NOT THAT David Cameron's modernisation project was an unalloyed success.
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The new experiment is an unalloyed triumph over classical methods.
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That's not to say that parasites became an unalloyed good.
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But the march to adaptation is not an unalloyed good.
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Such relatively unalloyed pleasure is almost as essential as food.
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Amazon's arrival might once have been heralded as an unalloyed good.
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Reagan's unalloyed preference for Southern California, aroused parochial resentment in Sacramento.
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Is that evil or an unalloyed good or something in between?
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Whether that's an unalloyed boon to employers remains to be seen.
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That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
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Unalloyed notions of the free market are not what they're about.
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But many readers took Western civilization to be an unalloyed virtue.
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But that does not make the gossip press an unalloyed good.
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To be sure, the benefits of competition are not unalloyed or absolute.
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Honestly, it's content that is so pure and unalloyed I'm almost weeping.
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Hence if you stick to unalloyed reality, few people will follow you.
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Regulatory reform, Mr. Cruz said, was "an unalloyed success" for the president.
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Nor was even his art an unalloyed pleasure: his public frustrated him.
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For some in the industry, the intensifying competition is unalloyed good news.
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A market less in thrall to speculators might seem like an unalloyed boon.
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That is not to say that close community ties are an unalloyed good.
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This week, the Supreme Court handed the abortion-rights movement an unalloyed victory.
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Not everyone in the trans community sees facial feminization as offering unalloyed benefits.
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Arthur: I am an unalloyed fan of both the town and the university.
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It was an opportunity to say hello, glass in hand, with unalloyed enthusiasm.
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In practice, Mr Netanyahu may not find Mr Trump's uncritical friendship an unalloyed blessing.
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It is clear the Clinton brain trust views this groundswell as an unalloyed good.
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This new masculine ideal is an unalloyed improvement on all the earlier masculine ideals.
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It would be nice to report that re-entry has been an unalloyed delight.
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The tourism and business links that visa-free travel will foster are an unalloyed good.
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After a round of setbacks, Ms. Notley's one bit of good news was not unalloyed.
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For sheer bombast, scale, and unalloyed star power, there's surely been nothing like it. Glastonbury?
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The EU import duties currently range from 22017% for unalloyed aluminium to 22000% for alloys.
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He should also not assume that the Trump administration will be unalloyed good news for him.
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But in 2019, Ellen's niceness is no longer playing to her audience as an unalloyed good.
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Because the UK's membership of the EU has been a virtually unalloyed good for the environment.
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"The decline in oil prices is not an unalloyed good," said PNC chief economist Gus Faucher.
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The latest mass killing in New Zealand is a reminder that these benefits are not unalloyed.
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He wants to tour, he says, and show the world his form of curious, unalloyed genius.
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But the idea of optimizing your life to spark joy isn't an unalloyed good for everyone.
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It's also important to remember that the strength of the economy is not an unalloyed positive.
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If Cronin and Fitch had never made their discovery, that result would have been an unalloyed triumph.
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His character is only really convincing — and entertaining — in the early going, when he's an unalloyed bastard.
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For good drivers, hard workers, athletes and the financially prudent, all this might seem an unalloyed good.
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But for this to be the unalloyed positive it can be, I must set the record straight.
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A decade later, encouraged by Noah Greenberg, one of Pro Musica's founders, he became an unalloyed countertenor.
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But that may have been the last bit of unalloyed good news Froome has enjoyed this month.
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"WDCH Dreams" is a benign work, an unalloyed vision of artificial intelligence as partner rather than threat.
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In the half-century since, the unalloyed "party of principles" Mr. Lewis yearned for has come to pass.
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Something in his unalloyed nature brings out the storyteller in people, as long as no name is attached.
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We have gotten to see here pure, unalloyed, deep-red conservative government, and we will learn from it.
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Cheap oil is no longer an unalloyed good for the U.S. economy, as domestic energy production has soared.
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There may not be much the United States can do, despite the Trump administration's unalloyed hostility toward Iran.
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To others, especially members of the news media who had been taken in, they were an unalloyed menace.
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Opinion Columnist Did that look of unalloyed contempt come naturally to Corey Lewandowski, or did he rehearse it?
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Her party's most prominent surrogates—in particular the President, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren—all issued unalloyed endorsements.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — I have not always been an unalloyed fan of Cindy Sherman.
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Since 1910, the State of California has treated fires as unalloyed threats that need to be immediately put out.
