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- Nor was it snooping per se.† (source)
- "There's nothing wrong with it per se.† (source)
- Not that they are wrong, per se, but the church has always downplayed the Illuminati threat.† (source)
- As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer.† (source)
- Okay, not mine per se.† (source)
- He doesn't feel jealous of her past per se.† (source)
- Despite the mark-up I'd paid in repurchasing the fake from Mr. So-and-So (ideally an actor or a clothing designer who collected as a hobby, if not illustrious as a collector per se) I could then turn around and sell it again for sometimes twice what I'd bought it back for, to some Wall Street cheese fry who didn't know Chippendale from Ethan Allen but was more than thrilled with "official documents" proving that his Duncan Phyfe secretary or whatever came from the collection of Mr.…† (source)
- No one taught her to go looking for birds per se in her reading; rather, what happens is that, based on other reading experiences in a variety of courses and contexts, she learned to watch for distinctive features of a text, for repetitions of a certain kind of object or activity for resonances.† (source)
- "I was not coded by a professional hacker, per se, but by a researcher at the Library of Congress who taught himself how to code," the Librarian says.† (source)
- Not big per se (as Chacko-of-Oxford would no doubt have put it).† (source)
- I'm not thinking of anything fancy, and not a recording studio, per se.† (source)
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- You can prove the practicality of planned parenthood till you get tired of listening to yourself and it's going to go nowhere because your antagonist isn't buying the assumption that anything socially practical is good per se.† (source)
- The only important participants absent were the original defendants; in their stead, as it were, stood Judge Tate, old Mr. Fleming, and Harrison Smith, whose careers were imperiled-not because of the appellant's allegations per se, but because of the apparent credit the Bar Association bestowed upon them.† (source)
- But I truly believe that it wasn't bullying, per se, that led Peter to do what he did.'† (source)
- This isn't a book about the cost of chewing gum versus campaign spending per se, or about disingenuous real-estate agents, or the impact of legalized abortion on crime.† (source)
- He would stay with us, but I had no legal protection per se.† (source)
- I'd never really been afraid of heights per se, but being able to see all the details with such clarity made the prospect less appealing.† (source)
- I ain't broke per se.† (source)
- "The rape per se didn't impact me so much," she says.† (source)
- "Not per se, no." He tapped the file.† (source)
- And since neither of the men showed any interest in Joe, but went after the woman as if they were attack dogs, they must have been watching him at the beach not because they were interested in him, per se, but because they hoped that she would make contact with him at some point during the day.† (source)
- Actually, it's not tied directly to the Chinese per se.† (source)
- It wasn't part of the Institute per se; it had been left deliberately unconsecrated in order that it might be used as a holding place for demons and vampires.† (source)
- They're not dangerous per se… "But they are a right pain," said Cooper, glancing at it.† (source)
- The girl had no other injuries, per se, though she hardly responded when spoken to or even when examined.† (source)
- Four decades ago Bell Wiley wrote that scarcely one in ten Union soldiers "had any real interest in emancipation per se."† (source)
- "It wasn't a dream per se, as a matter of fact," he told Jeannie.† (source)
- There were no experts at orbital mining per se.† (source)
- Even if we have learned to be rightly and deeply fearful of elevating the cultural forms and conservatisms of any nation into normative and exclusivist systems, even if we have terrible proof that pride in an ethnic and religious heritage can quickly degrade into the fascistic, our vigilance on that score should not displace our love and trust in the good of the indigenous per se.† (source)
- They don't mind losing ten or twenty million people, so long as they sweep the board, because people, per se, are only pawns, and expendable.† (source)
- We did not meet, per se; but he was here with you in the hotel just before you left.† (source)
- They were conquered, but there's no evidence of genocide per se.† (source)
- "And two hundred and fourteen meters isn't a hard limit, per se."† (source)
- She has a special talent that has nothing to do with sex per se.† (source)
- If by "per se" Wiley meant "in and of itself alone," one in ten may even be an exaggeration.† (source)
- "I'm not sure if you'd call it a weapon, per se.† (source)
- "That's because it doesn't really fly, per se.† (source)
- And I don't know if we're going to be making many ships, per se.† (source)
- I frankly don't think the Glatun code, per se.† (source)
- And Lagos told me the other night that, according to the Sumerians, there was no concept of good and evil per se.† (source)
- And it is not a grievance per se.† (source)
- And she won't cause trouble on the Raft because all she can do is escape from their part of it onto the Raft per se.† (source)
- But there was never a civil war per Se.† (source)
- From here it's a thirty-foot drop to the water, they are looking out across the prosperous, clean white neighborhood of the Russian people, separated from the squalid dark tangle of the Raft per se by a wide canal patrolled by gun-toting blackrobes.† (source)
- But if "emancipation per se" meant a perception that the abolition of slavery was inseparably linked to the goal of preserving the Union, then almost three in ten Union soldiers took this position during the first year and a half of the war, and many more were eventually converted to it.† (source)
- It appears to be copies of copies with legacy and remnant code scattered throughout, much of it haying nothing to do with fabber operations, per se.† (source)
- But it's not inciting, per se.† (source)
- But they aren't, per se, creative.† (source)
- I'm not sure the Army, per se, is turning into a laughing stock simply because of all the press reports where everyone's going 'wink, wink, nudge, nudge.'† (source)
- Since this, per se, was defense, and since the Navy's whole tradition was to take the offensive, Hazzard spent his final years of duty conning a desk.† (source)
- I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se.† (source)
- This was merged, in turn, in an examination of the Italian heart per se.† (source)
- Standardization is excellent, per se.† (source)
- They were humane enough, anticommercial enough, to call economic activity per se a danger to the salvation of the soul, that is, to humanity.† (source)
- Eh, eh, Naphta knew quite well that he wasn't talking about sketching, but about literature as the basic impulse of humanity, about the human spirit, which, mock as he might, was spirit per se, the miracle uniting analysis and form.† (source)
- You wish to say that you did not mean to be taken so seriously, that the view you have advocated is not yours per se, but rather merely one possible view out of many hovering in the air, as it were, which you then seized upon in order to have an irresponsible go at it.† (source)
- For us to criticize the methods and forms by which human beings come to know things, to question their validity per se, would be absurd, dishonorable, antagonistic, if we did so for any other purpose than to point out those limits to reason that reason can never overstep without being guilty of neglecting its own tasks.† (source)
- The purifying, sanctifying effect of literature, the destruction of passions through knowledge and the Word; literature as the path to understanding, to forgiveness, and to love; the redemptive power of language, the literary spirit as the noblest manifestation of the human spirit per se; the man of letters as the perfect man, the saint—such were the radiant tones of Herr Settembrini's hymn of apology.† (source)
- It would be immortal, I understand, but for the possibility of its annihilation by its First Cause Who, from all I can hear, is quite capable of adding that to the number of His other practical jokes, corruptio per se and corruptio per accidens both being excluded by court etiquette.† (source)
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