I. noun
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a spy story/novel/movie etc
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John Le Carré is famous for writing spy stories.
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one of the most exciting spy movies of all time
dime novel
mass-market paperback/novel/film etc
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a mass-market paperback priced at $8.99
self-indulgent novel/film etc (= said when you think the book or film only expresses the author or director's own interests, which are not interesting to other people )
suspense novel/story/movie etc (= one which is exciting because you do not know what will happen next )
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■ ADJECTIVE
classic
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The reader's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years.
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Why the classic novel should have collaborated with the spirit of capitalism is perfectly obvious to Robyn.
early
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The Middlemen is uneven and less well-written than Brooke-Rose's earlier novels .
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And there are other reappearances from the earlier novel .
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Michel Butor's justifications for the devices used in his early novels are also grounded in the language of mimetic realism.
gothic
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She published a total of sixteen books in her career, of which ten were Gothic novels .
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Rebecca also gives us Manderley, the first house to become a truly memorable character in a gothic novel .
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There he penned a juvenile Gothic novel , a copy of which he intended to send to his belle.
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Essentially, these Gothic novels are not the Gothics of today.
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An abbey! the very sound of the word is thrilling to the young devotee of the Gothic novel .
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Only their Gothic Romance novels are listed below; any other romance works will be discussed in the appropriate chapters.
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Older writers of Romantic Suspense and Gothic novels suddenly became popular and the careers of numerous new authors were launched.
great
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He wrote what many believe to be the greatest novel ever written.
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Quixote, Don, eponymous hero of the great novel by Cervantes.
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It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war.
historical
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Tolstoy, Hemingway and Hardy, thrillers and spy stories, historical novels , light romances.
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Many readers of Historical Romances also read historical novels , broadening the field of selection immensely.
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Tony Ballard was a painter and his wife, Zelah, wrote historical novels .
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The Gylbys' story reads like a historical novel .
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The reverse is also true; those who prefer historical novels may also enjoy some Historical Romances.
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Thus, the symbol for easy-reading historical and period novels would be F8a. 4.
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The distinction between the Romantic Historical and the straight historical novel is a fuzzy one at best.
late
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For much of its course, the later novel takes all this for granted.
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Since finishing the latest William Wilson novel two weeks earlier, he had been languishing.
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As Gargy Patel reports, it intrigues detectives to this day, and has also inspired the latest Inspector Morse novel .
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He'd sent her Iris Murdoch's latest novel .
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Naughty by nature: Busi's latest novel latin lover Aldo Busi gives good quote.
new
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His new novel will be published next spring. 53.
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Two new novels about cavemen are slugging it out in bookstores.
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By and large, the new novel since 1953 has moved most naturally between social comedy and farce.
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These new novels , however, were not the Historicals of the immediate past.
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Brilliant new novel of redemption and rebirth from the winner of the 1988 Booker Prize.
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A duty to describe is the moral hallmark of the new novel .
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The new novel is just and filthy.
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In texture the new novel is comic.
popular
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Soon after her marriage Charlotte Despard became a writer of popular novels .
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Mrs Keep entertained with chapters of popular novels .
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How many of the popular novels of the past evoke derision rather than appreciation if we read them in too literal a spirit!
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Once the staple of popular novels , music and movies, we rarely hear praise of the R-word any more.
romantic
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Escapism isn't just limited to dipping into science fiction or a romantic novel .
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Most of her Romantic Suspense novels are now considered classic examples of the subgenre.
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You've been reading too many romantic novels , she told herself.
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Gripping Romantic Suspense novel of international intrigue.
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It was under this imprint that the light romantic novels were issued which constituted the staple fare of Lane's circulating libraries.
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As a life, it had the ingredients of a blockbuster romantic novel or epic costume film.
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Looking back now they might have been playing out the rôle of characters from some nineteenth-century romantic novel .
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Compare the romantic suspense novels of Mary Stewart with the international espionage tales of Ian Fleming.
victorian
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She would be around forty but had the appearance of a heroine in a Victorian novel - tall, willowy, ethereal.
