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Outside the fence hawkers had dripping bags of sachet water for sale; a few sold dead-looking loaves of bread and fried buns.
A Simple Case 2010
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Outside the fence hawkers had dripping bags of sachet water for sale; a few sold dead-looking loaves of bread and fried buns.
A Simple Case 2010
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Outside the fence hawkers had dripping bags of sachet water for sale; a few sold dead-looking loaves of bread and fried buns.
A Simple Case 2010
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Babs, who had been staring at the bare, dead-looking aerial roots of an Evening Star orchid I had on the end table beside her, turned back to me.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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But that hellhole is in us, and we carry it around all the time, just like that upside-down blonde on Flagler Street carried the reflection of the fluorescent lights in her dead-looking eyes while she lay there, sprawled on the stairs, her hair and skirt a total mess, her shoe orphaned.
Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010
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Performance-capture filmmaking has been controversial in Hollywood for years, with actors and critics complaining that it creates lifeless characters with dead-looking eyes.
Disney to End Zemeckis's Film Venture Ethan Smith 2010
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Performance-capture filmmaking has been controversial in Hollywood for years, with actors and critics complaining that it creates lifeless characters with dead-looking eyes.
Disney to End Zemeckis's Film Venture Ethan Smith 2010
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Babs, who had been staring at the bare, dead-looking aerial roots of an Evening Star orchid I had on the end table beside her, turned back to me.
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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She stared at her mother with “dead-looking eyes,”94 then suddenly became quite still, “her mouth gaping limply, oozing spit.”
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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The glass door that opens out onto the sidewalk is closed, but I can see inside, and this time around the fluorescent lights have no dead-looking eyes to use as a mirror.
Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010
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