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Then mix in the wider trend alluded to by Tom Stoppard last year when he complained that audiences no longer pick up the cultural allusions in his plays.
Millions of daily newspaper readers no longer pick up their paper on the doormat or head to the corner shop to buy the morning news.
In an effort to reach new readers, or those who no longer pick up a daily paper, i is sold at a bargain-basement 20 pence, or about 30 U.S. cents, a fifth the price of The Independent.
"The fact that the antenna simply can no longer pick up strong enough signals to make the television sets in the building work is really a matter that is outside the control of the landlord".
My professor's pronouncement felt too didactic, too political, and, although I tried to put it out of my mind and enjoy "Lolita" 's cunning, surprising games with language, I could no longer pick up the book without feeling the weight of his judgment.
We as humanitarians can no longer pick up the pieces".
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Some circle about longer, picking up objects and putting them down.
Ed's scripts were unmade, his treatments ignored, his options no longer picked up.
They sum up the moment a demonstrator can't take it any longer, picks up a stone and smashes the glass.
A tree emits a new sound due to drought; a bird call that fits a certain sound spectrum is no longer picked upnature out of balance can be heard as well as seen.
Howard Feingold, the president of Best Apartments, which caters to the budget-conscious under-30 crowd, said landlords were no longer picking up his tab and that, unfortunately, "Clients have gotten used to not paying fees".
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