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Chris -- 2025-05-10
The imagery is obscure, but it’s kind of poetic. Examples:
Honestly, without a shallow of a doubt I think Capcom is arguably the best third party company on the Wii as of right now.... I have always been blessed and my life has always been amazing I can say without a shallow of a doubt god has given me many gifts …
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... but we know beyond any shallow of doubt that Eliphalet (1711 — 1778) was killed in the massacre from his name being on the monument …
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... neither do I entertain a shallow of doubt that the motives of my respected adversary are equally pure and disinterested as my own …
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Now throughout the picture Ben Stiller was crazy without a shallow of doubt and this picture was great to see and funny…
www.moviedir.com/.../dodgeball-a-true-u … e-118.html
I know without a shallow of doubt, the Lord brought her into my life.
books.google.com/books?isbn=1615661387
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I like this one – it has a weird of lyricism I find appealing.
I wonder whether any of the writers are aware of the phrase “shallows of doubt,†for which Google provides 9 examples. Its maritime metaphor typically evokes the danger of uncertainty:
Whilst still moving hesitatingly through the shallows of doubt and of uncertain opinion no man is free.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/gladstone-2.shtml
Father, I grope amid the shallows of doubt and fear, but I long to advance toward the light.
http://www.closedforums.org/c4pda.com/35/25655/0/
[A quotation the writer attributes to Albert Schweitzer.]
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