• In the main Beijing office, a homely red-painted house in a courtyard littered with bicycles, visitors would be handed staff cards printed on recycled paper and given metal reusable chopsticks, together with a lecture on how much of China's virgin forest was disappearing for wooden chopsticks every year.

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  • It all adds up to a homely piece of hardware that looks like something like a modded PSP crossed with some forgotten, knockoff portable console from the '80s -- one designed during a rubber surplus.

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  • Otherwise the camera was just average, with a homely yet functional design, decent shooting speed, and a pretty nice LCD.

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  • From waygu beef to a bowl of ramen, from a homely izakaya (pub) to the most exclusive sushi restaurant, Tokyo residents have a massive amount of choice at any budget.

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  • The poem "O, I won't lead a homely life" was written in pencil below the score, though to an old folk tune.

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  • He cast himself as Prince Nikolaus von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg, the hedonistic scion of a fading noble family whose parents want to marry him off to a homely corn-plaster heiress (Zasu Pitts).

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  • Traditional mantas (hand-woven blankets) add a homely touch.

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  • It all started with Rose Bakery -- the bastion of the UK cafe scene in Paris -- which kicked off the trend for casual, homely fare with a British accent back in 2002, when their first branch opened in the south Pigalle area (46 rue des Martyrs, 9e, 01-42-82-12-80).

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  • Meanwhile in South Korea, the government's friendship policy continues at a more homely level.

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  • His speechwriter, Mark Salter, prepares him elegant texts that he stumbles through like a man of homely tastes choking on nouvelle cuisine.

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  • Managers said they had also almost doubled the size of the dining room while trying to keep a welcoming and homely atmosphere.

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  • The food is homely and plentiful, the staff are very welcoming and there is a mist-covered mountain view from the breakfast table.

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  • While commonalities between the 265-pound divorced former cage-fighter and the homely never-married Transcendentalist may not immediately show, their love of the natural life belies a similarity that soon becomes apparent.

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  • The promise hovers, just over the horizon, of a Britain in which parents and children stroll from their homes with wicker baskets to pick up homely, local goods from storekeepers who know them by name.

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  • Considering cardboard is a sturdy enough material to be turned into a bike, the company attached instructions to its baby stroller packaging to enable parents to create homely items such as chairs, lamps and birdhouses.

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