More judicious than Mr Lebrecht's tome, it outlines the often vexed relationship between creative temperaments and their commercial representatives who can be quite temperamental too.

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Was the Supreme Court's final call judicious or partisan?

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Mr Jordan's solution is a judicious mixture of chronological and thematic sections, looking at large regions, and hopping from one idea to the next as suitable cues present themselves.

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Indeed, this judicious, admirable book partakes of Mr Bellow's own energy.

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No doubt Mr Mortier's festival could do with a spot of judicious pruning.

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But Mr Gerster's political awkwardness also made it easy for his foes, by judicious leaking, to build a media campaign against him.

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The New-England Primer's first edition antedated by less than a half-dozen years the publication in Britain of John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), a wide-ranging essay on child-rearing practices that highlighted children's capacity for reason and their susceptibility to being molded for life through judicious exposure to books and other influences suited to their capacity.

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