If you doubt that, post a Christian cross in one coffee alcove and a Darwin sticker in another.

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She walked over to an alcove window, stood with her back to me.

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Philippe Redom, a 56-year-old rough sleeper and former chef, prefers to remain in his alcove outside an office block.

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The home also has four and a half bathrooms, a reading alcove, a breakfast room and a sauna in the basement.

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And, grouped in an alcove, 15 works by Bada Shanren (1626-1705) show him to be one of China's most abstruse and inventive artists.

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Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie.

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The other alcove is filled with Japanese prints, most by Utagawa Hiroshige, an apt point of reference for Van Gogh, as he collected such items.

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Elsewhere in the gallery, four perfect paintings by Vermeer, who defines perfection in art, share an alcove with exciting pictures by the more nonchalant Pieter de Hooch, his fellow citizen of Delft.

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As details of Sharp's death became public it emerged that 40 climbers had passed him, making no attempt to save the stricken climber as he lay stranded in the scant shelter of a rock alcove on the mountain's northeast ridge.

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