder all over my face, and begging me to not spill breakfast on my starched school uniforms.
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I've read that Simmons wants to inject sex and sexuality, including queer sexuality in the highly aestheticized and over-starched environments of galleries and museums to reactivate the idea of visual pleasure.
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After I graduated from college, I worked at a denim store in the meatpacking district, and I remember hauling starched piles back and forth from the dressing room to the display wall.
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He had apparently left his fatigues at home, because he showed up in a charcoal-gray suit with peak lapels, a starched white shirt with French cuffs, and a subtly figured tie.
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A look at Mueller: He fastidiously wore a starched white shirt each day as FBI director as a "recognizable [totem] of the past" to "help agents understand it was still the same FBI."
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Then there's the fact McGregor knocked Aldo out—or starched Aldo if you want to keep up with the soap/detergent theme—with consummate ease before fifteen seconds of that fight had elapsed.
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In their first court appearance in the Southern District Court of New York on Thursday afternoon, Correia and Kukushkin sat stone-faced with their lawyers, both wearing blue suits with starched white collars.
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AE911Truth, probably most starched and ironed of all the 9/11 conspiracy groups, was formed in 2006 as a place for building experts to advocate for a reinvestigation of the World Trade Center attacks.
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Major labels have spent considerable time and effort trying to find the "perfect" Latino rap star––ethnically Latino but with a less stiff, starched style than Chicano rappers like Mr. Criminal and Lil Rob.
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The uppercut he starched Teixeira with was a nice addition and showed Johnson's awareness of Teixeira's standard tactic of leaning in and trying to arc the overhand across the top of his opponent's attacks.
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In the Japanese countryside, Shimamura is "the know-it-all from Tokyo," lugging a leather bag full of state-of-the-art medical instruments and camera equipment and sweating into his starched English collar.
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This is the man who has had media tearing their hair out for years because he is the closest thing to a well rounded heavyweight you will see but keeps getting starched in big fights.
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The labs said some linen was used as a starched piece of lining under the Ugg tag, and another wool shoe was mixed with nylon even though it was labeled as a linen-cotton blend.
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With just ten seconds left remaining in the round, Gonzaga unleashed a hellacious head kick with his lead right leg and starched Cro Cop, sending shockwaves across the combat sports scene on a worldwide scale.
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In Bleachers, former star quarterback Neely Crenshaw returns home years later for the funeral of beloved football coach Eddie Rake, a composite of Tom Landry, Woody Hayes, and a pair of starched Bike coaches shorts.
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Getting caught on one leg is the low-kicker's nightmare and many, many great kickboxers have been starched simply by miscalculating and letting a fighter drive through their knee as they stand on one leg.
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So on Tuesday morning — clad in starched chef's whites and wielding a knife — Mr. Anton, 48, stood at a table in the middle of a compact, busy kitchen, rows of silver pots hanging behind him.
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If you were to put a droplet of its syntax under a microscope, you'd find a swirling necktie pattern of small white starched shirts and three-ring binders and paper cups of stale black coffee.
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He starched most of his opponents before we had a chance to see him in a bad spot, and against the most accomplished bantamweight in the game he brought an entirely different style and looked flawless.
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As we headed through Washington Square, we dodged a group of students who looked very much like they had just climbed off a bus from some small town, they were all so fresh-faced and starched.
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She raised the couple's two sons, William and Harry, as much as possible herself, eschewing the traditional aristocratic childhood of starched shirts and quiet manners, opting instead for noisy football matches and splashy family bath-times.
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Then they settled in for drinks and conversation in the company of a tall man wearing a maroon jacket, a white starched shirt and a black bow tie who had long been a steady presence there.
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It is also a way to earn a living for many: Women in the starched white outfit are often hired to meet tourists disembarking from cruises in Bahia and can be seen selling traditional street food.
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Bull riding is messy, but riders have to be clothes hounds, wearing the logos and apparel of their sponsors, on crisply starched shirts and pressed bluejeans from Ariat, say, one of Mr. Davis's seven sponsors, or Wrangler.
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Old photos and video footage from the time show staff from restaurants and bars in the area dressed in their starched whites, zooming past Soho Square and Greek Street, all competing to win the coveted Waiters Cup.
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Those lighter moments — including on Tuesday when Mr. Bratton ribbed Chief O'Neill about his baldness — elicit the friendlier side of a chief who can seem, with his starched uniform and military bearing, to be distant and cool.
