As for segments on the nightly news, he may not be a worse public speaker than Mr Gore, but his speeches remain idiosyncratically empty of soundbites.

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Defeat over gay marriage will make it tougher to play the first role, but a church that strives to be idiosyncratically prophetic will be harder to keep together.

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Multiple other positive narratives are needed as only a full chorus of future-looking public commitments can supersede a story that may unfortunately have such an idiosyncratically extended half-life.

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He was generous with other writers, dogged in his pursuit of information, and known for idiosyncratically "doing things in his own way, on his own schedule, " recalled Brophy.

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Travelling with Soon-Yi Previn and his sister, Letty Aronson, Allen delivers the same scintillating patter that marks his films and, unsurprisingly, seems as idiosyncratically fussy in life as in art.

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You could say we looked at the world idiosyncratically.

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Unlike the pastoral culture it was intended to replace, the new therapeutic machinery was to be compulsory rather than voluntary, national rather than local, secular rather than spiritual, rigidly bureaucratic rather than idiosyncratically flexible.

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