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There were middle-aged men, cosplayers, schoolkids, and even a furry — all united by unalloyed enjoyment of geek culture.
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As a rule, friendship is considered an unalloyed good, one of life's happy-happies, like flowers and fresh fruit.
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Each and every new release is an unalloyed joy, and usually the highlight of our (admittedly quite sad) week.
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In 2007, when Mr. Jobs unveiled the iPhone, just about everyone greeted the new device as an unalloyed good.
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If she were a man, she would right now be the natural frontrunner, the unalloyed frontrunner in Democratic politics.
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To defenders, it is a practical and necessary exercise of regulatory authority in service of an unalloyed public good.
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Unbelievably, Pelosi — long a G.O.P. target for her unalloyed liberalism — is derided by the far left for her pragmatism.
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Unbelievably, Pelosi — long a G.O.P. target for her unalloyed liberalism — is derided by the far left for her pragmatism.
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Politics, our personal health, our careers or lives in general — these do not provide a narrative of unalloyed progress.
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It seems an unalloyed good that prematurely born fetuses may eventually have a greatly improved chance to live and thrive.
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When the Montreal Protocol marked its 53th anniversary in 2017, it seemed like an unalloyed triumph for environmental common sense.
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BG But the problem now is that innovation is not viewed as an unalloyed way to improve the human condition.
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He recalled being mesmerized as Mr. Jones, "the craziest man I've ever seen in my life," played with unalloyed joy.
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These three books for young readers — all set after school's out — contain education and entertainment, nuanced instruction and unalloyed amusement.
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This makes it all the odder that Churchill has portrayed World War II as an unalloyed American-British-Soviet triumph.
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It's not clear that most Americans see technological progress as the unalloyed good that it is considered in Silicon Valley.
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But it's the first unalloyed victory the Trump administration has had in nearly 11 months of litigation on the travel ban.
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And its defeat is an unalloyed triumph for China, the country that President-elect Donald J. Trump castigated repeatedly over trade.
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And when she was called on by a fellow friend to speak at the dinner, Ms. Stebich's unalloyed affection became public.
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Yabushita are unapologetic and unalloyed proclamations of the dark truth of MMA: that it's at its root brutal and animalistic and awful.
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Even if Ireland retains its edge on tax, a post-Brexit exodus of financiers from London might not be an unalloyed boon.
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For many people, being able to play games without intruding on an uninterested partner's (or roommate's) space probably is an unalloyed good.
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All the while, he was guided by the heroic entrepreneurial creed of Ayn Rand, a champion of unalloyed selfishness and remorseless capitalism.
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Yet what may be the most controversial aspect of the tax bill, its impact on the deficit, is clearly an unalloyed good.
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It is not simply about adolescence; it is itself adolescent in its willingness to indulge in sheer rage unalloyed with nuanced thought.
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Democrats reacted cautiously to Soleimani's killing, but immediately raised questions about its legality, even as Republicans hailed it as an unalloyed triumph.
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They should contain their elation: the factors driving the rally are not unalloyed positives, and the competition is doing even better (see chart).
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Part of the problem stems from the collapse itself, which the West saw as an unalloyed good and a breakthrough for global peace.
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I wish those scenes could serve as an unalloyed testament to the strength of the Jewish community in the face of horrible violence.
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With midterm elections coming, the economy is Mr. Trump's trump card, the most unalloyed note of success in an otherwise herky-jerky presidency.
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Even if these super citizens were doing everything right with their giving, Mr. Callahan said he wouldn't see that as an unalloyed good.
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Taking over the orchestra in which both his father, Michael, and mother, Yoko Takebe, had been longtime players was not an unalloyed advantage.
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Talk with six different people who know the Clintons well and you hear six different appraisals of their bond, each presented with unalloyed confidence.
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You don't have to think that fracking is an unalloyed blessing — much less deny that tough safety standards are necessary — to acknowledge its benefits.
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"From our point of view, it is an unalloyed plus for Britain to remain in the EU."Malcolm Turnbull, Australian prime minister, May 1st.
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Not since the restrictionist movements in the early 20th century has a leading politician tried to galvanize Americans with such an unalloyed nativist message.
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Donovan just stood there, in a double-breasted gray-on-navy pinstripe suit, beaming at my grandfather with what appeared to be unalloyed pride.
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The academy is accustomed to unconventional behavior from Nobel laureates, who do not always exhibit unalloyed joy when they get the notifying telephone call.
