(1) This is a good thing for me, since my particular configuration of openness, cleverness and vestigial youth tends to make even my most loved ones a little wary of what I'm going to ask of them next.

(2) The show is about an evil man with some vestigial traces of a conscience making his way in a world that has decided that feeling warm and fuzzy about yourself is more important than being a decent person.

(3) This year he was crushed, frankly, by Patrick Campion, who is not only much larger, but is entirely unencumbered by any vestigial table manners.

(4) Proportional representation is also vestigial here.

(5) His vision of modernity has been to preside over the House in a vestigial remnant of the Speaker's traditional costume, so that he resembles a schoolmaster summoned abruptly from the lunch table.

(6) By Monday night, though, in his 48-hour-warning speech, the references to international law and the United Nations had become vestigial .

(7) Plans for rebuilding a wrecked country are vestigial .

(8) Now whether it's a vestigial remnant of a day past is something that I question very much.

(9) This means that the essentially linguistic nature of these pursuits is adulterated; they are vestigial modes of the old u2018logic.u2019

(10) The point is not that vestigial organs have no function whatsoever.

(11) I think that Bob Carr is using you to score political points and any vestigial respect I felt for him has vanished in a puff of political posturing.

(12) Perhaps this attitude stemmed from some vestigial Old World notions of hierarchy, division of labor, or even the unseemliness of the music that they produced.

(13) It used to be maintained that there were almost 200 vestigial organs in the human body.

(14) He knew that these devices were already vestigial .

(15) Nipples in men are similarly vestigial , Dr. Lloyd pointed out.

(16) All stories enwrapped in this literature have this attempt to find consolation in inevitability: the certainty of living with vestigial belief systems and adherences.

(17) These are vestigial toenails, signs that rattlers are related to lizards and shed their feet somewhere along the evolutionary ladder.

(18) Some form of proportional representation was the key to ensuring that Scottish Labour could never rule alone - its vestigial leftist tendencies would always be constrained by the need for coalition partners.

(19) Is it vestigial imperialism on the part of sports journalists?

(20) What is totally lacking is any vestigial sense of wishing to appease the people responsible for these outrages.

(21) At the time, when something of which you had hope is thus disintegrating, there's not much to do except hang on to your vestigial self and hope not to be made too lastingly cynical by the process.

(22) But perhaps the more canny readers can indeed read backwards from these general remarks and dimly perceive the vestigial outline of the example which occasioned them.

(23) This kind of argument, although true, overlooks the underlying cause of this kind of behavior - the primitive, vestigial , human survival instinct for tribalism.

(24) Despite vestigial temperence tendencies, Camberwell even boasts a pub, the Palace, which used to be a regular meat market on Saturday nights, until a vegan action group forced its closure.

(25) The belief that wisdom teeth are vestigial organs that lack a function in the body (as was previously believed for the appendix), is less common today but still evident.

(26) The absurdity is heightened by the arrangement of works in the gallery, which is vestigially museological, featuring vitrines, shelves and careful spatial separations within the gallery's clean white walls.

(27) It is astonishing how often the word u2018initiationu2019 occurs in the literature these days, and how many myths are suspected of being vestigially connected with such rituals, on no better grounds than the presence of the separation motif.

(28) This parallelism exists, vestigially , in the tradition of animal parables.

(29) Canada, Australia and New Zealand, he explained, have a culture still vestigially fascinated by the book.

(30) The salient features of H.W.'s life - premature stardom that drove to drink, a marriage turned living hell - are vestigially there, but not duly explored.