repose
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Inspired by Wallace Stegner's novel "Angle of Repose" and Robert Altman's film "McCabe & Mrs. Miller," he gradually focused on mining as a jumping-off point.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2017
He enlisted in the Navy during the Korean War and served on the hospital ship Repose, where he played with a shipboard group, the Repose Ramblers.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2016
Author of such celebrated books as Angle of Repose and Big Rock Candy Mountain, and for years a teacher at Stanford University, Stegner is only 67 and still active.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plot of Mistress Mas ham's Repose revolves around the efforts of Maria's fiendish guardians to abduct the Lilliputians and sell them to Hollywood.
From Time Magazine Archive
So we spent that day in the cheery grove, with the vivid light of later afternoon falling on the grasses; we spent it bumbling about in the Blissful State of Mammalian Repose.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing repose
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