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Steppenwolf will also mount productions of Conor McPherson’s play “The Night Alive,” about down-at-the-heel Dubliners, and David Adjmi’s satire “Marie Antoinette.”

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2014

Another, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele III, is a somewhat down-at-the-heel cobelligerent of the United Nations.

From Time Magazine Archive

In down-at-the-heel West Cincinnati, the members of the West Cincinnati Presbyterian Church and St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, faced with similar problems, united in 1945.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we are down-at-the-heel, it is due to the speed we are making in recovery.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the world at large impressionism spells improvisation—an easy-going, slatternly, down-at-the-heel process, facile as well as factitious.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James




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