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Could you double-check that, asked the Haggler?
As the oft-snubbed Scorsese himself said as he accepted his award: "Could you double-check the envelope?" Growing up among "gangsters and priests", Scorsese outdid even Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola as the definitive cinematic chronicler of the American underworld with his hard-hitting movies.
When he finally got up on the stage to receive his award for The Departed, Scorsese's first comment was: "Could you double-check the envelope?" The best way to deal with the Oscars is to accept them for what they are; a glittering, back-slapping knees-up designed to make Hollywood feel good about itself.
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You double-check, you triple-check.
If you couldn't double-check before the first deadline, do it afterward.
Did you double check the details?
"Could someone double-check the envelope?" he asks nervously as he steps up to collect the award.
Because we reviewed the outpatient clinic and the surgery data registers, we could hereby double-check and include eligible persons who had initially been missed or misclassified at the emergency department.
Doubters could double-check names, photos and mobile-phone numbers online, and visit an accompanying (and also fake) website of a law firm to draw up legal documents.
"Nobody could double-check these figures, or triple-check them; we are not sure about these figures," Syria's U.N. ambassador, Bashar al-Jaafari, told Foreign Policy magazine recently, suggesting that while the death toll was high in Syria, the Assad regime was primarily a victim rather than a perpetrator.
For instance, while there were scattered concerns with the very first census in 1790, the results were still posted publicly so that citizens could double-check their accuracy [PDF].
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