There are also ideas about 'being beside the seaside' being a more relaxing environment.

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This found that being beside the coast was significantly more likely to create a feeling of well-being.

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There are no clear conclusions about why being beside the seaside should be more refreshing than other types of settings.

BBC: People really do like to be beside the seaside, study says

More used to being beside the keyboard on my desk, it was flung into a high impact, bandwidth limited, battery sapping, content heavy event.

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Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a distance.

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An out-of-work puppeteer (John Cusack), his pet-loving girlfriend (Cameron Diaz), and a cynical office worker (Catherine Keener) take turns entering the head of the actor John Malkovich, where they remain for fifteen minutes at a time, experiencing everything he does, before being deposited with a whoosh beside the New Jersey Turnpike.

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After being completely refurbished, it shines brightly beside the grey of the other granite stones around.

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After all, such problems pale beside the multi-billion-dollar lawsuits still being thrown at them back home.

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Ben Bernanke has dropped his kimono entirely and revealed that fiscal policy is being set by the Fed with regard to almost nothing beside meeting the confidence threshold.

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