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[hawr] / hɔr /


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Its B-side, ’Tis A Pity She Was a Whore, has also undergone a substantial revamp, although in the opposite direction the rerecording features the pummelling, hugely impressive sound of McCaslin’s quartet playing at full pelt.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2015

Scott Raab, the author of the anti–LeBron James manifesto The Whore of Akron, was later critical of those reporters who chose not to speak up about West’s locker room blowup.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2014

Andrea Riseborough stars as spirited aristocrat Angelica Channel 4 has commissioned a sequel to The Devil's Whore, its 2008 Bafta-nominated historical drama series.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2012

The tones taken by Scott Raab in “The Whore of Akron” and Harvey Araton in “When the Garden Was Eden” couldn’t be more different, however.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2011

Shakespeare's "universal sympathy"—to quote Coleridge—did not include the plainly-clad tub-thumper who dared to accuse him to his face of serving the Babylonish Whore.

From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank




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