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At 57, he has been dwelling on the past.
It might seem harsh to suggest that Angelina Jolie has been dwelling for several years in her own personal artistic comfort bubble.
Though Houellebecq can't resist the odd inflammatory aside – "Personally, I don't believe in Jews," he says at one point, after Lévy has been dwelling on the semitic persecution complex he may or may not have been born with – he finds himself exploring some emotions that have not always come easily to him as a novelist: kindness, say, and generosity of spirit.
Now, anyone who believes that only one major British company has ever slid into the swamp of inducements and "commissions" in Africa, Asia, the Middle East - or some parts of Europe - has been dwelling not in any of those areas but somewhere much closer to Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Turns out that NESSIE (spelled out in either the circled or shaded squares in what I can only imagine is Loch Ness Monster shape) has been dwelling in the murky depths of the New York Times crossword puzzle all this time.
But in a year that has felt a little confrontational — "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," which could be the first best-picture nominee from a black director, Lee Daniels, has been strongly criticized as "poverty porn" by some African-Americans — the academy has been dwelling in a comfort zone of its own making.
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Bradley had been dwelling on this question.
And since the Tupi oil field announcement in November, Buenos Aires' newspapers have been dwelling on how far ahead Brazil has surged.
If you're reading this then you may be looking at taking the plunge into running with an idea that you've been dwelling on for months.
The horde – the rogue group of "revenants" who had, for much of the series, lurked in the shadows – finally made their move, demanding that all of the revenants who had been dwelling in the town be handed over to them.
Still, for readers who simply can't get enough of Bogart (or members of younger generations who have been dwelling in an Internet echo chamber somewhere), this is a perfectly engaging book.
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