Elegantly decorated carriages are lined with armchairs, and the last has panoramic windows and an open-air terrace for unmediated views.

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In the early 19th century, artists dissatisfied with the Academy's sleek conventions began to insist on the value of unmediated realism, based on observation.

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"That's the only time the campaigns can get out an unmediated message, and talk directly to voters, " said University of Cincinnati Political Sciences Professor Michael Margolis.

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Schoenberg, by contrast, sought to express his inmost feelings in a raw, unmediated way instead of using large-scale tonal architecture to shape them into conventionally coherent structures.

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Foreigners have stayed well away from Colombia's continuing fratricide, whose origins can be traced back through la Violencia of 1948-58 (about 200, 000 dead) to unmediated wars a century ago.

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The video was a striking artifact an unmediated representation of the ambiguities and cruelties of modern warfare and he hoped that its release would touch off a worldwide debate about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Public discourse is becoming unmediated.

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