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It is because being portrayed in a popular movie as a handsome, talented, and articulate billionaire who is always surrounded by beautiful women is actually not a reputational body-blow.

Henry Blodget: The Big Difference Between the Real Sean Parker and the Justin Timberlake Portrayal Henry Blodget 2011

It is because being portrayed in a popular movie as a handsome, talented, and articulate billionaire who is always surrounded by beautiful women is actually not a reputational body-blow.

Henry Blodget: The Big Difference Between the Real Sean Parker and the Justin Timberlake Portrayal Henry Blodget 2011

In 1975, when civil weddings were introduced, the church took a body-blow.

Will Malta lift its divorce ban? 2011

Ouch .... an unintentional, but well placed body-blow.

College choice: Not a one-size-fits-family deal 2010

A high court battle is to be launched that threatens to deliver a fresh body-blow to the government's already troubled plans to introduce a cap on immigration.

Ministers face high court battle over cap on immigration 2010

Al Qaeda was delivered a body-blow with the Allied intervention.

Archive 2009-04-01 Burke's Corner 2009

When a brief aside reveals that she likely “perished” in Auschwitz, readers absorb this incidental information as a body-blow — the physical impact of horror.

Writing from the Contact Zone: Posthumanism in literature and theory Lemon Hound 2009

Try an MFA at a school inclined toward the avant-garde, if you want to deliver a body-blow to your love of reading.

Beachy and not-so-beachy books - And She Knits Too! 2009

My only point was that, to the Clintons 'credit, in light of their being rabidly accused by many Obama supporters of deplorable campaign tactics, it took a full year of campaigning and that Wal-Mart body-blow for Clinton to bring up Rezko.

Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Bill Clinton Touts "The 1990s" In New South Carolina Radio Ad For Hillary 2009

My only point was that, to the Clintons 'credit, in light of their being rabidly accused by many Obama supporters of deplorable campaign tactics, it took a full year of campaigning and that Wal-Mart body-blow for Clinton to bring up Rezko.

Bill Clinton Touts "The 1990s" In New South Carolina Radio Ad For Hillary 2009