defines
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A Sleeper Success Defines Novelist’s Debut and Legacy The blockbuster novel of last summer was “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn, a dark, psychological thriller about a broken marriage, told by warring spouses in alternating chapters.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2013
By Chris Kirk 19: The Death that Defines The Walking Dead The Walking Dead became grimmer, grimier, grittier, and even good in its third season.
From Slate • Dec. 27, 2012
October 27, 2010, 10:30 am What Defines Perfection in Sports?
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2010
She pours an upper light upon the eye, Defines the sentiment for every art, And dwells within the glad or weary heart, To comfort it with wondrous ecstasy.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von
And there's a man whose lightest word Can set my chilly blood afire; Fulfilment of his least behest Defines my life's desire.
From The Book of American Negro Poetry by Johnson, James Weldon
