Epic in its own way, The Hobbit starts as light as a feather and never manages the level of impending doom that the Lord of the Rings trilogy reached.
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Design a study that proves it is possible to cause a sneeze with touching under the nose with a feather and you will have a good design for an acupuncture study.
Whenever a celebrity dons a feather and long braids for a photo shoot, or a fashion brand releases a gaudy collection of "totem pole print" tracksuits, bloggers like Metcalfe and Keene are slammed with questions about why they're offensive.
But these soon gave way to color and feather embellishment and fantastically dizzying prints.
Politicians and media are going to tar and feather the company and ride it out on a rail.
Most accommodations are in highly individualized and carefully decorated freestanding cottages, decorated with original museum quality art and featuring king-size feather beds and sitting areas with wood-burning fireplaces and screened porches.
He wears a men's traditional warrior outfit which includes a giant eagle feather headdress and bustle.
The filter fabric, made by a Swiss medical supply manufacturer, is feather light and ripstop strong.
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My room is fabulous: 10-foot ceilings, a plush king-size bed with feather pillows and a big high-definition television.
That piece of paper was written by a few fat farmers with goose quill feather pens and the penmanship of poets.
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They wanted a more dazzling effect than could be achieved by the museum's standard policy of flicking with feather dusters and sponging with distilled water.
Elsewhere, and as always at Oscar, the proof is in the details: Stunning were a silver lame mousseline caviar beaded fringe gown, a black chantilly lace threadwork and ostrich feather embroidered gown, and yellow silk faille silver bullion floral- and bead-embroidered gown.
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Between the cheese trolleys and feather duvets he speeds along a rainy A6, fighting with an unfamiliar GPS and having exasperating phone conversations with a Moscow hotel in an attempt to sort out a Russian visa.
Loose-lips Friday continues with word from that pesky ThinkSecret source (whom we're sure Steve Jobs would love to tar and feather) that Apple will be rolling out a significant upgrade to its current video-download service when and if it announces a new Mac mini at January's Macworld Expo.
These were much cheaper than feather balls, and contributed to golf's growing popularity.
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In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, golf was played mostly with long, slender wooden clubs and feather-filled balls.
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Bureaucrats will eventually do the right thing and feather in these cuts.
He didn't walk into a ring so much as he peacocked, decked out in a rainbow of colors, fashions, designs and feather crests.
Creator Trevor Undi slowed it all down so that we can absorb the stitches, hems, and movement of Chanel tweed, silk and feather.
Forget the clunky, weighty peasant mugs of yore (for savages) and clear some space for a new generation of erudite, lean and feather light beerware.
While the public areas still wear their Dorothy Draper-era, retina-stinging magenta-and-emerald floral patterns, the 682 guest rooms have flat-panel TVs, granite-and-marble bathrooms, and feather-top beds.
Germans will tar and feather these abusers later on.
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This notion that women's natural role as homemakers and mothers gave them a responsibility to act as nature's housekeepers led many socially conservative women to take up environmental activism, campaigning to protect the nation's bird population, which was being decimated by the feather trade, and promoting conservation education in their children's schools.
The bejewelled and feather-dressed Samburu tribesmen must have laughed all the way home when Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio gathered them together a decade ago and told them of his plans to turn a couple of lumpy granite outcrops in the heart of Samburu country into a luxury game lodge overlooking the searing, acacia-speckled plains of northern Kenya.
But the atmosphere is also very informal: the crowd drinks a lot, champagne corks pop incessantly, and many seize the excuse for flamboyance with feather boas, velvet zoot suits and leopard-print fedoras, while one prominent Melbourne socialite was resplendent in a canary yellow leather suit with matching cowboy boots.
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And taking a feather from the Shrek cap, lots of fairy tale characters from Humpty Dumpty to Jack and Jill to the Golden Goose.
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Large, 52sqm rooms are classically elegant, in typical Ritz-Carlton style with richly stained wood furnishings and cosy feather beds.
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