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Once the interview began, this ideal FW would seem as familiar as an old friend, so that the INF always spoke in everyday terms instead of bookish formal ones.
The next assault is different, an attack on a concrete Nazi "pillbox" that's barely glimpsed through the thick smoke, the action viewed through the eyes of the squadron's skinny, bookish translator (Jeremy Davies).
After all, Gore--like Clinton--is an unusually bookish politician, one who reads serious tomes on serious subjects and even tries to be a bit of an authority himself.
In fact, we often know next to nothing about his characters, except that they are lonely, bookish rolling stones who gather no moss, spending several hours a day wandering around Lisbon and daydreaming.
); Apache helicopters; Ibrahim Rugova ("How can the bookish head of Kosovo's independence movement live down the shame of being shown on Serbian TV with Milosevic?