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I've rarely seen people so transfixed with unalloyed joy, which is something I've found fiction — my ordinary pop culture of choice — unable to offer lately.
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But the rising influence of unalloyed conservatism since the Reagan era has increasingly placed GOP economic policies at odds with the preferences of the electorate.
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There are no level playing fields, and the required rat's nest of compromises and concessions means that there's no such thing as an unalloyed win.
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All this would be an unalloyed plus for Biden if the Democrats were getting ready for a family reunion, but that is not the case.
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Sure enough, yesterday federal Judge Julie Robinson overturned the law that Kobach was defending as lead counsel for the state, dealing him an unalloyed defeat.
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Her story makes it far harder, Republicans say, for their candidates to treat Judge Kavanaugh as an unalloyed asset and excoriate Democrats who oppose him.
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But too much of the discussion about this issue treats opioids as an unalloyed evil, as opposed to a valuable medication that is terribly overused.
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By that measure, this horrific traffic jam offers more than seven minutes of unalloyed truth, scored almost entirely by a cacophony of blaring car horns.
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If Bill Clinton was an unalloyed asset and fundraising machine behind the scenes, his wife's aides had some anxiety about his appearances on the stump.
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The unanimous decision, handed down on Tuesday, is an unalloyed defeat for Mr. Johnson and will propel Britain into a fresh round of political turmoil.
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"I don't think people view the talks as an unalloyed good, that under all circumstances North and South talking is a good thing," the official said.
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That unalloyed conviction in your own Kool-Aid is so much more important than waking up every day with a consistency about what your vision is.
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With their unalloyed drive to excel, the élite young attorneys who ascend to the Southern District have a lifetime of good grades to show for it.
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Their reunion is just about the only appearance of unalloyed serenity in the show, other than Summer McCorkle's five-minute video, Song for 360 Court Street (2014).
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The 2017 film I, Tonya, shows how Tonya Harding suffered from physical and emotional abuse coupled with classism, yet it doesn't depict her as an unalloyed victim.
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Voters sided with the Trump in part because they knew Trump's unalloyed patriotism is part and parcel of his refusal to submit to the Left's moral authority.
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On this score, Mr. Trump is the most unalloyed success, fusing boardroom bravado and constant exaggeration to convince his supporters that his vast wealth was an asset.
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Eight months ago, the Brexit vote seemed an unalloyed triumph for a party founded for the single purpose of campaigning for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
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These reports always rely solely on anecdotes, and they almost never look into the abundant economic data arguing that minimum wages are an unalloyed good for everyone.
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The fact that we have intertwined pop culture and politics, and use them both as ways to think about our identities, is not necessarily an unalloyed good.
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They knew how historical experiments in self-governance—the Greek democracies, the early Roman republic, the city-states of Renaissance Italy—had been weakened by unalloyed self-enrichment.
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With this material it creates exhibitions that advance scholarship (some of the catalogs are instant classics) but also give unalloyed pleasure, partly because the scale is always right.
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Hence the touching encounter between Morris and Warm, who turns out to be a kindred spirit, shy and unalloyed in his ideals, impossible to target or to hate.
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The once playful tint of fragile ballerinas, Bubble Yum and Malibu Barbie has flexed some muscle of late, taking on overtones of sociopolitical protest, transgression and unalloyed eroticism.
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Playing the figure of unalloyed evil here, Law gives the malice of this man who would be king full rein, while Bana provides convincing contrast as the betrayed brother.
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The problems with the collection are its unalloyed mainstream focus, which may widen as other holdings are shown, and the frequency of works that are more average than outstanding.
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But the president, who has long felt victimized by the Russia investigation and the shadow it has cast over his legitimacy, presented Mr. Barr's statements as an unalloyed victory.
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O'Connor's brand of pragmatism didn't necessarily square with the views of advocates on either side of the abortion debate, just as Casey wasn't an unalloyed good for either side.
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The fact that Facebook presents its internet efforts as an unalloyed public good, and not (also) a strategic necessity for the company, can fuel suspicions that Facebook has ulterior motives.
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Donald Trump's candidacy is an unalloyed expression of male id: Yield to me, worship me, never question the expanse of my reach, do not impugn the majesty of my endowment.
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The essay was Warren's attempt to lay out a solution to the toaster problem, but it also became a seedbed for the most unalloyed progressive achievement of the Obama era.
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To friends and business associates, including struggling writers, he was frequently generous, more generous than unalloyed prudence or the burgher work ethic that he embodied might lead us to expect.
