For, like ancient Rome and its gladiators, today's cities play host to colourful spectacles, marches, processions et al. |
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Behind the spectacles and deep thinking there is a forceful man, who is tough to argue with. |
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An attempt to increase the magnifying power would inevitably lead to a reduction of the field of vision and to an unhandiness of such spectacles. |
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The dance ritual of the male and female during courtship and pair-bonding is one of the most entertaining spectacles in the world of birds. |
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She shakily put her cup back on its blue china saucer and looked through her owl-like spectacles at Hannah. |
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Problems were experienced by people who wore spectacles, particularly varifocal or bifocal lenses. |
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In some of the caves, flamenco singing and dancing spectacles, known as zambras, are staged. |
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His grating voice, frameless spectacles, faded suits and short, stringy hair all broke with the conformist protest style. |
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Her spectacles caught the light from somewhere and glimmered under the straight blonde of her hair. |
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My spectacles picked up a few drops of water and turned the street lamps into sparkling sodium stars. |
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A handful of other artists staged theatrical public spectacles, performances grounded in the sociologies of place and personality. |
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Everywhere amazing spectacles were being performed, as crowds gathered and applauded the snake charmers, coal-walkers, and fire-eaters. |
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Instead, they were grand spectacles with thousands of spectators present to watch the coronations. |
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Like most people past their mid forties, he uses spectacles to read and write. |
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I look up and see he is wearing rather academic spectacles, which makes him look slightly less threatening. |
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These ballets were often elaborate spectacles, intended to display the status of the nobility or monarchs who had commissioned them. |
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The fourth member of the group was chubby with a shaven head, a blue jumper and wearing spectacles. |
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The countryman went from ruggedly unsophisticated to casually erudite in one quick addition of something so simplistic as a pair of spectacles. |
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He dusted the snowflakes out of his hair and slipped on his pair of thick-framed spectacles and took the folder from Margaret's hands. |
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He looked up and the glass of his spectacles caught the light, sending a bright glare into Sandra's eyes. |
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In the lead was a tall man, about Adam's height, with a head full of graying brown hair and a pair of intelligent-looking spectacles. |
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He pulled another pair of spectacles out and replaced his old ones with them. |
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Louis put aside his journal and studied his daughter over the rim of his spectacles. |
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The girl opened her eyes to find herself looking into blue eyes which twinkled behind a pair of spectacles. |
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The gray side-burned man cocked a grey eye at him beneath a pair of expensive spectacles. |
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He's wearing a pair of spectacles and his usually unruly mop of brown hair is now slicked down with a neat side-parting. |
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She could see his slicked back hair with a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles resting carefully on his nose. |
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Wayne replied gently as he placed Grandma Eva's cola-framed spectacles on top of her aquiline nose. |
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He was wearing a full body suit of ostrich feathers and a ludicrous pair of spectacles. |
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He took a pair of thin-rimmed spectacles from a case and perched them close to the tip of his nose. |
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His hair was blond, and his eyes a bright blue colour, partially hidden behind a small pair of green tinted spectacles. |
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I had a short and successfully anonymous encounter with a podgy woman in spectacles. |
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For one thing, it lacked resemblance to the most popular photograph of the poet, featuring a youthful visage and spectacles. |
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Hypermetropia, or long-sightedness, is corrected by spectacles with convex lenses that make the eyes appear larger, as shown in the photograph. |
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If corrective spectacles are not worn this convergent squint may become permanent. |
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To add to her misery, she has had to start wearing spectacles to correct her eyesight. |
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The first use of spectacles for correcting long-sightedness has been traced to Italy, towards the end of the 13th century. |
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The spectacles seemed to protect her cornea and retina, which were not damaged. |
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You ought to see the photographs of me in my National Health spectacles, Harris Tweed jacket and grey flannels. |
