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Examples
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But as those traces have been swept away, so too has Berlin's museum-piece atmosphere.
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But if you were to sit down at that ancient, obsolete museum-piece of a machine today, you would be right at home.
Steve Jobs and the Coolest Show on Earth David Gelernter 2011
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So anytime something interesting would happen, I'd write 25 or so one-page-aerogram versions of it over the next few days, all on a clunky, museum-piece manual typewriter.
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Fiction has "become a museum-piece genre most of whose practitioners are more like cripplingly self-conscious curators or theoreticians than writers".
Jonathan Franzen picks up the torch for US literary tradition 2010
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The age of bedside doctoring in the middle of the night is past, the image a museum-piece of medical history.
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Most of the editors I know in New York have no appetite for curating a "museum-piece genre", but they are being forced to confront the inconvenient truth that "literary fiction" is not the headline grabber it was.
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'For about a million reasons,' Siegel claimed, 'fiction has now become a museum-piece genre most of whose practitioners are more like cripplingly self-conscious curators or theoreticians than writers.
Archive 2010-07-04 Bill Crider 2010
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America has its public piety and its multitude of thriving sects, Europe has its official secularism and its empty, museum-piece churches.
Crises of Faith 2007
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America has its public piety and its multitude of thriving sects, Europe has its official secularism and its empty, museum-piece churches.
Crises of Faith 2007
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America has its public piety and its multitude of thriving sects, Europe has its official secularism and its empty, museum-piece churches.
Crises of Faith 2007
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