She said it had been difficult trying to reproduce the new album live because "it's so intimate in some respects and then so rude in other respects".

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It's like when someone sends you a perfectly nice e-mail but you're in a bad mood so it appears rude.

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It seems so fast and rude for an old-fashioned guy.

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So it was a rude shock to Litton and its legions of Wall Street admirers when FORBES ran the first negative story on the seemingly perpetually successful company.

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So if the currently rude health of the Indonesian economy were to deteriorate because of policy mistakes or an external shock, the response might be more, not less, liberalisation a swifter dismantling of monopolies, privatisation of the still bloated state sector, and a freer trade regime.

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Arty situated himself next to her, not so close as to fall within the weather of her communicable diseases but not so far as to appear rude.

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She accused him of being rude and trying to "twist her head" so she would come out with the wrong answers.

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Russia's public finances, thanks to the high oil price since 1999, will be in rude good health, for the coming year or so.

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So I invented a very fierce and feisty little girl who would fight back against all the rules and be very rude and cheeky to the matron and be absolutely determined she would get out of the foundling hospital one day and find her mother.

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