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Tony Ferguson sliced up Edson Barboza with this strike, Nate Corbett has starched half a dozen men with similar intercepting elbows, and at UFC: Browne vs Lewis, Felder smashed Ricci's nose all across his face with it.
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Across the Intro to Genealogy classroom sat a boy who looked like a man but was, by virtue of being 230, still a boy — dark hair and dark eyes, a denim jacket so stiff it looked starched.
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For inspiration, she also looked to the Adelitas, female soldiers who fought in the Mexican revolution of 1910-20 and favored red lips, belted waist coats, layered silver jewelry and voluminous embroidered skirts atop starched petticoat ruffles.
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At the same time, his monumental bulk, starched collar, gold watch chain and jeweled papal ring present him as a patrician remnant of an overblown age that World War I would soon do its best to deflate.
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I suspect it's only a matter of time before the N.R.A. tries to give the kid in the cowboy hat and starched denim shirt whatever award it already has or is currently cooking up for valor under fire.
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The starched tablecloths looked intimidatingly expensive and made me worry about the cost, but he seemed to sense this, and said almost immediately that I should eat what I wanted, that tonight our date would be on him.
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These starched jeans haven't been prewashed, because the best way to get the desired high-contrast fades is to wash them just once, said Ms. Makino, then keep wearing them like this, unwashed, for at least six months.
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In the meantime Dos Santos hit a bump in his road back to the title when Alistair Overeem starched him in December of 2015, but Dos Santos rebounded in April of 2016 with a beautiful performance against Ben Rothwell.
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After being frustrated by Rockhold's stationary triple jabs, Romero double jabbed in on Rockhold along the fence and starched the American as he leaned back on the same check hook that he has been overusing for his entire career.
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Over the years, the cast of villains has included British colonizers with shaved heads and icy blue eyes; decadent feudal landlords; drug kingpins with amber-tinted sunglasses; corrupt politicians in starched white kurtas; and, naturally, terrorists of every stripe.
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SAN DIEGO — Wearing a starched white uniform and a chestful of ribbons from years of military service, Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher walked into a military courtroom in San Diego on Monday to stand trial on war crimes charges.
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The cast was chosen by Piergiorgio Del Moro, including Alice herself: the South Sudanese-Australian model Duckie Thot, a newcomer, in towering platforms and cerulean blue thigh-high socks, with a starched silk minidress and a white lace pinafore.
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I have a particular, joyful memory of a pressed duck I ate at Daniel in Manhattan once, of the perfect mineral taste of the blood-enriched sauce that cloaked the bird's flesh, so red above the starched white tablecloth.
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Wearing a gray suit, blue tie and starched white shirt in 83-degree heat, Mr. Bush marched through the tents shaking hands and stopped before the press pool to give a brief speech, with his wife by his side.
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Mildred finds herself in a misty field, talking to a deer—perhaps a nod to the purity of pagan religion, in contrast to the rituals and starched collars of its organized offspring—wondering aloud how her daughter's murderer hasn't been found.
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He could get starched hilariously or pull off the greatest microphone drop in UFC history by coming back, smashing a top ten heavyweight after four and a half years away from competition, and walking off to pro wrestling once again.
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But Bisping refused to give Rockhold anything easily: he made Rockhold come to him, and despite a lifetime of being called a pillow-fisted B-lister he starched the hottest commodity in the middleweight division at the earliest chance he got.
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He eventually landing a job in the publicity department of 20th Century Fox, where he had to go into the steam room — "in my starched shirt" — and read gossip items to the studio head, Spyros Skouras, emerging soaking wet and disillusioned.
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However, Smith uncorks a mighty right hand to the jaw of the onrushing Sell, leaving his opponent starched, laying on the canvas before crumpling to a heap himself as the pain produced from the body shot became too much to bear.
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There was nothing about him that resembled the ads we'd seen for the Navy, buzz-cut sailors in starched whites, legs spread to shoulder width, hands clasped behind their backs on the deck of a carrier, links in the World's Strongest Chain.
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At the stately Hotel Armenia, which caters to the diaspora visiting the capital of the disputed mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, dear to the hearts of Armenians everywhere, the dining room clings to the traditional starched tablecloths and, of course, aged Armenian cognac.
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It was as if a young woman in a peasant dress had begun to circulate in a room full of starched shirtfronts, the way it must have felt when Ann Beattie began publishing her earthy stories in The New Yorker in the 1970s.
