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  • Ultimate freedom.†   (source)
  • It's like Jesus, who died for all of our sins," said Mrs. Hillcoate, who was a Baptist, and considered herself the ultimate authority.†   (source)
  • Not changed, but accommodated and, ultimately, transformed.†   (source)
  • I focus only on the mystery, and embrace the belief that solving it is the ultimate Good, that declarative sentences are inherently better than interrogative ones, and in finding the answer despite my madness, I simultaneously find a way to live with the madness.†   (source)
  • To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.†   (source)
  • But, I did indeed invent an ultimate rule.†   (source)
  • Yes, a bottle of wine was the ultimate distillation of time and place; a poetic expression of individuality itself.†   (source)
  • Income tax refunds were the ultimate backstops.†   (source)
  • Ultimately it made no difference that he only saw me as a friend.†   (source)
  • He might have allowed it to happen, she said, but ultimately I had brought it upon myself.†   (source)
  • The ultimate test.†   (source)
  • And I was about to pay the ultimate price for my hubris.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, a foot is the only good judge of land.†   (source)
  • Don't lose sight of the ultimate goal.†   (source)
  • They turned into the ultimate weed.†   (source)
  • We challenged her conviction and sentence and ultimately won her release.†   (source)
  • What is the point in providing food and shelter for an animal that just soils your furniture, makes your home smell bad, and ultimately dies?†   (source)
  • Ultimately, what this case is about is whether you believe people who are admitted participants in this crime and who are saving their own hides.†   (source)
  • Back in the car, ultimately.†   (source)
  • This banishment was the ultimate hurt--worse than his father's fists and belt, worse than his mother's never caring.†   (source)
  • So you see, your idea may have been good — for a child — but ultimately fruitless.†   (source)
  • He went on to say he wanted to become a male model, his ultimate ambition was to be on the cover of GQ.†   (source)
  • He was playing for keeps with a pro, and he turned out to be the ultimate loser.†   (source)
  • Because it's the ultimate sign of dependency.†   (source)
  • The ultimate in American knowledge.†   (source)
  • And, in case the doofy-looking dog sweater and giant funnel on his head didn't tip you off, Spitsy is the ultimate dog nerd.†   (source)
  • It was an open question, ultimately unanswerable.†   (source)
  • To my father, this was the ultimate expression of the right order of things, so when Ty started visiting us the year after that, my father was perfectly happy to see him.†   (source)
  • It was clear Cain and Celaena would ultimately face each other, and until then …. well, the other Champions weren't worth his time.†   (source)
  • How self-important it seemed: to be making "the ultimate judgment."†   (source)
  • Forgiveness implies belief in an ultimate triumph.†   (source)
  • But the ultimate wisdom of Sinkfield's maneuver is open to question.†   (source)
  • French fries-ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.†   (source)
  • The ultimate goal of the Others: eradication, internment, or enslavement?†   (source)
  • Mai is the ultimate pragmatist.†   (source)
  • It was the ultimate question for all seventeen-year-olds that year, and it drove Brinker's insinuations from every mind but mine.†   (source)
  • My dad was the ultimate surfer nut.†   (source)
  • Nominally, it would pass to Mrs. Tallis, but ultimately the success of the evening would be in Cecilia's care.†   (source)
  • She was the ultimate judge of morality and conduct.†   (source)
  • Star-bright branches of energy shot out of her fingers, forking and attaching themselves to card soldiers and Glass Eyes until every single one of them was caught on an end while the other ends were, ultimately, still attached to Alyss' fingers.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, it's the airlock that inflates it.†   (source)
  • Was I better, ultimately, than Voldemort?†   (source)
  • "Exactly," he said, visions of his ultimate jazz combo dancing in his head.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, what convinced me to seek the help of this person was the mention of horses.†   (source)
  • I knew that to be in the possession of food was the ultimate crime.†   (source)
  • The horse, which seemed to be obeying higher orders too, kept galloping as if it already knew their ultimate destination, even though Juan had thrown the reins aside and was passionately kissing and embracing Gertrudis.†   (source)
  • Geniuses are the ultimate outliers.†   (source)
  • The struggle is fierce and fully engaged. troy ultimately is the stronger, and takes the bat from cory and stands over him ready to swing.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, this book is the result.†   (source)
  • The Ultimate Question?†   (source)
  • Ultimately, people shape their own characters.†   (source)
