When she was annoyed, she looked older, and not so attractive something she obviously knew, because she bowed her head.

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It was white so that the audience couldn't see Rajah's semen splashed all over her back as she bowed to accept their applause.

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Then, after a moment of quiet, she spoke, her head still bowed.

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However, disaster struck immediately in the small final as she failed to ride the first jump and bowed out.

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Then she continued along a row of artichoke plants, her head bowed, always at that dramatic pace.

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Gov. Kathleen Blanco (D), faulted for failing to order the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans in time and for being too slow in getting federal grants to homeowners trying to rebuild, bowed to political reality and decided in March that she would not seek a second term.

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Or maybe it's part and parcel of a deliberately creative ambiguity fostered by both London and Dublin in which the spectator is invited to read whatever he or she wants into a President and a Queen standing, heads bowed, before the undeniably impressive Children of Lir statue at Dublin's Garden of Remembrance.

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