He had come to spread some of his talismanic powers.
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Hemingway's intentionally awkward language struck me as potent and talismanic.
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Some wonder if the company will survive without its talismanic boss.
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Nicodemus's friendship with Zaka gave him a sort of talismanic power.
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Mundane yet endearing, the heart-shaped starchy crop has become her talismanic symbol.
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It reminded me of Lakotan and Oglala war shields, as well as talismanic discs.
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Highland Reel finished the race in third place, three quarters of length behind Talismanic.
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They look as if they were made for talismanic purposes by an unknown people centuries ago.
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Orwell believed in the talismanic power of clear language to make lies and appalling talk plain.
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In a living room nook, scraps of original wallpaper were preserved in little bags like talismanic relics.
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Matisse and Freud, especially, regarded the pieces they amassed around them as possessed of a talismanic power.
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Like Kahlo's personal jewelry, Ms. Dyment's collection of gold and enamel portrait rings have a talismanic quality.
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Talismanic (15-1) will find this race easier after knocking heads with the best in France. 4.
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Still, he appeared in several more Godard films and served as a talismanic figure for younger directors.
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Yet the idea of a liberal Western education exerts an almost talismanic hold over China's ruling classes.
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Inside of three caves in the Red Valley, Gures created a dreamlike, talismanic wunderkammer with three installations.
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Korea's talismanic forward Son Heung-min struck a scorching consolation goal in stoppage time from outside the area.
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Nestled in the netting, these mundane items suddenly looked potent and significant, almost like devotional or talismanic objects.
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Talismanic races as a homebred for Sheikh Mohammed in the name of his powerhouse global racing operation, Godolphin.
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The Afropunk festival in Brooklyn once again brought out the transformative, talismanic magic of clothing and self-expression.
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard lost its most talismanic leadership figure, who had built a network of regional proxies.
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Her policy platform is built on all sorts of worthy centre-left nudges and nurdles, but no talismanic idea.
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The game in the United States, while embraced in greater numbers every year, remains without a universally talismanic personality.
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Beauty — distracting, exclusionary, often more talismanic and notional than "real" — has never been a steady organizing principle for life.
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For some sex workers, though, such objects remain close to sacrosanct, acquiring, over years of service, a talismanic glow.
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Tom Sachs gave it to me, and so it's more like a little sentimental talismanic item than a utility item.
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" "As several characters note in the book, there was something talismanic and iconic about the year "'77," even in '77.
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However, when it comes to their front lines, both the Portuguese and the Poles rely on a single, talismanic figure.
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M.C. anthem "My Adidas," one in which the talismanic status symbol isn't a sneaker but rather a cheap writing instrument.
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The colored bumps (red, green and yellow) evenly spaced along the oval's edge infuse the piece with a talismanic presence.
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Like many of the objects in Power and Protection, whether talismanic chart or elaborate amulet, there's nothing else like it.
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And because BatSense is so small and unobtrusive, there should be no change to that talismanic sound of leather on willow.
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Electronic trading co-exists with both a telephone market and open outcry in the form of the talismanic leather-seated "ring".
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Among the Australian political class, there is a bipartisan, almost talismanic belief that governmental authority comes from a "strong" maritime border.
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Along with cats and the sea, the potato is a kind of talismanic object tying the stages of her oeuvre together.
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Simultaneously grotesque and whimsical, the miniatures made from the hardened candy, decorated with paint, buttons, and beads, offer absurd, quaint talismanic figurines.
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The words on Koraïchi's La prière are executed with a form of writing known as "mirrored calligraphy," which often bears talismanic qualities.
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Now it seems to me a talismanic symbol, and a symptom, of twentieth-century horrors, as they affect souls temperamentally insulated from politics.
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It's in "The Folded Clock," by Heidi Julavits (who sometimes collaborates with Shapton), a diary partly organized around the recurrence of talismanic objects.
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The uranium deal an almost talismanic term to many Clinton haters by now, said Eric Oliver, a political scientist who studies conspiratorial thinking.
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These talismanic emblems are also inspired by stories from Syria about heavy textiles being hung from buildings to protect civilians from sniper fire.
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More than that, it's a future in which the invocation of free speech loses its talismanic cultural power to connote neutrality, fairness, and democracy.
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It's not enough to make a "talismanic incantation" of a general national-security interest, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said in the spring.
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Williams's objects, which might recall something found around the house — a handbag or a tchotchke — have been transformed into something talismanic, strange, and inviting.
