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Mr. Seidl pushes his camera directly into the muck of human misery, taking you places rarely seen in fiction films, like the ghastly row of derelict-looking East European apartment blocks where segregated Roma families (Gypsies, in the more familiar parlance) live in unspeakable filth.

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That is to say that while I enjoy being Stephanie — I'd hate to give it up — I am not unhappy enough about my male body, my life as a guy, to spend the energy, money, and time required to live as a woman from day to day (in the parlance, "go full-time"), as other varieties of trans people do.

It feeds an insatiable curiosity about how the other half — or, in current parlance, the 1 percent — lives, and what it shows us is gorgeous, grotesque and disconcertingly human.

It's going to be a big ask (if you'll allow the football parlance) for the game to live up to the quality of its graphics, and for a lot of us those FFVII glory days will never be recaptured.

His words live on in everyday parlance – no matter one's station, religion or occupation, everyone in Iran knows at least a handful of Rumi's poems by heart.

"In the parlance of the counterculture, I was supposed to live hard, die young and leave a beautiful corpse, as so many men of my time actually did — men smarter, more talented, better looking and just plain better than me".

Another problem is that talk of breaking teachers' unions has become common parlance among the kind of people whose kids do not live below the poverty line, polite Pinkerton agents of education reform, circling at cocktail parties.

(Lest anyone misinterpret the fictional geography of the block, he clarified that he does not live in the Jeffersons' house. Rather, in his own parlance, "I'm that Italian family," the Lorenzos, who lived next door to the Bunkers).

It should be noted, however, that "vector" in infectious disease parlance usually refers to living organisms, such as mosquitoes.

Seven years later, however, the Big Ten Network relies on, in the parlance of college athletics, those nonrevenue generating sports for a bulk of its 24-hour, 365-day programming, as well as its live streaming broadcasts.

In the local parlance 'he's gonna kop some stick' for sure...It's not often a person gets to say this but, for once in my life, I'm glad I don't live in New Zealand".

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