Improbably, my parents made good on their word and called our neighbor, who even more improbably said he'd do it.
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Instead, I'm betting — completely improbably — on another character entirely.
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He then, improbably, turned it up even further in WWE.
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Improbably, it is Ron M. Estes who secured the RealRonEstes.
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When Jimmy dies, he improbably chooses Koen to succeed him.
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The concept of a bucket list has been improbably durable.
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Improbably, unforeseeably, your love has brought Sense8 back to life.
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He was right, because Stenson improbably sank his monster putt.
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The final was a classic, with Villanova improbably edging Georgetown.
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I lifted my rod and, improbably enough, I had him.
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Perhaps improbably, the area is a hot spot for desserts.
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Improbably enough, Mr. Dart's most audacious investment involves Mount Trashmore.
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Their encounter two years ago ended, improbably, in a draw.
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Trump's team claimed, improbably, that it was a sheriff's badge.
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If the Americans (improbably) lose twice, and Honduras (perhaps even more improbably) gets a result in either of its games, against Costa Rica and Mexico, the Americans will be watching on television next summer.
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Now that he is, improbably, president, the exaggerations are less charming.
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A woman whose story had become, improbably, part of my own.
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It was the size of child's head and so improbably sweet.
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Perhaps the son, improbably, has been able to resuscitate his father.
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That all changed, improbably, during a job interview in another field.
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Improbably, it looks like things in Cologne are just getting worse.
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The Americans are stunned, and suddenly — improbably — trailing by 20143-0.
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Elections in improbably large constituencies, with pitifully low turnouts, change nothing.
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Improbably, Veep wasn't quite as nihilistic as we thought all along.
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This is a sad story but, improbably, one with a hopeful ending.
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They swing downward again, in graceful arcs to an improbably willowy angle.
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She was accused, improbably enough, of peddling drugs with a former lover.
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HOWEVER improbably, Northern Ireland's second city has often been compared to Jerusalem.
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Another is a sour-faced bureaucrat and immortal demon improbably named Sean.
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It is one of the more improbably dramatic moments in American letters.
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It made Mr. West both improbably close and tantalizingly out of reach.
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As for Baffert's other horses -- Improbably finished 4th and Roadster finished 15th.
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Improbably, the payday-loan industry earned a fortune from the working poor.
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CreditCredit MAE SAI, Thailand — Improbably enough, most of the escapes went flawlessly.
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The first author that pops into my head, improbably, is Mario Puzo.
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Christon cocked the ball back and fired — and, improbably, made the shot.
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Mimaut was said to have achieved this, improbably enough, by writing a letter.
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James, at 210 years old, has improbably become a great isolation scorer again.
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Finally, scientists have come up with an explanation for their improbably large existence.
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Some had come with friends and some, improbably, were there on corporate outings.
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You're at a desk in the middle of an improbably spotless corporate office.
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You can trace this tactic as far back as, improbably, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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The story of modern cancer research begins, somewhat improbably, with the sea urchin.
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This Yankees team, improbably, is a whole lot better after its midseason reboot.
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Ms. Parker improbably gives equal emotional resonance to Georgie's truths and her lies.
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"I have this desire," she says, improbably, at the start of the routine.
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The Infamous is the masterpiece, an eerily collected, improbably poised exercise in reportage.
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A few institutions have taken the courtship of donors to improbably high levels.
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You, improbably, get elected mayor of your small city as an open socialist.
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J.G. The darkest, angriest and most improbably entertaining work in the Sondheim canon.
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Improbably, Philip neither informs the two duped households, nor does he seek revenge.
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She had styled a high quiff that now wavered improbably over her forehead.
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Improbably, it is Iran that got the game-winning goal in added time.
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But here are Federer and Nadal again, improbably, for one more big final.
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The Tick, much like its electric blue protagonist, has an improbably miraculous survival story.
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Behind the "improbably glossy surface", retail banks have still not rebuilt trust with customers.
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Doug Jones -- improbably -- is coming to Washington as the next senator from the state.
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R4 Ridge RacerThis is a good game but the intro is terribly, improbably horny.
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And somehow Trump is in improbably in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Improbably, and more quickly than anyone expected, the future looks very bright in Blacksburg.
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The result is a salty, slightly spicy, improbably complex dish, considering its few ingredients.
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Improbably, it all works, thanks to the goofy character designs and Braham's warm light.
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Once impossibly and improbably far away, March 24 barreled down like a speeding train.
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The space is both claustrophobic and improbably vast, and panic can set in quickly.
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It was in this prison, improbably enough, that the Cuban revolution was effectively planned.
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Improbably, she decides that the best way to do this is by literally becoming a man — and, even more improbably, she decides to accomplish this by traveling, along with her little brother/slave (it's complicated), to a legendary town inhabited by kabbalistic Jews.
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Her six months quickly stretched into a year and, improbably, that year turned into five.
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Blood Drive's future is post-racial; cops, improbably, don't seem to particularly target minority communities.
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In 214, they improbably came up one single run short of winning the World Series.
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Samsa, meat pastries that elsewhere I've found bulky and inert, were flaky and improbably airy.
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It also improbably tries to reset everyone back to normal daily life every few minutes.
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State of the Art Pottery, improbably, is the latest escapist pastime to sweep the nation.
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Federer, meanwhile, continues to fly improbably high as the oldest No. 1 in ATP history.
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It was, improbably, Roberto Ramirez, one of the three imprisoned with Mr. Sharpton in Vieques.
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And his country remained, improbably, one of the world's last bastions of straight-up Communism.
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Time and again, the logistics of body disposal are improbably skewed in the sisters' favor.
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But this symbol of urban decay was, improbably, reborn as a symbol of urban renewal.
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There are some who fault Sonia for being successful in this way, including, improbably, Italians.
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Somewhat improbably, this slight, smiling, simple man ekes out a living as a dog groomer.
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Improbably, José's teammates contrive a way for him to be in two places at once.
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He launched a podcast that, improbably, became the most downloaded in the country on iTunes.
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The thieves "appeared to know much — perhaps improbably much — about Tiffany's security," The Times reported.
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It is, rather improbably, still being manufactured by the same Korean company a decade on.
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It's become — improbably, and at least partially by accident — a barometer of our national values.
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A painful past filled with assault and betrayal has the feel, improbably, of a Frommer's guide.
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A year later they improbably run into each other again, and much the same thing happens.
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Every rom-com starts with an improbably well-timed meet-cute, and this is no exception.
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But even with a cipher-like central character, "What She Said" proves to be improbably illuminating.
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The name "magic mushrooms" was coined, improbably, by a headline writer in stodgy old Life magazine.
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Cameron Diaz and Lionel Richie also happen to be, somewhat improbably, part of the same family.
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These huge images are often stitched together digitally from multiple shots, allowing for improbably high definition.
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Kushner had, improbably, emerged as a major policymaking force inside his father-in-law's ersatz administration.
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The Dodgers should have fallen apart after Kershaw's injury, but improbably haven't done so at all.
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Yet two days after the earthquake the provisional death toll stood at an improbably high 268.
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The big picture: Climate change is playing an improbably large role in the early 2020 jockeying.
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It did feel as if something basic had changed—as if technology had, improbably, outdone nature.
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The result was CocoWalk, a shopping center that, improbably, was a pleasant place to spend time.
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They're not supposed to be where they are, but somehow, quite improbably, they make it work.
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Yet "My Fair Lady" opened improbably, triumphantly, to its first paying audience on that Saturday, Feb.
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Improbably, in recent decades, a lively colony of artists and crafts makers has sprung up there.
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Improbably (an adverb that defines much of what happens here), Carter and Vinnie have remained friends.
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In November, an improbably riveting trial began in a courtroom in Foley Square in Lower Manhattan.
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Which is more or less how I feel — improbably, miraculously, at long last — about Mr. Schrader.
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Improbably, a Republican governor is helping to lead the way among his mostly Democratic regional neighbors.
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Finkel, as many journalists know, has been driven at certain moments to tell improbably awesome stories.
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He wanted a flick with car chases, muscly men, big explosions, and improbably leggy flight attendants.
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Pitch Perfect 3 may spell the end of an era for the improbably beloved a cappella franchise.
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On set in Louisiana, Bette — improbably costumed as the young version of Charlotte — finds Bob crying outside.
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And this is the point at which mild-mannered space junk experts improbably morph into techno-visionaries.
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If her nomination was improbably, her chances of winning the general election against Utah's incumbent GOP Sen.
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In the show as in the book, action centers on the improbably named Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle).
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That's when everyone turns to Joaquin who improbably was the only phone call FP made once arrested.
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Should the Browns improbably open their season with a few wins, the jinx may be buried forever.
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And, why the improbably complex business of getting cabs in Beirut is preferred to disrupters like Uber.
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That is, of course, when the U.S. men's hockey team improbably beat the Soviet Union, 4-3.
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However the Abdullah camp is concerned about numerous irregularities, such as improbably high turnouts in insecure areas.
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While broke, he gave speeches on "the art of money-getting"; improbably enough, these proved extremely profitable.
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"I think [Jacobs] snapped," a source close to the board said of the highly improbably leveraged buyout.
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Improbably, the musical is becoming once again what it has always purported to be: a popular entertainment.
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Improbably, the musical is becoming once again what it has always purported to be: a popular entertainment.
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Improbably, these aural effects are almost matched by the visuals provided by Andrew Schneider and Mr. Farber.
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Today the building is a condominium, its eastern facade improbably untouched, hidden by the garage for decades.
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The ScenarioYour friend (let's call her Becky) is the improbably hot manager of a fast food joint.
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It caps off an improbable season for a team beset for decades by an improbably long championship drought.
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Silvia Calderoni must be made of mercury, or some improbably liquid element that has yet to be discovered.
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From the improbably lofty height of a functional liberal democracy, the path of least resistance is definitely down.
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Félix Tshisekedi, the son of a dead democracy activist, vowed rather improbably to raise average incomes nearly tenfold.
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ESET asked for the master decryption key and, however improbably, the TeslaCrypt hackers then made the key public.
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We are being haunted, improbably, by the specter of a blustering billionaire bullsh*t artist with bad hair.
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Having begun its life as a Silicon Valley tech company, Netflix had somewhat improbably become a television network.
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The coffee underneath is a familiar espresso, improbably warm while not melting the cloud of egg above it.
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Bittersweet also has a little annex filled with an improbably great collection of antiques sourced from estate sales.
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Improbably, he has found himself, in exile, perfectly positioned to deliver another exhaustive contribution to the royals literature.
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Improbably, I developed a yearning, almost from the get-go, to see a bear someday in the meadow.
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O.J. Simpson depicts a nation that's circling the drain but never quite going down it, improbably staying afloat.
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Ms. Simonds is not the first member of the Virginia House to pull off an improbably close victory.
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That and the frieze of blue people on the walls, holding lotus flowers, their long limbs improbably angled.
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The suspect in the terrorism case was arrested on April 27 after posing, improbably, as a Syrian refugee.
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The email was forwarded to Intel's research director, Tawny Schlieski, who, improbably, had been a college theater minor.
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Below we&aposve ranked the 50 greatest moments of the sports decade, from improbably comebacks to brilliant knockouts.
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The movie glorifies Venezuela's investigative police as they stage a complex and action-packed rescue using improbably futuristic technology.
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There are also cat-people who make you truly enormous platters of improbably large food before every expedition. Seriously.
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She's as improbably innocent as a waif out of Dickens (or from the final scene of "La Dolce Vita").
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Improbably dumping their stormtrooper disguises (plot hole!), they opt to blast their way out of the Death Star instead.
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Perhaps the most courageous moment on Monday night -- one which lit up Twitter -- came, improbably, from comedian Sarah Silverman.
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To capture the party's nominations, he would need to win a slew of upcoming states by improbably big margins.
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Improbably, this is not the only bit of news this week involving Leonardo's beguiling portrait and a nude woman.
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Stephanie is somehow, very improbably alive despite a massive massive explosion that happened literally right in front of her.
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There are red, gold, and green striped kitten heel mules, saddlebag purses, and, perhaps most improbably, quilted snow boots.
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BELLY first, Gérard Depardieu (pictured) sways across the small screen, buttoned improbably into a waistcoat and a darkish suit.
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In the meantime, that hat has us seriously (and improbably) considering our winter weather accessories way, way too early...
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Ossoff's improbably successful campaign reflects the changing demographics of his district, and of the state (and country) more generally.
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Then the improbably loud calls of the horned screamers, goose-like birds with slender bony points on their heads.
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When characters, especially Cordell, talk about their deeper feelings, they tend to shift into improbably poetic flights of diction.
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As improbably delightful as Beltre's performance is, it's Mazara who's getting the lion's share of the attention in Texas.
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He launched a campaign to be New York City's mayor and, improbably, climbed to the top of the polls.
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It is remarkable only for the picturesque, improbably tall tower of books that looms center stage, like a fortress.
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And yet, improbably, that particular view from Brooklyn still feels like an artwork when you encounter it in person.
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Homes of I.D.P.s stood improbably amid the sheer escarpments, and their sullage trickled down the stairs, making them slippery.
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Isabella spoke earlier of being transported by the sound of that voice, and Mr. Davies, improbably, matches her account.
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Perhaps that's why Trump has so improbably managed to position himself as an outsider champion in this presidential election.
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It's a classic situation where salvation arrives somewhat improbably, partially through the characters' ingenuity but mostly through dumb luck.
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But, improbably, it's a sweet tale, too, one about big love, unexpected connections and throat-swelling humanity amid bleak circumstance.
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And then, improbably, he delivered on that promise, thanks in no small part to his unparalleled ability as a orator.
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Despite his enormous financial disadvantage, Trump was improbably able to keep the advertising war close in the race's final weeks.
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Most of the asylum-seekers entered Italy under its auspices; 20 each went to Ireland and, somewhat improbably, to Albania.
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They look improbably easy to move around in, and don't appear to have a whole lot of life-support options.
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Trump's complete contempt for the usual rules governing politics improbably put him on the verge of accepting the party's nomination.
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The RBI has released the figure only now, claiming, improbably, that it needed to count the cash in its tills.
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During the campaign some of Mr Babanov's supporters were arrested, improbably enough, for plotting the violent overthrow of the state.
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But while technology is helping to fuel this massive skills gap, it may also—improbably—be part of the solution.
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James could improbably lead his team to the first comeback from a three-games-to-one deficit in finals history.
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Oke is waiting, too — headed to London, he said, insisting somewhat improbably that he intended to apply for a visa.
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Meanwhile, my newborn took his first nap on my chest, held his head up improbably, and smiled in his sleep.
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Silent, Mexicali's great goth hope, are as musically compelling and improbably handsome as their band name is difficult to google.
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Its bid book acknowledged $15.8 billion in projected expenses, a total that includes the improbably low figure for stadium construction.
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Fenty's creator, Rihanna, improbably melded a boudoir mood with the aggressiveness of the playing field in a spring 2017 collection.
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Just as improbably, he was not an Israeli but a Palestinian, from Halhoul, near the West Bank city of Hebron.
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Game Winner was one of THREE Baffert-trained horses that ran in the 2019 Derby, running with Improbably and Roadster.
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In 2013, I was the trial lawyer on a case to free an innocent black man improbably named Kash Register.
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As Wechsler allows rehearsal scenes to play out at length, the perfectionism of dancer-to-dancer lessons becomes improbably poignant.