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By stitching together a deal that aims to meet the demands of conservative and centrist Republican senators, Mr. McConnell can claim the bill as an unalloyed win for conservative voters.
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Actual shippers or anyone who might pour cold water on the idea that the Jones Act is an unalloyed good for the American economy and necessary to our national defense.
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Familiarity breeds contempt; as technology wormed deeper into our lives, it began to feel less like an unalloyed good and more like every other annoyance we have to deal with.
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It's something I hadn't foreseen when I started writing about VR four years ago, when I shared a miserable apartment with three total strangers and escape seemed like an unalloyed good.
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Even more important, it has become clear over the past two decades that globalization has not been such an unalloyed boon for the United States as some wish to portray it.
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And as other industry players prepared to embark on another round of consolidation that is now gathering steam, they awaited the outcome of the U.S. government's initial legal challenge with unalloyed interest.
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"This analysis does not mean to imply that dog and cat ownership should be curtailed for environmental reasons," Okin writes in his study, "but neither should we view it as an unalloyed good."
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Pinker's insistence that all potential qualms about progress—from the environment to inequality—are actually trivial suggests that he is trying to prove an unalloyed optimism no amount of facts could ever establish.
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He's likely to stick to the strategy that worked for him the first time: His aides say he views the nomination of Neil Gorsuch as one of the unalloyed triumphs of his presidency.
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When I watched Mbappé, so confident in blue, as he dashed and nutmegged to this year's World Cup trophy, I felt what I too rarely feel: unalloyed hope for the generation to come.
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He had an unalloyed passion for technology and the molecular world around him, the two manifesting in his breakthrough use of time-lapse film (or "time magnification" as he called it) and microcinematography.
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Amazon makes fantastic TV shows, for instance, but it has hardly damaged Disney or Netflix in doing so; for the producers of TV shows, its entry into the business has been an unalloyed boon.
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Spuds is an extension of my lifelong fascination — envy, even — with the unalloyed levity and audacity found in a certain type of white, straight masculinity: early Beastie Boys, Ferris Bueller, 2011-2013 Justin Bieber.
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Miss King's body of work — she also wrote book criticism for Newsday, The New York Times and other publications — is an unalloyed testament to the aspects of modern culture that set her teeth on edge.
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But as Moser and Selena's answers suggested, they may not have been such unalloyed advantages in the general election — after all, fewer than 50 percent of Americans believe in free college tuition, according to Gallup.
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With their unalloyed messages of resentment and rage, Trump and Bannon have inadvertently breathed new life into the Democratic "coalition of the ascendant," an electoral alliance of college educated whites, minority voters and younger Americans.
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Should Tuesday's vote fail, it would be an unalloyed embarrassment for a party that finally gained control of the White House, Senate, and House in January but still fell flat on its promise to uproot Obamacare.
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What's in danger is the status of near-total free speech as an unalloyed cultural virtue in the eyes of an American public who has seen unfettered free speech on the internet help flay the country apart.
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There is nothing bitter or sweet about this antsy, unnamable biomorph; refusing to stay put in its own painterly space, it reels like a drunk into ours — willfully rude and buoyantly playful, a jolt of unalloyed energy.
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If crunch is "natural," as he claims, and the reward has been recognition for the work you have put in, then it seems impossible for me to see that recognition as anything other than an unalloyed good.
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Mr. Trump, aides said, views the Gorsuch nomination as one of the unalloyed triumphs of his presidency, a model for how he would like to fill the seat soon to be vacated by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
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In an email, Alex Castellanos, a veteran Republican media consultant and Trump loyalist, put forward his view of why Trump and his supporters are immune to the attacks of the #MeToo movement: Trump displays unalloyed masculine strength.
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But analysts say this time Kabila cannot count on unalloyed support from Angola and other allies, especially if its leaders start to see Kabila as the problem, rather than the solution to difficulties in the central African giant.
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Second, no more pressuring Israel to move toward the two-state solution, a development that a centrist Israeli Prime Minister looking to fend off the wilder dreams of the annexationist right may discover is not an unalloyed good.
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And for a while, this was like if you were, if you were sort of cutting-edge thinking about the internet, this is what you said: It's an unalloyed good to be interacting with your readers, consumer, whatever.
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There is no ambiguous structure here in the way that you see "blockbuster" games in a generic sense are thrown up against the unalloyed creative good of independent game creators in some of the films I mentioned above.