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This can either be a pair of spectacles, contact lens or an intraocular lens. |
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Clad in a cream safari suit with rimless Gandhi-type spectacles, he has that Uttar Pradesh bhaiya look about him. |
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Pull your hair into a chignon at your nape and don some serious spectacles and understated makeup for a subtly sexy librarian look. |
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The chief reporter was a grey haired man, middle fifties, rimless spectacles. |
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He removed his own spectacles and tapped at the lenses with his gloved finger. |
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Their deaths are spectacles of passivity in the face of an avenging passion that is beyond their emotional range. |
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They attract as well for their architecture for the spectacles tauromachic. |
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If you really want to see each other through rose-coloured spectacles this February 14th, you could opt for pink champagne. |
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The colosseum opened in A.D.80 and hosted 100 spectacles a year. 50,000 available seats were divided into social classes. |
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Images of spectacles, particularly American world's fairs, are also abundant in the print room. |
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This year there are all kinds of marketing events and spectacles and extravaganzas there. |
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The aqueducts provided public baths with hydrous spectacles and private houses with running water and flush toilets. |
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One of them was a skinny, young black fellow who wore spectacles and spoke with an effeminate voice. |
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The bazaars, colorful food markets and constant flow of border-hoppers provide absorbing spectacles. |
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In the glazed portrait of 1987, the mature King's spectacles are disks like small saucers, the nose still courageous and beaky. |
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We are never going to recapture earlier times, of course, and there is a rosy tint to most parents' spectacles. |
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All the gold frame spectacles are separated, then lenses removed and frames sent away. |
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The only way I have found to get my spectacles really clean is to wash them in soap and warm water. |
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Joshua made circles of his fingers over his eyes, a brief mime of spectacles. |
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In 1760, Benjamin Franklin instructed a London firm to make him spectacles with two types of lenses fitted together, thus inventing bifocals. |
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He bore always unhappiness in his heart, and his eyes shone with determination behind his spectacles. |
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Behind the spectacles and the twin set of the demure secretary runs the hot blood of a rampaging minx. |
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You need special material and on no account simply use darkened glass, old spectacles or glasses. |
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I buy my cameras, spectacles, binocs, etc. assuming they'll be dropped and splattered, and they should hold up to this misuse. |
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I feel envious when I see women my own age who are plump, grey-haired and wear spectacles. |
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Thematically, works range from portraits and self-portraits, cityscapes, crowd scenes and spectacles to cultural icons. |
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The glint on the wire frames of his spectacles echoes the glint on the birdcage wire. |
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Clarke was rather English in appearance, a tall, thin, white-haired man in spectacles. |
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The true-born Athenians are keen and critical auditors, constant in their attendance at plays and spectacles. |
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In nineteenth-century France several freak shows were banned for fear that the shocking spectacles would cause women to bear monstrous children. |
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There may well be some strange spectacles promenading in front of you along the sand, but why not? |
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As she passed our row, I noticed that her spectacles were held together by generous amounts of sticky tape. |
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In one appearance, after the first bout of bombing, he was wearing uncharacteristic horn-rimmed spectacles. |
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The shorter races also make for real spectacles, especially on the five-furlong track, which has a downhill slope and sees some of the fastest sprints in the world. |
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Super Bowl Halftime Shows are no longer kitschy theme park spectacles, but bonafide entertainment events. |
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The woman sitting next to me, a blonde South African wearing jeans and fashionable spectacles looks at me, raises an eyebrow, gives me a wan smile and gets up to leave. |
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Which countries supply the most exports of watch glasses, glass for spectacles not optically worked, and hollow glass spheres and segments for sphere manufacture? |
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Chef Humberto Molina-Segura bounces on the balls of his feet, eyes agleam behind wire-rim spectacles, introducing his food to first-time guests at Red Onion Seafood y Mas. |
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With too big spectacles falling down his nose he looked down upon me constantly as if judging me, weighing if I was worthy enough to receive this good fortune. |
