Basra may be part of the country's oil-rich south, but it wallows in its own sewage and trash.

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As Dorian wallows in debauchery, Basil pries into his secret life and wonders about the state of his soul.

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" wallows in Low-era melancholy, and "Boss of Me" is a gospel-glam strut in the spirit of Aladdin Sane's "Watch That Man.

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What saves the stock market from the macro mugwumps it wallows in?

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McQueen, aided by his screenwriter, Abi Morgan, has stitched together a bespoke idea of the city rather than the place itself, in the same way that he frames erotic pursuit more as a neat conceptual art work than as the farrago of lunging, dithering, yearning, and near-farce in which most of society wallows.

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