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  • It is directed by Terence Davies, whose previous films include The House of Mirth and Distant Voices, Still Lives.

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  • Ever since Arianna Huffington first floated the idea of a Beatty candidacy, it has been the cause of mirth.

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  • The modern Journal's first managing editor, he knew that into the world of business a little mirth must be poured.

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  • Beneath the gush of his eloquent vocabulary incessantly burbled a subterranean effluence of inexhaustible mirth, a Gulf Stream of self-satisfied glee.

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  • This fact, which I proclaimed upon arrival in middle school, was a source of considerable mirth for the powerful few who dictated the social tide.

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  • At each of my encounters with the Archbishop, I had the same sense of wonder at his sense of humour and mirth even when dealing with tough problems such as human rights violations.

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  • These begin with a corpse in the Louvre, continue in a country house owned by a conspiracy expert (Ian McKellen), lead to London for a touch of local color, and end in a Scottish church, where the true descendant of Jesus is revealed, to regrettable sounds of mirth in the audience.

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