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There is a signed glossy headshot of Kim Novak from Vertigo (1958), a talismanic film for Marker that influenced La Jetée, among other works.
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From the talismanic beats of Ethiopia's Mikael Seifu, to the silky production work of Nigeria's Aina More, to the Bacardi House of DJ Spoko.
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That act is a kind of talismanic seal, a spell, a gesture that transforms hurt into healing through the shared belief in its power.
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Atletico have been in the market for a forward after talismanic striker Antoine Griezmann said last month that he would leave in the close season.
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Maybe it's the fact that the world is currently a pretty scary place, but talismanic charms have made a comeback at all levels of fashion.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Portugal proved they can flourish without their talismanic forward Cristiano Ronaldo, at least on the pitch, in beating France to win Euro 2016.
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He will be 33 years of age by the time Russia 2018 comes around, and unlikely to have the same talismanic influence as he does now.
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He's a man with negative credibility on this matter, and despite his father's talismanic invocation of the word "transparency," he's been anything but transparent about it.
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That's partly because the blockchain — the mathematical ledger system that forms the basis of digital currencies — has a kind of talismanic effect in today's stock market.
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In October, he sang the national anthem before two Cardinals playoff games at Busch Stadium, hoping to transfer his talismanic powers to the local baseball team.
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Miles's body in particular takes on an almost talismanic power, and Bible is careful in his attention to its postures, strength and states of dress and undress.
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It required a talismanic figurehead to be the face of this 'sleeping giant' breaking free of its Division 1 snooze and finally mixing it with the big boys.
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The team is at something of a low ebb at the moment and, as such, they looked to the talismanic influence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic at every given opportunity.
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Van Marwijk even introduced veteran Tim Cahill off the bench, but the talismanic 38-year-old couldn't add to his five goals in his three previous World Cups.
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Every longevity experimenter has talismanic photos or videos of two mice: one timid and shuffling, with patchy fur; the other sleek and vital, thrumming with the miracle elixir.
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His characters move through streets named so often — Richmond and Waugh, Rusk and Fairview — that they come to have talismanic power, like the street names in Springsteen songs.
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In the face of these unprecedented and incendiary declarations of war against the press, journalists and media pundits continued to preach the talismanic gospel of self-restraint and evenhandedness.
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But Les Bleus insist they will be ready just on time for Saturday's game after a tailor-made physical preparation, with talismanic striker Antoine Griezmann expected to finally shine.
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In Marrakech, one cannot read the words adorning the surfaces of Koraïchi's vessels, nor decipher other talismanic symbols and glyphs, no matter how close one gets to the pool.
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Putting a finer point on it: "[n]ational security is not a 'talismanic incantation' that, once invoked, can support any and all exercise of executive power under Sect. 1182(f)".
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ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Egypt's talismanic striker Mohamed Salah was named in their starting line-up for their second World Cup Group A match against Russia in St Petersburg on Tuesday.
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Deepwater Horizon expertly handles the slow build up to the disaster, making complex machinery understandable, and imbuing things like pressure levels and kill lines with a kind of talismanic power.
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Strange totems, like a talismanic horseshoe McKay clutches for dear life, come and go, and a psychiatric hospital with the calming name of Lavender Memorial might be anything but therapeutic.
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His characters move through streets that he names so often — Richmond and Waugh, Rusk and Fairview — that they come to have talismanic power, like the street names in Springsteen songs.
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That has unnerved many - including talismanic former leader Nigel Farage, who split opinion at a UKIP dinner in Birmingham when he voiced concern it could prevent the party regaining mainstream appeal.
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An uncomfortable part of the truth is that bourgeois women thought that the hats were cute, and so the hats conferred a kind of talismanic sense of community on their wearers.
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In his final race, Highland Reel's main foe is expected to be Talismanic, a fellow European who was the upset winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf in November at Del Mar.
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And while polls show that a majority of people still sees joining the European Union as the best road to prosperity, the promise of European integration is losing its talismanic power.
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I think of this image as possibly possessing talismanic powers for the artist, as a kind of good luck charm that he thinks might be of use to others as well.
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Breaking down a heavily-manned defense is of course harder when your star turn does not join the party and Brazil and Argentina will want to see more from their talismanic talents.
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As owner of the Spiritual Candle Shop, he creates amulets and other talismanic items using roots, oils, candles, herbs, and various curios that are part of the African American folk magic pantheon.
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Nintendo's talismanic designer Shigeru Miyamoto, who created the iconic Donkey Kong, Super Mario, and Zelda series among many others, was even on hand to introduce the new game, called Super Mario Run.
