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  • For each cut Ozu has arranged for at least one formal element to provide continuity (kire-tsuzuki) between the adjacent scenes.

    Japanese Aesthetics Parkes, Graham 2005

  • Tak kire blogger ke tak, ada anak ke tak, dah kahwin ke belum, ramai2 datang ke FAMILY NANTI.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

  • Mmg susu ibulah the best, 6bulan pertama penting utk susukan bayi dan baby actually x perlukan air atau ap2 mkanan lam tempoh tu. lepas 6 bulan baru slow bg baby makan. pastu klu ikut lam Islam, lepas baby tu umur 2 tahun, kena stop sbb baby tu kire dah 'pandai' even ade yg dah pandai bercakap …

    Planet Malaysia BangNara 2010

  • Tak kire blogger ke tak, ada anak ke tak, dah kahwin ke belum, ramai2 datang ke FAMILY NANTI.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

  • Tak kire blogger ke tak, ada anak ke tak, dah kahwin ke belum, ramai2 datang ke FAMILY NANTI.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

  • Tak kire blogger ke tak, ada anak ke tak, dah kahwin ke belum, ramai2 datang ke FAMILY NANTI.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

  • Men's Hockey kire sexdrugsbarackandroll: biteofpythias: You think your sport is tough Football Basketball - they throw elbows in the lane puhleaze.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • A good way to survey the field is to examine the most important aesthetic ideas that have arisen in the course of the tradition, all of them before aesthetics was formally established as a discipline: namely, mono no aware (the pathos of things), wabi (subdued, austere beauty), sabi (rustic patina), yûgen (mysterious profundity), and kire (cutting).

    Japanese Aesthetics Parkes, Graham 2005

  • poem tu kire cm luahan hati dier seblm dier mati..

    need you like a rain on fire 2009

  • yg kaler merah tuh kire cam core subjek...every sem pom mmg 4 core subjek!

    tHanx 2god! 2008

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  • From ME kire (also cyre, cure), from Old English cyre (choice, free will).

    *choice, preference

    *chosen, the elite

    *custom; customary

    *free will

    *decision, selection

    Bigamie is unkinde ðing, On engleis tale, twie-wifing; for ai was rigt and ***kire*** bi-forn, On man, on wif, til he was boren. — "Genesis and Exodus"

    Japanese:

    kire (hiragana きれ)

    切れ: sharpness; cloth; slice

    November 30, 2011