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Recent Examples of chappieEditor’s note: Director Neill Blomkamp is back with his latest film Chappie this weekend.—Mark Yarm, WIRED, 16 July 2013
Sometimes, those father figures were uncles, pastors, barbers, or that older guy from the block.
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Conial Caldwell Jr,
Baltimore Sun,
14 June 2025
Show me another time in the history of New York sports when there was a vacancy involving a big job like this and the guy conducting the search for a replacement tried to interview a bunch of guys under contract somewhere else.
Gen was stupidly tall and although her shoes were falling apart, her relaxed, graceful pace made Emily think of paintings of gentlemen from bygone eras, the kind on paperbacks like The Age of Innocence.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
Take, for instance, the scenes when Penelope tries to flirt with a gentlemen for the first time.
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