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In the context you present, the ‘alright’ could connote two slightly different perspectives, depending on how the sentence is spoken.
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When the utterance is emphatic, it is an expression of sadness — the equivalent of something like “Life has no meaning, as any fool can see! In
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some places, it sounds like an acknowledgment of the correctness of an assertion made by the speaker’s interlocutor: “Indeed, life has no meaning!”. A word spoken in a slow, deliberate way in a more measured tone. “.
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As is expected with backsliding from the speaker, backing back is another way of trying to close down the conversation.
I am unable to communicate with the first person as an interrupted sentence if I am closing the conversation.
What are the facts about a post-industrial civil rights organisation?
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I would call such a person a skimreader. If I’m on something I’m getting caught up in but don’t know how to read my notes, I would have to call it a skim-reader. What are some relevant dictionary entries for “Skim” : 2. 5.
3 Read rapid or cursorily so as to note only the important points: He
sat down and skimmed the report : she skimmed through the newspaper EXAMPLE
SENTENCES She
let her eyes skim the page, not really reading it, until she got to verse thirty-nine.
When Lacey realized she was doing something she needed to do, she grabbed the book.
When writing about an author, it’s often helpful to read his latest book. Check the excerpts.
2. Do you have any experience from which you can say something similar? 4 (skim over) Deal with (a subject) briefly or superficially.
Why would
they treat this sultana in such a fashion, whereas their counterparts briefly skimmed over her career?
Over time, Birkin can literally skimm over subjects, lifting them up, reshaping them, and throwing them back down.
Why is the media skimming over this one subject entirely?
(Definitions of skim from Oxforddictionaries plus usage examples, from Wikipedia.) com)).
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I would call such a person a skimreader. If I’m on something I’m getting caught up in but don’t know how to read my notes, I would have to call it a skim-reader. What are some relevant dictionary entries for “Skim” : 2. 5.
3 Read rapid or cursorily so as to note only the important points: He
sat down and skimmed the report : she skimmed through the newspaper EXAMPLE
SENTENCES She
let her eyes skim the page, not really reading it, until she got to verse thirty-nine.
When Lacey realized she was doing something she needed to do, she grabbed the book.
When writing about an author, it’s often helpful to read his latest book. Check the excerpts.
2. Do you have any experience from which you can say something similar? 4 (skim over) Deal with (a subject) briefly or superficially.
Why would
they treat this sultana in such a fashion, whereas their counterparts briefly skimmed over her career?
Over time, Birkin can literally skimm over subjects, lifting them up, reshaping them, and throwing them back down.
Why is the media skimming over this one subject entirely?
(Definitions of skim from Oxforddictionaries plus usage examples, from Wikipedia.) com)).
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I would call such a person a skimreader. If I’m on something I’m getting caught up in but don’t know how to read my notes, I would have to call it a skim-reader. What are some relevant dictionary entries for “Skim” : 2. 5.
3 Read rapid or cursorily so as to note only the important points: He
sat down and skimmed the report : she skimmed through the newspaper EXAMPLE
SENTENCES She
let her eyes skim the page, not really reading it, until she got to verse thirty-nine.
When Lacey realized she was doing something she needed to do, she grabbed the book.
When writing about an author, it’s often helpful to read his latest book. Check the excerpts.
2. Do you have any experience from which you can say something similar? 4 (skim over) Deal with (a subject) briefly or superficially.
Why would
they treat this sultana in such a fashion, whereas their counterparts briefly skimmed over her career?
Over time, Birkin can literally skimm over subjects, lifting them up, reshaping them, and throwing them back down.
Why is the media skimming over this one subject entirely?
(Definitions of skim from Oxforddictionaries plus usage examples, from Wikipedia.) com)).
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I would call such a person a skimreader. If I’m on something I’m getting caught up in but don’t know how to read my notes, I would have to call it a skim-reader. What are some relevant dictionary entries for “Skim” : 2. 5.
3 Read rapid or cursorily so as to note only the important points: He
sat down and skimmed the report : she skimmed through the newspaper EXAMPLE
SENTENCES She
let her eyes skim the page, not really reading it, until she got to verse thirty-nine.
When Lacey realized she was doing something she needed to do, she grabbed the book.
When writing about an author, it’s often helpful to read his latest book. Check the excerpts.
2. Do you have any experience from which you can say something similar? 4 (skim over) Deal with (a subject) briefly or superficially.
Why would
they treat this sultana in such a fashion, whereas their counterparts briefly skimmed over her career?
Over time, Birkin can literally skimm over subjects, lifting them up, reshaping them, and throwing them back down.
Why is the media skimming over this one subject entirely?
(Definitions of skim from Oxforddictionaries plus usage examples, from Wikipedia.) com)).
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In connection with
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As regards
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In relation to
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Bearing in that
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connection Bearing on
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Connected with
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With Reference
to In connection with In that connection Bearing on Coordination. Connected with Bearing.
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Isn’t this a convention that allows people to have their cake and eat it?
Whoever is reading this text is fooled by asterisks or blanks? Using them creates the look that the word has been made less shocking or offensive.
Is there a form of hypocrisy or fake propriety that has been accepted and integrated into many English-speaking cultures, or even enforced by laws or regulations that prohibit the use of explicit expletives?
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Most-Hated Pet Names For Female Partners: Details At Wordwizard.com. A look at this posting titled All Animals Have A Fate? What are the most desired and very undesired ways to honor oneself and your female friend in your life?
Consult and adopt/adapt — at own risk. (I notice some unfortunate conflicts with Oerkelens’ list of the words that he uses with his own — um — better half.)
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Perhaps you’re looking for an adjective like scholarly:
1 Involving or relating to serious academic study:
EXAMPLE SENTENCES
scholarly journals
a scholarly career
a few if any of the serious scholarly treatments of the Cold War and its end credit the one policy or factor or agent
Is there no Paucity of scholarly studies and statistical data on China, but these don’t help us.
How can he contribute to popular scholarly issues such as racism and terrorism?
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