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With every passing shot, Ms. Massadian suggests that though the business of life is bitter, people, improbably, are still sweet.
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Almost 16,000 German patients receive medical cannabis—mostly for chronic pain and spasticity, and some, improbably, for attention-deficit disorder.
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Texas's 10th Congressional District stretches, improbably, from the outer fringes of the Houston metro area to suburbs west of Austin.
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On TV, America watched as she danced again for the first time, spinning and swaying, improbably, on that prosthetic leg.
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Yet some percentage of people find themselves improbably motivated to fuck as they mourn the loss of a loved one.
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Another bounces in a kneeling position, her torso bent over her thighs and arms by her sides, improbably inching forward.
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I was drawn to her intelligence and her radiance and the swings of her mood, improbably perhaps, but not really.
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By the door, it's just light enough to see the figure of a man sitting improbably still, holding a rifle.
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" This leads him to a triumphant boast that this singular, exhilarating show improbably makes good on: "Time cannot contain us!
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Somewhat improbably, the tax cut will even raise taxes on nearly 22019 percent of middle-class families after 10 years.
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These two little footballs of happiness are improbably smooth, almost but not quite fluffy, filled with the freshwater richness of pike.
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But improbably, this SPF from rock-star derm Dr. Dennis Gross — a true guru of all things acne — does just that.
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Not that first post-election post, his horribly disingenuous dodge that improbably asserted that Facebook could not have influenced the election.
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The heiress turned reality star turned world's most improbably successful DJ was quick to tweet her admiration for the new banger.
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Her poems are finically, even excessively observant, and scrupulously formally structured, with, on occasion, the most improbably outrageous of end-rhymes.
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And this is just the beginning of the Confed Cup... (And now Russia is improbably at the top of Group A.)
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Poor J.Law missed out on a nearly a decade of wearing improbably grown-up fashion and making out with Penn Badgley.
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This average included several ethnic regions, such as Chechnya and Dagestan, where the turnout was an improbably high 80% or more.
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Trump makes Mexican peso great again Mexico's peso has improbably been the world's top-performing currency since Donald Trump took office.
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With such concentrated costs, Mr Sanders's plans would have no chance of making it past Congress, even an improbably friendly one.
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A number of Vine stars improbably became popular recording artists after clips of themselves singing went viral, most notably Shawn Mendes.
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In the improbably event that the deniers are right and these catastrophic consequences do not occur, how wonderful that would be!
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But then the subjects were told that Team B, the underdog, had, improbably, taken a 3-0 lead in the series.
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Having yet to be fatigued by the aches and pains of adolescence, the music world seemed impossibly glamorous and improbably brilliant.
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The plunger slowly rises, improbably, perhaps twelve feet out of the water, while its hoist machinery strains and belches white smoke.
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In the end, Jeurys Familia threw his darting rabid fastballs and sliders, and the Mets had stumbled improbably into the playoffs.
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There, suddenly, improbably, is an expanse of bare floor that may measure only 100 square feet but seems somehow far larger.
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His breakthrough came in 2012 with "This House," an improbably entertaining play about the machinations of the British Parliament in 1974.
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Improbably, they have pulled it off this year without the greatest American player of this generation (or any generation): Serena Williams.
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The zany, pun-filled cartoon has improbably stood the test of time and entertained generations of youngsters through movies and spinoffs.
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THE INSUFFERABLE GROO That would be Stephen Groo, a quixotic, no-budget filmmaker who improbably cast Jack Black in a movie.
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The writer-directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen are always improbably foiling their characters just as victory is in their grasp.
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John Calhoun, a 43-year-old local auctioneer and improbably named advocate of removal, stared at Lee dangling in the air.
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In her painting, "Night Fell Upon Us (Up On Us)" (2019) limbs twist improbably around various forms, blurring subjects and objects.
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Manning, for 33 weeks the forlorn servant on the bench, improbably resurrected the star-crossed Giants against the heavily-favored Eagles.
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Even more improbably, he is forcing rivals to address whether they would serve alongside him if he were elected prime minister.
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It was an event so bizarre and improbably seismic that is still being reinterpreted, most recently by FX's The People v.
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It has also, improbably, aligned the mayor with Joseph J. Lhota, his 2013 Republican rival and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman.
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After a few rounds of pool accompanied by a collection of Keef songs improbably stashed on the jukebox, it's time to depart.
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I believed I was finally rid of them when Barack Obama hit the national scene in 2004, and, improbably, kept winning elections.
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But DeMario, you'll be pleased to know, is a new man, in that he improbably comes off worse here than ever before.
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To Hoberman's point, even after the couple marries and divorces, they work out an improbably equitable plan to sort out the aftermath.
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Improbably, Paraguay (population: 7m) boasts the world's third-biggest fleet of tug-propelled barges, behind the United States (319m) and China (1.4bn).
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PAPER IS BACK After years of seemingly unstoppable growth, e-book sales have started to slip, while paper has improbably bounced back.
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Ludo just barely survives, amid much death and many executions, and Ambrose is taken off to Buchenwald, though he returns, improbably, intact.
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Now, it cannot avoid showing big profits thanks to the lucrative cloud computing business in which it has improbably become a leader.
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If Sanders pulls all the above off and improbably gets a pledged delegate majority, he'd then face a new problem: the superdelegates.
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Improbably for the son of a Nazi, he does not know what a Jew is—or whether he might himself be one.
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It comes, improbably, from Vilnius, Lithuania, where a small but mighty digital publisher is successfully navigating the changing tides of Facebook's algorithms.
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" Most improbably, it is even recited by Rocky Balboa when he mourns the passing of his beloved trainer, Mickey, in "Rocky III.
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Served whole, it is violent crimson and improbably meaty looking; it's presented to you with a bib to catch all the splatter.
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But this year, as it begins to roll out a new set of iPhones, the story line surrounding Apple has improbably shifted.
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Along the way, Jamie sings of his plight in numbers both snappy and sappy, annotated with improbably extended legs and graceful vogueing.
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But despite that folksy touch, he had the look of an improbably young leader addressing his people at a moment of crisis.
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The teenager's comment that flying a Harrier Jet to school 'sure beats the bus' evinces an improbably insouciant attitude toward the relative
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Cybersecurity experts based their reasoning partly on having identified the group of Ukrainian users who were initially and improbably targeted: tax accountants.
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High above, as you drive that road to get to Mr. Herrou's farm, are perched ancient villages improbably clinging to the cliffs.
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Amazon has hurt bookstores and publishers not by fleecing consumers but by offering them improbably low prices, vast selection, and quick delivery.
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The magazine had sought her out because, improbably, she had begun a quiet campaign to combat anti-Semitism in the party's midst.
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Improbably, it was Adolph Zukor, the legendary founder of Paramount Pictures, who happened to be the uncle of Ms. Fisher's grandmother Olga.
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No, he had the spotlight improbably stolen away from him by a puckish young man in a backwards hat and basketball jersey.
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The film begins with one of the contractors, Jack Silva (an improbably buff John Krasinski), arriving in Benghazi for the first time.
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And they usually involved very beautiful people doing things in improbably beautiful workplaces, restaurants, and apartments, some of which became instantly iconic.
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Were she—however improbably—to match this share of the vote countrywide in May, Ms Le Pen would win a massive 14.6m votes.
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The improbably hip 74-year-old candidate didn't need any validation; he felt pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty good about his performance.
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It seems they've been replaced, improbably perhaps, by mothers, if this vertiginous pile of memoirs and novels on my desk is any indication.
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ROYAL GORILLA, Girl Scout Cookies and Fat Banana are just a few of the improbably named strains of high-potency cannabis out there.
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This hilarious and even poignant episode is a forceful reminder of just how unusual a show we got for an improbably long time.
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The Giants were down to their last strike before improbably rallying into a 3-73 tie in the top of the ninth inning.
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Then, improbably, fourteen years later at the age of 77, Senator Glenn returned to space as an astronaut on the space shuttle Discovery.
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Improbably, he wins a place at an Indian Institute of Technology, elite engineering schools that admit just 5,000 of 200,000 applicants a year.
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Ms. Bündchen, whose diet once skewed improbably toward Coke and hamburgers, now observes the more stringent dietary practices favored by her athlete husband.
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Making such transactions pay off is tough, especially when the seller's adviser, Frank Quattrone's Qatalyst Partners, is known for scoring improbably high prices.
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The tournament is most high-profile soccer stage Haiti has appeared on since it participated, just as improbably, in the 1974 World Cup.
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Known as Lottie at home, she calls herself Charlie here, and she somehow (a bit improbably) manages to avoid divulging her last name.
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The aisles and aisles of empty store shelves give the appearance that the United States, improbably and alarmingly, is running out of food.
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The aisles and aisles of empty store shelves give the appearance that the United States, improbably and alarmingly, is running out of food.
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In the case of Jeffs, investigators discovered an inordinate amount of purchases at church-affiliated convenience stores, some of the transactions improbably large.
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A large vitrine filled with rows of improbably shiny, garishly colored beetles provoked almost the same awe-struck response as the butterflies had.
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For even the best hockey teams, just one unlucky bounce or one improbably good play by their opponent can result in a loss.
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The 30 guests were briefly blindfolded and fed an improbably rich morsel that turned out be a salted date simmered in olive oil.
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A crowd of apes is also present, an emerging society whose national epic this film and its companions have marvelously and improbably become.
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Improbably enough, my fly landed within a few feet of where I wanted it, and I began stripping, "He's on it," Emir said.
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Improbably, the EU could be a good candidate to take more Japanese exports after a free-trade agreement Tokyo recently struck with Brussels.
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Also making no difference is the fact that Atalanta, as this widow is improbably called, is 50, whereas the movie's Loretta is 37.
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Indochine is still ripe; improbably, like a great French movie star — or a good cheese — it's barely changed in any way that matters.
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Improbably, my moral dilemma expanded: On Tuesday, I found even more money, a pair of $20 bills, on a sidewalk near my home.
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The interviews and studio scenes offer an improbably intimate portrait of American art in a key moment of aesthetic, social, and economic transformation.
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Now, somewhat improbably, Mr. Sanders is taking that off-the-grid strategy to the biggest grid there is: a quest for the White House.
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Improbably, though, a man whose reputation seemed forever cemented has, in no time at all, jackhammered a new one, simply by being—mostly—real.
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To this end, he is seeking, however improbably, to broker concessions from both the Iranians (over its nuclear programme) and the Americans (over sanctions).
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Improbably, Grande became an icon for perseverance in the face of terror after her concert at England's Manchester Arena was bombed, killing 23 people.
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It was only after his reelection and — improbably — the Republican gains of the 2014 midterms that Obama finally gave up on it for good.
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Fortunately for me, that was the age of BattleTech, when North America's answer to Macross and all things Gundam had improbably conquered nerd culture.
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No longer do you earn buckets of skill points that you can freely spend on different playing attributes, crafting an improbably multi-talented avatar.
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The ballet is a beautiful and intelligent remaking of the beloved 1841 classic, and probably — and improbably — the best work Mr. Khan has created.
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What this and the poll data tells us is that the Trump campaign has become, however improbably, a comfortable home for the religious right.
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Mr. Frey tested different turnout assumptions, including improbably optimistic ones, like if 99 percent of white, non-college-educated men turned out to vote.
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A minute later, I saw three spinning propellers, which seemed improbably small for the size of their load, like the wings of a bumblebee.
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The other, somewhat improbably, remains afloat, but out in the middle of the sea, with no way to signal land as to its predicament.
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Cruz's rendition is fun, and a part of a now-illustrious history of a song that has stuck around for an improbably long time.
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The next morning, he checked Facebook again, and saw that activists were using #ForYouSaraqib to denounce Nusra and, improbably, to call for another protest.
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What has hung on, perhaps improbably, is Desmond's Tavern, a low-key Irish bar with live music that has been serving drinks since 1936.
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It was at that time a 24-year-old Russian intern, Natalia Kutepova-Jamrom, turned up in his office with an improbably impressive résumé.
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The bullet had improbably traveled nearly two city blocks to strike an unintended victim and log the precinct's 1573th — and final — homicide of 2016.
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Instead, Oregon improbably relied on the legs of its 6-foot-6 quarterback to grind out the fourth Rose Bowl victory in school history.
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Ms. Roitfeld leans in as she speaks, laughs out loud more often than you might expect, her warmth improbably mixed with a stubborn audacity.
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The theater of the absurd that has become Washington politics has gotten improbably even weirder since Anthony Scaramucci has taken over as communications director.
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Mr. Leguizamo, as is his wont, is churning up hot waves of improbably connected ideas in "Latin History for Morons," directed by Tony Taccone.
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Yes, Gallimard, who has never had much luck with women before, is responding to the novelty of a beautiful actress improbably finding him attractive.
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He has recently been focusing on the improbably high number of diagnoses of learning disabilities among North Carolina athletes — allowing them to receive special accommodations.
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Then the production improbably tops itself with a first-act closer that makes inspired use of an assembly-line belt and introduces the title characters.
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His quest for redemption has become conflated, improbably, with his quixotic endeavour to hunt and kill a large hog using an array of antique guns.
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On July 7th, Samsung will release the Galaxy Note 7 FE, which, improbably enough, stands for "Fandom Edition," unnamed sources tell The Wall Street Journal.
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But if Trump is Zaphod, he's something a bit less threatening: a grifter, skilled at manipulating people, improbably lucky, but in way over his head.
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Her debut album No Burden, released last year, garnered gushing praise from the indie music press and, improbably, one-time democratic VP candidate Tim Kaine.
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In July Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was forced to clarify a remark, made on a podcast, that some listeners—improbably—argued showed sympathy with Holocaust deniers.
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Yet, against the odds, Mr Macron is the European leader who has done the most to strike up an improbably warm relationship with Mr Trump.
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Right when the world had given up tobacco and other cancer-producing habits, bots improbably took over the smoking habit, picked up rolling kudzu leaves.
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To capture 2015, members tapped a word almost a millennium old, a borrowing from Old Norse that improbably became part of the English pronoun system.
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The biography (which Mr Westerberg and Tommy Stinson, the band's bassist, participated in) explores the dark forces and demons that drove the band improbably along.
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A day later, rubbing his eyes and trying not to make any sudden head movements, Day shot a 68 to improbably share the tournament lead.
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Tuesday night, Jarrett confirmed this account during an "Everyday Racism in America" town hall — which was, improbably enough, organized before Barr's tweet and its fallout.
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Alongside this improbable uncle is his near neighbor and counterweight Marcellin Duprat, who (improbably in such a small town) runs a legendary three-star restaurant.
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Garcia, known online as Towelliee, is a star broadcaster on Twitch, a streaming platform whose popularity has turned recreational gaming into an improbably viable career.
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Nothing Seems to Change The N.C.A.A. has insisted, improbably and absurdly, that the quality of a prospective student's high school education is not its headache.
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My greatest hope for this improbably viral paper is that it can spur the kind of real, concrete change I'd puzzled over in law school.
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It was this victory that touched off the gigantic alcohol- and pride-fueled street party throughout central Moscow, including, improbably on the doorstep of Lubyanka.
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Then, improbably on Tuesday night, for the first time in his career, Griffin scored 22009 points, in a 353-235 overtime win over the 22015ers.
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Mr. McGregor, 48, creates hyperkinetic, often strange-looking movement, distinguished by its extreme extensions, buckling torsos and improbably fast coordinations among parts of the body.
