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I may not like feeling such empathy, but most well-fashioned first-person narration produces an almost unavoidable identification with the narrator, an identification that might be repudiated but that still does exist.

Saying Something 2010

The artist sticks to craft and hopes he/she can extend it in such a way that what is created in a sense might "transcend" its status as a well-fashioned "thing."

Saying Something 2010

Japan has plenty of unmet needs in urban infrastructure and in people's day-to-day struggles to make ends meet that could be helped with well-fashioned tax cuts and spending measures.

The Truth About Japanese Stimulus 2009

For the king his well-fashioned chariot of swift steeds was held near at hand by Phaethon, for him to mount; and he mounted, and held the reins in his hands.

The Argonautica 2008

And she herself took the reins and in her right hand the well-fashioned whip, and drove through the city; and the rest, the handmaids, laid their hands on the chariot behind and ran along the broad highway; and they kilted up their light robes above their white knees.

The Argonautica 2008

And when they had passed within the gates and the city, the women of the people surged behind them, delighting in the stranger, but he with his eyes fixed on the ground fared straight on, till he reached the glorious palace of Hypsipyle; and when he appeared the maids opened the folding doors, fitted with well-fashioned panels.

The Argonautica 2008

Having led us to believe that we've bought into an old-fashioned movie about an old-fashioned crime, "The Bank Job" engages us fully with a tale that's well-fashioned more than anything else, a fascinating study of morality at several levels of English society, and of honor, or the lack of it, among implausibly likable thieves.

'The Bank Job' 2008

And I appeal to the first and most natural feelings of mankind, whether on beholding a beautiful eye, or a well-fashioned mouth, or a well-turned leg, any ideas of their being well fitted for seeing, eating, or running, ever present themselves.

On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

Easy and unconstrained postures and motions are always beautiful: An air of health and vigour is agreeable: Clothes which warm, without burthening the body; which cover, without imprisoning the limbs, are well-fashioned.

An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals 2006

Liberals on the other hand believe that while power often corrupts, it is still possible to keep men and women from misusing power by establishing and following rules of behavior, ethical standards, and both the letter and spirit of well-fashioned Law.

Political Syncretism 2006