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As Kate Mundy, the stick-in-the-mud schoolteacher who presides over four younger, unmarried sisters in 1936 Donegal, Ireland, she holds her facial muscles tense and signals with her eyes her exhaustion from keeping them so fiercely in place.
Springer himself presides, oleaginously, over this spectacle.
But Livingston's exquisite ethical sensitivity should serve the new speaker well as he presides over congressional investigations of presidential perjury, campaign finance abuse, and so on.
Here presides the Jade Goddess, daughter of the mountain god, who cures blindness and answers the prayers of the childless.
At the top of a sloping driveway, the stately Edwardian structure that was the original university building presides over the institution’s newer buildings.