The parade includes the ritual burning of an effigy of King Momo, a bad spirit.

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The Isle of Man's Health Minister David Anderson, himself a farmer from Patrick, said while things are bad the community spirit is shining through.

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Bell sees this apocalyptic and unreal rhetoric as one of the continuing and ever-present enemies of the human spirit, a bad legacy of a bad time.

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We will carry on with a spirit that says no matter how bad a storm is, we come back.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

And the movie hits a bad bump when it weds the celebration of a free spirit to anti-sexist melodrama.

NEWYORKER: Rambling Rose

By focusing on the bad apples, Priest says, Madigan was glossing over DefCon's true spirit: smart people getting together to mess around with technology.

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