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"Trump's campaign against ISIS is one of the unalloyed foreign policy successes of his presidency," noted Bergen, adding that Trump and former president Obama had taken many of the same approaches to targeting terrorist groups and their leaders.
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Cities at night can offer us unalloyed pleasures; they offer up dark labyrinths within which we are able to conceal ourselves, to change who we're seen as, to cast off whatever it is about daily life we dislike.
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Year after year, China Institute has brought extraordinary treasures to New York City, many directly from China, loans that even big-budget museums might have trouble nailing, to create exhibitions that both advance scholarship and give unalloyed visual pleasure.
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The six-day war was the last unalloyed military victory for Israel, and the start of a transition from existential wars against Arab states, which it always won, to enervating campaigns against non-state militias which it could never wipe out.
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Before one takes the emergence of the Rams' running game as an unalloyed positive, though, it's worth noting that Goff looked more like the pre-McVay draft-bust-in-progress (15-of-133 for 186 yards, no scores) against the Cowboys.
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When legendary announcer Jim Ross—the fired-up Old Testament voice of WWE's Attitude Era, now announcing NJPW's U.S. shows—passed a cluster of fans during the intermission, they cheered with the unalloyed happiness one might have greeting a favorite uncle.
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I like masochism as much as the next political independent, for watching those who elevated the politics of personal identity, political correctness and class warfare to exalted status turn on their own is, well, not to sugarcoat it, an unalloyed delight.
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The declaration from Mr. Spencer, in an interview late Saturday, was typical of the man who has rhetorically elbowed his way into the national conversation with his use of Nazi language and his unalloyed contention that America belongs to white people.
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Popular music critics, especially men, have always been suspicious of unalloyed musical beauty, and Ms. Collins has endured considerable hostility for taking the high road in a rough-and-tumble musical culture where aggression is seen as proof of authenticity.
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Save for a 2012 comment on transgender prisoners that she's since walked back, Warren has an unalloyed track record on LGBTQ rights: From marriage equality to employment non-discrimination to lifting the federal blood ban, she's been comprehensive in supporting the community.
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That kind of drop would have been an unalloyed economic boon for the United States just a dozen years ago, when domestic oil production was declining and the country was becoming increasingly dependent on unstable or unfriendly countries like Venezuela and Nigeria.
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An unalloyed charmer, the movie tells a story of familiar British grit and resolve during World War II from an attractively different angle: that of an advertising copywriter, Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton), who's recruited by the government to join the film industry.
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As a thought experiment, we might imagine a world where 9/11 did not happen, and incidents such as the April 2001 Hainan Island incident provoked measures to preclude China's unalloyed growth and expansion, as then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld desired at the time.
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But only one among this ruling class of oligarchs has the vision, the power, the unalloyed chutzpah, to carry off such a renewal and return history to its natural course -- so deeply disturbed in the past by weak and irresolute leaders of both our countries.
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Indeed, two of those requirements — the 10-year residency requirement for license renewal and the provision that shuts out all publicly traded corporations — are so plainly based on unalloyed protectionism that neither the association nor the state is willing to come to their defense.
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I don't think as a general rule that entertainers should be forcibly cut off from their politics — art and entertainment don't exist in a vacuum — but Jafari's heel turn to white nationalism is difficult to swallow when he has such unalloyed access to millions of children.
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It's good that he seems to be willing to consider the possibility that "making the world more open and connected" is not always an unalloyed good; along with its undoubted benefits, it clearly causes sociopolitical polarization and filter bubbles so extreme that they promulgate entire alternate realities.
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In fact, he finds himself thinking about it a whole lot: how extreme the put-downs of political adversaries have become; how automatically combatants adopt postures of unalloyed outrage; what this means when they come upon a crossroads — and a candidate — of much greater, graver danger.
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Jared Bernstein, an economics adviser to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said Mr. Obama never felt as comfortable with unalloyed claims of economic progress, fearing that it would look out of touch to many Americans who might not be enjoying the same benefits as others.
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To put it mildly, it can be hard to attain the unalloyed truth from a president who has long boasted of gaming the press, or from competing courtiers who often wield insider anecdotes as sword and shield in their efforts to protect themselves and bloody their rivals.
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And he made the case for national legalization of cannabis, an initiative he had opposed as governor, but now calls an unalloyed success, generating $700 million in tax revenues for children's wellness and education with none of the feared increases in youthful drug use or street crime.
