If the era of Dwight D . Eisenhower and Donna Reed brought us bland, anonymous presidents, the captious 90s have brought us a combination of gritty reality and human vulnerability.
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All right, call it a captious quibble, but if you were given a choice of places to spend a month, which name would you select-- Tuscany or Cyberspace?
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Its 76 tables and 130-page section on sources notwithstanding, " America in Black and White " has drawn heated criticism for its triumphalist stance and sometimes captious tone.
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She is said to have been captious, and she had her sisters living in their house, and so Hondecoeter spent much time in his garden or drinking in the tavern in the Jordaan.
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It is not only that you have shown so much capacity, moderation, tact, and temper; but you have had the talent to make these gifts recognized and appreciated among our very captious population.
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We shall endeavour to be humorous without being ill-humoured, critical without being captious, militant without being malevolent, independent without being impertinent, and funny ( as Mr Albert Chevalier says ) without being vulgar .
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But until recently, girls mostly navigated their swelling, captious seas on their own, sometimes not even aware of the facts of menstruation until the day they started bleeding and went screaming to their mothers for a Band-Aid.
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Such captious observers will say that if Pataki wants to celebrate his " vision and leadership, " then at least he ought to do so with his own campaign funds, leaving the MTA budget for more prosaic matters like fixing the subways.
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In the warm afterglow of Brazil's 6-0 rout of Bolivia in a Cup warmup on Wednesday, the players enjoyed a deserved respite from the heckling, the captious criticism and the demands to bring back Romario that had dogged them all week.
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His answer to a captious friend who seemed solicitous to disabuse him on this score was merely to point with a gesture to the crowds on the seaside beach reading . " All my books, " he said : " they are all reading my latest . " It was a true estimate.
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