Scandals captivate our attention as sensational headlines punctuate the mundane din of modern life.
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Dropping the voice to punctuate the phrases creates a crisp, clear, and adult cadence.
The rhetorical lesson for presenters is to punctuate your presentation with clear calls to action.
You'll hear these punctuate the beginning and end of program segements all year round.
There's not much in the way of sparkling wit or even idle banter to punctuate the action.
With a history anchored in farming, the settlements that punctuate the region are more like hamlets than towns.
Several checkpoints may punctuate a journey between cities that would otherwise be less than an hour's drive apart.
Little lagoons, glassy blobs of brilliant blue water, punctuate the ride, pockets of sharp colour in barren nothingness.
There's their fizz, of course, to punctuate your holiday with exclamation marks of popping corks (or hissing caps).
Occasional wineries punctuate the final stretch before the postcard-worthy village, with its river-meets-mountain vistas and deserted streets flanked with countrified guesthouses.
President Obama, like many effective speakers, uses gestures to punctuate nearly every sentence.
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He is the builder behind six luxury condos that, like giant exclamation points, punctuate the skyline of the famed South Beach.
And for his spectacle-loving audiences, Rameau created charming symphonies, tambourins, menuets, and other dances to punctuate the vocal pyrotechnics on stage.
Kuchar punched his right arm into the air to punctuate the shot that got him within a stroke of Weekley for the lead.
He also got so friendly he threw what looked like a travel coffee mug into the audience to punctuate one of his ideas.
He plays Matt, a standup comedian with a story to tell, and he tells it, straight to the camera, to punctuate its dramatization in flashbacks.
Harsh cracking sounds like gunshots also punctuate her sometimes gruesome story, as she recalls the defining moment in her life when her husband was killed.
Wonderfully contrapuntal bits of green and aqua punctuate the back side.
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Climbing two stories high, they punctuate the walls on both sides, and let in splashes of color that seem to dye the white walls around them.
The train pops out into the fresh air about 20 minutes later: no white cliffs of Dover, no duty-frees or happy landings to punctuate the journey.
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Details such as limestone and oak flooring, carved marble bathtubs, and a private tower with panoramic views punctuate the beauty and meticulous design of this American palace.
In the past four decades 100 people have been stabbed, burned or beaten to death in racist murders that punctuate everyday harassment and attacks faced by thousands.
Silk touches the lives of rural Chinese in more material ways, too, in the form of the silk clothes, quilts, umbrellas, fans and flowers that punctuate everyday life.
Forceful exhalations and heavy sighs punctuate the lounge-like ambiance.
When he does get the better of Lundqvist in a breakaway drill, Dubinsky never fails to punctuate the sequence by raising his arms and shouting in celebration a way to tweak his hyper-competitive teammate.
This serves to punctuate the hilarity which ensues.
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Never politically correct, but at the same time never having to resort to profanities to punctuate his punchlines and prose, Phinn managed to entertain and delight throughout while at the same time making poignant observations on life and learning.
On Oct. 8, the day Megawati opened the congress before tens of thousands of red-clad supporters on a blistering field in the beach resort of Sanur, Bali helped pull off exactly what the PDI team wanted: a grand political spectacle to punctuate Megawati's transformation from party outcast to presidential contender.
On a return trip to Rwanda last week, we saw ample evidence in Kigali: a new and fully-leased 20-story skyscraper, tower cranes that punctuate the skyline, and shiny metal roofs in rural areas that attest to growing household income. (Rwanda raised one million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2011.) Agricultural cooperatives improve efficiency and productivity.
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