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...This particular film is, we’re told, “more true than you’d think”, which means there’s only a teensy speck of authentic history here....
...It is a bizarre and, with modern hindsight, disturbing image that haunts me as I fly towards this volcanic speck just over 600km east of Mauritius....
...This is just a speck relative to the money management industry, but it is not quite nothing....
...Pre-salt production rose from 41,000 b/d in 2010 to 2.3mn last year, fuelling record annual profits of R$188bn (US$39bn) and dividends of R$216bn at the company....
...In “Girl with Roses”, Kitty again, every strand of hair is delineated in filigree strokes, and her expression terrified into an eerie stillness....
...Classical sculpture, in this view, rose above messy contingencies, presenting humanity with a distilled image of its own ideal. The Met attempts to show us what Apollonian worshippers missed....
...Put that against Gartner’s forecast of 1.5bn total smartphone sales in 2021 and the market share of foldables is just a speck on any chart. Even by 2025, IDC only sees 13.9m units shipping....
...In Hong Kong, Bauhinia “orchid” trees release a rose-like fragrance strong enough to perfume city blocks....
...Mazara’s ivory stones contain specks of eternity....
...Josh Noble Rose McGowan Campaigning #MeToo actor Rose McGowan once said she knew she was “destined for a big and strange life”....
...Glasser gathered the metallic specks from these works-in-progress, using them as the building blocks to formulate a scent that would encapsulate Gormley’s world....
...The Euronext-listed shares rose almost 11 per cent to a peak of €17 on Wednesday, adding roughly €27m to its market capitalisation....
...Their kum — something deeper than a best man — was Ivan Stambolic, later murdered, who mentored Milosevic as he rose up the ranks to the highest political offices....
...to $11.5bn, accounting for a third of gross profits, encouraging news on China and the hardware business played a big part in lifting Apple back into the trillion-dollar club on Wednesday, as its shares rose...
...The sound of the surf booming at the base of the cliffs rose into the evening. Birds wheeled and shrieked like lost children....
...Sales in the quarter rose 0.2 per cent to €10.1bn, while ebtida excluding contributions from real estate transactions increased 7.6 per cent to €608m....
...Earlier this year Alexander Gauland, the AfD leader, remarked that: “Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird shit in more than 1,000 years of successful German history.”...
...Our vehicles were tiny specks in that epic landscape, and even they laboured for lack of oxygen....
...Following a five-decade decline starting in 1950, the profit margin of non-financial American companies troughed at 6 per cent at the end of 2001, and since then rose haltingly to a peak of 15.5 per cent...
...She evidently adored anything equine; she gave clear instructions, and when I rose to the trot in the wrong rhythm she didn’t laugh. The next lesson was clay pigeon shooting....
...For this method, every speck of nutritious compost must be washed from the roots but once cleaned the plant will compensate by developing a greater root system. Fungus also helps....
...We passed HMS Belfast — a tiny red speck at its base — then paddled under Tower Bridge into the relatively calm waters beyond, but our relief was short lived....
...The government’s authority weakened, and the prospects for a successful coup rose....
...Volume two in Toll’s Pacific trilogy starts with the battle of Guadalcanal, a blood-soaked speck in the ocean. Toll offers a masterly guide to naval warfare and decision-making in Tokyo and Washington....
...Birdsong and mist rose from the plain where wildebeest were as profuse as lichen. We passed pyres of bones, and a lame vulture lying in the grass, and a jackal family on quick-stepping feet....
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