  • I was cut off from all the people that I loved, everything I knew, living in this alien catacomb and forced to do nothing of importance but teach student after student, each one so hopeful, each one, ultimately, a weakling, a failure.†   (source)
  • I didn't enroll to make friends or impress anyone, so as long as my unwarranted reputation doesn't interfere with my ultimate goal, I'll get along just fine.†   (source)
  • It was like the ultimate achievement for her to attract the lord of the sky, and she couldn't accept it when he left.†   (source)
  • Always, ultimately, she eluded me: I'd always just missed her call, or misplaced her phone number; or run up breathless and gasping to the place where she was supposed to be, only to find her gone.†   (source)
  • It's the ultimate diet food -- food with no calories.†   (source)
  • And, ultimately, the word that helped her escape.†   (source)
  • He already knew what the ultimate goal was, now he could figure out how to achieve it.†   (source)
  • Latina migrants ultimately pay a steep price for coming to the United States.†   (source)
  • Norman has kind of thick glasses, and I bet he couldn't actually hit anything, even with a machine gun, which even a lunatic like Norman is allowed to buy in this country thanks to our totally unrestrictive gun laws, which Michael Moscovitz says in his webzine will ultimately result in the demise of democracy as we know it.†   (source)
  • It held the ultimate high place in Danny's room, resting on a large plastic plate on the table by his bed.†   (source)
  • I've read they're the ultimate.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, I was alone, at home, waiting to restart my life—waiting to live my teenage years.†   (source)
  • Ultimately it was her downfall, but it was one of her greatest gifts nevertheless…… She always helped the poor and the less fortunate, no matter what her situation.†   (source)
  • I was excited, ready for what some people think is the ultimate test for SEAL trainees.†   (source)
  • I was what Mommy called a "Little Kid," one of five young'uns, microscopic dots on the power grid of the household, thus fit to be tied, tortured, tickled, tormented, ignored, and commanded to suffer all sorts of indignities at the hands of the "Big Kids," who didn't have to go to bed early, didn't believe in the tooth fairy, and were appointed denizens of power by Mommy, who of course wielded ultimate power.†   (source)
  • She knew her limits, but she wasn't the type to get into a conflict over things that were ultimately not that important.†   (source)
  • "The Ultimate Intelligence," I said, exhaling smoke.†   (source)
  • And so, ultimately, very expensive.†   (source)
  • I used to think Audie Murphy was the ultimate American warrior.†   (source)
  • But it is the human element-the real world-that ultimately does him in, as is seen in the last line.†   (source)
  • " Ultimately, Adler did accept Burnham's invitation.†   (source)
  • An element of indifference is the ultimate overtone.†   (source)
  • This is ultimate transparency.†   (source)
  • The ultimate ignominy came the day Father set the astronomical clock by the radio.†   (source)
  • If he did, I knew the new agency was my ultimate goal as well.†   (source)
  • What is your ultimate objective?†   (source)
  • What's being sold ultimately matters less than how well it sells.†   (source)
  • Close to forty years later, I continue to do the vital work of helping create a healthy earth and a healthy society worthy of our gifts, our needs and our dreams (which is the ultimate struggle, the one fight really worth fighting).†   (source)
  • Mrs. Livingston's house is not extravagantly furnished, but it's clear that she's come a long way from being a poor shirtwaist girl who thought a single red rose was the ultimate in luxury.†   (source)
  • A way of gaining the ultimate upper hand.†   (source)
  • It was Abraham's ultimate joke.†   (source)
  • In fact, I imagine his ultimate dream would have been to become butler of a house like this one.†   (source)
  • Logan, the ultimate Tigger.†   (source)
  • The pessimists thought otherwise: they believed the war would last for some time yet, but at least there could no longer be the slightest doubt of its ultimate outcome.†   (source)
  • Every day after school he hammered and nailed and pounded on it, making it the "ultimate racing machine."†   (source)
  • You see pain and death as ultimate evils and God as the ultimate betrayer, or perhaps, at best, as fundamentally untrustworthy.†   (source)
  • Ultimately predictable, but still unusual enough to want to watch.†   (source)
  • But ultimately, there was no sense in thinking that way.†   (source)
  • And it works for us, ultimately, I think.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, it's your decision," she said.†   (source)
  • The fact that the parrot could maintain his privileges after that historic act of defiance was the ultimate proof of his sacred rights.†   (source)
  • " 'Law is the ultimate science,' " Paul quoted.†   (source)
  • Mother stayed on me until I fully grasped that I am the one ultimately responsible for my life.†   (source)
  • Murder, the ultimate crime of passion.†   (source)
  • The ultimate test's always your own serenity.†   (source)
  • Marley fulfilled the prophecy, committing the ultimate Dog Beach heresy.†   (source)
