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...Esplanade (1975) remains one of the most miraculous dances in the world....
...There is a chequered history of obesity pills that apparently produced miraculous results later being banned, going back to the amphetamine craze of the 1960s and “fen-phen”, a combination weight loss therapy...
...It borders on miraculous that as late as March 1939, two months before his death, he travelled to Vienna to try to avert the Nazi Anschluss by restoring the monarchy....
...Their lack of weight or substance. This was the vague, gestural work that had come to signify his approach in recent years....
...For all its forbidding weight, the writing remains fluid and engaging, often poetic. None of this, it must be said, could have been possible without the Herculean efforts of Tokarczuk’s translator....
...Reading her reaffirms that the events of our lives, which in the living of them may not feel particularly significant, do have weight....
...And people say that by the time it came to that, that Liz Truss said was resigned to her fate and it was almost like a weight was lifting off her shoulders....
...On the face of things, it borders on the miraculous. Draghi is respected at home and abroad and comes with no partisan strings attached. The result is near-unanimous support....
...The glacier might be shrinking, but coming up after a year’s exile in the muggy lowlands, it still seemed pretty miraculous....
...In watches as in life, a little weight loss can have dramatic results: take this year’s ultra-slim skeletonised Piaget Polo (£26,500)....
...Bar the handling of Russian sensitivities post-cold war, that decade did not require miraculous feats of statecraft....
...A good friend lost a shed-load of weight on his “2” days, fasting until night then dining on grilled fish and mountains of vegetables....
...But down in the cellars, the new vintage is starting to take shape, as the freshly fermented wine embarks on its miraculous transformation in the oak barrels....
...them by the alchemy of a renewing art a new weight, nuance and profundity....
...Is that miraculous, or apocalyptic? In itself, neither. GDP is a synthetic statistic, invented to help us put a measuring rod up against the ordinary business of life....
...For several years, people I would not usually consider religious have displayed a simple, childlike faith in electric batteries, and miraculous battery “breakthroughs” that would make a green economy possible...
...If nothing else, this adds weight to a question the court returns to time and again: could Dey have acted differently? Was there a way out for him? The question is far from trivial....
...I remind him of a miraculous goal he scored for Barcelona against SD Compostela. Opposition players pulled at his shirt and hacked at Ronaldo’s legs during a mazy dribble from the halfway line....
...The UFO Catcher conviction has shown the full weight of the law is on the players’ side, with implied consequences if their run of bad luck seems endless....
...That is not only because my tennis, despite Steve’s efforts, is still more often stodgy than free-flowing, and my writing is almost invariably a product of bloody persistence, rather than miraculous inspiration...
...Only when I’d stopped my internal chortling — after perhaps tens of seconds — would I regain control of my muscles and rise from the floor as if I had some miraculous means of transforming inebriation into...
...Those chunky tyres retain miraculous traction, and disc brakes summon a dead halt with the gentlest squeeze of the levers....
...There might, of course, be a miraculous surge in the productivity of Britain, enabling much faster growth of output, income and tax revenues without more people and toil....
...Miraculous growth In the 1960s and 1970s the two big Veneto banks were at the forefront of major development in a region that includes Venice and the cities of Vicenza, Treviso and Verona....
...Miraculous, even. Photographs: Agnese Sanvito; Rick Pushinsky...
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