Yet beneath the laid-back exterior, a lifelong love for playing sport still obviously burns away. |
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Topsham is a real find, with both historical and maritime interest and a friendly, laid-back atmosphere. |
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There is a laid-back informality to the food, which is mostly served in traditional Spanish baked clay bowls. |
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Nonetheless, I'm grateful to be back in the laid-back peacefulness of my favourite University town. |
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Bunker is chic and arty without being too pretentious, and its friendly, laid-back vibe is infectious. |
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The lessons are geared towards beginners and the lessons are friendly and laid-back. |
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He is known by those who have worked with him for his laid-back, friendly style. |
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We both grew up there, and I'd say he's a typical Borders lad, very easygoing and laid-back. |
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Despite a laid-back image, Mickelson is highly competitive and a keen betting man who wants to win every activity he tries. |
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The laid-back star, who turns 40 next year, swears she loves getting older. |
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Some regulars enter and yell a greeting across to the staff, a group of personable, laid-back types. |
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So far, compared to Lord Hutton, he has taken a laid-back and leisurely approach. |
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So far, though, the inspectors themselves have displayed a rather more lenient, laid-back approach. |
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A tolerant, laid-back city, Beziers takes its wines and its festivals seriously. |
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Even at the best of times, Nicholls is hardly a model of laid-back insouciance. |
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We played as if everyone in the audience was really, really smart and laid-back and hip. |
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You can see from this weekend that it's all very informal, with casual dress and a laid-back atmosphere. |
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New Zealanders might be characterised as having a laid-back national psyche. |
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The laid-back, improvisational weaving of the parts bore the confident mark of their maker, a choreographer in his shining prime. |
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Mr Rock paid tribute to the hospitality of the locals, as well as the relaxed and laid-back atmosphere which prevailed throughout the weekend. |
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Therefore, it is common to see laid-back dogs lolling in the streets, the sidewalks and the curbsides. |
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He is surprised that someone as laid-back and easy-going as she is could be so successful in a tough business. |
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It's a rock edge that easily veers over to double-time punk or laid-back ska. |
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Even at the height of the business day, Montpelier had an easy-going, laid-back way about it. |
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This is happening less and less, though the laid-back Holmes claims he never got uptight about it. |
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In 1996 he revealed his laid-back attitude to his work after vandals smashed up a life-size model of a plane. |
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His new album is an easy-breezy effort of laid-back rock with occasional moves of something similar to jazz. |
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Do you work in a laid-back office where people wouldn't really care about what you do with your romantic life? |
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Far from the laid-back lounge lizards of today's cafes, these houses were hot-beds of political dissent. |
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Whether it be buckle-front carry-alls or laid-back hip swingers just like a postman bag, casual luxe for this season is truly defined. |
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On the laid-back tune, she entertains the thought of heading over to her bae's place during the wee hours of the morn. |
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If you're a laid-back intermediate or a plucky powder hound, you'll love it. |
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No wonder some of his MPs fret about whether he is simply too laid-back to maximise their potential. |
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We think they are too thoughtless and laid-back, they think we are cunning and manipulative. |
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However, his laid-back, sonically adventurous garage bears the eclecticism of a year travelling round Australia with only a sampler for company. |
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He even provides the film with a slight tinge of laid-back silly humour at times. |
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Not surprisingly, this laid-back ball of nerves is also both intensely rational and explosively emotional. |
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The producers were looking to start a fight between the laid-back Sebastian and Camille, his uptight counterpart. |
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For despite his menschy, laid-back, good-guy image, Spielberg is an intense power player who cares deeply about financial matters. |
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The rising star has been cooking up quite a storm of late with her laid-back jazz style and blend of funk, soul, hip-hop, Latin and deep house. |
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Although we had an active vacation, Seattle's laid-back pace gave us a relaxing and affordable getaway. |
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We're a very friendly, laid-back hunt with nothing toffee-nosed about us at all. |
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Passengers at Scotland's busiest airport are set to become the most unfazed and laid-back in Britain. |
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Fans are used to Young's laid-back stage presence, the hunched shoulders, eyes often masked by cap or hat, the trademark shamble and lurch. |
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When the band plays, the jazz is cool, the atmosphere is laid-back and the bar service is quiet but efficient. |
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It makes for a fusion of acid jazz, hip-hop and a touch of soul which induces the laid-back appeal of the West coast. |
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We both tried to adopt a laid-back, cruisy attitude about not having plans or a schedule. |
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A quiet, laid-back Kentuckian of few words, Gullett bristles at the attention and praise. |
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Knowing them to be a laid-back outfit, I was unamazed by the absence of copies, promotion or even mention of any new Gollancz title. |
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Nelson grins, radiating laid-back cheer, in contrast to Bennington's barely disguised wariness. |
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Although there are a few upbeat and boppy tracks, the general mood it generates is a dreamy, laid-back and wonderfully relaxing one. |
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It's such a laid-back, calm city and I felt very much at peace there. |
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Although Freyen was more of a laid-back character, Marlo completed the duo with his smart remarks and sarcastic jokes. |
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Staying self-catering in upcountry Alentejo, you soon pick up the laid-back lifestyle. |
