Their very method made these novelists worldly.

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These photos, said to have been commissioned by Steenkamp for an unidentified "special someone, " show a Reeva who is -- outwardly at least -- very different: Blonde, confident, worldly and polished.

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Others, for example, painted scenes with poems and inscriptions that proclaimed a disengagement from worldly affairs while they in fact remained very much in the fray.

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But when it focusses on its nominal hero and his love affair with a worldly German bohemian (played by Sheryl Lee) it seems very ordinary.

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Juno, played very smartly by Ellen Page, comes off as thoroughly self-possessed and not quite as worldly as she thinks.

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In his guise as an international statesman and peace-broker (and therefore, by implication, very different from Mr Milosevic or Saddam Hussein at his trial in Baghdad), the well-spoken and worldly Mr Taylor has been offering full co-operation with the court.

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