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striking; dramatic; distinctive (Mermaiden); telling (1. very important, or having a large effect His most telling weakness has been his failure to provide strategic vision. 2. showing or suggesting the truth about a situation, often in a way that was not intended This incident was a small yet telling example of the state of British society. MED. In a telling development, hundreds of posters of Putin were put up across Cairo this weekend, emblazoned with the word "Welcome". TG Alexander Demidov); stark (Our own contributor, Stephen Robinson, weighs in with his thoughts on the stark likeness to Microsoft's offering: "Wait, is Samsung getting even more obvious with rip-offs? Or did they actually get permission from Microsoft?" • In "African Calliope: a Journey to the Sudan", Edward Hoagland wrote about Cornelius Boghosian, an Armenian who bore a stark likeness to Hemingway. olga garkovik) |
