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Simple sentences
This poses an interesting problem for classical theories of physics.
Tom loves listening to classical music.
I was keen on classical music in my school days.
Which do you like better, rock music or classical music?
Betty likes classical music.
Talking of classical music, who is your favorite composer?
I like classical music.
Some people like classical music, while others like popular music.
You like classical music, don't you?
I like to listen to classical music.
I always enjoy listening to classical music when I have some free time.
Do you care for classical music?
One of my hobbies is classical music.
I don't like classical music.
I like not only classical music but also jazz.
I like music, especially classical music.
Classical music is not my cup of tea.
My sister likes classical music no less than I do.
Movie subtitles
I'd forgotten that costume was so classical.
I'm sorry to interrupt your classical lesson, but there's the bell and these ancient Romans will be late for chapel.
She played classical.
Not exactly classical, but sweet.
So we want to preserve your beautiful design but just soften it with a touch of classical dignity.
I told you, Mr. Gail Wynand wants buildings that show a classical influence.
We might all profit by a closer study of classical literature.
All classical dancers have thick calves and thighs.
That's the classical complaint. The Navy takes them very seriously.
This is classical music, isn't it?
I sure do admire classical music.
Maybe the girls could play something classical.
I personally prefer classical music.
We were near some stone figures on a plinth. a man and a woman, in classical style. whose suspended gestures seemed to hold some significance.
I like classical music.
I excel mostly in parts from the classical repertoire.
He referred to classical physics in general and specifically to Newton's Laws of Falling Bodies.
Well, this new Drummond affair is like a classical tragedy that will unfold over 24 hours.
It's a good story, isn't it? Simple, classical, vivid.
Something classical would be more appropriate.
A man and a woman in classical dress.
Classical operetta! Grand, melodic operetta!
He's the foremost authority on classical art objects.
Classical style, but real talent.
I guess some like it hot. I personally prefer classical music.
We were near a group of stone figures on a fairly high pedestal. A man and a woman in classical dress. Their frozen gestures seemed to dramatize some specific scene.
The classical garments are pure convention.
Yes, it's true, in the sense of classical beauty, isn't that right?
Of course, he was more in the classical tradition as an actor. Shakespeare and that sort of thing.
Yes, a classical exorcism stamp.
Classical music is so relaxing, isn't it?
You get the piano. the pictures of Beethoven, and the classical records.
The classical nose. It is plastic, washable and of course luminous.
News and current affairs
Today, the mood is much grimmer, with references to 1929 and 1931 beginning to abound, even if some governments continue to behave as if the crisis was more classical than exceptional.
Its comeback takes the classical form of attacks on individuals, like the recent killing of a young Jew in France, or of disfiguring symbolic places, like cemeteries and synagogues.
The two main criticisms - lack of strategic clarity and less emphasis on the classical concepts of power - point to America's loss of influence, power, and leadership.
But these criticisms reflect an inability to contemplate the current nature of armed conflict, which no longer follows the classical logic of military victory or defeat.
These differences reflect the intellectual richness of neo-classical economics, but they provide no justification for the claim that there is one economics.
One reason is that liberal neo-classical economists like Stiglitz and Krugman share values with heterodox economists, and shared values are easily conflated with shared analysis.
In a heartbeat, Cameron (who himself studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, having previously attended that bastion of classical education, Eton) has signed away Britain's global influence.
There is much to be said for holding on to the classical institutions of parliamentary democracy and trying to reconnect them with the citizenry.
This stands in total contrast with the growing strength of America's Christian revival, with the evangelical right combining support for the Greater Israel of the Bible with a rather classical form of Anti-Semitism.
The neo-classical revolution believed that markets were much more cyclically stable than Keynes believed, that the risks in all market transactions can be known in advance, and that prices will therefore always reflect objective probabilities.
The classical economics of the 1920's abstracted from the problem of unemployment by assuming that it did not exist.
On security issues and education, Royal differs from the classical left, being something of a hardliner.
The classical liberal free-trade argument about the universal economic benefits of greater commerce and open markets proved to be unambiguously correct.
Knowledge of meter or classical poetics was no longer necessary.
At the start of the crisis, many people likened it to 1982 or 1973, which was reassuring, because both dates refer to classical cyclical downturns.
The classical concert that preceded the magisterial fireworks that ended the day was the closest thing to a French version of the Proms in London, mixing light classical and popular songs.
With the rise of non-traditional threats, Europeans are increasingly overlooking classical security risks like inter-state warfare, believing that they are no longer relevant - a notion that is reflected in the ESS.
In a more classical sense, the depth of anti-Bush sentiment in Europe explains the depth of pro-Obama feeling and Europeans' relative distancing from McCain's candidacy.
China has shown itself adept at assertively promoting its national interests and playing classical balance-of-power geopolitics.
Part of the difficulty of exposing this narrowness is that there is a family split among neo-classical economists between those who believe that real-world market economies approximate perfect competition and those who don't.
They want a fair and open system for electing their government, and to defend the freedom and rule of law that make Hong Kong so special and successful, a genuinely liberal - in the classical sense - society.