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But listing names of alleged abusers from such a closed, hermetical country was a valuable – and difficult – exercise, he said.

When Tom reaches Guillaume's family's farm, he's thrust into the kind of domestic psychodrama that may have resonated on stage but proves pretentious and hermetical here, after some initial tension.

Even so, the recent Palestinian bid to join the International Criminal Court, or ICC, has potentially enormous repercussions not only for how the struggle plays out on the ground, but also for the wider world's involvement in what has been a relatively hermetical peace process.

For instance, exposure during five hours to steam superheated to five hundred degrees will produce a hermetical coating capable of resisting for a considerable time the application of emery paper and of preserving the iron from rust even in a humid atmosphere, if under shelter from the weather.

But this fluid has other properties, it is capable, by itself, of producing vitality under certain circumstances, and experienced chemists and hermetical philosophers have devised a method of employing it for other purposes, and some, the most detrimental to the condition and happiness of man.