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Internally searing at how unromantic the gift was, she looked up to find her boyfriend beaming.
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The most unromantic dinner for two in the history of epic eating recently went down outside Seattle.
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"Irkutsk-Pekin" was stenciled on the side of our train in Cyrillic letters, but otherwise it was unromantic-looking.
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He also went into the unromantic but lucrative business of settling trades.
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But lucky for the idealists, they have been able to rely on the unwavering support of the unromantic pragmatists to implement their program.
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This unromantic comedy by Jeff Garlin, who also stars, sometimes resembles a TV pilot for a cult show, yet its deadpan absurdities and sour realities evoke a pain that no amount of humor can dispel.
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For him, the empire was about consolidation and administration rather than conquest, and its benefits were often unromantic ones: it gave its inhabitants railways, sanitary engineering and, above all, law (he was a notably litigious man himself).
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Well, as I've mentioned probably one time too many now, we've been broadcasting live from the U.S. Capitol for the opening of this new Congress from the remarkably unromantic sounding room H-144 in the Senate side of the Capitol.
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It's a good idea for some, but most couples don't have a lot of assets to worry about at the start, and many a moony-eyed pair think there's something unromantic about beginning a lifelong commitment with a financial document drafted by lawyers.
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Even the shuttle will live on, in some sense, since the Space Launch System the unromantic name of the beefy rocket needed to loft astronauts and cargoes into high orbits or farther into the solar system will be built partly from recycled shuttle parts in an effort to save money and use familiar technology.
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