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You go on home now, and put those Victorian novels away.
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One might with only slight exaggeration claim that firelight illuminates virtually every positive page in Victorian novels .
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She read Victorian novels and studied textbooks of anatomy.
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Accounts as overt as Kingsley's are, as I have said, most unusual in Victorian novels .
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Social analysts and novelists alike seem determined to make these connections visible - hence the detective element in many Victorian novels .
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Turner's secret life sounds like the stuff of a Victorian sensation novel .
■ NOUN
crime
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What then ensures that you keep within the confines of the crime novel ?
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It is the equivalent of the crime novel we have already analysed.
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In one unpublished crime novel , the extortion plan was mentioned, he added.
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Story, narrative, is what best keeps a crime novel squarely in the entertainment field and one should never forget it.
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But they should be aimed at if you are writing in short story form the equivalent of the crime novel .
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Your task in writing a crime novel will be different.
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You will end up having written a novel , not a crime novel.
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Where exactly it began rather depends on whether or not you decide to categorise certain books as police procedurals or as perhaps crime novels .
detective
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One last observation about the detective novel .
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It was limited, all gleaned from detective novels .
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The same is true for the opening of the detective novel in Task 1.
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How does it differ from the detective novel ?
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The murder helped prove a new science and became the plot in a detective novel .
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But otherwise it had all the ingredients of the detective novel , down to a theme, the passion for justice.
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Like the detective novel , the romance abides by a hermeneutic code, in which the outcome is always assured.
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But characters will be much more present, be seen in much greater, convoluted depth even than in the detective novel .
romance
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The pleasures of the romance novel are not dissimilar from those of the chocolate bar; naughty but nice.
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Daniels, Dorothy Has produced approximately 150 romance novels , mostly of the gothic variety.
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Leave it to the intellectuals to deride romance novels .
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Their marriage has been the kind you read about in romance novels .
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As for the staying power of the romance novel in the 21st century, history may well be on its side.
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Persistent, pervasive, and omnipresent, romance novels are everywhere.
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Wind from the south always boded evil in the old romance novels .
suspense
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It is the suspense novel , a type more easily recognised than defined.
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Most of her Romantic Suspense novels are now considered classic examples of the subgenre.
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If this notion suits you temperamentally, then try producing this sort of suspense novel .
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Romantic suspense novels are escape novels.
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Gripping Romantic Suspense novel of international intrigue.
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Compare the romantic suspense novels of Mary Stewart with the international espionage tales of Ian Fleming.
■ VERB
based
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Spider was written by Patrick McGrath, and is based on his 1991 novel of the same name.
publish
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Back in the United States he supported himself by doing construction work while trying to publish short stories and novels .
read
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That he succeeds in having it both ways is our experience of reading his novel in its dominant and thriller aspect.
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I write letters, read novels , watch Ken paint.
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He read a great deal as a child and later said that he read Euclid as easily as an adult reads a novel .
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Her father read from novels when the plates were cleared.
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The Gylbys' story reads like a historical novel .
write
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Angus Wilson could write a cruel novel about Kyrenia.
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I write letters, read novels , watch Ken paint.
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This one sentence from the notebooks goes straight home to the novel which eventually got written .
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The News is now edited by Pete Hamill, who also writes novels .
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In the 1920s and 1930s Nina Boyle wrote a number of novels .
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He was extremely prolific, writing novels , short stories, detective fiction set in Harlem.
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He also wrote a string of novels and short stories.
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My experience was limited largely to news and news feature writing until recently, when I ventured to write a novel .
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detective story/novel etc
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But they can also be used to play the game that is the simple blueprint detective story.
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Elizabeth did not like detective stories, because some one was usually hanged at the end of them.
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I wanted to stay and read the latest Encyclopedia Brown detective story.
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It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story.
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Key elements are missing, primarily the complexities, surprises and textures of the detective stories.