  • He learned to be cordial to everyone—a sophisticated and ultimately false front.†   (source)
  • You could almost say it was philosophy's ultimate goal.†   (source)
  • No one could tell me whether he would be my ultimate destiny, but I had always sensed the en between us.†   (source)
  • During that terrifying thirty-one-year regime, any hint of disagreement ultimately resulted in death for the dissenter and often for members of his or her family.†   (source)
  • He was the warden, the trusted father of the Brookline family, strict but ultimately fair.†   (source)
  • Doctoring is the ultimate source of his power, I think.†   (source)
  • For Inigo, bats were never the ultimate nightmare.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, at five minutes past three that afternoon, Smith admitted the falsity of the Fort Scott tale.†   (source)
  • The only person who had a right to ask Alex to recuse herself was Josie, but Alex knew that ultimately her daughter would understand.†   (source)
  • They could help in some ways, but I feared their ultimate solution.†   (source)
  • Yet, in precisely the way that great music depends, ultimately, on great silence, this masculinity was defined, and made powerful, by something which was not masculine.†   (source)
  • The boys ran as tandem ponies, knowing that someday one would touch base first, and the other second or not at all, but now this first minute of the new morning was not the minute or the day or morning of ultimate loss.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, we had to create our own lives in prison.†   (source)
  • I coasted along a byway, memory, glimpses of truth speed bumps within childish belief, almost ultimate almost reliable almost total insanity.†   (source)
  • She ultimately gave in to me.†   (source)
  • A general's ultimate nightmare."†   (source)
  • It has already cost at least ten million lives, with the likelihood that the ultimate number of human casualties will vastly exceed the deaths in the Second World War.†   (source)
  • Mehlinger ultimately had to separate his pork section from the rest of the meats to avoid offending Muslim customers.†   (source)
  • And having thus paid his ultimate compliment to Johnnie, Himes relapsed into intermittent slumber as Shade moved away down the squalid, dusty street under the fierce July sun.†   (source)
  • But the fact that I even wondered about it seemed like just the ultimate sin.†   (source)
  • Ultimately God himself.†   (source)
  • In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own ultimate gift.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, when Snyder was pressed on his figure of 3 million homeless, he admitted that it was a fabrication.†   (source)
  • Later, of course, I'd read love stories to track down the horny parts and they made me wonder how it would be to touch a girl and if being horny was part of being in love, although it seemed to me you needed ultimate respect toward the girl you loved.†   (source)
  • ULTIMATELY BRITAIN declined to extradite the kingpin Alaji to America and instead set him free.†   (source)
  • He might ultimately turn out to be a genuine defector.†   (source)
  • It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, women like those in Kasturba Nagar need to join the human rights revolution themselves.†   (source)
  • Some kids even go through the ultimate abandonment—they end up in foster care their entire childhoods, bouncing from one family to another until they finally just age out of the system.†   (source)
  • This was ultimately what they had sacrificed their lives for.†   (source)
  • That was, to Dale, the ultimate mission, the "Big Mish."†   (source)
  • Oh, it is the ultimate wonderland!†   (source)
  • He was planning an expedition to K2, mountaineering's ultimate test, and he needed an expedition medic.†   (source)
  • While Oscar ultimately graduated, Cristian did not.†   (source)
  • Consider the Marine Corps Memorial as the ultimate transmutation of The Photograph.†   (source)
  • This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it?†   (source)
  • Today I was too busy making tiramisu, kicking myself for not going to the mall to buy a new dress, and ultimately trying to think of a brilliant plan to get out of this dinner.†   (source)
  • We can bide our time, we can keep our thoughts in our hearts, deploring maybe evils done by the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends.†   (source)
  • We have removed the catalyst, true—but the world of men must still work to repair the damage that has been done, and then, ultimately, must choose peace.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, he opted for corporate.†   (source)
  • But the ultimate responsibility lies with me!†   (source)
  • None of this, however, prevented him from feeling well disposed toward him or recognizing the strength of his convictions, his natural gaiety, his capacity for tenderness, and the generosity that made him willing to give his life for ideals that Jaime shared but lacked the courage to take to their ultimate conclusion.†   (source)
