While today's standard Osterizer blenders have ungraceful plastic bases and more speeds than a mountain bike, Osterizers from the 1940s and'50s have a beehive-shaped metal base, streamlined glass bowls and one speed : blend.
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He had a charming cut, and could not make a stroke that was ungraceful, but whether it was some unconscious negligence in his make-up . . . or some flaw in his technique, his batting average was a constant disappointment.
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Also in this episode, Jack is left in the kiddie playland while Ted and Dougal shop, Mrs Doyle goes through a crisis when Ted gives her an automated tea-maker, and she has several ungraceful landings from a ledge while she puts up Christmas decorations.
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In a day of almost unheard-of turmoil in the New York Republican Party, Lazio and Forstmann moved gingerly to position themselves in the event that Giuliani dropped out, without, their aides said, doing anything to appear as if they were taking ungraceful advantage of Giuliani's difficulties.
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Designed as a showcase for Taglioni's talent, it was the first ballet where dancing " en pointe " had an aesthetic rationale and was not merely an acrobatic stunt, often involving ungraceful arm movements and exertions, as had been the approach of dancers in the late 1820s.
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And although the House could ultimately vote to give the victory to Dornan, Prof . John Bader of the University of California at Los Angeles, who directs the university's politics center in Washington, said the congressional petition merely underscored Dornan's reputation as an " ungraceful loser ."
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The ungraceful swings of the Oakland hitters betrayed confusion : They were extremely uncomfortable batting against the left-handed Lilly, whether it was because they were unfamiliar with him or because he steps slightly left and delivers the ball to the right in a crossfire, or because of the movement on his pitches.
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Taglioni designed the work as a showcase for his daughter Marie . " La Sylphide " was the first ballet where dancing " en pointe " had an aesthetic rationale and was not merely an acrobatic stunt, often involving ungraceful arm movements and exertions, as had been the approach of dancers in the late 1820s.
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Augustine of Hippo, Catholic saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the church understood " a visible sign of an invisible reality " of the rooster to include that as described by St . Augustine in DeOrdine as that which " in every motion of these animals unendowed with reason there was nothing ungraceful since, of course, another higher reason was guiding everything they did ".
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Van Loon's " The Last of the Troubadours : The Life and Music of Carl Michael Bellman ( 1740 1795 ) " was inspired by a visit to Sweden, and tried to introduce the unknown Bellman to an American audience, but critics felt his version of twenty of the songs was " stiff and often ungraceful ", not doing justice to their composer.