Right from the Romantic period in the 19th Century, when there was widespread fascination with Eastern European "vampyrs", the vampire has been a "pathos-filled creature who has been at odds with his ontology and his innate desires, and who has struggled with them", says Williamson.
Thankfully for KDDI (and all of humanity, really), this creature actually has a purpose.
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It appears that faced with this threat, the creature has found a way of fertilising itself.
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The Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton, once a creature of the left, has tried to remake herself as a centrist (she did strikingly well among conservative New Yorkers when she was re-elected to the Senate in November).
But after a lifeboat rescue, the endearing creature - which looks like a giant head, and has a parrot-like beak, no tail and two giant dorsal fins - is settling down to life at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
Jelinek has created a witty, sardonic creature, rather than the demure-seeming public Jackie familiar to Americans.
In scientific terms, probably the most significant effect of the Sea Empress spill has been felt by a tiny creature known as the brooding cushion-star, or Asterina phylactica to those in the know.
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His great strength is that he can speak from a position of authority, being that rare creature who has found success both as an intelligence agent and as the operator of an enduring business.
He has been a free-market Wall Street creature his whole life.
Gracias has yet to send his microgrippers into a living creature.
But in 2005, on the eve of the 134th version of the oldest championship in golf, the limelight has shifted away from nine-time modern major winner Tiger Woods to a much more ancient creature - the great and unique Golden Bear.
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