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In his early 20s, while living in the Chelsea Hotel, Mapplethorpe supported himself by selling talismanic jewelry he made from scavenged ephemera — dice, nails, feathers, coins, empty crab claws swiped from restaurants.
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Fortunately for the Dutch champion, it was able to hold on to the talismanic Hakim Ziyech, despite confirming he would in-fact leave the club in the summer, according to the BBC.
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And Biden's repeated invoking of the presidency of Barack Obama -- who has become a talismanic figure in his party -- is beginning to look more like a crutch than a strong political point.
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Cilantro is the most common herb in Georgian cooking, but tarragon is the most talismanic, flavoring everything from stews to a carbonated drink that you can order at restaurants, like a Coke.
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"There is nothing talismanic about an executive order," said a statement from Thomas Saenz, the president and general counsel of MALDEF, a Latino rights group pursuing one of the cases against the administration.
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Arabic mingles with indigenous North African languages (much of the work is made by North African dyers, weavers and potters), and invented characters — some resembling Chinese, others talismanic signs — are liberally stirred in.
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Tables display orderly arrangements of fishing lures, ramshackle models of houses, a painted-tin butterfly, a stitched-leather polar bear, a flea-market painting of three shaggy dogs, talismanic rocks, and much more.
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Best known in the US for her carved wood sculptures combined with photographs and paint, "Autoretrato" is a talismanic self-portrait that reveals another side of this artist who deserves to be better known.
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Their strong form in the qualifying campaign seemed like a distant past, and talismanic striker Robert Lewandowski summed it up with his nonchalant comments after the defeat to Los Cafeteros at the Kazan Arena.
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Talismanic attacker Xherdan Shaqiri was relegated with Stoke City, Granit Xhaka had an inconsistent campaign with Arsenal while center forward Haris Seferovic failed to start a single game in 2018 with Portuguese giants Benfica.
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MILAN, May 17 (Reuters) - Italy's talismanic goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon will play his last match for Juventus when they host Verona in Serie A on Saturday, he told reporters on Thursday, according to Italian media.
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Clinton's emails have acquired a talismanic power in this election, a digital dung heap that embodies the negatives she has struggled to shake off: defensiveness, reflexive secrecy, the whiff of shortcuts and sharp practice.
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Even among hunter-gatherers who were struggling to survive, it was worthwhile for someone to spend up to 400 hours fashioning an object that served nothing but a talismanic purpose, connecting people to invisible worlds.
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Image courtesy of the artist All these feed into Akopyan's work, which both subverts and celebrates Russia, its history, religion, and culture, filtering its iconography through the provocative, stylised, almost talismanic imagery of fetish art.
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Everyday life in the USA is deeply odd, full of potential that swims beneath its flat surfaces, and its clichéd fragments take on a talismanic power when cropped and framed in just the right way.
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Meanwhile, while Athletic Bilbao were anything but unimaginative, their approach was considerably less romantic and far more rooted in a workmanlike ethic, not to mention the individual exploits of their talismanic forwards, Dani and Manu Sarabia.
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Argentina's talismanic captain Messi quit the international stage after the June 26 reverse, his fourth defeat in finals with the national team and third in the last two years including the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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It seems unlikely that the al-Baghdadi killing will have such a talismanic effect for Trump — not only because the ISIS leader is less well known than bin Laden but also because Trump himself is so polarizing.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina have the ability to win an elusive Olympic gold medal in women's hockey at the Rio Games despite losing talismanic, eight-times world player of the year Luciana Aymar, coach Gabriel Minadeo said.
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Those early concoctions, like all of his art, were steeped in the tradition of African-American "yard art," which itself was rooted in the African spiritual practice of crafting talismanic objects to protect the home or body.
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Whether in paintings and drawings, video and sound, or the talismanic aura of objects and images, Abboud's work had its own distinctive pace, a quiet depth and level of reflection that left one changed after encountering it.
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Inter's Serie A rivals Roma had no such problems with talismanic forward Francesco Totti continuing to defy the ageing process as he played a pivotal role in their comprehensive demolition of Astra two days after his 40th birthday.
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As to the view of art's being essentially talismanic, there's a museum-within-the-museum devoted to the idea here, in the form of an installation called "Partners (the Teddy Bear Project)" by the German artist Ydessa Hendeles.
