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Example sentences for: nary
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Some reviewers endorse the film as benign summer fare with "nary a car chase, explosion or loaded weapon" (Leah Rozen, People ). (To download the trailer, click here.)
(There is nary a female cop to be found.)
International news, such as the Senate vote to expand NATO, and the European Union's further move toward a common currency, makes nary a ripple.
In Gates' essay, those who would favor a stand of principle over the ties of blut and boden (or even business)--whistle-blowers, antiwar dissenters, anyone who says "I often place my duty to society above my duty to my company"--are characterized as "William Godwin types all, letting their own dear mothers burn to a crisp with nary a second thought while they grandly escort some silk-bedizened cleric to safety."
So deeply felt, so minutely realized were these rhythms, it seems, that she rewrote nary a word of her book (remarkable, given its length--321 pages--and the fact that a word processor is quick to forgive errors).
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