He was that odd breed, a reverential rebel, and he was guided by a faith, which he wore lightly and with a twinkle in his eye, in a God who would not play dice by allowing things to happen by chance.

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I've seen a twinkle in a few eyes lately and I want to double down.

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Three years ago, mobile phones were but a twinkle in a handful of Motorola and Bell Labs engineers' eyes.

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He stops abruptly and turns with a twinkle in his eye which seems stolen from an ancient, untapped mine.

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Flying cars have been doing this whole vaporware thing long before Duke Nukem Forever was even a twinkle in 3D Realms' eye.

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With a slight twinkle in his eye he tells me he believes in the United States of Europe.

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Now she's a traumatized spectator to the sudden arrival of a relative she didn't know she had her father's brother Charlie (Matthew Goode), who is young, devilishly handsome and twinkle-eyed in a less-than-wholesome way toward India's fragile mother, Evie (Nicole Kidman), as well as toward India herself.

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The eighth movement, "The Resurrected and the Song of the Star Aldebaran, " strikes a meditative mood, with strings chanting a gently shifting melody while stars twinkle and birds twitter in the glockenspiel, piccolo and piano.

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During music class at the Bilkent school, third-graders sitting cross-legged on a large carpet sang "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" in Turkish, followed by "London Bridge" in English.

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From the top of a skyscraper in the center of the city at night, the lights of apartment buildings and office towers twinkle all the way to the horizon.

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