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Examples of bauble


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In the historical context that amounted to something, but today it is but a bauble.
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He calls it a bauble, and no conceivable support can be looked for in that quarter.
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However, sooner or later this "bauble" will be used.
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We are told that it is only a "bauble" so we should not lose any sleep over it.
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I hope that people will not be appointed to the authority by way of the offer of a bauble, but because they have ability, competence and good will.
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The movie version overflows with affection and good intention, but unwittingly turns a bauble of cheerful fakery into something that mostly feels phony.
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Her final character personality was designed to be a stereotypical blonde, a bulimic cheerleader, and not the brightest bauble on the tree.
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Perhaps because his action is selfless, the bauble now blazes for him and blinds the giant.
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Justice is not some bauble to be sold to the highest bidder.
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As a child, she agrees to let a visiting scientist test her blood, an act forbidden by the island's traditions, in exchange for a pretty bauble.
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Humanity, he tells us in both tomes, is essentially in pursuit of trinkets and baubles, with virtue and wisdom in short supply.
When he dallies with his bauble and teases ladies with his clap-stick, the fool's nose goes before him as a banner of hot blood.
Does it attempt to excite public interest except as a place of baubles?
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We have heard about bungs and baubles, and about shock and amazement.
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They were offered as glittering baubles to the electorate.
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While it is okay to hand baubles to those at the bottom, it is only those at the top who need tax breaks and other such benefits.
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In the same way, they say that it is the craving for pleasurable baubles and not the enjoyment from them that holds humans back.
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He says they have to follow her and get the baubles back.
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They're all very confused, until they realised that as they stole the baubles, they are not the rightful owners.
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They wear wimples, habits, and robes of nuns, but accessorize them garishly with baubles, beads, and whiteface make-up.
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Baubles and brooches designed to emulate a glamour just beyond reach.
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The goat is completely carved out wood and made out of sequins and baubles and sometimes bells.
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Grandad goes through all the baubles in turn, explaining what each one represents.
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I would not say that a peerage is necessarily a bauble.
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We do not want to reinforce the suggestion that such positions are yet another bauble to be traded in the parliamentary atmosphere.
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