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I do not think either of these soi-disant friends is overflowing with love for the other; but such intercourse serves to get the time on, and I am very willing it should continue, as it saves me some hours of discomfort in Arthur's society, and gives him some better employment than the sottish indulgence of his sensual appetites.

The service would have been pronounced by any modern aesthetic religionist--or religious aesthete, which is it?--to be crude and cold: to me, coming fresh from the ever-advancing developments of a London church under a soi-disant 'Catholic' Rector, it was unspeakably refreshing.

On the other hand as the soi-disant guardian of the gifts one might only excite suspicion by refusing to enter the house where they were.

"As the soi-disant new manager, I had been able, in the most ordinary course, to pump poor Ewbank about anything and everything connected with the working of the bank, especially in those twenty last invaluable minutes before turning in.

3- Quelle est la position du Japon a l'egard de la soi-disant "rasd"?

"La Police de la Republique du Zimbabwe (ZRP) informe la nation qu'en se fondant sur les notifications donnees par le MDC 'A' aux autorites pour organiser des manifestions a Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru, Masvingo, Mutare et les villes environnantes, les 16, 19, 20, 21 et 22 aout 2019, et les elements de preuve concrets et les renseignements sur le terrain, il s'avere en realite que ces soi-disant manifestations "pacifiques" donneront lieu a des incidents violents", a declare, jeudi, Paul Nyathi, commissaire adjoint de la ZRP.

Although the title of the exhibition hints at Sluijters' time as a soi-disant Fauvist, Fauvism was only one of the several French modes with which he experimented: others would include Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Cubism.

Ainsi de fausses informations ont circule cette semaine, faisant etat de l'agression de responsables de formations politiques, en l'occurrence les presidents de TAJ, Amar Ghoul, et du MPA, Amara Benyounes, lors de soi-disant meetings en France en soutien au candidat a la presidentielle, Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

In terms of search activity, it has commanded around 90% of the market for over a decade, leading many soi-disant defenders of competition to denounce it for "abusing" its "dominant position." But most of these attacks are driven by a mix of misconceptions and questionable claims of harm by Google's competitors.

The soi-disant culture transcends every kind of artificial limitations devised by the human mind.

A soi-disant "burkaphobe," he has been a vocal critic of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy; and he has called for laws to regulate what can be preached in mosques, and to create a registry for Muslim preachers.