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This was a lean speech for lean times, with few personal anecdotes or lofty ambitions.
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Personal anecdotes are posted next to statues, rocks and natural objects resembling human figures, all collected and written by Manop.
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But the senator is also known to get carried away with the sound of his own voice, digressing into irrelevant personal anecdotes.
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Mr Hart combines scholarly rigour with personal anecdotes and light asides.
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In my daily browsing, I experience the typical barrage of trivial facts, insignificant personal anecdotes, and funny cat GIFs that come with the territory of the ever-inclusive Internet.
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My spirits drooped ever lower during our interview, as it became horribly clear that he had just strung together a few personal anecdotes, not written a play at all.
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An original history, leavened with personal anecdotes, which gives a profound and very readable insight both into how Europeans have viewed Britain and Britain's current debate about its role in Europe.
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It is scholarly yet free of jargon, compassionate yet not over-emotional, moral without being preachy, stuffed with facts and figures yet brought alive by a myriad of vivid historical, contemporary and personal anecdotes.
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Many shared anecdotes of personal meetings with the late adventurer, describing him as an iconic New Zealander whose achievements were important to both the country and the world.
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He became famous for his personal, conversational writing style, his offbeat anecdotes and several timely investment forecasts.
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The sympathy of many readers will be engaged by Mr Brody's anecdotes, by the charm of the personal portraits he paints, by his evident humanity and by the plausibility of his thesis.
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