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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Ambrose Bierce / Journalist
Cynical
Democracy
Form
Political Revolution
Revolution
Abrupt
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Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.
Bret Stephens / Journalist
Expensive
Ideological
Public Policy
Raises
Abrupt
Demanding
Intentions
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The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
Gilbert White /
Hills
Parish
Woods
Abrupt
Therefore
Uneven
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The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
Don Henley / Singer
Eagles
Realizing
Retrospect
Abrupt
Although
Quite
Ended
Note
Realize
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I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.
Aaron Funk /
Awake
Becoming
Etc
Movement
Structure
Abrupt
Find More Things
Composed
Tend
Transitions
Tune
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Sometimes people hide behind a kind of naturalistic milieu. But life is full of the most sharp, abrupt changes of tone, from the tragic to the absurd.
Tom Burke / Actor
Absurd
Milieu
Tone
Tragic
Life People Sometimes
Abrupt
Behind
Full
Hide
Naturalistic
Sharp
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At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.'
Kathy Reichs / Crime Writer
Abrupt
Thoroughly
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In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.
Graham Swift / Film Writer
Logic
Memories
Reader
Abrupt
Shift
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When communism collapsed in 1989, the big story that had been hardwired into citizens of western countries - that of the global battle against a distant dark and evil force - came to an abrupt end.
Adam Curtis /
Battle
Citizens
Communism
Dark
Evil
Force
Western
Abrupt
Big Story
Collapsed
Countries
Distant
Global
Hardwired
Western Countries
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Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization's abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in A.D. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909.
David Roberts / Painter
Civilization
Decline
Abrupt
Dated
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The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit.
Shashi Tharoor / Author
Severe
Tragedy
Abrupt
Benefit
Low
Psychic
Sudden
Toll
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My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.
Stanley A. Mcchrystal / Armed Force Officer
Identity
Soldier
Abrupt
Cared
Shaved
Suddenly
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I think Americans are very verbal and Aussies are more circumspect, and that can come across as being clearer. It can also come across as abrupt and cold. Some people find me to be abrupt and cold. That's just my personal style.
James P. Gorman / Executive
Personal Style
Me People Find
Abrupt
Me People Style
Clearer
Me Style People
Verbal
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
Octavio Paz / Poet
Divides
Geography
Historical
Mexico
Tall
Truth Is
Abrupt
Mountains
Plateau
Separated
Surrounded
The History Of
Tortuous
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Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil.
Lucy Powell / British Politician
Running
Economic
Harder
Including
Oil
Reliance
Social
Supplies
Come
Nothing
Abrupt
Rise
Causing
Find
Getting
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Global
Prices
Tumultuous
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At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!
John Vane /
Blue
Changed
Colour
Dirty
Gas
Green
Hydrogen
Involving
Laboratory
Mother
Abrupt
Attached
Burner
Came
Explosion
Minor
Newly
Painted
Stove
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However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of being with the everyday lives of others, the abrupt awareness - always a surprise no matter how often it's happened - that their lives are very different from your own.
Lynn Coady / Novelist
Collision
Everyday
Surprise
Weirdness
Always Your Long
Abrupt
Brings
Always Long Your
Everyday Lives
Presence
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When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.
Pierce Brosnan / Actor
Home
Cancer
Certain
Illness
Long
Release
Unbearable
Abrupt
Life Home Long
Accident
Loved
Door
Loved One
Opposed
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
Victoria Moran / Writer
Brutal
Contemplating
Covered
Injured
Pigeons
Rehab
Rescue
Spiders
Tiny
Wasps
Wildlife
Abrupt
Animals
Apparently
Card
Carry
Cup
Ending
Follow
Outside
Pause
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In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.
Brian Shactman /
Afar
Crushed
Fence
Imagine
Invited
League
Little League
Loneliness
Spring
Welcome
Abrupt
Adolescent
All-Star
Detail
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After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.
Steve Rushin / Journalist
Disease
Frustration
Golf
Hours
Jane
Mourning
Range
Solitary
Tennis
Widows
Abrupt
Couples
Doubles
Mixed
Sept
Turned
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