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Fulvio and his son — the improbably named Napoleone — had become caretakers in the 2747s, after having acquired the apartment from its previous resident, an engineer.
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Improbably, he will most likely win a parliamentary majority in June's elections, though skeptics doubted he could even assemble enough candidates for his new party.
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The rather simple premise involves a quartet of vampires -- hundreds of years old -- who have improbably settled in Staten Island, where they share a house.
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He was older than me, clean-cut and hot, an improbably nice star of local high school musicals who was known to date unassuming women.
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Timofey Mozgov, who is improbably enormous in stature and somehow also always kind of blurry-looking, is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.
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Meanwhile: Margaret Schlegel most improbably marries Henry Wilcox (the patriarch); Helen Schlegel even more improbably sleeps with Leonard Bast and becomes pregnant; Jacky turns out to have been Henry's mistress; Leonard dies of heart failure after an attack by the eldest Wilcox son, who then goes to jail; and the book ends with all the major characters living happily ever after at Howards End.
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They're operating on an entirely different sonic palette at this point, a wall of noise and feedback from which the band improbably excavates notes and melodies.
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But legal immigration can be controversial too, even when the migrants in question have either an unusual talent for writing computer code or improbably long legs.
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The controversy over Melania Trump's Monday speech, and the passages it improbably borrowed from Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic convention address, faded as afternoon turned into evening.
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The first "Sharknado" in 83 took off unexpectedly thanks to strong gusts of social media, producing a tweet-storm that improbably made the title stand out.
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And with improbably odd timing, seemingly oblivious to both, crowds gathered in liberal Tel Aviv to exult over the winner of a campy European pop contest.
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But there is also another less visible culprit that has been with us from the start: improbably calming rhetoric that has slowed the will to act.
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These improvements may sound improbably large, but the researchers say part of the reason for this is that countries generally don't optimize these decisions at all.
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The film, a comic drama, is about two school chums who are reacquainted in their 20s and, improbably, become arms suppliers to the United States military.
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Someone is, improbably, on top of my mech; they used a grappling hook to reel themselves in, and now they're trying to remove the power source.
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He stands out not just for his improbably large craft empire, now worth $4.3 billion, or for his religiosity but for the scale of his ambitions.
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Over the summer, a long slog of digital sleuthing into the cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee and others improbably led to this isolated spot.
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McGregor then stepped away from mixed martial arts, moving on to fatherhood and, improbably, a boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr., who came out of retirement.
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And, again improbably, the American story line is the strength of "Zerozerozero" — when it's onscreen, there's more to watch than a coolly efficient international crime thriller.
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Still, repetitive as it was, Mr. Reider's testimony was not without its moments of humor, too — moments that again revolved, however improbably, around a legal technicality.
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The great flying buttresses seeming to arc improbably out of the river were — and fortunately still are — an astonishment and a satisfactory substitute for closer contemplation.
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A series of these steps climbs a mountain to the fortress of St. John, a medieval stronghold improbably guarded with walls that ascend nearly 900 feet.
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On a recent summer day in the Stapleton neighborhood, the air hung still above front porches, and tiny lawns shone improbably green in the desert heat.
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In this redemption tale, Devlin improbably teams up with a female reporter on a floundering newspaper to investigate the real story behind a foreign political coup.
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The Northside Festival has grown from a sprawling, centerless but small affair into a sprawling, slightly more centered and improbably huge event — Brooklyn's version of SXSW.
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His wild, abrasive and improbably delicate performance is what makes "Gold" watchable, even if the rest of the movie doesn't supply sufficient reason to keep watching.
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As we sat on the front porch in the late-afternoon sun, Elizabeth told me, improbably, that she planned to find a job the following week.
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His uptick comes amid new national momentum for Sanders, who has improbably gained steam since suffering a heart attack, and after winning the endorsement of Rep.
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Then, the next year, just as improbably, Napoli wins the Italian league for the first time, vanquishing its foes in the north and its haters everywhere.
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Improbably, I found them at the pewter feet of a colossal hammer-handed laborer, standing vigil over a lonely parking pull-off beside the Russian highway.
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"I have never stopped going to Indochine," says the writer Salman Rushdie, who recalls the "amazingly delicious food" and "improbably stylish guests" of his first visit.
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That's another reason these strange theories persist, and have begun to leach out of the sovereign network and into the general population: Sometimes, improbably, they work.
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Improbably, they would go on to win the World Series in a season that he and countless other Mets fans still reminisce about 50 years later.
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But his biographer Sally Bedell Smith, author of the new book Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbably Life, says the meaning is more subtle.
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"Florence Foster Jenkins" is based on the true story of a woman with little talent and big ambitions who improbably builds a singing career in the 1940s.
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And even if Banner does -- improbably -- remain dead, the Hulk mantle has already been passed on, this time to a Korean-American teenage genius called Amadeus Cho.
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Then again, almost any announcement the company makes is liable to come on the heels of one or more improbably large gaffes given Facebook's recent track record.
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It is true that "social welfare" organizations -- as the federal tax code improbably calls them in Section 501(c)4 -- trafficked in political work before Citizens United.
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What about Texas, which has frustrated Democrats for years as its demographic shifts haven't led to political change — but which suddenly, and improbably, seems within striking distance?
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Amid the political uncertainty of Brexit, mounting social turmoil over immigration and barely there economic growth, Europe has improbably emerged as the hot stocks trade this year.
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The internet politely lost its shit when Hans Zimmer's name appeared on the Coachella 2017 lineup, tucked improbably alongside the likes of DJ Khaled and Future Islands.
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The dusky sky suddenly lit up with the exo-atmospheric collision, a spectacular sort of light that looked improbably like the brightest firework anyone had ever seen.
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By decade's end the forward-looking, handsome and ambitious young president had been replaced, improbably, by the man he defeated in 1960 -- Eisenhower's vice president, Richard Nixon.
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More improbably, she could aim big by selecting a compatible Republican — say, Robert M. Gates, who served as defense secretary under Presidents George W. Bush and Obama.
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Fortunately, the director, Eli Russell Linnetz, 24, a University of Southern California graduate and former assistant to David Mamet, was used to pulling off improbably big visions.
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"It's all about the fight for the fucking border," he says of the album, a bleak portrait that brilliantly if improbably captures the essence of that fight.
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Trendspotting 9 Photos View Slide Show ' The white shirt, long a standard-bearer of starchy propriety, has taken on an improbably sexy, even kinky, persona this season.
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Tulsi Gabbard, who has improbably remained in the race despite winning just two delegates on Super Tuesday, has not released any kind of plan for LGBTQ equality.
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It's about a character, based on Naipaul's father, who begins his life as a sign painter in Trinidad and Tobago and improbably rises to become a journalist.
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But it is the season's promise, and in the long run its testable hypothesis, that those who stay and pray and fight will see it improbably reborn.
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Instead of taking their father's last name, the girls used their mother's name — a Japanese surname that, improbably, is the same as the city of their birth.
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Kyrie Irving had 33, including a last-second layup that improbably found the basket despite the star guard throwing it up over a swarm of Warriors defenders.
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The victim, improbably, was the actress Eva Gabor, who would later decline to press charges, citing her schedule shooting the television show "Green Acres" in Los Angeles.
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A sign on the sidewalk reading "Food pick up here" points, improbably, through the maw of a demolished theater, of which all that's left is the marquee.
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And when, at 25, Miller becomes the improbably young fiction editor of Esquire, another tells her that "everyone wondered" whom she slept with to get the job.
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At this fraught moment you find yourself, improbably, to be the person with the most authority to dispel that cloud and restore Americans' confidence in their government.
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He was a small man with a gentle face, appraising eyes behind improbably oversize glasses and a bald pate with a fringe of gray touching the ears.
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His contribution to 212+222 is a life-sized, hand-painted resin sculpture of a penguin, improbably titled "Quack" (2018) and produced in an edition of 14.
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On his journey, a series of improbably attractive women — a crew member, a film student, an actress — insist on having sex with him, and he grimly complies.
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Young men, especially, were lured to the Middle East with the improbably heady mix of absolute religious certainty, the license for almost unlimited violence and regular pay.
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The week's showstopper, though, turned up at Thom Browne: a plump down-filled number improbably furnished with its own train — a Gothic alternative for the modern bride.
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On "Hogan's Heroes," a comedy improbably set in a German prisoner-of-war camp in World War II, Mr. Fox returned several times as the bumbling Col.
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Clad in a custom-made blue suit, he has the reassuringly sturdy build of a luxury sedan and the improbably plump cheeks of an 20153-year-old.
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To grasp the sheer improbability of the election unfolding here, consider the improbable — and improbably ill-fated — decisions Republican leaders made to bring things to this point.
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Improbably, he found his game on the Wimbledon grass, winning the title there and then following that up with another championship at the U.S. Open in September.
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Of course, there's little risk of actual death (unless, of course, you're improbably applying for head coach at lion-taming school), but it's nonetheless an anxiety-producing scenario.
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When journalists revealed that there were soldiers from the Russian military on the front lines, Russia claimed, improbably, that they were simply volunteering in Ukraine, while on holiday.
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The official who oversaw special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation — and withstood the constant, looming threat of presidential removal — is, improbably, leaving the Justice Department on his own terms.
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But when Fallen Kingdom concludes with a collection of the once-extinct, improbably hardy animals being loosed to thunder off into the woods of Northern California, it's different.
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It was a struggle over where these limits lie that recently saw Theresa May improbably accused of a bid to "reverse the result of the English civil war".
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A swastika also improbably figured in the montage of images Trump tweeted in November 2015, in an attempt to discredit Jeb Bush by painting him as pro-Mexican.
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Given her ability to improbably escape from elaborately contrived peril, it's surprising that she's never really gone up against the character who would be a natural archnemesis: Arcade.
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That would be rather difficult with the vastly more complex Zelda series — doubly so considering the improbably well-received Breath of the Wild was so vast and unrestricted.
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Flashing back to his initial up-close encounter with Trump, he recalls how orange Trump's skin looked, how improbably his hair glistened and how inferior his hands were.
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In today's installment of insane sentences that became improbably catchy Saturday Night Live sketches: Peter Dinklage in a blond wig singing about his space pants with Gwen Stefani.
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Back in November when crude was trading at $41 a barrel, Gordon famously called for crude to bottom at $26 — something that seemed highly improbably at the time.
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A product of Mitteleuropa, once centered in cities like Vienna, Berlin, Budapest, and Moscow, psychoanalysis was thus improbably transformed into a largely Anglo-American medical and cultural phenomenon.
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Lonnie Chisenhall hit into a fielder's choice, and Roberto Perez, who improbably has the only two home runs of the series so far, grounded into a double play.
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Now she plays confidante and sometime gatekeeper to the presumptive Republican nominee for president and, improbably, serves as Mr. Trump's sole liaison to the teeming national press corps.
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This is lame and I'm sorry to have made you read that, but dear reader, something has happened that makes this branding play improbably, unbelievably, sort of interesting.
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And, improbably, Lamar's stellar verse isn't even the best part of "Chasing Summer," SiR's first album after signing a joint record deal with TDE and major label RCA.
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Improbably, the ball was caught for a touchdown by an actor/tight end who somehow jumped higher than three better athletes on my team there to stop him.
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Whereas Berenson spent years working for rebels in El Salvador before moving to Peru, Leo's radicalization is improbably swift, driven in equal parts by ideology and mere petulance.
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CreditCreditRich Clarkson/NCAA Photos, via Getty Images Loyola-Chicago, the 11th seed that has improbably made the Final Four, is the sensation of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament.
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He is widely viewed as one of the party's best communicators and has tried to position himself, somewhat improbably, as an ally of the caucus's more moderate wing.
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Trump's relentless attack on the media, including a tweet which claimed improbably that world leaders had asked him why reporters hated America, also plays well with his base.
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To fit in either one, Honeywell would need to improve the 17 percent margin it would have made without aerospace last year, increase growth or, improbably, do both.
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And yet somehow, improbably, Houston not only survived but prospered — and it sprawled omnivorously, becoming the nation's fourth-largest city and perhaps its purest model of untrammeled growth.
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They include Ilya Salmov, 20, from Kazan in Tatarstan, who performs daring acrobatics in midair supported by only a couple of straps holding up his improbably muscular torso.
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Sam Brownback's veto of a bill to expand Medicaid, ending a quest that came improbably close to succeeding in this deep red state despite Mr. Brownback's unyielding opposition.
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And then, of course, there's Munich's calling card: beer by the liter, served in giant, glass Masskrugs that the superhero waitstaffs improbably carry by the dozen-strong handfuls.
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Mr. Oda builds his from slabs of pork or chicken, battered and fried, slaked with tonkatsu sauce as sweet as barbecue and surrounded by lettuce and, improbably, cheese.
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America does hope to maintain its outpost at Tanf, in the badlands of south-east Syria, which is meant (rather improbably) to constrain Iranian influence in the region.
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But look up and you'll catch a riotously colorful pair of eighteenth-century hoopoes perched improbably close to the ceiling, with a bird's-eye view of the viewers.
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It tells the story of a young woman who very improbably survives an auto accident and then takes off to a job as a church organist in Utah.
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But right now, it's clear that Pete Buttigieg is, as improbably as it seemed just a few months ago, one of the leading candidates for the Democratic 2020 nomination.
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The video is obviously aimed at stopping Donald Trump, who is improbably still being allowed to run for President despite his own staff taking Twitter away from him. Whatever.
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Under the circumstances, Bhima was braced for disappointment, but the girl Premwati had found was, improbably, a beauty: her eyes large and luminous, brows arched like a film star.
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I don't care about HBO's financial obligation to drag the most improbably popular fantasy program in history out for as long as possible, I just love a ragtag crew.
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Since late 2015, Crazy Frog's "Axel F"—the ringtone marketed by Jamster which improbably reached #1 on pop charts across much of Europe in 2005—saw absolutely meteoric growth.
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The China-America corporate rivalry on an obscure frontier of physics illustrates a growing contest between nations and companies hoping to create a new form of improbably powerful computer.
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Beyond finds the ship three years into that mission, with Kirk bored, disillusioned, and (improbably as hell) planning to resign his beloved command in favor of a desk job.
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They have improbably held on to the idea that Donald Trump is a secretly popular president and have hoodwinked the media into endlessly covering his rallies and his supporters.
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It's one of the reasons that Richard Rorty's " Achieving Our Country " (1998) has, however improbably, become so significant, quite beyond its prophetic predictions of an approaching working-class nihilism.
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Ludo falls in love with a visiting Polish aristocratic girl named Lila—also, improbably, spending the summer in this small town with her aristocratic brothers and her German cousin.
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There were signs of growing dissatisfaction with the ruling class long before Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont ran an improbably strong socialist campaign in this seemingly socialism-proof country.
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Lee charms his way into a golf game with Saul, and from there into talk of a "true-to-life Western," and from there, improbably, into a movie deal.
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This meant that Plaisted and his fellow adventurers — though they didn't know it at the time — would improbably rank as the first to prove they had reached the pole.
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But it all improbably worked for a time and might have gone on for longer if Mr. Ovitz had not convinced himself that he was destined for greater things.
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For Brunello Cucinelli, a farmer's son from a rural backwater in Umbria, the path to international success and a great fortune began almost as improbably — with a single sweater.
