The urban areas were "service cities" rather than bustling centers of trade manufactures.
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Two towering art deco ocean-liners float in a harbour bustling with commerce; in the foreground are palm fronds.
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Under this cover of tradition and past glory, however, the executive has bustled through informally to seize almost total power.
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The bustling life of the office will thus be confronted with patterns of vegetation that grow and decay with stoic slowness, like living still lifes, three-dimensional, ever-changing pictures.
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The neighbourhood is lively, with a bustling market, a variety of small stores, a football field, and numerous bars, offering public spaces for people to stroll, socialise, and conduct business.
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The whole square was bustling with expectation.
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Also, the configuration of dwellings means that quiet living spaces are often above ground floor, where noise andbustleis greatest.
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The absence of children running around and otherbustlelent the development an air of bareness.
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Cars 'parked five deep' emphasises numbers, and suggests the activity andbustleof many people arriving after their journeys to the party.
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We have come to expect an architectural photograph to be still and orderly, not thebustleof life arrested.
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Today, with theory paralyzed and disparaged by the all-governingbustle, its mere existence, however impotent, bears witness against thebustle.
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The economicbustleprovided a veneer of economic prosperity that hid the continuing depredations of military attempts to eradicate clandestine resistance.
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Thebustleenhances the impression of good business.
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Private and quiet, beautiful but restrained, separate from thebustleof modern life, the garden purifies those who come into contact with it.
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Perhaps his mind was not quite with us as he bustled along in his speech.
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