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1 Subtlety and guile had been the very keynote of his character.
2 And then, while yet he doubted, there sounded the very keynote of disaster.
3 His stately beauty offended her, his low, calm voice was the very keynote of irritation.
4 Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature?
5 The very keynote of our progress is ruthlessness.
6 That which is the very keynote of romantic art was to him the proper basis of natural life.
7 That which is the very keynote of romantic art was to him the proper basis of actual life.
8 This humanity of Holbach's is the very keynote of his character and of his intellectual life as well.
9 Well, well, William Herschel, in that last sentence we get the very keynote of true greatness and true genius.
10 The very keynote of this Book of the Acts is the work of the ascended Christ in and for His Church.
11 Here lay hid the very keynote of that ambitious character: he stooped to nothing less than greatness for a triumph over his slanderers.
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