  • Milo, of course, had been the big feather in his cap, although having his group bombed by Milo's planes had probably been a terrible black eye for him, even though Milo had ultimately stilled all protest by disclosing the huge net profit the syndicate had realized on the deal with the enemy and convincing everyone that bombing his own men and planes had therefore really been a commendable and very lucrative blow on the side of private enterprise.†   (source)
  • I had let my anger, hurt, and ultimately my desire for revenge take control of my actions.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, it will be your burden to bear.†   (source)
  • All he has to do, ultimately, is join this crowd academically.†   (source)
  • But despite their losses, the wights ultimately got what they came for.†   (source)
  • You must understand that when anybody, bruja or curandera, priest or sinner, tampers with the fate of a man that sometimes a chain of events is set into motion over which no one will have ultimate control.†   (source)
  • The effort of breathing ultimately proved too much for that tiny chest.†   (source)
  • Then she'd lassoed Fitzy and Mike, so ultimately a personnel change would've been her call.†   (source)
  • -forest was ultimately hopeless.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, it was not.†   (source)
  • Now it would be Joe's turn to strive for the ultimate prize.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, I will be unable to move, to speak, and finally, to breathe.†   (source)
  • If she succeeds, ultimately the Radch will fragment.†   (source)
  • Well, ultimately the king—†   (source)
  • Ultimately there would be fifteen.†   (source)
  • It was suddenly terrifying and sickening and, ultimately, shameful.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, in my opinion, they lead nowhere.†   (source)
  • Ultimately he managed to order a Volkswagen through a hotel booking agency in the city.†   (source)
  • I yelled back at her, urging her to push, and push harder, desperate when she surrendered just short of the ultimate effort, and I felt the baby slip back again.†   (source)
  • Dad's the ultimate guidebook nerd," Grace yelled from the back.†   (source)
  • Art, I'd tell him, is the ultimate revolution.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, if Mark kept them on the strand like this, they would be trapped between the northbound chopper and the southbound searchers.†   (source)
  • My grandmother, catching somehow the ultimate terror that the bomb promised, turned from adultery to Armageddon.†   (source)
  • But, ultimately, he didn't want to give up his gun.†   (source)
  • It kills him, of course, ultimately.†   (source)
  • But they had already headed for the door, knowing she had used up her ultimate weapon against them.†   (source)
  • If they had not brought down Tribulation which all but destroyed them; then they would have bred with the carelessness of animals until they had reduced themselves to poverty and misery, and ultimately to starvation and barbarism.†   (source)
  • It's the only way we know of to test a Potential's courage and loyalty Unfortunately, it's the test most Potentials ultimately fail, but we've refused to compromise our standards.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, they both felt led to teach their children at home, which at first proved to be a struggle for Mom.†   (source)
  • But he is putting into words the ultimate goal of the civil rights movement.†   (source)
  • What is its ultimate purpose?†   (source)
  • Ultimately, Chanda's wars are everybody's wars: Every young person stolen and recruited is our brother, our sister, our son, our daughter.†   (source)
  • This generosity was, to her, the ultimate seduction.†   (source)
  • Part of the mystique is that skateboarding is the ultimate democratic sport, because poor people can do it in the streets.†   (source)
  • Ultimate Horror Only Feet Away†   (source)
  • Each time during my freshman year that I acted bravely, I was paying ultimate homage to my cowardice.†   (source)
  • I continued to see the horror of Osa fighting for her life and ultimately losing to a shower of arrows.†   (source)
  • I believe Northern sympathizers will look at the court decision as the ultimate yardstick.†   (source)
  • "No one ultimately faults the commissioner," Kwang said.†   (source)
  • This week I suffered the ultimate indignity.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the ultimate in vindictiveness was expressed by an officer in an artillery battery defending Charleston, who was cheered by news of the burning of Chambersburg.†   (source)
  • Old Rit and Ben decided that they would call this new baby Araminta, a name that would be ultimately shortened to Minty or Minty.†   (source)
  • It's the ultimate!†   (source)
  • She began to notice how stodgy their friends were, and although she had assumed, till now, that her ultimate goal in life was a husband and four children and a comfortable house with a yard, all at once she began biting off the words "domestic" and "suburban" with her eyebrows raised and the corners of her mouth turned down.†   (source)
  • It's a tough question to answer, and, ultimately, a pointless one to ask.†   (source)
  • The ultimate authority resides in the people alone.†   (source)
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