Books Included for This Word Counting

Matte and I were both mutants, freaks, human unhumans—a fact I could at least forget when I was with real people, those with death in them.” Death equals real: that consoling notion lies near the heart of the confessions of both Leo and Max Tivoli.

Despite its offbeat premise, "Cork Boat" is best described as a feel-good story, and it's hard not to feel at least a bit good about a guy who acted on the wide-eyed notion that if a cork couldn't sink, neither could a boat made from thousands of them.

The regime there was constructed around the notion that there is no failing more terrible than the inability to predict the next month's front pages.

Roth’s politics were not well worked out, and that fact underlies the one serious flaw of “The Radetzky March.” Lacking an explanation for the empire’s fall, Roth comes up with a notion of “fate,” and he bangs that drum portentously and repeatedly.

ANWAR oil exploration and nuclear-energy development are hateful things indeed, as is the very notion that global warming may be the result of natural geologic and atmospheric cycles rather than the burning of fossil fuels.

Promises to enforce the law from now on ("this time we really mean it"), like the notion that this is the final amnesty, invite hoots of knowing laughter.

So the notion that the debut nowadays is mainly about professional networking is lost on me when we're talking about 19-year-olds.

In football, we tend to assign the notion of grace only to players.

Morrow recognizes that to a certain "secular, educated, cosmopolitan" 20th-century sensibility, evil seems a primitive notion that "smacks of an atavistic, superstitious, and even medieval simplism, of a fundamentalist mindest that might be inclined to burn witches.

They revel in the notion of the town as a beautifully preserved secret, with little obvious social hubbub and just beyond the two-hour drive that is the limit for many owners of second homes.

This all fueled the notion that the Packers are one of those meant-to-be stories.

This understandably is not a notion that sits well with the Eagles, who have not bothered to conceal their distaste for such talk.

The notion that John Kerry married Teresa Heinz for political reasons—specifically, to use her money to run for President—is put to rest within nanoseconds of meeting her: this is a flagrantly impolitic human being.

They are in the Premiership after trying for a long while to get there and they showed the appetite to stay there.” Jones, meanwhile, dismissed the notion that luck was on his side.

The notion may seem odd from a business standpoint, since earnings in the $55 billion men's wear industry have been deflating for years, with suit sales in particular down by 11 percent in the United States since 2002, according to the NPD Group, a market research company.

It's this notion that we should not air our dirty laundry for appearance's sake, that the myth of unity has sacred PR value.

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