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By seven this whole place will be a seething mass of bodies doing improbably athletic things with one another, and naked girls smoking cigarettes, pole-dancing to Snoop Dogg.
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Besides, even if Washington and Beijing could settle on new terms of trade (and, more improbably, stick to them) it would do nothing to address the broader strategic rivalry.
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They depict pastoral scenes full of fascinating peculiarities, like improbably proportioned wildcats and peacocks, intricately rendered drawings of boats and trains, and in one illustration a full baseball team.
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Improbably enough, these births are given specific physical life here, as Ms. Lynch and Mr. Campbell tear through the back wall of Richard Kent's bleak and battered-looking set.
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He playfully snaps it open and closed, and Ms. Roberts erupts into a spontaneous shout of laughter that totally and improbably dispels the creepy transactional haze of the scene.
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The improbably named Porky Hefer, a former ad man, created a suspended nest made of natural grasses and cane into which a person could retreat for a little solitude.
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Above them, an improbably cast Matthew Modine plays the captain of a boat so sketchy looking that it's a wonder any of his passengers make it back to shore.
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Tellingly, both "X-Files" and "Homeland" have come to feature a conspiracy-theory-spouting blowhard (here played by Joel McHale) whose inflammatory rantings, improbably, are actually tinged with truth.
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At 64, Metcalf has improbably become the leading claimant to a mantle once worn by the likes of Helen Hayes and Julie Harris: First Lady of the American stage.
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Meanwhile Trump's Gallup job approval ratings, somewhat improbably, have hit the highest mark of his presidency -- indicating that impeachment has not impacted the American public's view of his administration.
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So as the world strives to make sense of the election and its implications for Europe and beyond, the tiny D.U.P. has improbably become a factor in global geopolitics.
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The actors who embody the participants in a two-steps-forward, one-step-back process that mostly (and improbably) occurred over a concentrated nine months are all first-rate.
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With less than 10 seconds left in the game, the Warriors, trailing by a point, had an opportunity to — once again — improbably extend the finals against the Toronto Raptors.
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HONG KONG — At every turn in his improbably rapid rise, Ding Ning, 214.6, went to great efforts to convey the image of strong government backing for his Internet financing business.
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Their private militia pours into designated areas around the country, including, however improbably, the titular neighborhood, only to find the locals putting up a lot more resistance than they'd anticipated.
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The weight of studs and chainmail is so well balanced that the gowns cling and drape improbably, like magic, with not a single pucker to be found in the silk.
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Snarky Puppy, which won a recent Grammy and is up for another one this month, has carved out an improbably strong niche with its brand of revved-up jazz fusion.
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HBO's baffling, maddening, beautiful series The Leftovers wrapped in 2017, and improbably (given Damon Lindelof's involvement), it actually wrapped up cleanly, explaining its biggest mysteries and reaching a satisfying conclusion.
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But for 27-year-old Mills, last week's trip out to Uluru, the massive red rock that rises improbably out of the central Australian desert, was all about the team.
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The sad news of his passing was a sombre moment in an otherwise celebratory event, with fans, officials and competitors alike basking in the afterglow of an improbably excellent fortnight.
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Improbably, he heaved 214kg in the clean-and-jerk, beating not just Mr Lu's 202kg, but also the 16-year-old record for that lift—by a whopping four kilos.
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When questionable tech ventures promise us unlikely rescue, whether through improbably efficient home diagnostics or the delicious blood of the young, we are tempted, even if we should know better.
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Claiming (improbably) to be the inventor of candlepin bowling, an actual New England variant of the game, she sets up a bowling alley and settles into the small town's life.
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Here is a sampling of other masterworks that have been lost, and improbably found: On a scorching day in August 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" disappeared from the Louvre.
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Close examination of the newsreel footage of the 1919 World Series, improbably recovered from the permafrost of the Yukon, offers no help in determining which plays were on the level.
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And you, dear audience members, are the co-authors of these numbers — feeding the onstage crew the words, ideas and emotions that they then transform into improbably rhymed performance pieces.
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This crowded, witty biography follows Waugh from the ancestral home in Somerset ("The only bathroom featured a stuffed monkey that had, improbably, died of sunstroke") to the jungles of Brazil.
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Republicans had watched with alarm as ActBlue helped Beto O'Rourke, a previously obscure Texas congressman, pull in more than $50 million for his improbably serious challenge to Senator Ted Cruz.
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Have you, they asked, thought of bidding on outfielder Bryce Harper or infielder Manny Machado, the two young star free agents who improbably have attracted not much attention this winter?
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"From Lake Garda to Florida, from Bergamo to France, these places are populated with improbably colored houses, cartoon characters, and strange animals," author Angela Madesani writes in a book essay.
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Recorded between Bivouac and 24 Hour Revenge Therapy, "Kiss The Bottle" is an improbably popular song given that it was released on the obscure 17 Reasons: The Mission District compliation.
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Their uniform pants were improbably tight, so tight their wearers seemed almost to be the victims of a tailor's prank; so tight that I found my awe warring with sympathy.
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Of course, nobody gave the Blues a chance to win Lord Stanley back when the season began ... but they improbably made their way through the league to hoist the trophy Wednesday.
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O'Rourke, whose improbably tight U.S. Senate race against Republican incumbent Ted Cruz has made him a hero within the Democratic Party, has yet to make a trip to the Granite State.
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The Coathangers: The Devil You Know (Suicide Squeeze) Improbably matured into punk careerism, this initially amateur, always all-female quartet-turned-trio has slowed down by an estimated half a tad.
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But she comes to reject his exploitation — and his philandering, and his expectations of what a woman of society should and should not do — in a way that feels improbably brave.
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From Third World Liberation movements and interracial intimacies to lived and aestheticized experiences of exile and diaspora, the exhibition showcases what remnants and resonances — improbably, imperceptibly, spectrally, or spectacularly — gets through.
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Prelude, an American company which recently merged into a bigger venture offering treatment and preservation, promises, improbably, to help families have "as many healthy babies as they want, whenever they want".
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Kasich's decision to suspend his efforts came after he improbably became the last challenger to Donald Trump, who emerged as the presumptive GOP nominee Tuesday night when Ted Cruz dropped out.
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Win: Vikander Place: Winslet Show: Mara Should win: Carol was not the Oscar favorite it should have been, but some part of me still hopes Mara will improbably win this prize.
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In case you haven't heard the news, Barcelona fans were very happy when their team improbably cheated their way to an historic upset over Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.
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The improbably named K-POP Extreme Survival features a same-but-different drag scenario to Coffee Prince—but it skyrockets the uneasy Korean conversation about queerness from here to the moon.
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In a new biography, " Grant " (Penguin Press), Ron Chernow, whose previous subjects include Washington and Hamilton (improbably launching the greatest musical-theatre work of our age), strenuously disputes the conventional view.
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Ludo then discovers that he has (improbably) a gift for total recall, becomes a sort of mathematical genius and financial adviser to Lila's family, and travels to visit them in Poland.
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Then again, if April shows up next season and reveals that Dory imagined the whole thing (or that she improbably survived Dory's attempt to kill her), I won't be too mad.
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Looking improbably dainty in a white summer frock, Wednesday Martin stepped to the front of a glass-enclosed room in Sag Harbor, N.Y., wielding a mandrake-like piece of pink plastic.
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The forthcoming Turkish election is a battle between Mr. Erdogan and an improbably united opposition — secular, Islamist, nationalist and Kurdish parties — that have sworn to fight together, despite their past enmity.
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Like Candice Millard's "Destiny of the Republic," an improbably thrilling book about the Garfield assassination, "Imperfect Union" finds a big, resonant, star-studded subject that has been hiding in plain sight.
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But improbably, enough players withdrew before the draw was made — including the defending champion, Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia, who said she was unable to obtain a visa — to allow Gauff in.
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Even if the United States gets into a war with Iran as the result of the recent strike, it&aposs both politically and practically improbably for the draft to be revived.
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Yet in her exceptional new novel, Gordon animates the contradictions and subtleties of her outsider Catholicism, setting them within a dramatic panorama that reads — improbably — as swiftly as an airport paperback.
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A team of lithe and seductive dancers leads audience members through a labyrinth of sunny landscapes and shadowy rooms, improbably brought into being in a Brooklyn warehouse, where (almost) anything goes.
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Or does he seek other pathways to successful governing by throwing away the partisan playbook and courting a coalition with the Democrats, whom he has improbably blamed for his party's shortcomings?
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But if a common ancestor did have this trait, an improbably large fraction of its descendants would have had to mysteriously lose it for the modern family tree to make sense.
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In The Orchid Stories, the unnamed narrator has this say about the improbably named Dr. Schmidlapp: I disliked Dr. Schmidlapp right off, as for one thing he tended to personalize nature.
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On social media, users share videos of Messi's slipping passes through improbably tight spaces, corkscrewing shots past sprawling goalkeepers, darting around defenders like a jack rabbit navigating a gantlet of sloths.
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The report paints a picture of executives and lawyers trying to rein in improbably risky behavior at Uber and Otto, two wildly undisciplined companies, even as other top executives egged it on.
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Trump improbably claimed he did not order Barr to open the probe, despite repeatedly pouncing on a long campaign by conservative media to turn the power of the law on FBI investigators.
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Yet Trump has repeatedly defied expectations in a campaign that, improbably, vanquished the son and brother of the last two Republican presidents as well as an array of leading governors and senators.
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Her signature vocal runs are sleek and improbably effortless (the chorus of "Better" is spellbinding), and when her delivery is raw and raspy, it feels like a swift kick to the chest.
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Improbably, maybe even uncomfortably, he managed to bring those songs on tour for much of last year, singing the details of her final days night after night—occasionally skipping the grimmest bits.
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Trump hosted the show way back in 2015, when he was still improbably leading in the Republican primaries and we all thought his star would fizzle as soon as the competition stiffened.
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Luke Evans Looking back over a broader period of time, for the whole of 2016 so far, Clive Owen and - somewhat improbably - Jason Statham are in the mix for UK searches. 1.
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Or is he absorbing the scene and the people, reserving what he sees for his great purpose, part of that mysterious transformation that will elevate all this pettiness into something improbably noble?
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If you've ever felt shy about your out-of-the-box food pairing proclivities, you're not alone — there are tons of strange food combinations that often turn out to be improbably delicious.
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When publication of the results resumed and as votes continued to trickle in, it was Hernández who suddenly—and improbably, according to local and outside experts—held a slim but insurmountable lead.
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Unless it's improbably interrupted, the bull run on Wall Street will become the longest on record this week, and — if most analysts are right — the party will continue for some time yet.
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Donald Trump would enter the presidency with 88 district and 17 court of appeals vacancies to fill, along with a Supreme Court vacancy improbably procured and kept open by McConnell's obstructionist absolutism.
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Even a Hawaiian-themed fried rice (with a wink of a mai tai paper umbrella) is improbably good, the pineapple's sweetness muted, yielding to ham and shrimp with their hits of brine.
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The online debate over the location of Rowling's new wizard academy has also, somewhat improbably, spawned a debate among real-world academics over the history of state building on the African continent.
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RENNES, France — The math, which worked so mercilessly against Thailand in its first two matches at the Women's World Cup, was for a time on Thursday improbably, wondrously, tilting in its favor.
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One would expect that next week, when he improbably starts an N.F.L. game for a team still mathematically in playoff contention, he will come back to earth, even against the ordinary Jaguars.
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If you're curious about the Philippine-American War and its lasting impact — inescapable in the Philippines, mostly ignored in America — then Gina Apostol's novel "Insurrecto" offers an improbably fun, and funny, guide.
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Improbably, Taylor again led the woebegone Browns up field smartly and quickly, leading to a 52-yard field-goal attempt by Gonzalez that would have tied the game with eight seconds left.
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Over the course of "Zeroville," which stumbles from 1969 to the early 1980s, Vikar will rise improbably from set builder to award-winning editor in an industry heaving with bold new blood.
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You could see several people, in the stands, making the Wayne's World "We're Not Worthy" gesture (this, as it happens, is one of the most improbably persistent cultural memes of our time).
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YEREVAN, Armenia — Nikol Pashinyan, who led the nonviolent protest movement that improbably toppled the government of Armenia, had just ended a brief interview and headed into another room when he whirled around.
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It is, improbably, a French receipt, a creation of the French cookbook writer Frédérick Grasser-Hermé that Amanda adapted as she faced down a glut of lemons in the fall of 2005.
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Since then, her startling command and improbably mature delivery have made her a cause célèbre among fans of traditional jazz, and landed her on stages with some of the music's finest improvisers.
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Impeccable scholarship and painstaking fair-mindedness characterize Roper's deeply illuminating biography of this improbably influential figure, one of the best of a slew of new publications on the anniversary of the Reformation.
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I'm talking about those easygoing, enthusiastic guides who take you by the hand and show you that what you thought was impenetrable not only makes sense, but might also be improbably pleasurable.
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The fight is capped off by the familiar "duel in the rain" sequence that features in so many action movies, except this one is improbably, delightfully staged inside the Home Mart warehouse.
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What I had seen that day at the market was the steadiest grip, capable of holding its operations absolutely firm for a period as improbably lengthy as a sixtieth of a second.
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The SEC said its case stemmed from its market abuse unit's analysis and detection center, which tried to spot suspicious trading patterns such as "improbably successful trading" prior to earnings announcements over time.
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But even anecdotally, it's dark seeing people writing earnestly about Jill Stein in TYOOL 2016, between posts of new babies, improbably perfect Thanksgiving meals, and fireplaces that are a little cozier than yours.
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Robert Valley's Pear Cider and Cigarettes — a true story of Valley's improbably named friend Techno Stypes and his bouts with alcoholism — runs at the end of each screening due to its adult content.
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And the American president's hostility to free trade and his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord has allowed Xi Jinping to cast himself, improbably, as a defender of the international order.
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That meeting turned into an all-day ramble through Chicago, from the Art Institute to a screening of "Do the Right Thing," and now it has been turned into an improbably moving movie.
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At briefings over the last week with supporters and donors, Mr. Rubio's campaign manager has been delivering a message that seems improbably optimistic: Book your tickets to the convention in Cleveland in July.
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The oldest of them all is the Rada, which, despite governing for less than a year, has improbably survived two world wars, 70 years of Soviet occupation, and nearly a century in exile.
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For those who grew up under 747-crossed skies, it can be hard to appreciate how revolutionary the jet's dimensions were when it first (and improbably, to some observers) got airborne in 1969.
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At a certain point, the kids come across the four surveyors, all improbably napping in tree shade, and one of the kids puts a wad of gum on the lens of a level.
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Big City Sometime in the early 1990s and not too long out of college, I fell in with a couple from Texas who were improbably far along in establishing enviable New York lives.
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Improbably, the Compton-raised kid born of Mexican immigrants parlayed this persona into a bit in the T.J. Miller movie Search Party, in which he played a sketchball kid who sold fake IDs.
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The sugary, violin-heavy score that elbows its way into virtually every scene might beg to differ, but its cudgeling chords can't force enchantment when, improbably, Mary and Michael's jaded passions are rekindled.
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I made it a point to stop for lunch at the John Paul Lodge, a window-lined circular aerie that looks out on the improbably steep start of the Olympic men's downhill course.
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Under his intellectual spell, many Democrats, who 17 years ago under President Clinton were proudly touting balanced budgets as a means of safeguarding the social net, have improbably been transformed into deficit cheerleaders.
