"I don't want to talk to your friends, " says Frank Harling to Clayton Buller, apropos of nothing.

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Late last week the administration decided - apropos of nothing - to upgrade the diplomatic status of the PLO mission in Washington.

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Apropos of nothing, this week the EU felt it necessary to pass a resolution accepting the Palestinian positions on every single issue in their conflict with Israel.

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During a boilerplate, vacuous speech about President Bashar Assad's slaughter of his fellow Syrians, apropos of nothing the baroness launched into an unhinged, impassioned, and deeply dishonest frontal assault against Israel.

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This introduction would be apropos of nothing besides pretentious wine writer affectations were it not necessary to establish the backdrop for what is a compelling convergence of issues in the wine world.

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And apropos of almost nothing, Gilligan launched into a riff on the relative merits of Three Stooges.

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Apropos of absolutely nothing to do with tax, winter has been slow to arrive in Aspen this year.

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