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It is a hidden camera literally into the bedrooms, raves and orgasms of curious, world-wise, "naughty" young adults who are drunk on dreams, but are constantly being sobered up by the Morality Police.
Natalie Pace: Parties and Promiscuity in a Police State Natalie Pace 2011
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If only half of the stories he told me on that ride were true he was one world-wise old traveler who had racked up millions of hours of real life road time.
The Ballad Of Sideshow Sam & The Heckler sean m. poole 2011
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It is a hidden camera literally into the bedrooms, raves and orgasms of curious, world-wise, "naughty" young adults who are drunk on dreams, but are constantly being sobered up by the Morality Police.
Natalie Pace: Parties and Promiscuity in a Police State Natalie Pace 2011
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In the seventies, for example, Robert Young portrayed the kindly and world-wise general practitioner Marcus Welby, M.D., a man who struggled to treat his patients with compassion in a profession trending steadily toward specialized, impersonal care.
Craig Garner: Charting Changes in the Doctor-Patient Relationship 2010
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She is Madame Armfeldt: the world-wise, "seen it all" mother of the actress, a former courtesan who counted royalty among her many former lovers.
Albert Imperato: My First Time Seeing Sondheim's A Little Night Music 2010
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Mena Suvari wants everyone to think she is this world-wise model who isn't afraid to sleep her way to the big time, when in fact she is a frightened little virgin.
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Our world-wise soldiers understand that energy is the mission of their generation.
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Liaquat Ahamed is the modernist in question, and he writes with all the world-wise assurance of the professional investor, World Bank alumnus and Brookings Institution trustee that he is.
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But the bigger problem is that it's done without having a clue about who's giving you their world-wise opinion.
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Bill Clinton, world-wise as he is, read the polls and abandoned Bosnia.
Mort Rosenblum: Rouge Cou in House White? We'd Be in Merde Profonde 2008
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