• The table and chairs are almost Medieval in their simplicity, with flattened ornamentation and rough-hewn lines.

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  • In short, Russia's future as a market-based, albeit still rough-hewn, democracy hangs in the balance.

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  • It is rare to see a member of Congress cry, and especially one as rough-hewn as Murtha.

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  • Rough-hewn cowboys gave way to women and foreigners, a more middle-class clientele that, in turn, attracted more players than ever before.

    ECONOMIST: The sport of gangsters has become worryingly respectable

  • Some got quite good at it in a rough-hewn sort of way.

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  • The natural feeling extends to the interiors: aged, smoked-oak floors, double windows to bring the outdoors in, a lot of rough-hewn timber, and stone fireplaces.

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  • He had the capacity to will David or Apollo flawlessly into being, but instead we are left with a rough-hewn form and a clumsy hyphenation.

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  • As we began down a central rough-hewn path between the buildings, I stopped, suddenly aware that I wasn't just looking at a centuries-old village, but an architectural time capsule.

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  • Located within an austere former meatpacking store, the restaurant has a rough-hewn chic interior and a dramatic cylinder-shaped aquarium in the centre that doubles as a raw bar, with stools around its diameter.

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  • This collaboration between the documentary maker Robert Mugge and the music critic Robert Palmer (who wrote the sweeping, inclusive 1981 history of the same name), is a lovably rough-hewn presentation of rural blues today.

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  • Sam the Lion, the rough-hewn soul of the town, has died, and the woman to whom he turned over the movie theater he owned is lamenting the fact that she is going to have to close it down.

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  • With Cillian Murphy as a refined young rebel who wants complete separation from Great Britain and a socialist revolution in Ireland, and Padraic Delaney as his rough-hewn brother, who is willing to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.

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  • Named Blanket Bay (after the blankets used by sheep shearers here in the 19th century to keep wool dry), the resort is the type of luxe but rough-hewn lodge one might expect to find in the Adirondacks or at Lake Tahoe.

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  • Everything is rough-hewn and overstuffed.

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  • At the end of a sandy track leading out of town into the surrounding scrubland, in a house made of rough-hewn branches covered in clay, Lucia Vieira looks after her two children while her husband is out earning a mere 5 reais a day as a farm labourer.

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  • The Germans - indeed northern Europe - have created a trap for themselves in which it is either fiscal union or a rough-hewn fiscal union in which the ECB does the heavy lifting, in defiance of its mandate and culture, and the instincts of the national central banks.

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  • Granted, the tale of the aristocratic Jen (played by Zhang Ziyi), her tangles with martial-arts masters Li Mubai (Chow Yun Fat) and Yu Shulien (Michelle Yeoh, fresh from her recent successful turn as a Bond girl), and her torrid romance with rough-hewn Lo (Chang Chen) is not that gripping.

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  • Their rough-hewn prototype sits in a small room at Trust Automation's headquarters in San Luis Obispo, California, using a water-filled vitamin bottle as a shock absorber. ("It runs like a Corvette on a Pinto engine, " Safreno says, smiling.) The ratty demo reel first shows a 22-second clip of an actor walking on a grassy lawn, past a blurred van, squirting water with a hose, at 24 fps.

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  • Between these best and worst scenarios for Russia, following the latest Yeltsin-induced dramas, lies a third less-than-uplifting prospect: that of a crony capitalism of the sort that Latin America has fought hard to shed these past 20 years, in which Russia's rough-hewn democracy comes and goes, while clusters of law-despising monied interests (perhaps heaven forbid, especially in Russia backed by men with beetle brows and gold epaulettes) call the shots behind the scenes.

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