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Physically, too, she is long and lean, with a graceful, attentuated neck, where I am rounder and short of torso and less than elegant.

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Physically, too, she is long and lean, with a graceful, attentuated neck, where I am rounder and short of torso and less than elegant.

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Because looming large over our weedy, attentuated, limp-wristed establishment is an ugly face consumed with dangerous stupidity repeating forever the warning "Don't mees wiv de mooslims".

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

If they were bad, we wouldn't be here, and the vaccines merely incorporate wimply attentuated viruses.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

One group of poets, composed of Jewish women such as Adrienne Rich, Alicia Ostriker, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis, who were affiliated with a university but not defined by it, would readily acknowledge the impact their Jewish parents, childhoods, and experiences, however attentuated, had had on their identity formation.

Literature Scholars in the United States. 2009

Perhaps you can say it is not relevant by the time a case is before a judge, but even then it might be somewhat relevant though in a more attentuated way should the judge choose to justify a departure.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Man Guilty in Attack on Girlfriend’s Pig: 2007

The hockey stick shape is somewhat attentuated, but the degree of attenuation in the simulations almost exactly matched the attenuation between the MBH98 NOAMER PC1 and their reconstruction.

Pacific Research « Climate Audit 2005

The plane was low enough for each smallest natural feature to be visible, and it was early enough for every shrub to cast a long, attentuated shadow.

Space Platform Leinster, Murray, 1896- 1953

With the lapse of time this characteristic has been notably attentuated by theoretical and practical democracy, and by the varying necessities of the case; above all by the appearance of a typically southern socialism, less rigid than that of Prussia and of Saxony, and jealous of its own autonomy.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

During the greater part of October and November, a luminous "tube" or "sheath," of prodigious dimensions, seemed to surround the head, and project in a direction nearly opposite to that of the usual outpourings of attentuated matter.

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874