Greedy authors, greedy agents, brainless book chains with their Vivaldi-riddle espresso bars, publishers owned by metallurgy conglomerates, operated by glacially cold bean-counters in Geneva.

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My immobility was complete, as if tendrils of myself had burrowed down and sought root in the soil of Japan, rendering me brainless vegetation.

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She is also one of the few directors period who remains faithful to an artistic vision in a world of brainless, lowest-common denominator entertainment franchises.

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Indeed, Hepburn was never typecast as a brainless bimbo.

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