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The story also receives a boost of mischievous whimsy from the Hercules villain Hades, played with a starched mop of hair and punk-rock eyeliner by Cheyenne Jackson, rekindling some (but not enough) of the silliness Kristin Chenoweth brought to the first movie.
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Perhaps it is unfair to point to Arlovski's chin as 'weak' because he is getting starched by two hundred and sixty pound men, but it is certainly not sturdy enough to take the heavyweight blows as well as many other men in his weightclass.
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While waiters in starched shirts distributed trays of grilled meat and piles of rice and fish, party officials gave speeches and a prominent journalist took to the microphone to remind the couples of the importance of childbearing to the "resistance," or the struggle against Israel.
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At 43, he wore hoodies to an office dominated by starched white shirts and still considered himself an insurgent, a point he conveyed by posting a sign reading "The Rebel Alliance" outside the entrance to his group's office; the name also reflected his obsession with Star Wars.
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She moves effortlessly from Hollywood screen sirens in tight sweaters to frumpy aunties in high-necked blouses, from pin-up models in string bikinis to dishwashing housewives in rubber gloves, from efficient French maids in starched white aprons to docile BDSM submissives in bras and panties.
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Alongside were heavy strings of Aztec beads, richly colored rebozo shawls and a starched lace headdress known as a resplandor — all ingredients of what would become the museum's major summer exhibition: "Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up." Scheduled to open on Saturday and run to Nov.
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We've got a lot of exciting events planned, from onstage conversations with people like Alex Wagner and Sam Kass talking politics at the dinner table with Ginia Bellafante, to the chance to eat street food prepared by chefs who usually cook for starched tablecloths and shimmering crystal.
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They not only turned their lives into a performance piece based in the past — wearing detachable starched collars and high-button shoes too fey even for a visit to Howards End — but also made their artwork an expression of their born-in-the-wrong-century lives.
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Durfee's president, Carrie Avery, recalls one sabbatical seeker who entered the foundation's office for his interview in a starched shirt and tie, his game face firmly in place, and then melted down when he started being asked questions: "He sobbed while rapidly consuming five cookies," she said.
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On Saturday, the families waiting here woke to discover they'd been robbed in the middle of the night, and that someone had pilfered milk, cereal and other supplies from a pile donated by volunteers; the thieves had evaded a guard who patrols the area in a starched white shirt.
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The business types, seated in rows of folding chairs, many of them wearing starched shirts and blazers, had gathered Wednesday in a conference room inside the iconic stadium to bid for rights to drill for oil and gas on 2156 million acres -- 70,000 square miles -- of federal property in the Gulf of Mexico.
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He was instantly recognizable as he strolled down Madison Avenue — a tall, slender, blue-eyed, still boyish-looking man in his spotless three-piece vanilla bespoke suit, pinstriped silk shirt with a starched white high collar, bright handkerchief peeking from his breast pocket, watch on a fob, faux spats and white shoes.
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Occasionally during the procession, I couldn't help stealing a glance at the Midshipmen standing in formation on both sides of the lane along the route; servicemembers, male and female, of every race, color, creed, and ethnicity standing at attention dressed in their perfectly starched Class A uniforms – each saluting slowly in turn as the hero passed.
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No less wrenching is the sight of Margaret O'Brien, the Beth of the 1949 movie, setting off to thank a rich old man for the gift of his piano; with her starched frock, and her solemn demeanor strangely close to tears, she could be Alice in Wonderland, and the whole film, robed in Technicolor, retains a picture-book enchantment.
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For her spring 2018 collection, shown in London last weekend, Margaret Howell presented a characteristically minimal A-line skirt in a black and white cotton silk check that reminded me of starched schoolgirl uniforms, golden September days in New England and the tea-length hemlines of the late 1930s and 1940s that feel spot-on today.
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A self-identified "caricature," with his dark glasses, powdered ponytail, black jeans, fingerless gloves, starched collars, Chrome Hearts jewelry and obsessive Diet Coke consumption, he achieved such a level of global fame — and controversy — that a $21982 Karl Barbie doll, created in collaboration with the toymaker Mattel, sold out in less than an hour in 2265.
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Karl Lagerfeld, for example, with his self-costumery (his approximately 1,000 starched, white, high-collar Hilditch & Key shirts, his powdered ponytail, his Chrome Hearts jewelry); John Galliano and Alexander McQueen, both of whom were revered as the great designers of their generation, flamboyant and visionary and terribly behaved, thanks to well-known drug and alcohol addictions, all of it somehow seen as connected and hence accepted, the price everyone paid to allow them to make the products they made.
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