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nobles and
those convicted by the
Revolutionary Tribunal,
often on the
flimsiest of evidence.
Internal tensions at
Paris drove the
Committee towards increasing...
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minutes after its
opening in a disguise. In no time, she is
wearing the
flimsiest of clothes. Once she
opens her mouth—and she does it two
minutes after...
- Finland's
refugee policy,
which is shameful. We
refuse refugee status on the
flimsiest of
grounds and send
people back to
secure places like Darfur, Iraq, and...
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arrests of most of the
roughly 500
prisoners held
there were
based on "the
flimsiest sort of hearsay." In
September 2006, the UK's Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer...
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investigations three Vestal Virgins were
sentenced to
death for inchastity, on the
flimsiest of evidence.
Vestals were
required to show a near
supernatural level of...
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protectors other than God is that of a
spider spinning a shelter. And the
flimsiest of all
shelters is
certainly that of a spider, if only they knew. — -...
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wrongfully convicted in 1909 of the
murder of
Marion Gilchrist on the
flimsiest evidence, and
sentenced to death. His
sentence was
commuted to life imprisonment...
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Tribune gave the film one star out of four,
calling it "one of the dumbest,
flimsiest excuses for a
movie I have ever seen".
Roger Ebert called it "dreadful"...
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account in the Bible, that the
Israelite material culture was only of the
flimsiest kind and left no trace.
Presumably the
Israelite dwellings and artifacts...
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technically inspired work, but the
conceit of
modesty shielded by the
flimsiest of
veils creates an
alluring but
ironic tension,
perhaps one somewhat...
