"I want you all to see the riv-er the way I see the riv-er, " he says, letting the word roll out slowly, a promise of ineffable revelations to come.

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He has both a sharp brain (he once led Tony Blair's policy team) and, in the vague and ineffable way that often counts for a lot, a prime ministerial air that his rivals lack.

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But it's hard not to wonder if those "ineffable qualities of homeownership" aren't clouding her judgment, at least a little, the way that society's dictate of marriage so often distorts our experience of relationships, pressuring many of us to marry because we "should, " even when we shouldn't.

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The ineffable beauty of this pedal combined with despairing bass clarinets as she opens her closet create a moving musical portrait of a vulnerable woman who has become a victim of the plot she helped hatch.

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