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Perhaps it was inevitable -- perhaps it still is -- to plough the furrow in which, ever since the Reformation, and then the French Revolution, up until and including Arte, their paradoxical toing and froing has never ceased to be the beating heart of Europe.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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Perhaps it was inevitable -- perhaps it still is -- to plough the furrow in which, ever since the Reformation, and then the French Revolution, up until and including Arte, their paradoxical toing and froing has never ceased to be the beating heart of Europe.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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To leap ahead, Andersen goes on to argue that all this toing and froing -- all this boring sameness -- stems from the democratization of distribution caused by the information revolution, which allows everyone you, me, Pottery Barn to ransack the past for previously inaccessible style and consume it like a fast-food cheeseburger, a sighing decline into nostalgia and cultural obesity.
Robert Teitelman: Andersen and DeLong Review the Past Robert Teitelman 2011
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Liverpool are lobbying for Carroll to be excused from the tournament in Denmark and, amid the toing and froing, the Football Association was forced to say Pearce's final squad announcement would not be until next Monday, after the final round of Premier League fixtures.
Arsène Wenger warns of backlash if Andy Carroll skips Under-21 duty 2011
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Perhaps it was inevitable -- perhaps it still is -- to plough the furrow in which, ever since the Reformation, and then the French Revolution, up until and including Arte, their paradoxical toing and froing has never ceased to be the beating heart of Europe.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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Back in the charge room after much toing and froing by people trying to do the right thing by him he assaulted the custody Sgt and the duty officer …. what do you think happened to him?
The Stereotyped World of WIN. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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To leap ahead, Andersen goes on to argue that all this toing and froing -- all this boring sameness -- stems from the democratization of distribution caused by the information revolution, which allows everyone you, me, Pottery Barn to ransack the past for previously inaccessible style and consume it like a fast-food cheeseburger, a sighing decline into nostalgia and cultural obesity.
Robert Teitelman: Andersen and DeLong Review the Past Robert Teitelman 2011
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Perhaps it was inevitable -- perhaps it still is -- to plough the furrow in which, ever since the Reformation, and then the French Revolution, up until and including Arte, their paradoxical toing and froing has never ceased to be the beating heart of Europe.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Arte Is Twenty Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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I was first taken with the Tim O'Brien/Kathy Mattea version? the toing and froing, the mandolin.
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It seems a shame that the integrity of the contest between Yorkshire and Durham should be threatened by Bresnan's toing and froing.
England keep faith with Alastair Cook for Oval Test against Pakistan 2010
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