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NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia (Reuters) - The Egyptian Football Association denied reports that talismanic striker Mohamed Salah was on the verge of quitting international football after he unwittingly became a publicity pawn for the Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Steve Jobs wasn't exaggerating when he described the iPhone as a kind of magical object, and it's truly wild that in the span of a few years, we've managed to turn these amazing talismanic tools into stress-inducing albatrosses.
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This followed the Senate's decision last weekend to authorize oil drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area full of wildlife, of talismanic significance to environmentalists and of great economic importance to Native Americans.
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At one point, standing in the stark white room with four of her sculptures, I was reminded of the hokey science fiction plot in which time has collapsed and the camera pans talismanic objects to evoke an unknown culture.
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Fleisig believes the rise of Tommy John surgery among young pitchers is due to extreme overuse, not simply the popularization of the procedure's talismanic faculties, which typically include a return to pre-injury aptitude after 12 to 153 months recovery time.
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These are like talismanic elements woven into the fiber of the piece, much like the gestures that recur from one section to the next: pointing, placing a hand on the heart, lifting the forearms toward the body as if splashing water.
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But, since finding itself on the winning side of the Brexit vote UKIP has struggled to influence the exit process, seeing its voter support evaporate and undergoing two years of inner turmoil to find a leader to replace the talismanic Nigel Farage.
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The alarm bells continued to ring on Sunday as the United States allowed France, playing without talismanic point guard Tony Parker, to rally from a 16-point deficit late in the third quarter to turn a predicted rout into another nail-biter.
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While Swansea City midfielder Ki Sung-yueng was not judged fit enough to play, Korea's talismanic wide man Son Heung-min, who fractured his forearm in June, was in the line-up, although he was given little time or space by Iran's defense.
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Rory Smith: It's slightly curious that Colombia — still a gifted squad, even without James Rodriguez, the country's talismanic playmaker — seem to have decided that the only route to victory (or, now, parity) is to turn the game into a tetchy, fractious scrap.
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Shigeru Miyamoto, the talismanic creator of franchises like Mario, Donkey Kong, and The Legend of Zelda, expressed concern over whether VR technology could be used for a long time, and also what parents might think seeing their children wearing headsets in the living room.
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The label's own pieces are gorgeous — they have a graphic, talismanic quality that makes them appear at once assuringly ancient and attractively modern — but Bugdaycay and Catalan also do custom work, and really, jewelry is at its best when it's made for only you.
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No doubt the return to fitness and form of Brazil's talismanic forward Neymar has played a part in placing Brazil at the top this particular World Cup probability table, as he's been on target during both of the country's recent tournament warm-up matches.
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Mercurial midfielders and a talismanic giant of a central defender... analyze England's World Cup 2018 team, and remarkable similarities emerge between the XI expected to start the semi-final against Croatia on Wednesday, and the team that last reached a semi-final in 1990.
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"The use of these kinds of amulets and talismanic objects as forms of material protection was commonplace and it was something that united a disparate range of cultures and societies that feature in the exhibition, stretching from Europe to the Islamic world," Handley said.
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Despite privation and a lack of means to express to each other the staggering uncertainty of their situation, they nonetheless exchange talismanic gifts (the thimble) and are capable of loyalty and protectiveness that evince a humanity greater than any shown to them by society.
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SARANSK, Russia (Reuters) - Cristiano Ronaldo has scored Portugal's all-four goals in the World Cup so far and the European Champions will be heavily dependent on the talismanic forward to see them through against a stoic Iran side in their final Group B match on Monday.
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ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Neymar needs at least five matches to return to top form after a long injury layoff, but Brazil have not asked their talismanic forward to gamble on his fitness just to be improve their chances at the World Cup, coach Tite said on Thursday.
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Rodwittiya's inspiration for these tenacious, talismanic subjects began with her early inquiry into gender politics as an art student in the 1970s when figuration was at the height of being reinvented, and a personal quest about her own identity as a highly independent Indian woman took shape.
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Among others, the veteran New York dealer Luise Ross will showcase works by Bill Traylor, Minnie Evans and the French artist Michel Nedjar, a maker of paintings, mixed-media drawings and mysterious dolls resembling talismanic, fetish objects, which he fashions out of fabric scraps, twigs and debris.
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Second, he gets the chance to prove that he is just as terrifying and intimidating without that DMX song, that he and only he is responsible for the success of his fighting career, and that "Ain't No Sunshine" doesn't have any particular talismanic power over him or his opponents.