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And bigger dishes, like an umami-rich roast lamb shoulder balanced with pickled lemon, or the improbably delicious smoked whitefish pizza with mascarpone, dill and capers, can easily feed two or three people.
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A year ago, in the aftermath of his near-miss Senate run, O'Rourke was already viewed as a top-tier presidential contender, improbably polling third, behind former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen.
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But thanks to his online pitch to voters — "Make Trump Furious" — he has improbably found himself awash in donations: roughly $3 million, his campaign says, while 11 Republican candidates are scrapping for attention.
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Flouting the unspoken rule that quinoa is a bummer, Ramirez mixes it with avocado, thick hunks of bacon, caramelized bananas, and banana mayonnaise, resulting in a sort of improbably irresistible banana-bacon pudding.
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Biden is running for president on the theory that Trump has cured voters of their desire to wreck the system, and now they're ready for a president who promises, however improbably, to restore it.
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If season two recognizes the unique opportunity this show's premise offers, and loosens the reins on its ever-ballooning plot, Runaways could become the empathetic teen superhero series TV has improbably, and unfortunately, lacked.
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Twenty years ago today, an improbably sweet kid with an impossibly big, football-shaped head stepped out onto his stoop and straight into the hearts of kids with big dreams and even bigger feelings.
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As suggested by the title, the series focuses on a real-life 1970s British scandal involving sex, attempted murder, and a prominent politician, and it ended so improbably that it spawned a comedy record.
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But this time, he's set his ballet of manners and power struggles in post-war London, in a house of high fashion ruled by the finicky, improbably named genius Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis).
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The famously gruff-voiced singer was back in the news after Chad Kroeger (of Nickelback infamy) slung insults at Taylor's other project Stone Sour, eliciting a response from both Taylor and, improbably, Smash Mouth.
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Once an impossible dream, the longtime left-wing goal of government-provided health insurance for every American is now improbably close to becoming reality, or at least the subject of real debate in Congress.
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Perhaps you're entirely new to the series and feel like the prospect of whacking giant beasts with improbably sized weapons isn't enough to sustain a game for a prolonged period of time (you're wrong).
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And for the concert in the ancient ruins of this war-ravaged Syrian city, staged last week by Russia's premier orchestra, the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, the invitation came as improbably as the event itself.
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The cast album, improbably, reached No. 2800 on Billboard's chart of rap albums in the fall, but nowhere in the show's marketing will you see it described as a hip-hop or rap musical.
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I've brought them here, in the first week of our introductory geology course, to investigate a mystery: Just in front of us, rising improbably from the flat expanse of the marsh, is a hill.
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Maybe that's why it hasn't been a reliable farm team of future young adult talent, like Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel, which grooms stars like Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez from improbably young ages.
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Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play buffoonish weapons dealers in this comic drama, based on actual events, in which a pair of young American men improbably became arms suppliers to the United States military.
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Works of technology criticism are often expected to provide a few hundred pages of doomsaying before providing a concise final chapter in which the Gordian knot of our problems is neatly and improbably cut.
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In its ambition to be the cybersecurity capital of the world, Israel is busy building a vast military-industrial security megacomplex in the working class city of Beersheba, improbably located in the southern Israeli desert.
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Outlier does, improbably, hold a patent on a sleeve design that lets a wearer stretch more freely, but someplace like J. Crew doesn't need to acquire Outlier as a prestige label-slash-R&D shop.
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Pitcher's long-distance HR helps Rockies beat Reds DENVER — Colorado Rockies starter Jon Gray helped himself Wednesday night with an improbably massive home run, the first time in his career he trotted around the bases.
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A year and four months of thinking about table settings and bindi applications and how long my hair should be and, improbably, arguing with my mother over whether or not the chairs should have bows.
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The show, improbably sustained for 160 episodes on the basic conceit of "a group of friends is terrorized by text messages from an anonymous villain," is premiering the second half of its final season tonight.
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IN IMPROBABLY WARM weather some 0003 people gathered on February 23rd in Plaza de la Villa, one of Madrid's oldest squares, to launch the election campaign of Ciudadanos (Citizens), one of Spain's newer political parties.
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What's more, according to the paper, Denise told police she was worried about Kyle's mental stability and said that he had explained to her — improbably — how Donna had left early on Thursday with a man.
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In the garden, we were joined by Molly Gore, a chocolate maker at Dandelion, and Greg D'alesandre, Dandelion's chocolate "sourcerer" who improbably fell into the world of chocolate after a six-year stint at Google.
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It's a white whale that can never be slain, a personal challenge that is always out of grasp, an artifact of wonder that exudes passion and quality from every facet of its improbably small cart.
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An enlisted man was placed in a shipping container turned library, his nose trained on an open encyclopedia of Russian military medals, as if, improbably, he had suddenly decided to study up, as cameras rolled.
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In July 271, a teenager named Myron Surmach left his village in Ukraine, boarded the ship Atlanta with a third-class ticket and headed across the ocean to an improbably big city called New York.
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Mr. Michael has taken apart the building blocks of stand-up and refashioned them into a fragmented and meditative psychological drama, a sarcastic club set improbably aiming for the feel of the French new wave.
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Dear Diary: There's a spot on the High Line above 18th Street where the carpet of buildings to the north and east parts improbably, and the top of the Chrysler Building comes into fleeting view.
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Even if the attack against Mr. Skripal was a "terrorist attack," as the Russian foreign ministry improbably suggested, everyone's eyes would still turn to Russia since it is the only known producer of the substance.
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Here are the arguments he lays out:Predicted in March 2000 that tech stocks would plunge 83%, then the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index lost an "improbably precise" 83% during a period from 2000 to 2002
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Stuffed with talented, beautiful women playing naughty, this is the latest addition to the cycle that was once about an improbably suave thief, Danny Ocean (George Clooney), and his mostly male band of charming accomplices.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea issued standing orders on Wednesday for the "miserable dog's death" execution of South Korea's imprisoned former president and her spy chief, and improbably demanded that its southern adversary extradite them.
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Wrong. "The Anthropologist," a stealthily insightful film by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger, improbably mixes that topic with a mother-daughter story to produce a distinctive study of change and human adaptability.
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The difference is that Joan is (improbably) telling the truth, and what she writes and recites links up in unexpected ways to the lives of the other students, especially to the smitten but frozen Aaron.
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Then, in 22003, came "The Wild Wild West," a CBS series that, somewhat improbably, grafted the mania for spy fare set off by the James Bond movies of the day onto an Old West setting.
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Steele claims, improbably, to have senior Kremlin informants who were prepared to sing upon command to contacts of a former British spy, who had not been active in Russia for a quarter of a century.
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Yet Mr. Byrne — relying almost entirely on a doom-metal soundtrack, game performers and a grungy palette of oily browns and moldy greens — somehow whips his ingredients into an improbably taut man-versus-Satan showdown.
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The latter could certainly use a hit, and might have found one, improbably, with this hitwoman, for however long Waller-Bridge and company can tease out a dynamic that's delicious, yes, but difficult to sustain.
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The first odd couple we meet consists of the story's young narrator and the baby elephant he improbably takes with him everywhere, regardless of the challenges that doing so poses in a not always welcoming world.
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They did just this at regional elections in December 2015, when Ms Le Pen won 44%, but failed to secure the presidency of northern France, after Socialists, improbably, campaigned for the centre-right candidate, Xavier Bertrand.
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SoftBank makes its first appearance on this list as well; in the past quarter, the Japanese conglomerate led cybersecurity firm Cybereason's Series D and U.K.-based Improbable's improbably large $502 million Series B round, among others.
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That unique ability to attract is what led him to improbably win the nomination and the White House; that unique ability to repel has left an establishment that still longs to rid the party of him.
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And if he also wished to return Hungary's highest court to its former stunning headquarters across from Parliament — and he does — Mr. Orban has to move out the Museum of Ethnography, now somewhat improbably housed there.
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Improbably, and to their own surprise, they wound up releasing a string of hit recordings in the darkest days of McCarthyism, including "Goodnight Irene" and "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena," and with "Wimoweh" they had an enduring classic.
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Add Renaissance churches, belle epoque hotels, modernist villas, a couple of casinos and lush gardens that improbably combine palm trees and snow in winter, and you'll understand why the region is known as the Swiss Riviera.
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Allen won the race six times, most memorably in 1995, when he came back at 37 after a one-year hiatus and improbably made up more than 13 minutes on the leader in the marathon leg.
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Earlier this month, Mr. Putin laid out ambitious economic targets for his fourth term as president of Russia, saying he would increase life expectancy, cut poverty and, improbably, displace Germany as the world's fifth largest economy.
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The New York City photographer, who, at seventy-four, is the subject of the Whitney's terrific survey "Message to the Future," has led an improbably adventurous life, beginning with his involvement in the civil-rights movement.
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When I saw the first film in the series, I thought it seemed vaguely like what would happen if Nancy Meyers directed an assassin movie, what with Wick's improbably gorgeous house and the sleek, sophisticated Continental.
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Ryan Reynolds, who has an improbably good Twitter for someone who is very rich, handsome, and a father, has been trying to get out in front of this news cycle with his responses to those sexual tweets.
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A relative unknown six months ago, the 37-year-old gay Afghanistan War veteran and Rhodes scholar improbably has ridden a blitz of compelling TV performances to the top polling tier among a legion of Democratic candidates.
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In the first at-bat of Miami's first game since Fernández's death, however, Marlins teammate Dee Gordon improbably hit his first home run of the season before tearfully rounding the bases while thinking of his fallen comrade.
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It's also, improbably, a labyrinth—one that belies its appearance as a sanctuary from a city full of zombies and turns out to be as full of zombies and danger as anywhere else in the infested town.
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When many people think of astronauts, they think of absurdly qualified men and women drifting through the cylindrical modules of the International Space Station, or floating beside its broad, golden solar arrays on an improbably serene spacewalk.
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The two improbably bond — Manganiello is particularly impressed by a detailed scale model Pee-wee has made of his home town — and the actor gives Pee-wee an invitation to his upcoming birthday party in New York.
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If Leicester is the small club that improbably hit it big in this season of seasons, Aston Villa, in last place and suffering a wretched campaign, is the big club that has somehow plummeted to unthinkable depths.
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As if by fiat, gearing up to fight those Soviet forces and their Warsaw Pact allies, should they (however improbably) decide to take on NATO and lunge toward the English Channel, suddenly emerged as priority number one.
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Where the river exits into the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, the land has been reduced to a narrow spit, improbably jutting into the open water like a knife balanced off the edge of a table.
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While the mission to liberate the soccer team trapped by flash floods on June 23 generally followed an improbably successful plotline, the operation claimed the life of Saman Gunan, a 38-year-old retired Thai Navy SEAL.
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It could be an achingly wistful "I Want You" (sung to perfection by Ryan and Caitlin Houlahan) or an improbably reborn "Like a Rolling Stone," with a tambourine-rattling Winningham flailing like a sheet in the wind.
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And considering the success of the improbably avocado-loving restaurant Avocaderia (with locations in Industry City, Brooklyn, and Chelsea, Manhattan), avocados surely bring joy to Alessandro Biggi, Francesco Brachetti and Alberto Gramigni, the partners in the venture.
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Four years ago, Andile Lili, a then-37-year-old member of the Cape Town City Council, began hearing from unhappy constituents in a ragged settlement carved into a garbage dump near the airport, improbably named Barcelona.
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She doesn't do press junkets, and for most of the 224 years since she won a Best Actress Academy Award for playing Marge Gunderson, the tremendously pregnant, improbably cheerful police detective in "Fargo," she has refused interviews.
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While scholars have long noted the vaudevillian and music-hall-clown nature of these characters, the improbably elastic pair of Aaron Monaghan (Gogo) and Marty Rea (Didi) float them into the stratosphere of the Looney Tunes menagerie.
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" No place has been hit harder by heroin, fentanyl and opioid addiction recently than Hull, a former fishing town of 260,000 people about 150 miles north of London that was improbably named Britain's 2017 "City of Culture.
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He has long positioned himself, improbably, as the capital's consummate outsider, despite a résumé that tickles all corners of the Washington establishment: Princeton, Harvard, Supreme Court clerk, the George W. Bush campaign, the George W. Bush administration.
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"No sane person would do this," director Ezra Edelman told WIRED in January, not long after his documentary O.J.: Made in America had become, somewhat improbably, one of the most engrossing TV-watching (and moviegoing) experiences of 2016.
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The political angle of the movie is of a specific moment in time—it just so happens that (as improbably as anything else in the last year) the moment in question has returned, and very quickly at that.
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"He wrote a big check to the inauguration but wasn't really there before the president improbably, unsurprisingly, won, for people like that," Conway said of Sondland, who received his appointment after donating $1 million to Trump's inauguration committee.
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Edwin Jarvis, faithful friend to Peggy (and equally faithful servant of Howard Stark, however improbably), now lives in California alongside his Ana, while good-hearted field agent Daniel Sousa heads up the west coast branch of the SSR.
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Nintendo's Mario — short, fat, improbably good at jumping — had seen off eggs, cavemen, and nondescript spaceship blobs in the late '80s and early '90s, but it was quickly clear there was something different about Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog.
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They have included Ms. Kennedy, Ms. Fornés, Horton Foote and, improbably enough, Mr. Albee, whose revitalized career in New York could be said to have been jump-started by Signature's season of his work in the early 1990s.
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Unlike Lacy, who insists on seeing things how they were meant to be, Deaver sees them as they are: Castle Rock is a dying, one-bar, mostly boarded-up, opioid-afflicted town with an improbably high murder rate.
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For a couple of magical years, the Blazers were a joyful unit, the epitome of unselfish teamwork, and they radically overachieved because of it, improbably winning the 1977 championship over Dr. J and the star-studded Philadelphia 303ers.
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You wouldn't even mind, and would actually be pleased, if Rhoades's wife, Wendy (who, improbably enough, is a major player at Axe Capital) tossed her husband for Axe, with whom she possesses a more palpable, if platonic, chemistry.
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"Zerozerozero" is three shows in one: an Italian mafia saga with rocky Calabrian hillsides and generational omertà; a Mexican narco thriller with lavish cartel violence; and, more improbably, an indie-movie-style American family drama and character study.
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Faviken favorites made appearances, as well, including an appetizer of king crab (improbably but satisfyingly daubed with a roasted hazelnut sauce reminiscent of savory Nutella) and a tiny dish of gyoza filled with succulent pieces of dairy cow.
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Coverage is focused on how much money YouTube stars make, how improbably famous they are among teenagers and, now, on the small number of racist and extremist videos that have slipped through the cracks of the ad system.
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Rather improbably — a long line of sequels have underperformed this year — turnout was on par with the first "Annabelle," which had $226.8 million in opening-weekend ticket sales in 2014 and went on to collect $257 million worldwide.
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For the past decade, sand sculpture artists have gathered here every year for two weeks at the world's only indoor sand museum to mount an exhibit of improbably intricate tableaus, all crafted from about 23,247 tons of sand.
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The secretary of state also improbably claimed that the Obama administration "kicked off" a war with Iran with its deal that froze Iran's enrichment activity and halted what the US says was a march towards a nuclear bomb.
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With a teetering marriage and vague future, the gentle Isaac could have seemed a mere go-between for his two circling friends; but Mr. Ortiz is so quietly compelling that he makes Isaac's modest ambitions feel improbably consequential.
