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2012 01

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"no": siaware: Theodore Millon is an American psychologist and author known...

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  • Theodore Millonis an American psychologist and author known for his work on personality disorders. Dr. Millon has written or edited more than 30 books, including his most groundbreaking, Disorder of Personality. Millon devised a set of widely acknowledged subtypes for…

2011 12

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Just getting introduced into Royal Hem and I like what they are doing. Drawing inspirations from both Savile Row and Italian elegance, the range of product is entirely dedicated to detail and finishing. A newcomer to pay attention to.

2011 12

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2011 08

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Neo-victorian / steampunk. Sometimes classy, mostly just brassy. When it’s done well, it’s wonderful… note that none of these dapper gentlemen has a fucking Nerf Maverick anywhere in sight.

If you didn’t already have an erection…

OH JUST GET RIGHT ON MY BLOG NOW.

SUDDENLY, CRAVATS God I wanna draw my Medics in this shit right now

Can I wear all of these?

can we just
go cravat shopping….

holy geez

2010 02

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verb.
tra·duce
  1. to say untrue or malicious things about; defame; slander; vilify
  2. to make a mockery of; betray

What manner of cur are you that you traduce the character of a good woman whom we believe dead!

2010 02

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Adjective.
ple·o·nas·tic

redundant

2010 02

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verb.
pro·trude

to thrust or jut out; project

it’s every twink’s dream to be so skinny that their bones protrude out of their body.

2010 01

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noun.
com·pen·dium

a summary or abstract containing the essential information in a brief form; concise but comprehensive treatise

Aglaya’s husband was to be a compendium of all the virtues, and of all success, not to speak of fabulous wealth.

2010 01

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Adjective.
mo·ri·bund
  1. dying
  2. coming to an end
  3. having little or no vital force left

Since the U.S. reactionary forces have already run up against a wall and show signs of moribundity, the current strength of the enemy and the weakness of our side in the United States is only a temporary phenomenon. It will definitely change to the contrary.

2010 01

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Adjective.
o·ro·tund
  1. bombastic or pompous: said of a style of speaking or writing
  2. clear, strong, and deep; resonant: said of the voice

George Rose, the Caesar, is English, and has the right sound and projection; but he is an inescapably comic actor, and reduces grandeur to unrelieved portentous orotundity.

2010 01

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Adjective. noun. verb.
wan·ton
  1. undisciplined; unmanageable
  2. sexually loose or unrestrained
  3. senseless, unprovoked, unjustifiable, or deliberately malicious
  4. recklessly or arrogantly ignoring justice, decency, morality, etc.
  5. lavish, luxurious, or extravagant: said of speech, dress, etc.
  1. a wanton person or thing; esp., a sexually loose or unrestrained woman
  1. to be wanton in behavior, action, manner, etc.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual—they are capriciously, freakishly and wantonly imposed.

2010 01

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noun.
at·tri·tion
  1. the act or process of wearing away or grinding down by friction
  2. any gradual wearing or weakening, esp. to the point of exhaustion
  3. loss of personnel in an organization in the normal course of events, as by retirement
  4. repentance that is not perfect because not prompted solely by sorrow for having offended God

this circle is born with the movement of my pencil and dies under the attrition of my eraser, but the conception Circle goes on forever.

2010 01

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noun.
a·men·i·ty
  1. pleasant quality; attractiveness
  2. an attractive or desirable feature, as of a place or climate; convenience
  3. the courteous acts and pleasant manners of polite social behavior

in Claude’s landscape “all is lovely – all amiable – all is amenity and repose; the calm sunshine of the heart”

2010 01

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noun. verb.
sur·feit
  1. too great an amount or supply; excess (of)
  2. overindulgence, esp. in food or drink
  3. discomfort, disgust, nausea, etc. resulting from any kind of excess; satiety
  1. to feed or supply to satiety or excess

All he desired was to be let alone, and of this he had a surfeit for the first forty-eight hours.

2010 01

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verb. noun.
fet·ter
  1. a shackle or chain for the feet
  2. anything that holds in check; restraint
  1. to bind with fetters; shackle; chain
  2. to hold in check; restrain; confine

He is of the same mind as the old poet Davenant who thought it folly to take away the liberty of a poet and fetter his feet in the shackles of an historian.

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