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Jack Wall's election poster has been given the full treatment with the addition of black curls, a lovely goatee beard and the latest in designer spectacles. |
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I may be looking at it through rose-coloured spectacles, but I think there are too many tests and assessments, too much being put on the kids at a very early age. |
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Don't go into the career with rose-tinted spectacles though. |
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It will justify leaving it in place by deploying rose-tinted spectacles to view the mid-term outlook for global equities and its own fund managers' future performance. |
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This great assemblage of birds forms one of the finest wildlife spectacles in the country and attracts many birdwatchers to the island, thus boosting its tourist industry. |
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When he arrives home with his newspaper he dons his spectacles and, ignoring the front and back pages, proceeds to peruse the death notices with the utmost assiduity. |
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The president stares at him, his kind eyes emanating genuine compassion through his granddad spectacles. |
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We advise visitors to take magnifying glasses or, at least, reading spectacles to this event, since the drawings are minute in detail and often in poor condition. |
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The heavy-set Somali man covered his face with a cloth, which was held in place by a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles. |
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And suicide is just one of the many shocking 4chan spectacles, which range from bullying to stripping to killing pets on camera. |
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Of course, other recent royal pageants and spectacles have been something of a mixed bag, economically speaking. |
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As he peers over his spectacles, Leveson is a big predatory cat that beguiles as he smiles. |
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Here is a large pile of spectacles, a spidery mass of rusted wire-frames and dusty lenses. |
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A wealthy Indian in his mid-40s, Mahoney is immaculately dressed with a scarf and vintage spectacles. |
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These spectacles are useful in endoscopic micrurgy, various medical fields, in jewelry, electronics, dentistry, and for making precision assemblies and the like. |
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I gave my spectacles a final polish, dumped the tissue in the waste bin I call my side pocket, and started back home to the sound of Schubert in the player. |
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So far that, when I parked in the town square by the fish 'n' chip shop, my spectacles misted up as I got out of my lovely, cold car into a very steamy evening. |
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Still trying to see life through gold-coloured spectacles, we were not willing to put the terrible double and triple murders back into the headlines. |
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Wanamaker's was known for its stained-glass windows, elaborate store displays, and spectacles including organ concerts, pageants, and storybook characters in show windows. |
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Fascism is a gross deformity on the once awe inspiringly superlative face of this earth, and such blights so easily make otherwise beautiful spectacles the ugliest of things. |
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Guess we're all confined to unattractiveness and those dreadful 1950s thick rimmed spectacles that according to stereotype all academically sound people wear. |
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Looking around me, I realised that the last time I'd shared a room with so many thick spectacles, pearl necklaces and blue rinses was at my grandmother's funeral. |
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Deliciously charming or incredibly irritating, depending on your point of view, he is always ready with smooth-tongued flattery, eyes innocently beaming behind his spectacles. |
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Caffe lattes, designer spectacles and slimming clubs yesterday replaced brown ale and tinned spaghetti in the basket of items used to measure UK inflation. |
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Gladiatorial combats, wild beast hunts, and public executions were important spectacles presented not only in Rome but throughout the Roman Empire. |
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There will also be a series of workshops, exhibitions and spectacles. |
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She had on a different pair of spectacles now, a blue oval shaped type. |
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He had light brown hair and blue eyes framed by a pair of spectacles. |
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He wore thick rimmed spectacles, and even in the dim lighting David could see that he was sunburnt till his skin was the same shade as his burnt sienna hair. |
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The cacomistle of Costa Rica is similar to the ring-tailed cat of North America, having a very bushy white tail with black rings and white spectacles around the eyes. |
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Oddities apart, visitors to the island are currently enjoying the annual spring spectacles of throngs of nesting seabirds and carpets of bluebells. |
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Tall and slim, his neatly-parted silver hair and rimless spectacles sit atop a hawkish nose and ice-blue eyes that are almost a caricature of the Prussian officer. |
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Donated glasses are sorted, cleaned and graded in the UK then delivered to ophthalmic clinics all over the world where opticians match the spectacles to their patients. |