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Jared Goff passed for 23 yards and spent much of the night handing off, but the gangly quarterback improbably scrambled 22 yards for a first down with 2:215 to play, essentially wrapping up his first playoff victory.
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But every time they started to do so, Senate Republicans would improbably revive their push to repeal Obamacare — and Sanders's team would postpone the launch of their "Medicare-for-all" campaign, according to aides to the Vermont senator.
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It's tough to beat the top three: Chris Pratt (who, improbably, might be the biggest movie star in the world right now) and Training Day co-stars Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, working under their previous director Antoine Fuqua.
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I am not interested in writing movies about a sylph looking for love, living in New York in an improbably large apartment with a lot of natural light who never seems to spend much time at an actual job.
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Well before he became an NBA superstar with the Golden State Warriors, Curry first made national waves in the 286 NCAA tournament, when Davidson, a small school in North Carolina, improbably reached the Elite Eight as a 224 seed.
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Improbably, however, Business Insider reported mere hours ago that four of the company's leaders, including the executive vice president "running day-to-day operations," are either on the way out the door or have recently parted ways with Moviepass.
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But for Brazilian fans, the defeat stings after the local team had quickly, and somewhat improbably, become an underdog favorite to nab a medal for the host nation, adding to its count of ten so far, including two golds.
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On the High Line Dear Diary: There's a spot on the High Line above 18th Street where the carpet of buildings to the north and east parts improbably, and the top of the Chrysler Building comes into fleeting view.
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The building, an amazing feat of technological improvisation in the days before computer design, was a populist proto-emoji for flight, all free-flowing, liquid curves, improbably poised on four slender buttresses like a winged bird on skinny legs.
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Here was a show that improbably transformed the intimate relationship between a reader and a book into a joyously collective act of literary seduction, performed by a chameleon cast of 13, and it became the season's most coveted ticket.
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What this shift in focus did was highlight many unfamiliar details of the case, including multiple nigh-miraculous discoveries, coincidences of timing, and improbably recovered evidence that all had to align in order for O'Hara's perpetrator to be caught.
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That episode's vision of the future is one in which technology has evolved and adapted to embrace human nature, while "Crocodile" posits a world where people appear to be improbably clueless about the implications of the things they create.
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Instead of the indelible Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze, we have Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Scream Queens) as sheltered daddy's girl Francis "Baby" Houseman, and improbably named newcomer Colt Prattes as smoldering, wong-side-of-the-tracks Romeo Johnny Castle.
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Okay, so Jon Snow improbably gets away from the Night King alive, and he royally pisses off the Dragon Queen to the point where she agrees to band together with the North to take on the army of the dead.
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Adi: The book still felt insular to me, but it does at least posit an explanation — albeit a bad one — for why everyone on social media is so improbably decent, which is that having to use your real name eliminated trolls.
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The four strangers spent the next 13 days working every contact and friend-of-a-friend they had around the world, eventually coordinating as team over Skype and improbably shepherding Al Samawi through a harrowing escape to the United States.
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It's this knowledge that makes the film's dream sequence so devastating: Sitting across from the Amphibian Man, and knowing that she must return him to the water despite the bond between them, she opens her mouth and—improbably—begins to sing.
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Just like the club's improbably long run in a fickle industry, Fever was no fly by night operation—it ran the full '230s gamut with wild Thursdays that left many a strung-out raver on Friday mornings from 1992 to 2001.
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After improbably making eyes with a stranger on the subway who is reading a Michael Chabon book, Hannah gets off at her stop and runs into Caroline, freshly medicated and out of a hospital stay, ready to take care of Sample.
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While the evidence of that was written all over his face, "The Americans" has only gotten better as the seasons pile up, stoking anticipation -- among its relatively small fan base -- for the final act of this improbably timely period drama.
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When percussion sounds arrive among his pillowy sustained chords and flutelike melodies, they're likely to be the snickering syncopations of trap, while the strongest rhythm comes from deep, viscous bass tones that skid and lurch like improbably prolonged drunken stumbles.
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Several sources told me that the dispute was eventually settled by a leader from one of China's infamous triad gangs — and that, improbably, the episode later became the inspiration for a series of Hong Kong gangland movies about stock-market geniuses.
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MOSCOW — Russia may jail its own separatists, but that did not hinder a nominally independent Russian organization from laying out the welcome mat on Sunday for an oddball, global troupe of liberation movements, including, improbably, four from the United States.
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The Knicks opened up a double-digit lead midway through the game, and though the Timberwolves charged back at the end to lose by a single bucket, the real attraction was the lanky showdown involving 14 feet of improbably skilled humans.
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Indeed, there were more than a few similarities between the two, and when she was rejected over the leonine-eyed, improbably dull Hoopz in the first season, everyone who watched the show knew that Flav was making a big mistake.
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Somehow, improbably, all the hammam body love left a lasting impression; since then, I've managed to skinny dip in a friend's hot tub and travel around Vietnam with a not-super-close friend without caring if she saw me change.
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Jon Snow is firming up his grip as "King of the North," as Littlefinger encourages Jon's half-sister Sansa to look for opportunities now that she is — somewhat improbably, after all she's been through — one of the last Starks still standing.
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It felt, briefly, like it was going to suggest that Sansa and Dany had buried the hatchet, completely improbably, before Sansa asked Dany what she's going to do about the North, which has vowed independence, once the war is over.
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Even more improbably, she danced it in the opera house in her hometown, Cairo — where to call a woman a "dancer" was an insult — with a full troupe of Egyptians trained by Russians in an academy established by the Egyptian state.
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But California has become, however improbably, a leading exporter of the energy that is animating the conservative movement, and it is giving rise to some of the loudest new voices on the right, from the West Wing to the radical fringe.
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Thinking he and his family had boarded a train that would take them to Warsaw, they were in fact arrested along with hundreds of thousands of other Jews and wound up in a gulag in Arkhangelsk — which improbably meant survival.
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On the other side was Petra Kvitova, who is improbably back in the Grand Slam mix after a horrific home invasion and knife attack last December that left her with deep, career-threatening wounds in her primary-playing left hand.
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Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — During a meeting with Donald Trump at Trump Tower in June of 2016, with the opéra bouffe builder improbably heading toward the nomination despite a skeletal campaign crew on a floor below, I asked when he would pivot.
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Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — During a meeting with Donald Trump at Trump Tower in June of 2016, with the opéra bouffe builder improbably heading toward the nomination despite a skeletal campaign crew on a floor below, I asked when he would pivot.
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He turned into a big-play ball-carrier on Arroyo Seco's hallowed ground, and Oregon improbably relied on its quarterback's long legs to grind out a landmark victory under second-year head coach Mario Cristobal, Herbert's third coach in four years.
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Sooner or later, she'll do something, join something, or say something that forces her out of the improbably apolitical space she now occupies — and the public tends to be unforgiving of females who disappoint their expectations, even young white ones.
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Whether that's the everyday life of improbably rich young millionaires like Jake Paul, a high school dropout from Westlake, Ohio, or PewDiePie, a skinny, fast-talking Swede whose real name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, YouTube seeks to serve a need.
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Like Brexit, the Trump campaign was running a scam of biblical proportions and improbably won the day—thanks to a perfect storm of antisocial radicalism bubbling at the fringes of American life for the better part of the last decade.
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Terms like daddy (in gay culture), or "zaddy," which grew out of black vernacular, have to do with a certain kind of attitude: a butchness, authority, or swagger that certain men possess, which brings us — perhaps improbably for some — to Nick Jonas.
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Mr. Putin wanted to make clear that Russia's intervention in Syria would avoid the kind of catastrophic collapse that occurred in Iraq, Libya and Yemen, lumped together improbably with the American-backed "color" revolutions in Ukraine in 2004 and Georgia in 2003.
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I am conscious every day of how fortunate I was, to have improbably survived and to have friends and loved ones with me at the ceremony presided over by the Commandant of the Marine Corps at which I was awarded my Purple Heart.
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Adam wants to talk — not about a sequel for that onanistic blob of a movie he made about his relationship with Hannah — but ostensibly to tell her that he wants to raise the baby in place of the improbably-monikered Paul Louis.
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Reynolds has improbably turned into the charming rogue that Hollywood always wanted him to be, and Jackson is such a joy to watch in good parts that you almost forget about some of the dross that he's involved himself in of late.
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You see, part of the problem here is that some people believe, improbably, that virtue can be cloaked in vice, that what he says and what he means are fundamentally different, that the former is acting as a Trojan horse for the latter.
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Once the watery preamble of the quest is over, Geralt—the player-controlled witcher of the title—faces off against a crackling, cackling djinn amid the wreckage of an ocean-faring vessel now, improbably and magnificently, perched hundreds of feet above sea level.
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The story of Lena (Natalie Portman), a biologist who joins a group of women to explore an area of coastal America that's rapidly mutating due to an alien contaminant, Annihilation is full of improbably beautiful biological mashups, shimmering landscapes, and human-plant hybrids.
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The combatants often work in an improbably tight space, with a few props that either shift position or are smashed to pieces, so that the space changes in surprising ways, as if some unexpected dimension of reality is continually unfolding before your eyes.
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The Gun Owners of America, a group that's improbably to the right of the NRA, has come out against the bill, claiming that an effort to assist the hearing impaired is somehow part of a massive scheme to upend the Second Amendment.
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Improbably, Mr. Abu Asaba was the only person killed in Israel in more than 24 hours of rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip, a staggering bombardment of at least 460 projectiles, many of which made it past Israel's vaunted air defenses.
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After Klopp's team had, improbably, secured its place, there were hundreds upon hundreds of jobs to do: tickets to be mailed, charter planes and hotels to be booked, meetings with the Spanish police to be held, media and fan events to be arranged.
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Mr. Zelensky, who plays a teacher who improbably becomes president in the hit television series "Servant of the People," wound up his campaign on Friday by lambasting Mr. Poroshenko at a raucous debate before more than 20,000 people in a Kiev sports stadium.
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There will be a chance to wonder if the team Guardiola has built, which can seem flawless for so much of a season, has some psychological fragility concealed deep within its soul, an improbably specific affliction that applies only in Champions League quarterfinals.
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Jack Costanzo, a Chicagoan of Italian descent who taught himself to play the bongos and, somewhat improbably, became a ubiquitous figure in Afro-Cuban jazz, accompanying singers like Nat King Cole and mingling with Marlon Brando and other Hollywood stars, died on Aug.
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JENNIFER SZALAI [ Read: Coming Soon to the Bronx, a Long Overdue Book Festival ] I have read Edward St. Aubyn's extraordinary Patrick Melrose series — but I intend to revisit it this summer, when I'm not reading improbably complicated mysteries and unlikely psychological thrillers.
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Thanks to the film "Dunkirk," an improbably intimate look at what Winston Churchill called "a colossal military disaster," minds otherwise gone soft by the heartless current governing policies of the United States can turn to a day when bigger minds guided Western democracies.
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Larsson, acquired by Edmonton in the trade of the former No. 205 draft pick Taylor Hall to the Devils, scored just four goals in his first 21 games this season, but he improbably got two goals in seven and a half minutes.
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We have always been told the casualties in any conflict on the Korean peninsula would be unbearably high; suppose Trump pushes the regime to the brink and, however improbably, Kim Jong Un is revealed to be a paper tiger, without any military support?
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"Assassins," a somewhat improbably beloved show about the men and women who have successfully or unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate United States presidents, is the only one of Mr. Sondheim and Mr. Weidman's three musicals that Mr. Doyle hasn't yet directed Off Broadway.
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Again, we're used to stories like this hinging, sometimes improbably, on the choices of the protagonist, and it's not hard to see Walter as someone like Hamlet or Richard III, consumed by his own demons as much as he sets demons in motion.
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And improbably, Sanders — with virtually no fundraising events, limited outside spending and a on-edge relationship with party leadership — came close to matching the vaunted Clinton machine dollar for dollar, reaching parity on television during some weeks and even out-raising her during some months.
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But, as seen in Apple's latest ad, the smartphone's camera feature can also save your family barbershop, with the magic of the portraits seemingly possessing the power to attract a somewhat improbably long line of customers for haircuts in the click of a shutter.
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After watching Antonio Blakeney improbably rally the Bulls from a 105-101 deficit with a four-point play with 30.5 seconds to go on a foul by Collison, the Pacers called a timeout and got the game-winning shot from Collison 103 seconds later.
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Lara Pulver, who played Irene Adler on Sherlock, at least appears to be enjoying herself as new character Semira, an up-and-coming vampire council member whose hobbies include wearing improbably revealing clothing and bullying her pouty boy-toy Varga (Damien star Bradley James).
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In return, they received a package headlined, improbably, by rookie shooter Buddy Hield and a lone first-round draft pick; Cousins, who was in town to play in his third straight All-Star Game, was informed of the news while meeting the postgame press scrum.
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Improbably, though, producer Ryan Murphy and company have not only cast the project to the hilt with some of his "American Horror Story" favorites (Connie Britton, Angela Bassett) but has also kept the situations tense and unpredictable enough to give the show considerable energy.
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Improbably, in the San Francisco cold and the Civic Center dirt, this experience was the most like watching the game at home with a friend, what with everyone yelling shit at the TV as if every single person was home alone with no neighbors.
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I thought of a few examples, like "mussel" or "muscle" for muzzle (stop for ZZ Top, who have improbably not?), but came up empty until I realized that we were going not for the final letter of the alphabet, but for that particular buzzzzzz.
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But this time, he's set his ballet of manners and power struggles in postwar London, in a house of high fashion ruled by the finicky, improbably named genius Reynolds Woodcock (played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the role he says will be his last).
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On an improbably hot afternoon this summer, the teenagers David Curran, Connor Honney, Shane MacGuire and Sean Quigley dangled their legs from a makeshift jetty into the cool waters of Lough Erne, which is just a few hundred yards from the border in some places.
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He says — improbably, in the view of most analysts — that by taking a tougher stand than Prime Minister Theresa May did, and by believing in the Brexit project, he will persuade a resolute European Union to offer concessions it has so far ruled out.
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The claim that inequality is being driven by the rich accumulating capital was a central thesis of Thomas Piketty's book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", which in 2014 made him the first rock-star economist since Milton Friedman improbably filled auditoriums in the 1980s.
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It is also an affecting narrative about growing up gay in a virulently hostile, intolerant culture — a moving portrait of an artist who not only survived that ordeal as a young man but became, improbably enough, one of the greatest poets of his age.
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August WilsonCreditCreditArty Pomerantz/New York Post Archive and NYP Holdings, via Getty Images During two improbably fertile decades, starting in the 1980s, August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote a cycle of 10 generation-spanning plays portraying African-American lives in the Hill District of Pittsburgh.
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Many of the book's supporting players are familiar ones from the young-adult canon — the supportive but polar-opposite best friend, the domineering immigrant mother and apathetic father, the improbably tender love interest, the unusually with-it teacher who changes the course of our protagonist's life.
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He left office, improbably, as a leader in the national party and Governing magazine's Public Official of the Year, seen as both most progressive governor in Virginia history and the best in economic development, bringing to the state a record-breaking $18.7 billion in new capital.
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Advertisers have long sold women a white-washed, improbably perfect lifestyle in which most viewers don't see themselves reflected, and as Pounders pointed out, social pressure has lately translated to a shift in the body types, skin tones, and gender roles we see represented on screen.