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Their approach is informal and Physics of Stellar Evolution and Cosmology reads like a scientific detective story.
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This is the detective novel or the crime novel which makes its comments on life through humour rather than more directly.
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Your detective of the detective story, of course, went about seeking information.
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a novel by John Irving
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Butler has also written several historical novels under the pen-name of Jenny Melville.
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Johnston's nudes look like cover art for romantic novels.
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Keller's debut novel is about a Korean woman who was sold into prostitution during World War II.
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The movie is based on a novel by Anne Tyler.
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The new Sidney Shelton novel is to be adapted for film later in the year.
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This is the study where Hemingway wrote the legendary novels 'Death in the Afternoon' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'.
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As a life, it had the ingredients of a blockbuster romantic novel or epic costume film.
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For much of its course, the later novel takes all this for granted.
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I started to plan a novel .
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My experience was limited largely to news and news feature writing until recently, when I ventured to write a novel .
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Nathalie Sarraute's novels could be claimed to display autonomy and reflexivity, despite her preoccupation with such a mimetic project.
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No such novel ever got written.
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The novel contains a number of important historical accidents which reveal the heavy hand of the author.
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The new novel usually starts from where one is, seldom from a vision of a lost world or future utopia.
II. adjective
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■ NOUN
approach
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Thus it was that the world took such note of Fleischmann and Pons' claim to have found a novel approach .
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For example, when the legislature asked for a study of the personnel department, the change leaders took a novel approach .
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The most novel approach related to sickness benefit.
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Another novel approach was used by an applicant for a sales position with a large department store.
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Then for comparison, entertainment and for later examination we offer a more novel approach which apparently uses only irreducibility.
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This time, the owner of Drew Nicol's pub in Cockburn Street tried a novel approach to avoid unwanted thefts.
form
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And the visitor's interest is kept alive by the deeply moving beauty of novel forms .
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This mechanism suggests a novel form of contraception.
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A special mention should be made of the use of novel forms of clauses designed to exclude any possibility of judicial review.
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In Haryana, women have devised a novel form of protest.
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The imposition of the retirement condition constituted a novel form of institutionalized dependence.
idea
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It was such a novel idea it was hard to get your mind around it.
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Sometimes, however, novel ideas can boomerang.
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It was a novel idea and one we appreciated later when the weather improved.
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Law-and-order was one thing; the novel idea of the public sector providing parkland for the people was quite another.
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At that time, this was a relatively novel idea without much basis in fact.
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It's a novel idea whose time has come.
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He never had another fundamentally novel idea in general biological theory.
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However in this section I include a few novel ideas .
method
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The new regiment was the Army's first experiment in sending men into battle by this novel method .
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This is certainly a novel method of signaling fair-mindedness on the eve of serious federal policy negotiations.
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Frank has organised this novel method of fund raising - final date for offers is December 14.
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Moreover his novel method is notable, as the artists have all a conventional and uniform style in regard to the representation of mountains.
set
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Politics, intrigue, and action characterize this contemporary novel set in New York.
way
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Or he may surprise you with a novel way to cope.
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In Loreto Entally, however, the community soon found a more novel way of distinguishing the two.
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If the adventurers are not very knowledgeable about Constant Drachenfels, this is a novel way of feeding them some more information.
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There are now novel ways to go wrong.
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The model produced provides an excellent and novel way of viewing the business.
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This involves making random leaps and jumps in thinking in order to develop novel ways of problem solving.
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Creative thinking is the process of developing new ideas, new inventions and novel ways of doing things.
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The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra.
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a novel approach to the problem
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I spent six months living in a monastery in northern India, which was a novel experience.
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Scientists have come up with a novel way of catching fish.
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Tonight's TV news will be presented in a novel format.
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A novel development, the company claims, it turns Macs into cheap workstations.
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Since then, imprisoning corporate officials has become less novel but by no means universal.
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The model produced provides an excellent and novel way of viewing the business.