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Just give the disappointing sequel a miss for fears of spoiling the excellence that lies within this self-contained laid-back comedic charmer. |
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Written almost entirely on the back porch of a remote cabin, the laid-back organic nature of the record is no surprise. |
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Wherever you go on on this laid-back island, the palm trees sway to the sounds of soca and calypso music. |
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However, we Canucks are by nature so laid-back, how can it hurt for the music industry to get together and pat each other on the back? |
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He is also an unrepentantly laid-back hankerer for the surf-and-grass California scene. |
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But quickly the piece settles down into a more soulful, chill pace, constructed from a rapid-fire series of laid-back instrumental segments. |
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The gently soothing flute arrangements give a vaguely laid-back chilled perspective to the overall process. |
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His chops curled back to reveal the fangs, laid-back yet potentially lethal. |
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In Papua, the missionaries saw the laid-back, no-rule, non-authoritarian lifestyle of Papuans as a sign of their primitiveness. |
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Toure sounds outrageously laid-back, but the insistent rhythmic pulse in his music is hypnotic and irresistible. |
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An easy four-hour drive from either Singapore or Kuala Lumpur, laid-back Melaka offers an idyllic contrast to both cities. |
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Bill pointed it out to me, with laid-back glee, when we bumped into each other on the corner of Denmark Street. |
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It also lends a more laid-back and relaxed attitude to shopping. |
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However, Landry was laid-back about the public dressing-down. |
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With its rich cultural heritage and laid-back atmosphere, Louisiana is a state unlike any other. |
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Coffee brand promises consumers their own personal coffee experience in the same laid-back fashion Toby Keith exudes to his legions of fans. |
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At the end of the night, Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell sat in the grass and did a private acoustic set for all the laid-back lovelies. |
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For Stereolab, think Talking Heads some 20 years later with a laid-back French singer and without David Byrne. |
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Plus, this tour is more laid-back, more relaxed and it's more fun to be on. |
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Is it his laid-back rapping style that seamlessly meshes with the clever word play used on his most popular tracks? |
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The drama transfixed the normally calm Sydney, known for its laid-back vibe and relaxed population. |
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The Boston Social Forum introduced Beantown to a laid-back Forum vibe. |
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Charlie is extremely nice and very much in the mould of Mr Chatterton, my old history teacher, in terms of his generally affable, laid-back, chatty nature. |
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We're not trying to make a point of being laid-back but, by the same token, you do not want to be gratuitously intense, because that becomes your message. |
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Around the Sun is no more rocking than the last two, and perhaps less, tending to midtempo ballads and anthems with a few laid-back grooves along the way. |
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The atmosphere in the underground ballroom, however, manages to be unclouded, both laid-back and efficient. |
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Gold's milieu, the laid-back '70s, saw things move away from the highly tailored mod look to unisex dressing inspired by the sexual revolution and feminism. |
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The Costa del Sol has an average 325 days' sunshine a year, a laid-back lifestyle, yet with all the mod cons we have come to expect, and an outdoor life second-to-none. |
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His laid-back attitude possibly disguises some internal strife for there is no underplaying the importance of every point won and lost at this stage. |
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Congenial hospitality, interesting people and a wonderful buffet of Slovak food, all in a laid-back mood, added up to a very enjoyable celebration, perfect for the occasion. |
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But Streep is direct, laid-back but alert, and thoroughly unpretentious. |
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He couldn't have been more casual, more laid-back, more brutal. |
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He was a laid-back and friendly chap who loved a beer and his sport. |
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In the same way a hard-working employee can annoy his more laid-back colleagues by showing them up, so a swot tends to annoy his less bright, less studious classmates. |
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It's a laid-back, slightly quirky Egyptian town, with an economy that runs on diving and an unusually large population of cats and dogs, fed by indulgent Europeans. |
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Phil has these huge flights of fancy where he has a different plan for the future every five seconds, and has such a laid-back attitude, which I really admire. |
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So laid-back they have to sit down, their stoner country blues isn't normally the kind of thing I'd touch with a long stick but actually it's quite enjoyable. |
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The titular porch may only be figurative, but the dulcifying vibe of a laid-back afternoon hang amongst congenial compadres comes across loud and clear. |
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While maintaining their dreamy melodies and laid-back grooves, the duo have deserted their trademark kids' TV samples and the like, for something more grown up. |
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More laid-back activities include fishing and island-hopping. |
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During the week, the laid-back atmosphere sees locals drinking alongside young professionals and arty bohos. |
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The laid-back club night for big beat seekers is normally resident in Belfast's Katy Dalys. |
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Much of the set was slow and laid-back, though with occasional upbeat rockier songs. |
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It takes a laid-back man with an amatory record like his to stay straight-faced at press conferences. |
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Floaty chiffon pirate blouses and silk shirts in chintzy prints echo this hippy laid-back dressing. |
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Despite his fame, he's a humble, laid-back guy, more than willing to teach me a thing or two about minigolf. |
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From the shy folk of the Sierra and jungle, to the bolshy, party-loving Limenans and laid-back criollos, all share a huge pride in their country. |
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But I remember it well, and that's why Dracula cuts an unconvincing figure as a laid-back Johnny Reb with flowers in his hair and nothing in his pockets but his hands. |
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Expect an assortment of jokes, stories, observations, ad-libs, one-liners, accents, theories, topical gags and self-deprecation from the laid-back gagsmith. |
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