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Beast finally gets a song to himself, and it's a powerful musical moment, even when it improbably transforms him from what Belle describes as "sweet, and almost kind… and so unsure" to a bellowing operatic hero, as ostentatious and over-the-top as the evil Gaston.
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The chef, Aaron Monis, who was second in command to his predecessor, Joe Baynes, does nicely with frying: Popcorn shrimp were both light and crunchy; so, improbably, were the bite-size squares of fried mac and cheese (both appetizers are served with a Cajun-spiced rémoulade).
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The stone's strange texture tells of an ancient seabed—and also of a trade-off between a weekly newspaper that had improbably decided to become a property developer and two bold young people who were in the process of creating a soon-to-be notorious architectural style.
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There are many things that James Cameron's Avatar movies have been made fun of for over the years: the hackneyed plot that borrows heavily from FernGully, the tedious White Savior trope, the magic trees, the improbably oversized knife that features prominently in the film's final battle.
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And yet, improbably, Bobby Kennedy, a near-total stranger to black America only ten years earlier, felt more at home in it now than any other white politician in America — and more welcome, and comfortable, there than he would have in ostensibly safer and more "respectable" places.
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Hugely popular until the 1980s as many Italian sexual taboos were being challenged for the first time, commedia sexy films usually involved a middle-aged man becoming improbably entangled with a beautiful younger woman who would shed most of her clothes at some point in the proceedings.
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De Blasio, who got in late and is improbably hoping to muscle into a race already populated by several iconic candidates of the Left -- Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts -- was fairly hyperventilating in the first debate, breaking in whenever he could.
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Cinco de Mayo is basically an invention of the United States, now completely removed from the event which it ostensibly commemorates: the Mexican army improbably defeating a much better-equipped French army at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, where the Mexicans were outnumbered three to one.
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Throughout the campaign -- even as he improbably rose to the top of the GOP field and stayed there -- Trump would always tell his crowds that being president would be easy, and that he would solve the problems of the country so quickly they wouldn't believe it.
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Over the next six years, a procession of bands—Limp Bizkit, Soulfly, Cold, Human Waste Project, Machine Head, Amen, Slipknot—trekked into the Malibu hills to record some of the decade's angriest and most polarizing music, nestled among sycamores and palm trees in an improbably idyllic setting.
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Mr. Lamb is represented at the exhibition by a bench made from a plaster cast of an architectural detail; and Mr. Cocksedge by a hanging globe light made of Styrofoam coffee cups and by his curved, rolled-steel Poised table, which balances improbably on one corner.
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The wonder is how crazily, improbably alive it all is: this world of slag heaps and council houses, of unemployed miners and women stuck at home with their "weans," forced to supplement weekly benefit payments by prying open the electric meter and reclaiming the coins therein.
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On the balcony of a handsome brick house, Beatrice (Danielle Brooks) appears, singing the familiar lines—"Mother, mother / There's too many of you crying"—of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On." Below, a friend begins to hum "America the Beautiful," letting the two ballads braid improbably together.
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To relish that sensibility, you do not have to be familiar with what's being made mock of here: the hidebound institutions of parliament and the navy, the pieties of Victorian sentimentality and Italian operas in which improbably intricate plots were matched by the ornateness of the score.
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Artists making smart work about politics understand this — it's why Ligorano/Reese's massive melting ice sculpture of the words "middle class" is improbably effective, at least when recorded and paired with a rousing speech by Bernie Sanders: because the artists turn the showmanship of politics into critique.
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The feeling here is that the writer began with a method that acts like a template and so has to see it through, with the result, for example, that Henry James's comeuppance is improbably (and not credibly) similar to that of one of Smith's fortune hunters.
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But all seven of the central children are well-cast and give strong performances, and seen through their eyes, Pennywise seems like a real threat — a childhood nightmare improbably manifested in the real world — instead of like the faintly goofy, try-hard boogeyman he could so easily be.
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At each location, participants approach an improbably large 16' x 16' billboard announcing the day's date, time, when the sun rose, and prominent public promises pulled from the media, such as "Dallas promises to close homeless tent city," or Mel C's agreement to join a Spice Girls reunion tour.
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In 2002, when Mr Bolton was, improbably, under-secretary for arms control at the State Department, America withdrew from the treaty so that it could deploy defences designed to protect the homeland from limited attacks, a project on which it has spent $20153bn so far, to uncertain effect.
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The second version of "Down and Out," which came two years later and is called "New Cash Money," serves mostly as an introduction to Cash Money's newest signee, Brisco, who still, somewhat improbably, identifies as Cash Money on Twitter although he is no longer listed on the label's website.
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Thanks to that movie, tens of millions of people around the world have imagined themselves as beautiful, grease-streaked male and female driver-daredevils trying to out-race an improbably speedy nuclear submarine that is also attacking them by occasionally smashing up though the ice they're driving on.
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"We just have to stay alive," Ms. Barnabas said of the main idea behind the Jarva District Patrol Competition, a 24-hour test of the skills useful for partisans, or insurgents, to fight an occupying army, and an improbably popular form of what is called "military sport" in Estonia.
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Despite their setbacks, they proved their sway within the party in 2008 and again in 20043, when, improbably, they helped elevate GOP presidential primary candidates who promised adherence to neoconservative doctrine — even as the rise of the Tea Party signaled a Republican electorate that was more inward-looking.
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Considine, in a superb, anchoring performance), whose domain improbably accommodates his seven children (ages 9 months to 16), his invalid wife, Mary (Genevieve O'Reilly), and his misanthropic, staunchly Irish republican aunt and Virgil-quoting uncle, both of whom are called Pat (pricelessly portrayed by Dearbhla Molloy and Mark Lambert).
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What made it all the more striking and complicated is that the photo — shiny metal tracks snaking through the deserted tunnel past a skeleton, a toothy gorilla, a painted owl, a devil, a figure dressed in a straw hat and (improbably!) a bikini, brandishing a scythe — is extraordinarily beautiful.
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Her first photo, posted in the summer of 2014, is of a director's chair on the set of "The Intern," her improbably successful 2015 comedy about the friendship between the overworked founder of a successful clothing start-up (Anne Hathaway) and her new senior (citizen) intern, Robert De Niro.
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His enemies are ignorance, both from his paramour, Mia (Emma Stone), and the public; the cruel passage of time; and black musical pragmatists, in the form of Keith (John Legend), an old nemesis who plays an improbably popular funked-up, synth-heavy jazz hybrid with his band, the Messengers.
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And when their terrible first date improbably leads to something more, there's the sense that it's less the result of an inextinguishable spark between the pair, and more just another example of Jessica's commitment to keep barreling ahead in life, to hell with whatever obstacles she may encounter along the way.
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Facebook, and Zuckerberg, derive much of their confidence from earlier times that the company seemed to be on the brink of oblivion: the initial roll out of the News Feed; the introduction of the privacy-obliterating Beacon product; the botched IPO and improbably successful transition to becoming a mobile software company.
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And a recent report presented to the United Nations shows that even if global greenhouse gas emissions are somehow (improbably) cut to hit the Paris targets, Arctic temperatures are likely to rise to catastrophic levels—3-5C above preindustrial levels—because of the CO2 we have already released into the atmosphere.
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I liked new Roseanne a fair amount, but it eventually stomped all over at least some of its promise, as Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk pointed out in a review of the finale (which ended, somewhat improbably, with the Conners being saved from a massive flood by a Trump-ordered deployment of FEMA).
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Centering on one Norwegian couple who improbably initiated the diplomatic back channel that led to the epochal meeting of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the P.L.O leader Yasir Arafat at the White House, "Oslo" affectingly elicits the all-too-human factor in the weary machinations of state policy.
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LAS VEGAS — To the usual assortment of tourists and hawkers on the Strip's pulsing fantasy land of fountains, hotels, casinos, clubs and restaurants came thousands of hockey fans on Thursday night, heading to the T-Mobile Arena to see the hometown Golden Knights maybe, just maybe, improbably, win the Stanley Cup.
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Near the end of the Civil War, after Union forces captured the city of Atlanta, General William Tecumseh Sherman banished most of its citizens and burned its government buildings In another section, she writes: From Kansas, the eclipse goes to Missouri, still mostly bypassing black people, though now much more improbably.
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On Sean Hannity's show, the former New York mayor — now, somewhat improbably, a presidential attorney — announced that Trump had in fact reimbursed another of his lawyers, Michael D. Cohen, for a $22016,261 payment that Cohen made to Stephanie Clifford (or "some Stormy Daniels woman," as Giuliani referred to her on "Hannity").
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Improbably, the recently pardoned former financier Michael Milken makes an appearance in the saga: Peloton began the patent lawsuit process by claiming Flywheel had specifically sent one of its major investors, twice-pardoned "junk bond king" Michael Milken, to obtain proprietary information from [the Peloton C.E.O. John] Foley under false pretenses.
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Billions Sunday night's episode of "Billions" is book ended, improbably, by Johnny Cash's cover of "(I'd Be) a Legend in My Time," a country song that Don Gibson wrote and recorded in 1960 and Cash recorded shortly before he died, as part of his "American" collaboration with producer Rick Rubin.
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But in Kahn's button-pushing comedy, Worthy gets placed front and center as a Berkeley grad student named Adam who goes from writing a dissertation on the battle rap scene to becoming a part of it, making the transition from gawky white academic observer to gawky white participant an improbably good conversion.
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Todd VanDerWerff: I rather wished the episode had ended with almost all of the regular cast having perished, save Tessa Thompson (now, improbably and sort of wonderfully, playing Dolores), Jeffrey Wright, Ed Harris, and (lol) Luke Hemsworth, and with Dolores riding off into whatever new world awaits her outside of the park.
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It's kind of hard to go wrong when picking from the menu, but roasted cauliflower served with tomato, scallion, tahina, and jalapeño oil is a favorite, and the pita and dips (particularly the hummus, beet hummus, and cashew labneh) are improbably good, in large part because of tahina which Nussbacher imports from Israel.
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Sikaya makes the traditional dishes served with shisa nyama all over Southern Africa: umxhaxha (corn and squash simmered with salt, sugar and cinnamon), umngqusho (corn, butter beans, onions, potatoes and chiles) and chakalaka, an improbably delicious brew of onion, garlic, ginger, tomato, carrots, sweet peppers, hot chiles, curry powder and canned baked beans.
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The Russian news media is generally portraying the poisoning of the Skripals in Britain as a plot against Russia, one intended, improbably, to derail Mr. Putin's election chances — he is widely expected to win easily — or as revenge for Britain's having lost a bid years ago to host the World Cup soccer tournament.
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Yes, there is still at least one living, breathing dragon, but this episode includes the deaths of the Night King and Melisandre, the end of Beric's improbably long life, and a number of other tiny moments that point toward a similar end of magic perhaps coming as the show nears its endgame.
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The sentence carries a minimum 40 years imprisonment, adhering to the terms of the plea agreement, but the judge advised that should Dr. Nassar improbably live longer than any human has, and come up for parole after serving the federal and state sentences, his time in state prison should extend to 175 years.
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Its first mainstream use was, improbably, in a 2015 Vogue article, in which writer Michelle Ruiz detailed a "calendar-consuming siege that hijacks most major holidays," a life of being dragged annually to places like Madison Square Garden and Saratoga Springs for shows she was tolerant of but far from ecstatic about.
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Over this may lie a pork chop hammered thin and sealed inside an improbably fluffy crust, or pork belly in slices thick as cake, with descending horizons of lean and fat, or chicken freed of its bones and deep-fried twice, so the crispy shell of skin turns chewy where it clings to the flesh.
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If you weren't around to endure the Cold War paranoia of the 1970s and 80s, then the likes of "Nagasaki Nightmare" and "How Does It Feel (to Be the Mother of a Thousand Dead)" by Crass may seem as improbably abstract as the First World War poetry you were probably forced to read in school.
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Running on the newest available version of the Source engine, which Valve has improbably supported for as long as Black Mesa has been in development, this game makes a number of tweaks, some large and some small, to the original Half-Life formula, alongside rebuilding and in many cases fundamentally altering every location you visit.
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Estimates for the costs of the unbuilt stadiums vary: a new 20150,000-seat stadium in Casablanca to host the opening match and the final comes with a projected construction cost of about $400 million, while 45,000-seat arenas in Oujda ($47.6 million) and Tetouan ($38.8 million) list improbably small figures for stadiums their size.
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Dessert is another crowd of plates: airy turon, lumpia with oozy guts of caramelized banana; a threesome of dense cassava cake, jammy ube halaya and leche flan, akin to crème caramel; and langka ice cream, made by Nenette Albenio, the chef's sister, which tastes of sheer voluptuousness and, improbably, the scent of sampaguita, Philippine jasmine.
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But what if the bouquet breaks free to snake up the edge of a door, lies on the tile floor like a thick, knotted carpet or gathers above our heads — an unruly poof of twisted, thorny stems and palm fronds laced improbably with purplish-black hydrangea — like a stop-motion explosion, miraculous and disorienting?
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He uses this song that's not about clowns — it's explicitly about two people who are in love, but who have had comically bad timing for years — in a scene where a random Wall Street bro not only improbably knows all the lyrics by heart but sings them to a bullied Joker as if they're somehow ... mocking?
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In the throes of his improbably successful second act as the pop sellout du jour, the Weeknd's Abel Tesfaye swaps his usual shot-glass lyricism for something more full-bodied and luscious, pouring a glass of loverboy vintage that, if not wholly convincing, makes for satisfying performative romance on the level of spreading rose petals on a bed.
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That Sampha is seen this way is partly because of the profile of those artists but also because he has arrived where he is after so much time with an improbably small catalog of readily available material: His solo songs until now can be counted on two hands and thus encompass only a corner of his career.
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" My own handwritten letter has survived, improbably enough, in Box 1709 of an alphabetical Name File, inside a folder marked " MALLO ," where far-flung Mallons variously praise the President on Cuba, urge the impeachment of Earl Warren, and excoriate the proposed wheat sale to the Soviet Union: "Our mortal enemy is in dire trouble so we prop him up.
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In a field once governed by caution, audacity rules, insolent touches cropping up everywhere, from the stiffly beribboned fascinators at Lela Rose to the medieval-style sleeves veiling the models' fingertips at Vera Wang; and from caped looks at Badgley Mischka to the briefest of skirts at Naeem Khan, accented, improbably, with thigh-high satin boots.
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The cutesy premise of "Nine Women, One Dress" is that a single little black dress is equipped with the mystical power to fundamentally alter the lives of those who happen upon it, kind of like the classic Canadian TV series "The Littlest Hobo," only with an inanimate piece of clothing taking the place of an improbably wise German shepherd.
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While what I usually consider "beautiful" may well sound like awful noise to less leathery ears, the album I'm sharing with you today is objectively lovely, and as things around us in the States continue to crumble—to somehow, improbably, become worse—I've personally found a good deal of solace in the work of bands like Hereroir.
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Mr. Dean and the director Lucie Tiberghien do not always work in issues of race smoothly, though, and the biggest stumble in this production from the Monk Parrots company involves Jaybo's crush on Finch (Vanessa Butler), a black hobo who takes a break from her travels to observe the weird family she has so improbably stumbled upon.
