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Why half-baked knowledge had to be paraded so showily as hard fact?

display-ADE 'The crane family is walking proudly showing off its offspring' (67b) Ylaluokka ela-a retost-i omi-ssa upper.class live-INF IdPh-PAST.3SG maailmo-i-ssa-an own-INE world-PL-INE-3POSS 'The upper class lived showily in its own world (and spent the state's money...)' While the manner instantiated by Vii remains constant, 'to show off' in this particular example, the event instantiated by Vi changes from 'walk' to 'live'.

(37.) This is a self-protection taken up showily, with a certain amount of smugness.

She talks pure Ebonics, without really pretending to be black as such; her body language isn't showily Afro, her mannerisms don't cry out for acceptance.

Miss Brangwen, say that Bismarck is a mystery,' cried Winifred." Gudrun showily complies: "'Bismarck is a mystery, Bismarck, c'est un mystere, der Bismarck, er ist ein Wunder,' said Gudrun, in mocking incantation" (237).

publicity materials) will be hard-pressed to discern their authorial signature here, apart from the script's fondness for wackily exotic names, a few stretches of showily overwritten dialogue and a slightly misanthropic streak that's been displayed with more sharpness and flair in their other films.

After she failed to appear before the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee when summoned, its members somewhat showily subpoenaed Shoffner.

The Dubai-owned stable has nominated four horses, led by exciting Ebor Handicap winner Willing Foe, for the November 6 showpiece that the Aussies showily refer to as "The Race that Stops the Nation."

You'll get fine views from the showily posh Lodge at Whitefish Lake; its Boat Club lounge ($$) serves terrific ribs.

Case in point: last winter I bought a coat originally marked $130 but showily price-slashed to $49.

showily, regularly entertaining and occasionally illuminating their

"She has a goodway, even just oneto-one, of telling a story, not showily but really enthusiastically."

Like a Trump skyscraper, Houston the singer was as showily dominant as corporate capitalism itself.