There must be wonder,oddness, challenge and such a richness of examples that the students become befuddled and bemused and finally 'step over the edge'.
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Theoddnessof (37a) suggests that a causing event is indeed necessary in order for a person's spirits to be raised.
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It is theoddnessof that intuition which makes preemptive action not merely a practical but an intellectual problem-the problem of preemptive action.
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The reason for theoddnessof (38b), (39b) and (40b) is that positional verbs require a positioner that is capable of volition and control.
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All are conscious of, and interested in, the basicoddnessof musical drama, of what it means to present a set of human events with musical accompaniment.
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Indeed, we doubt whether a clean distinction can be made between 'ungrammaticality' and 'pragmaticoddness'.
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Television itself, to some extent, has this same kind ofoddness.
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In the early 14th century was begun to reveal theoddnessof this language with the rest of the galacoifona.
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He observed theoddnessof the situation, namely that a right was being claimed against other owners of the building and not a government.
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But it is a big-hearted, fun celebration ofoddnesswhich is no bad thing.
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The particularoddnessof the way she sees the world is very appealing, however intense and tragic the subject matter can sometimes be.
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If any orbital were to change signs, two plus-minus overlaps are either removed or added and the parity (even vsoddness) is not changed.
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The book's scarcity andoddnesshas seen original copies priced at $4,000 to $7,500 by book dealers.
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The movie makes a case for itself through sheeroddnessand perversity.
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It is often useful to prove surjectivity or injectivity and proveoddnessor evenness, if possible.
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