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1 Gospel undergirded her biggest hits, from the call and response of Otis Redding’s “Respect” to the hymn-like depth she brought to her interpretation of the Dusty Springfield hit “Son of a Preacher Man.”

2 Ms. Martin is also aware that her book, even with science undergirding the racy personal musings, will be subject to intense scrutiny and skepticism — if it’s taken seriously at all.

3 Are the fallen journalist's doubts about Longo's guilt undergirded by intellectual honesty or simply that a wrongly accused man will make a better story?

4 the theory of evolution undergirds virtually all of modern biology

5 The supersize brass section drove the finale to its overwhelming conclusion, offering a powerful vision of triumph undergirded by darkness and struggle.

6 It’s a somber end to a film that opens with and is undergirded by Zimbabweans’ hope for change.

7 The sternly martial undergirding of the low brass further stressed the score's kinship with the tone poems of Richard Strauss.

8 From this beginning, Ms. Isenberg moves confidently forward, through, for example, the class issues that undergirded the Civil War and the popular eugenics movement, favored by Theodore Roosevelt, that marked many as targets for sterilization.

9 In breaking open this classic form, Bessone unleashes the fears, violence and fantasies of mastery that undergird the tradition of the female nude.

10 He offers a raft of ideas for every question he’s asked, then undergirds those answers by quoting from Tolstoy, Rumi and Pixar.

11 The image relied heavily on the trappings of patriotism but was undergirded by a deep sense of suspense.

12 This is also, of course, the view of James Madison, and it undergirds the Constitution.

13 The result is a movie whose genre pleasures are undergirded by genuine emotional heft.

14 And what cultural, economic and biological factors might undergird the malaise?

15 My view is that reductionism gives you the undergirding for the fundamental ingredients and laws that underlie every process in the universe.

16 But the highly idiosyncratic training of an orchestra’s members—who draw on their conservatory backgrounds, as well as decades of working with radically different conductors and colleagues—undergirds each performance.

17 Harry, one of the lumpen pale men, works as a linotypist at Verity Press at a time when Verity and all the moral verities that undergird Rust Belt America seem to be corroding.

18 The fireplace, the beams undergirding the loft, the tools dangling off nails on the walls.

19 And while it lacks the pathos and heartbreaking drama that undergirded last week’s episode, it demonstrates how exhilarating and entertaining the show can be.

20 It’s hard to hide the stretch marks in a book this pregnant with meaning, which is why I wish Menaker had strained far less to trace the word origins undergirding his “meaningful mistakes.”

1 加强

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2 支持

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