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He was an old man with hennaed hair and heavy plastic spectacles. |
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The streets were filled with alehouses, gambling dens and brothels, and the public was entertained by street performers, playhouses, and spectacles such as bear baiting. |
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Their attempt to soften the electorate's impression of her as a scientific cold fish is one of the few amusing spectacles in a grim political landscape. |
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Tony has provided Andrei with spectacles to correct the cast he has in one eye and thinks he will be able to improve the sight in the other eye as well. |
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We have surgical procedures and spectacles to correct impaired vision. |
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It's a fair bet that most people who need spectacles are no longer in the first flush of youth, so could someone please explain why the choice was so universally cool and hip. |
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We tested 1,500 people and 1,300 pairs of spectacles were given out. |
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His blonde hair was disarrayed and his spectacles hung off his nose. |
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The receptionist was an older woman, her gunmetal gray hair bound back into a severe bun, with a pair of half moon spectacles resting on the end of her nose. |
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Despite Cal's returned stare he remained defiant in his obvious scrutiny of Cal from behind the glossy sheen of spectacles framed in yet more ductile gold. |
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You don't want to be wearing spectacles with a black velvet evening dress. |
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As a part-time university professor, he wore his standard donnish garb of spectacles, a baggy woolly sweater from Oxfam and open-necked shirt. |
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Her spectacles were badly scored on one lens with one sidepiece and the nose pads being severely distorted. |
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An illustrated tour of everyday events and amazing spectacles, from mirages and meteors to ball lightning. |
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Male spectacles are dudes being dudes and may be conscionably encouraged. |
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Two participants of the intervention group wore spectacles with marginal ametropia. |
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During breeding season, the males make great spectacles of themselves in flight to attract females. |
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Additionally, Colley Cibber and John Rich began to battle each other for greater and greater spectacles to present on stage. |
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It is one of the most intolerable spectacles in all history to see the Church, barely saved from persecution. |
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Concave spectacles were invented around 1286 by an unknown Italian artisan, probably working in or near Pisa. |
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Then I discovered the brilliance of the landscape around was mitigated by blue spectacles. |
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Gold sovereigns, pistols, spectacles and other personal items have been found by scuba divers by chance over the years. |
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These spectacles are planned with aching attention to detail. |
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The local ruling elite were responsible for sponsoring spectacles and arena events, which both enhanced their status and drained their resources. |
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He is dressed in an old sweater, corduroy trousers, sandles and elastoplasted spectacles. A row of fairy lights hangs round his neck. |
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The 3M Food and Beverage range includes earmuffs, earplugs, disposable respirators and safety spectacles. |
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These spectacles also raised production values, and mounting a musical generally became more expensive. |
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The government has been trying to prevent Gandhi's spectacles, sandals, pocket watch and a few utensils from going under the hammer on Thursday. |
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These patients were selected retrospectively, and only those treated with complete bed-rest and stenopaeic spectacles alone were accepted. |
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Today this pressure is better funded and more coordinated on the Right, making their efforts to work the refs, to script our political spectacles, more powerful. |
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Sport spectacles like football's World Cup command worldwide audiences as nations battle for supremacy and the fans invest intense support for their national team. |
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The Victorians produced his plays as lavish spectacles on a grand scale. |
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But what would happen if a huge, eggheaded boffin in a white coat and spectacles, to whom you had not even been introduced, insisted on immersing you in a hot bath. |
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The door flew open, and there was a bloke with spectacles on his face and all round the spectacles an expression of strained anguish. A bloke with a secret sorrow. |
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Bob Smith, smiling from behind gold-rimmed spectacles and a long, whitebeard, helped the boy climb on his knee so his mother could take a snapshot. |
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An arsonist was regretting going to Specsavers last week after he was jailed after being identified through the spectacles he purchased at the multiple. |
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