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venerable adjective advanced in life, ageless, at an advanced age, august, creditable, dateless, eminent, estimable, hallowed, held in esteem, highly reearded, highly reputed, highly respectable, honorable, honored, illustrious, immemorial, in favor, in high favor, noble, of repute, patriarchal, prestigious, reputable, respected, revered, time-honored, timeless, well-thought-of, worthy See also: antique, outstanding, popular, prominent, sacrosanct, solemn How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Like Le Confessionnal, Le Polygraphe is about truth and its ambiguities, the epicenter, eye-of-the-truth storm having been changed now from the venerability of the confessional and the hushed intensities of its dialogues to the steely bureaucratic monitoring of the merely bio-mechanical, polygraph/lie detector--the results of which are, in the film, invariably "inconclusive. The Traditional Small Craft Association, a nonprofit organization in Mystic, CT, represents owners and builders of many of the smaller traditional craft, working and pleasure, such as dories, peapods, catboats, sharpies and skiffs, calling them "not relics of the past or sterile objects of museum-quality venerability but vessels that were designed to be used. However, the concept's very venerability has also generated arguments that criticism should move beyond it--or that literature already has. |
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