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But Guiteau couldn’t partake in what Makowsky delicately called the “benefits” of such a society, largely because his delusions of grandeur alienated him from others there.

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The flock flew once around the farm buildings and then delicately touched down in the barnyard.

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The image is, typically for the film, delicately beguiling.

Their triumphalism is accelerating my now-chronic unease over the sense that the strict lines of our delicately balanced republic are being washed away.

Using a small brush and a bucket of increasingly murky water, doctoral student Ruth Acuna delicately cleans a black-and-white photograph, faintly showing the portrait of a woman.

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