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Educated for the law, he climbed up the judicial and political ladders of Tudor England until in 1529 the king appointed him Lord Chancellor: the statesman of Hans Holbein's portrait, inscrutably grave in red velvet sleeves, furred gown and gold chain.Early chapters of the book try valiantly to tell at least some of this story from Margaret's point of view.
For any visitor with the common complaint that Tokyo's citizens are inscrutably , unnervingly polite, this reporter has the antidote: board the Yamanote line at Ikebukuro at 7 45 on any weekday morning.Outside the rush hours, travelling offers both social observation and the time to spin a theory out of it.
You should give three-quarters to the person who claims all of it, and the remaining quarter to the person who claims half of it, the text instructs, somewhat inscrutably.
In the case of Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads, for which oral arguments were heard on December 8th, the justices grappled with whether the nationwide passenger train service is or isn't part of the government, and whether it unconstitutionally steps on the toes of other train companies.Amtrak, it appears, is an inscrutably indeterminate entity.
Ayatollah Khamenei hovers inscrutably over them all.As one reform-minded analyst with close ties to the government of President Rohani puts it: "There is so much distrust that the regime thinks America will interfere and try and change the factional relationships in Tehran.
Not so Diageo, product of the Guinness-Grand Met merger ("we hate it when people say Diego," complain the staff); Innogy, formerly Britain's National Power; or Thales, once Thomson-CSF, a French group now inscrutably named after a Greek scientist.These days, a new name has to be available as a domain name.
Noted illustrator Hugh Thomson drew a more fetching version in 1894 – younger, more dapper, with gorgeous hair and a well-turned leg – but all that seems inscrutably foppish.
"A child is more like a puppy than it is like one of those mannequins," said Dinos, inscrutably.
As Chastain plays ever more inscrutably hard-boiled behind her aviator shades, the film becomes Maya's apprenticeship in torture – ours, too.
It guides you through monologuic small talk with poker-faced Midwesterners, minty-breathed sociopaths, inscrutably smiling mothers-in-law, and fourteen-year-old girls.
After the disks emerged from the melting machine, they were placed on a conveyor belt leading into another apparatus, while the kids pressed some brightly colored flashing buttons labelled "mold" and "color," as inscrutably connected to the process of transformation as the "Drink Me" label on Alice in Wonderland's bottle.
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As an adverb , "inscrutably" serves to modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs by indicating that the action or quality is performed in a way that defies interpretation. In the examples provided by Ludwig, it frequently modifies verbs of social interaction such as "smiled", "regarded", and "stared".
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