He was not one to mince matters, nor did he wrap up inconvenient topics in persiflage. |
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Its all ephemera and persiflage, as we sit mocking in the plumes as political gadflies who tell the truth. |
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He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage. |
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These two words connote at once a corporeal indwelling of the Divine, and an empty, arrogant persiflage. |
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Everyone is jolly pleased – isn't everyone clever as they engage in diplomatic persiflage on Twitter, Facebook and Weibo? |
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The visiting foreign admirals wrap the Shogun's first counsellor in persiflage and flags, until he is literally a pinwheel of national promises. |
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The sport needed to be organized in the first place, because there was chaos and all sorts of persiflage going on. |
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Perhaps the gentleman is not inclined to persiflage. |
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After the third strike he returned to the bench to face the inevitable persiflage from his teammates. |
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The tradition of these troops is preserved as a military persiflage by Cologne's most outstanding carnival society, the Rote Funken. |
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Polite dinner calls for persiflage rather than in-depth possibly offensive discussion. |
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