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That talismanic Euro-word, integration, finds new relevance: Instead of segregating migrants and asylum seekers in enclaves like those in inner-city Brussels or among the banlieues of Paris, several European municipalities are exploring ways to accelerate the process of assimilation by providing low-cost housing, education and job training.
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And Pentecostals have long associated spiritual blessing with material wealth, which may help explain why there is something talismanic about the Louis Vuitton bag for Hollis: It showed that her hard work and strategic goal-setting channeled the kind of earnest faith that God rewarded in the form of $10,000 consulting checks.
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Whereas the simple, uncluttered, found-object assemblages of the blind Hawkins Bolden can feel eloquent and soulful, and those of Lonnie Holley often recall African-American yard art's talismanic character, Kornegay's works tend to address their subjects, both biblical and other themes, more literally, as well as with more quirky, formal-interpretive twists.
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UKIP chairman Paul Nuttall, the party's candidate in Stoke and its second leader since the talismanic Nigel Farage stepped down after the Brexit vote, could be defined by his success or failure to win over Labour's strong residual support that gave Corbyn's party a victory by 16 percent over UKIP there in 2015.
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Other guardian and talismanic sculptures, like "Homage to the Kri-Kri" (1985) and "The Death of Fishing" (2007) are festooned with the artist's expired credit cards, fishing nets and lures, letters, spark plugs, and covered in nails like Kongo minkisi figures, the African ritual pieces that are included as supplemental reference objects in this exhibition.
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Ms. Norris is a keen believer in talismanic objects: the paperweight she found under the Williamsburg Bridge, a pine cone that survived a fire on the island of Thassos in northern Greece, the small figure of a goddess from Corfu and a small wooden block bearing her initials that she found on the street.
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Some of the works in this show (her first at this gallery) experiment with a slightly bigger scale but continue to use a Bess-like vocabulary of amoebic splotches and short parallel marks, given added interest by Ms. Baras's stuffed, dented and punctured surfaces and by the little talismanic objects glued to them (slivers of wood, scatterings of pebbles).
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The so-called "Twitterverse experiment" is where the roleplay community REALLY flourished, due in large part to the developers staging elaborate ARGs with in-game and physical payoffs (to this day, I keep a dogtag of my character's in-game faction stowed, talismanic, in my car's glovebox—my reward for "winning" one of the roleplay contests).
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Before he could even step into the Octagon on Saturday, the Ontario Athletic Commission and the UFC were conspiring to strip the man called "Valhalla" of his most cherished and recognizable affectations: the long beard and two-bladed axe that have been Meek's professional calling card and his talismanic connection to the warmongering legacy of his country's Viking past.
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Growing up in Communist Poland, Mona Kowalska, 54, had an early insight into the power of fashion through a pair of treasured red clogs that her mother bought for her on the black market: When she wore them, she had her first inkling that clothes could be talismanic, a means of communicating the personal to the world at large.
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Mister Rogers's talismanic cardigan, which is faithfully recreated by Yasemin Esmeck for the new film "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," starring Tom Hanks, was the sartorial equivalent of a lullaby — sweet, comforting, bland — and it helped lull generations of American preschoolers into the cozy Neighborhood of Make-Believe, where there are no bad people and no bad thoughts.
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This ready-made embrace of marriage equality from on high portended how Obergefell could become a talismanic victory—#LoveWins—in a long-standing legal struggle, even as so many other fights no less rooted in questions of the law's capacity to see us, and to see us as more than spouses-in-waiting, were left unfinished.
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Read more: The 12 highest-paid soccer players in the worldHowever Alves, who recently partnered with The Players' Tribune to document his recent move to byhood club Sao Paulo FC, believes his former side will find a replacement for its talismanic star, similar to the way Real Madrid have done so with Vinicius in the aftermath of Cristiano Ronaldo's departure.
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Nuttall, an elected member of the European parliament since 2009, will take over from UKIP's talismanic former leader Nigel Farage, who stood down in June after achieving his decades-long ambition of seeing Britain vote to leave the EU. While Farage has gone on to become a high-profile ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump since the referendum, UKIP has struggled to build on the anti-establishment sentiment it harnessed during the Brexit campaign.
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In a parallel, literary fashion, In Search of Lost Time narrates a young man's development as an only child under the aegis of his parents, recovering a kind of simultaneity of past, present, and future by rebuilding talismanic moments from his past and finding correspondences in the lived moments that involve others — his extended family and various love interests — and all the obsessions, jealousies, aspirations, and disappointments to be found within an expanding and contracting aristocratic social orbit.
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