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When asked if her defuser tendencies stem from her place in the sibling birth order, it’s the only point in the conversation in which she’s not effusive.

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At the other extreme, the magnificently effusive Sergiu Celibidache once recorded a 99-minute performance of the symphony with the Munich Philharmonic making Bruckner sound as infinite as the universe: There’s nothing like that.

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To persuade Viking to publish the book, Cowley manufactured marketing buzz by writing a series of effusive essays that placed Faulkner within a lineage of American classics.

A few times on this tour people have been thrown out for being too effusive—not by my asking, but because people around them have been annoyed.

Beijing was less effusive, saying the two side had reached a consensus to resolve "major trade issues" during the leaders' first face-to-face meeting in six years.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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