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While I would not call "Mayday" a perfect episode of television, from the moment that plane of kids landed in Canada — where they were greeted (somewhat improbably, but whatever) by Luke, Moira, and Emily — to the moment June closed her eyes to rest, possibly for eternity, I was all-in in a way I rarely have been this season.
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This concert, then, served as both an affirmation of the success he's had with his last two albums — "Beauty Behind the Madness" and "Starboy," both of which have been littered with chart-topping hits — and also as a reminder of how radical his early arena shows were, when he was a cult favorite playing on an improbably large stage.
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Steele claims, improbably, to have sources who work within earshot of Putin and a "who's-who" of the Kremlin inner circle, such as the former head of the presidential administration (Sergei Ivanov), the CEO of the Russian National Oil Company and Putin confidante (Igor Sechin), the prime minister (Dmitry Medvedev) and Putin's press secretary (Dmitry Peskov).
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And while Russia claims improbably that 28503 percent of Crimeans voted to join Russia, in a nationwide referendum in 22019, 54 percent of Crimeans voted for independence from Russia, including 57 percent in the predominantly Russian city of Sevastopol (83 percent of Ukrainians voted for independence in Donetsk, the region in eastern Ukraine now occupied by Russia).
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The stars, then, would also be forced to inhabit the teenagers: Dwayne Johnson would improbably play an insecure nerd, Kevin Hart a strapping athlete frustrated by his newly diminutive frame, Jack Black a popular queen bee type aghast to find herself as a middle-aged man, and Karen Gillan an awkward girl shocked by her newfound action-heroine coordination.
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I just returned from Vietnam, where smart and sustained diplomacy has accomplished what a decade of war never could: developing a dynamic capitalist society, opening an American-style university with the promise of academic freedom and, perhaps most improbably, strengthening ties not just between our people, but also between militaries that once saw each other as enemies.
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Before he improbably stumbled into the White House last week, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE was sounding an alarm that our electoral system was rigged.
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A little R&B, a little EDM, a little fantasy, a little sci-fi The New Orleans-raised Richard, who spent a three-season stint on the Artist Formerly Known as Diddy's reality show Making The Band, and then three more years in the resulting girl group Danity Kane, improbably went independent in 2012 (not indie-label, independent, as in, self-released).
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That's one of the many problems with The Conjuring 2: no matter how many pants-wetting, throat-clenching, hysterical-weeping-under-the-covers moments the main characters have, they're still improbably ready to take slow, tense, solitary walks through the darkened rooms of an extremely haunted house, staring into pitch-black corners, just waiting for something to lunge out and grab them.
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It means that Chief Justice John Roberts improbably becomes the so-called "swing vote" on the Court; and that means we ought to expect in the years to come broadened hostility to abortion rights, gay rights, and the constitutional rights of criminals, to name just a few topic areas in which Kennedy's voice was decisive in tipping the Court's balance to the left.
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Some of the show's costumes inspired a theory about televised nudity The show's costume designer, William Ware Theiss, designed such improbably gravity-defying outfits for the various women on the show that the Theiss Titillation Theory, which states, "The sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off," is named after him. 19.
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I figured it's a good opportunity to tell you a little bit about my experience with unpaid internships, because I am, improbably, a member of "the media," and I'm kind of tired about only ever seeing white colleagues sound off about this nonsense whenever a fellow person of color addresses it on a platform as big and white as the New York Times.
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Frémont's fate was ironic: having accepted the primacy of the Navy, he refused to take orders from the Army general who arrived later, and he was court-martialled on his return to D.C. Nothing at all was at stake in this confrontation; the fate of California was already fixed, and Frémont, however improbably, had already been assigned as its hero.
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It contains 57,500 square feet of galleries and more than 100 species, including big, flapping cownose rays; loggerhead sea turtles; and dozens of sharks: not just sandbars and sand tigers and nurse sharks, but blacktip and whitetip reef sharks, epaulette sharks, horn sharks, pyjama sharks, smooth dogfish, white spotted bamboo sharks, zebra sharks and the improbably adorable carpet sharks called spotted wobbegongs.
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Today, in any case, over her coffee cup—intense, absent, indifferent to her surroundings, not checking her phone or reading—she had an aura that was just as significant as if she were a celebrity, improbably washed up at the seaside, having shaken off her entourage of admirers or detractors, thirsting to be left alone with her luxuriant inner life.
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" And then, lest you doubt it, we get clips: Nixon saying, "Let's make America first again in respect for order and justice under law"; a clip of pre-politics Reagan in a 1953 movie improbably titled Law and Order, in a cowboy hat and boots, saying to the townsfolk, "You wanted law and order in this town — you've got it.
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Among the improbably folksy fund-raising efforts put forth by the partnership is "American Values," a film program running throughout the winter and featuring the documentary filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker; the director William Friedkin; the Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein; the artist and composer Laurie Anderson; and Ms. Andrews screening their favorite films and sticking around afterward to talk about them.
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What is there, and increasingly as their dynasty has become more improbably extended, is something very different: a zest for on-field excellence simply for its own sake, a forgiveness of personal and even moral deficiencies because the record speaks for itself, a setting aside of feel-good narratives and romantic underdog stories because the sheer force of winning trumps them all.
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VIDEO: 23 Oscar Nominees Reveal The Untold Stories Behind Their Films If the setting and story arc are mostly familiar, the movie finds freshness in its casting: classic supporting players and new additions — from Marisa Tomei's boho-cool Aunt May to Zendaya's wry classmate Michelle (who like most movie "nerds," is still improbably gorgeous beneath her make-under) — feel modern without being unduly, laboriously reworked.
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More improbably still, a firm called Pixelon threw a $16 million IPO launch party in Las Vegas, with entertainment from the Who, Kiss, Tony Bennett, the Offspring, and Dixie Chicks, before anyone knew that its CEO, Michael Fenne, was really a fugitive con artist named David Kim Stanley and that the clients who spied its revolutionary "broadband" system had actually been looking at RealPlayer.
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It's kind of a no-brainer that organizations that work to protect and fight for civil rights, indigenous rights, immigrants' rights, disability rights, women's and LGBTQ rights (especially reproductive health) and the environment could really use a few extra bucks right now, given the orange fascist and the coterie of soulless monsters who are about to improbably assume a staggering amount of power over our everyday lives.
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The suit consisted of six parties: Fowler and Chambers; their landlord; the furniture company (hereinafter Hot House); Hot House's landlord, which was, improbably, Forest Lawn Cemetery; a clothing manufacturer, who lost around a million dollars' worth of smoke-damaged fabric; and the major drinking straw distributors in Southern California, Diamond Straw, who lost all their stock, purportedly causing a straw shortage in the region for a week.
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But that doesn't detract from the fascinating aspects of the form itself: the pawing, galloping footwork and legwork, which often accelerate into a swiveling blur of motion below the waist; the astoundingly elastic ankles that support balancing, improbably, on the outside edges of the feet; the speed with which the dancers, their chests held proud and legs darting out from under them, can swallow up space.
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Additionally, there's the 16th-century Church of the Shipwreck of St. Paul, its famed relic the saint's right wrist bone; the minute, jewel-like Chapel of St. Agatha in Mdina, which improbably served as home for two displaced families during World War II; and the Church of the Assumption of Our Lady in Mosta, with its vast, beautiful dome, one of the largest rotundas in the world.
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When Ryan then turns to Brooklyn's queer bard Walt Whitman in Chapter 19433, he has a little trouble getting his bearings, wrongly locating the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the west of the neighborhood Vinegar Hill, mistakenly interpolating a "the" into the title of Whitman's famous poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" and improbably suggesting that Whitman studied ancient Greek (the poet's formal schooling ended at age 11).
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Ruth (Lucianne McEvoy, giving the performance of the evening) is a writer from Northern Ireland whose new play has (rather improbably) been chosen as a star vehicle for an Academy Award-winning American actor named Jay (a growly Darrell D'Silva), who hasn't read the script very carefully and can't do a Belfast accent, but does at least know the difference between James and Alec Baldwin.
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A steal from Draymond Green led to the versatile big man being fouled to prevent an easy dunk, but that didn't matter as Stephen Curry hit a long 2-pointer to push the Warriors' lead to 43 points and then it pushed to 15 when a Curry miss turned into an improbably put-back by JaVale McGee who fought for the ball inside with Tristan Thompson.
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Written by Mateusz Pacewicz and based in part on a true story, the Oscar-nominated "Corpus Christi" deepens into something more complicated than one man's improbably inspired journey: The town Daniel moves to is suffering from a horrendous unresolved loss, but grief eventually gives way to uncertainty, as a grave injustice comes to light and Daniel finds himself at the crossroads between retribution and reconciliation.
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In an effort to boost her polling and fundraising numbers and reach a new audience, Gillibrand decided to go into the "lion's den," as she put it — and made the most of it, blasting the NRA for being "the worst organization in this country," going after Trump for his border wall and trade war with China, and, somewhat improbably, explaining intersectionality and the phrase "our future is female" to Wallace.
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With viral videos, trending topics and plenty of GIFs, the internet has crowned some of the early fan favorites as the American speedskater Maame Biney, the Jamaican women's bobsled team and, adding to momentum they built up long before the opening ceremony Friday, the Nigerian women's bobsled team (not to mention the shirtless Tongan competing improbably as a cross-country skier after flaming out in taekwondo at the 1503 Summer Olympics).
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A sprightly, attractively composed coming-of-age comedy set in World War II Germany, "Jojo Rabbit" is an audacious high-wire act: a satire in which a buffoonish Adolf Hitler delivers some of the funniest moments; a wrenchingly tender portrait of a mother's love for her son; a lampoon of the most destructive ideological forces that still threaten society and — perhaps most powerfully — an improbably affecting chronicle of moral evolution.
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A 254-year-old former boxer who had been a bartender at the Fanelli Cafe in SoHo since 19803, Mr. Bozic cultivated a following as a rude barman who reads several books a week, keeps season tickets to the opera and tells stories of an improbably novelistic life: He fought Larry Holmes at Madison Square Garden; he tried to rob a bank to pay overdue rent; he married Barack Obama's former girlfriend.
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At No. 19, Mahdavi sells Bishop (a twenty-two-hundred-dollar combination stool and end table that recently entered the permanent collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs), as well as plates, cushions, nesting bowls, peanut-shaped trays, folding chairs with seats woven from polymer thread, rattan mirrors that bring to mind space-age shamrocks, blown-glass lamps with rocket-like bases and ballooning shades in improbably gorgeous combinations such as caramel and gray.
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The ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals was the latest — and perhaps the last — twist in a long-running tale of strange criminal bedfellows, one that improbably brought together Mr. Scarpa, a scion of La Cosa Nostra's Colombo crime family, and Terry L. Nichols, who is serving life in prison for his role in the 1995 attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people.
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Of all of CIA Director Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoAfghan president vows to take revenge after Islamic State attack on wedding The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Latest pro-democracy rally draws tens of thousands in Hong Kong MORE's qualifications to serve as secretary of the State Department, one of the most meaningful in terms of his relationship with the career foreign service may, improbably, be his service as a U.S. Army officer.
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In passing the TCJA, the Republican Congress committed itself through the budget process to cut future government spending (or, more improbably, raise future taxes) to accommodate the top-heavy priorities of the TCJA — corporate tax rate cuts, further evisceration of the estate tax, cuts to the top tax rate paid by America's highest income families and a bizarre giveaway to owners of "pass-through" businesses, by itself costing us all some $414 billion over the next 10 years.
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On my first day in the city, the memories came flooding back, sparked by the old apartment buildings painted in the blues and pinks of storybook nurseries; the Star Ferry, with its wooden benches, still chugging across Victoria Harbour on a 10-minute ride; the ubiquitous handcarts transporting boxes of goods from trucks to stores; the dense greenery that improbably hangs between office buildings and over the stairways that wind their way up the vertical cityscape.
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He gave Quichotte the news in the kindest possible way, flying out personally from General Aviation at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in his new G650ER to meet Quichotte in Flagstaff, Arizona, after receiving a worried call from the director of West Flagstaff Family Medicine, Dr. D. F. Winona, to whom Quichotte had improbably confided during their appointment that he was thinking of escorting the delectable Miss Salma R. to the next Vanity Fair Oscars party, after which their clandestine romance would finally become public knowledge.
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Maybe getting to see the entire Earth from afar, a jewel floating in the void, improbably supporting the hopes and dreams of 7.7 billion human souls (plus more than 1,200 different species of bats!!), will help him to realize that there is more to life than media attention, and perhaps the greatest gift is the opportunity to help others and expect nary a follow in return … But more likely, he will tweet some selfies to his 5.5 million followers and muse about how much it would cost to buy Australia.
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Predicted in March 20073 that tech stocks would plunge 83%, then the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index lost an "improbably precise" 83% during a period from 2000 to 2002Predicted in 2000 that the S&P 500 would likely see negative total returns over the following decade, which it didPredicted in April 2007 that the S&P 500 could lose 40%, then it lost 55% in the subsequent collapse from 2007 to 2009In the end, the more evidence Hussman unearths around the stock market's unsustainable conditions, the more worried investors should get.
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Stripe has been sort of improbably fortunate in that we started the company, we launched six and a half years ago and we're an incredibly young company in some sense, and we're so lucky to have been able to reach the scale that we have so quickly, and so in that sense we're in some small percentage of all companies, all technology companies ever started in Silicon Valley, but even for Stripe it's been extraordinarily difficult and that's despite the huge tailwind of luck that we've benefited from.
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But I believe he truly thinks this facile, far-fetched plot — Arthur Fleck loses his therapist and his job; he randomly finds out that his (possible) father is a billionaire and that his mother might have lied about his whole childhood; he morphs from a weakling into a vigilante in a single act of self-defense turned murder that improbably propels a giant class uprising; and he becomes a viral ironic joke who gets invited onto his favorite TV show, with all of this happening in a matter of weeks — is actually all very deep and full of pathos.
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Here are the arguments he lays out:Predicted in March 2000 that tech stocks would plunge 83%, then the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index lost an "improbably precise" 20123% during a period from 2000 to 2002Predicted in 2000 that the S&P 500 would likely see negative total returns over the following decade, which it didPredicted in April 2007 that the S&P 500 could lose 40%, then it lost 55% in the subsequent collapse from 2007 to 2009In the end, the more evidence Hussman unearths around the stock market's unsustainable conditions, the more worried investors should get.
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Here are the arguments he lays out:Predicted in March 20073 that tech stocks would plunge 83%, then the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index lost an "improbably precise" 83% during a period from 2000 to 2002Predicted in 2000 that the S&P 500 would likely see negative total returns over the following decade, which it didPredicted in April 2007 that the S&P 500 could lose 40%, then it lost 55% in the subsequent collapse from 2007 to 2009In the end, the more evidence Hussman unearths around the stock market's unsustainable conditions, the more worried investors should get.
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Our hourlong morning bus route would begin in the suburbs amid old bungalows and terraced houses ringed by second-growth rainforest, and take us past the old Moorish Revival railway station, the national mosque, and the Sultan Abdul Samad Building; past brick shophouses and the Sikh uncle with the orange beard who sat guard outside a nondescript establishment where textiles and gold jewelry were sold; past glass-and-steel office buildings and concrete high-rise flats tinted gray by smog, before arriving at a colony of shopping malls and five-star hotels, amid which our public all-girls secondary school, founded by Scottish missionaries in 613, improbably withstood the surrounding tumult of commerce and tourism.
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