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The goal is tighter communication and unalloyed trust between the government and operators of critical infrastructure, the vast majority of which is privately owned in the US. In the event of a serious cyberattack, nuclear operators would need to have agencies on speed dial to mitigate the damage.
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These gains are not unalloyed: Decreased maternal mortality comes primarily as a result of the gains of one country, China; girls lag boys in graduating from primary school; and women fill only approximately 24.5 percent of legislative seats, with some bodies still having no female representation at all.
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Years of progress made in smothering corruption, encouraging democracy, and combating Russian revanchism could all go up in smoke—all because Giuliani's ghoulishness knows no depths, and his unalloyed illiberalism just so happens to benefit a president willing to go to unprecedented, and unsettling, lengths to assure re-election.
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Beginning in the 1960s, thanks to the efforts of scientists, activists and regulators, chemical products from the pesticide DDT to the all-purpose industrial materials PCBs to the plastics additive BPA, previously understood as unalloyed technological boons, were identified as hazards and partially or fully phased out of use.
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While Fey's involvement in the creation of this musical isn't an unalloyed good, it does give Mean Girls one giant advantage: While some screen-to-stage musicals can feel like a weak copy of their source material, this feels like a second draft of the movie in all the best ways.
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But the case of the "nearly unbearable" LGBT pride flag is sadly worth highlighting because it says something about our country: Even in the wake of one of the deadliest mass shootings in history, one that specifically targeted members of the LGBT community, politicians and religious leaders are unable to offer unalloyed support.
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Much like the President's decision to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and to sit with him alone, with no witnesses -- at the same time that Trump is in the middle of the special counsel's investigation into Russian efforts to help him win the election -- the Shine move displays unalloyed arrogance and defiance.
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Such are the duties of being in charge of a place that, thanks to a critically acclaimed (at least in the West) and relentlessly bleak Russian movie, has an unwelcome reputation as possibly the most miserable place in Russia — a remote, frozen wasteland of drunks, brutish officials, crumbling buildings and unalloyed despair.
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The prospect of Bannon's dismissal will bring unalloyed joy to Democrats and the anti-Trump resistance, who view him as an right-wing extremist with a direct line to the Oval Office, and no small measure of relief to moderate Republicans turned off by his ideological aversion to most forms of American engagement overseas.
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In his most expensive undertaking, Mr. Gelb hired Robert Lepage, a director from Quebec, to mount a high-tech but otherwise traditional production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle; the result, which was built around projections and a giant set that sometimes malfunctioned, was not exactly an unalloyed triumph: It was received coolly or worse by critics, and divided operagoers.
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You can pore through the earliest examples of what we'd consider a newspaper, The Tatler and The Spectator of the early 27s, and you'll find yourself in a familiar landscape of hit pieces and hot takes; continue into the middle 2281s, and you encounter the unalloyed activism of Horace Greeley, whose New York Tribune campaigned with equal fervor against slavery and against women's rights.
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Even if you suppose, that is, that mass immigration would be an unalloyed good in a world where Western populations could manage to overcome their (or what you think of as their) bigotry and nativism and racism, in the world that actually exists politicians have to account for those forces and not simply assume that the right Facebook rules and elite-level political conspiracies can perpetually keep a lid on populism.
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We talk and write all the time about the Never Trumpers: those previously stalwart Republicans who cringed at Trump's entry into the presidential race; grew increasingly apoplectic as he raged on; began to live, courtesy of him, in an unwavering state of unalloyed outrage; and scaled new media and sometimes financial heights as party turncoats, their antipathy toward the president more titillating and telegenic by dint of their loyalty to Republicans before him.
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As Douthat put it last week: Even if you suppose, that is, that mass immigration would be an unalloyed good in a world where Western populations could manage to overcome their (or what you think of as their) bigotry and nativism and racism, in the world that actually exists politicians have to account for those forces and not simply assume that the right Facebook rules and elite-level political conspiracies can perpetually keep a lid on populism.
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For Brexit foes preoccupied with the fact that forces of reaction and xenophobia carried the day in the U.K., New York Times columnist Ross Douthat suggested their own unwillingness to accommodate the reactionaries and xenophobes may explain their defeat: Even if you suppose … that mass immigration would be an unalloyed good in a world where Western populations could manage to overcome their (or what you think of as their) bigotry and nativism and racism, in the world that actually exists politicians have to account for those forces and not simply assume that the right Facebook rules and elite-level political conspiracies can perpetually keep a lid on populism.
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