European leaders have been agreeably surprised by the degree of consultation America has offered through the crisis.

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And if that were to happen, the map of Central Europe might become still more agreeably blurry.

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But they smile agreeably until a publicist drags them across the room to a video crew, where a reporter shoves a microphone in their faces.

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The overall effect is as agreeably soothing as iced tea on a front porch in the summertime with a slice of lemon to offset all that sweetness, of course.

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The heavens, he observed, remained agreeably unchanged: he saw Halley's comet when it passed over Pennsylvania in 1910 and again in 1986, when he was in New Zealand doing research.

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"Although I do not anticipate this will ever arise, if the Dunbar is not built within 10 years or the sculptures are not agreeably displayed elsewhere, " Mr. Costner wrote, he would give Ms. Detmers 50% of the profit from the sale of the sculptures.

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Surprisingly, the conceit of looking down from heaven works nicely, since Ms Sebold avoids the precious, making Susie's paradise agreeably ordinary, a place where the dead learn to let go of the living while below the living learn to let go of the dead.

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