When life’s daily trappings and keepsakes are laid out for sale on a collapsible table, sentiment is the first thing to go.
Miyano says that he has never been ambitious "in the conventional sense of the word" and sees no need for the traditional life trappings of a wife and a house in the suburbs.
Microsoft has found that operations of this scale tend to include all the trappings of legitimate businesses.
They did not want to require any special tools, new languages or any of the perceived trappings (read: impedances) of the larger Semantic Web.
Appropriately enough, it's about a former president who's having trouble letting go of the trappings of his office.
All the rest of Buddhism we can now let go as the religious trappings of an ancient culture utterly inappropriate for the Dhamma of our technological age.
A further sign of the presidential trappings that will soon be part of his daily life was the motorcade.
Many Americans, lacking true upward mobility, bought its trappings, such as a bigger house or better car.
They have the trappings of the private sector, such as boards of directors and listings on a stockmarket. But they are essentially instruments of state power.
What are the outward trappings of confidence that you would like to have yourself?
She never wanted to be queen, she said - but how she loved the trappings!
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