Art is never finished, only abandoned. From LearnThat.org. [Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519); Italian genius; leading artist, scientist, architect, and military engineer of his time]
An abandoned sadness born of grief. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an abandoned building; an abandoned kitten. ,She danced with abandoned enthusiasm. ,an abandoned and dissolute ruler. From Dictionary.com.
When it snowed, Arwik lived in abandoned buildings. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2008 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Other prisons have opened in abandoned factories and sanatoriums. From Wordnik.com. [The Prison-Industrial Complex] Reference
The next stage down from renting is squatting in abandoned homes. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Foreclosure People] Reference
This sometimes caused small earthquakes on a certain abandoned hill. From Wordnik.com. [ARS DRACONIS • by Jens Rushing] Reference
Re: The next stage down from renting is squatting in abandoned homes. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » By Request: The Foreclosure People] Reference
Jo, feeling abandoned, is confronted by the unthinkable her young son. From Wordnik.com. [The Ice Child by Elizabeth McGregor: Questions] Reference
These are for people who are now living in abandoned ruins and under trees. From Wordnik.com. [Water supply] Reference
Whether they truly believed that would be abandoned is a matter for argument. From Wordnik.com. [Evans, William A.] Reference
PALO ALTO, California (Ticker) -- The luck of the Irish again abandoned Notre Dame. From Wordnik.com. [NCAA Football - Notre Dame vs. Stanford] Reference
Apparently, another thing that has been recently abandoned is a sense of traditonal journalistic standards. From Wordnik.com. [Shooting critters] Reference
Shelve it all in abandoned auto assembly plants and maintain a database of title/owner for reporting purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing] Reference
All profits from the pet food go to support the Animal Shelter, which takes in abandoned cats, dogs, and birds. From Wordnik.com. [ACA's pump is fixed--come celebrate!] Reference
"Shelve it all in abandoned auto assembly plants and maintain a database of title/owner for reporting purposes.". From Wordnik.com. [Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing] Reference
Facing opposition from the other four commissioners, Mr. Martin abandoned a vote on the plan scheduled for Tuesday. From Wordnik.com. [The Very Expensive Myth of Long Distance - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
The hacienda sat in abandoned ruin until 1973, when Dr. Mario Gonzalez Ulloa transformed it into this charming hotel. From Wordnik.com. [Relive the romance of colonial Mexico at a hacienda hotel] Reference
Justin abandoned that incorrigible people to their fate, and remained the tranquil spectator of this unequal conflict. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Other than any hardware found in abandoned army storage facilities it is unlikely that they will be well trained or led. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club.] Reference
Entire refrigerators and their contents remain abandoned on the side of Tram Road in Beaumont on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005. From Wordnik.com. [AMSET Bug Day] Reference
Poorer Sunnis, driven from their neighborhoods by Shiite militias, have streamed into the area, squatting in abandoned houses. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
Most have just been abandoned, which is a big problem in Shanghai. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
The sword abandoned, he rose and approached Kith-Kanan unsteadily. From Wordnik.com. [The Kinslayer Wars]
MR: At some point, most labels abandoned marketing to older demographics. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
They visit the sick, baptize abandoned children, and keep native schools. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
It’s like comic book fights staged in abandoned warehouses in New York City. From Wordnik.com. [Whatcha want from your videogames?] Reference
I’ve slept in abandoned buildings, dilapidated sheds, and on the forest floor. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Manilow – Brian Keene] Reference
And so that room, where I had been sleeping for a week, had to be again abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Malcolm Moore abandoned a kata of his own and intercepted her halfway across the gym. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
That’s why I used to do urba exploration in abandoned industrial and construction sites. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This is hard to look at] Reference
They were all abandoned, that is, except for the last big one on the road just entering Cusco. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
But sales collapsed towards the end of the 90s and major labels abandoned the cassette in 2003. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
In exchange, music labels abandoned their insistence on encoding song files to prevent copying. From Wordnik.com. [Spinning Out of Control] Reference
Some of the best colonies were convict settlements, and might be called abandoned convict settlements. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of England] Reference
Salazar also called abandoned mines "a scar on the public domain that has had huge environmental consequences.". From Wordnik.com. [Mineweb - Daily news headlines] Reference
The Navajo entry at the same time the Anasazi’s pueblos were abandoned is no coincidence, it is the main cause. From Wordnik.com. [Hampton Sides sheds light on Mancur Olson and Ronald Coase « Isegoria] Reference
But when their hidebound ways mean that kids suffer or that common sense is abandoned, that is when I have issues. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Top Five: March 19, 2007] Reference
The New Statesman magazine, which published the drafts Thursday, called the abandoned poem an important missing piece in. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
It became very clear yesterday when the White House, in no uncertain terms abandoned its support of Aristide staying in power. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 29, 2004] Reference
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