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A prompt reply I would have deemed common decency, you being a fellow screenplay writer, though I must say I have never cared for your work, finding it, at once, both florid and superficial.

All problems are either soluble, in which case he promptly solves them, or else insoluble, which is rare, and these he ignores.

It doesn't matter what prompts the feeling—watching albatrosses court or following the sky-blown oasis of a tumultuous sunset.

As the story is usually told, the heretical implications of this shift in thinking prompted Copernicus to delay the publication of his greatest work De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium until 1543, the year of his death.

Such nineteenth-century notions held an appeal for Tina and would prompt her, at the startlingly young age of twenty-six, to avow that she had "always expressed the desire to be buried in Italy."At times events in other churches could prompt a new spate of conversions.

Quite apart from the religious wrench of conversion, becoming a Catholic in Britain or the United States often prompted accusations of disloyalty to the nation, its Protestant heritage, even its sense of common decency.

The letter confused Charlie and Jennie--what on earth could the boy have done?--and they asked Robert if he could explain what had prompted it.

The experience was additionally fleeting and qualified: when the job was done, I promptly moved into the high-bourgeois mansion with my father and stepmother (both of them novelists, though my father was also a poet and critic).

Leavis and Hermann Hesse, whose impregnable humourlessness will always prompt a (humorous) counter-commentary in the reader's mind.

MITS was promptly bombarded with thousands of orders, and the personal computer was born.

He then summoned his family, and they walked forward promptly and in an orderly way to take the seats.

The noise constantly disturbs the neighbors, sometimes prompting them to call the police.

Thus the war's lessons prompted a series of ministries to seek revenue from the colonies, even as they struggled to stabilize relations with the Indians and stem the outrush of settlers to regions that the war had made accessible.

FCD officers had standing instructions to report suspicious incidents such as this, but Mitrokhin did not do so for fear of prompting an investigation which would draw attention to the fact that he had been seen standing next to English visitors.

Though Mitrokhin's name was never mentioned in court, it was the evidence he had obtained from KGB files which seems to have prompted Lipka's change of heart.

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