The intimacy and air of mystery are conveyed through stolen glances and the softly spoken entreaties. |
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The parliamentary party left the session in high spirits, with their leader's entreaties ringing in their ears. |
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He was steadfast in his devotion, firm in his beliefs, and constant in his prayerful entreaties. |
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And everywhere, like clouds heavy with whispered entreaties, prayers float over the craggy hills and valleys of Jerusalem. |
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And she mostly steadfastly ignores my shouted commands, my entreaties and panting demands to be set free when the siren songs call me again. |
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Nemesio pettishly sticks to his hierarchical role as head of the family, and rejects Atanasio's entreaties for brotherly sympathy. |
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One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties. |
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When their entreaties were ignored, an infantry charge was ordered, the artillery opening up behind it. |
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Undercover narcotics officers baited pharmaceutical entrepreneurs with entreaties for Molly. |
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Families are distressed by the anorexic behavior, which resists both entreaties and threats. |
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One can only imagine the offers and entreaties made to screenwriter Simon Beaufoy. |
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Although active in community work, she initially declined entreaties to run for the city council in Columbus, Ohio. |
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Having Annan make his entreaties to the warring parties and to the major powers, like Russia, was never going to lead anywhere. |
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Pacino, mesmerizing as Shylock, rejects his friends' entreaties to hurry away. |
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All the Abrahamic texts contain injunctions to violence as well as entreaties for peace. |
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Arsenal's supporters had made their feelings clear after watching attacks fizzle out at Leicester on Sunday, with entreaties to sign a striker. |
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Consequently, the research team was obliged to make a series of entreaties with their leader before they were granted an audience by the dealers. |
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There were to be no more entreaties, no more meetings and no more lobbying by the Conservative government in 1990 onward. |
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Our peaceful entreaties with Eritrea to remove its troops from the area and to clarify its concerns, if any, have so far fallen on deaf ears. |
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There was indeed no end to the entreaties, nor to the number of girls who came insisting that I play with them. |
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Indeed he was unwilling to return to that teacher in spite of the reiterated entreaties of his parents. |
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Obviously, in cases such as Mr. Arar's, one should not unnecessarily delay entreaties seeking the detainee's release. |
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More importantly, the Asian financial crisis sent property prices into a tailspin, and the government has largely resisted entreaties to bail people out. |
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And I'm bound to say that my entreaties did not fall on deaf ears. |
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But the entreaties of her earlier prayers echoed in her head. |
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I am powerless before the scented entreaties of an aesthetic appeal! |
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Unmoved by a chorus of anguished cries, the Biltmore crew calmly rounded up the glasses, tallied the tabs and shrugged off entreaties for special dispensation. |
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After years of unsuccessful entreaties by the U.S. TV networks, Pippa finally sat down to speak with Matt Lauer. |
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Typically, when a legislature is amenable to entreaties from tort restrictionists, access to the legal system is transformed into a fire sale. |
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When their entreaties were rejected, the Cossacks elected to respond with force. |
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While no one can say for sure why Mr. Arar was finally released in early October 2003, it does not appear that the Ambassador's entreaties played a role. |
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The entreaties of a lover and the rejection of the heroine lend charm to the stanza. |
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Ordinary people often wish to see the immortals and to meet the Buddha and they firmly believe that only by their prayers ad their entreaties will these come to their assistance. |
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In addition, the PRC virtually ignored the entreaties of dozens of U. S. senators and members of Congress, members of the European Parliament, and even Archbishop Desmond Tutu. |
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Without a change of countenance, as if he were deaf to her entreaties and threats, he tuned up the banjo, and played a breakdown. |
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Then there the two years in high school when the bus driver hammered Dr Hook's Greatest Hits every single afternoon, resisting all entreaties to play something else or put on the radio. |
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Priestley declined their entreaties, hoping to avoid political discord in his new country. |
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The fact remains, however, that sending the questions in the particular circumstances was unwise and increased the risk that Syria would not respond favourably to Minister Graham's entreaties that it release Mr. Arar. |
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He sees the European Union as an institution and a reality to believe in and to respect. Hence, his relative promptness in responding to our requests and entreaties and, indeed, our demands. |
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He listened tenderly to man's sighs and entreaties and he was moved with compassion when he saw the sweat of his brow, the tears in his eyes, the fatigue of his arms, his sadness of heart, his affliction of soul. |
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But friends and foes alike say that, despite their entreaties, Britain failed to come up with a credible counterproposal on bankers' pay. Bonuses are so toxic as to upset the normal balance of forces in Brussels. |
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After ignoring for years their entreaties that treaty rights be extended northward, the government moved precipitously in 1920-21 to lay the unceded districts of the Mackenzie Valley. |
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When the victim's loved ones try to ascertain his or her whereabouts, the authorities either ignore their entreaties or open an inquiry which they know will lead nowhere or which ends in the exoneration of the suspects. |
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And you will be in dire need of entreaties like these, GarcĂa said, nodding his white mane of hair, oh you will be praying for those words, blessing yourself for not having wasted them on something spurious and unworthy. |
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At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would strip naked and ride on a horse through the streets of the town. |
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