| The Italian, though, refused to lie down, breaking again for a 4-1 lead with a rapier-like crosscourt backhand. |
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| His merciless scorn, his blistering sarcasm, his rapier-like thrusts of irony must have made many an opponent squirm. |
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| With a blog you have the opportunity to set these mistaken people right by exposing them to your rapier-like logic. |
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| The astuteness and rapier-like quality of his writing doesn't need smarmy expletive witticisms to back it up. |
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| He himself was a good chairman, thanks to his phenomenal memory and his ability to put rapier-like questions which penetrated to the core of the matter. |
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| It was a cynical play to show his base just how edgy he was, pwning this old plutocrat with his rapier-like wit. |
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| Using his rapier-like jab and speed afoot, Ali earned a lopsided decision in a bout that was physically much tougher than the final outcome indicates. |
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| This could be achieved by threatening from several directions and launching high-speed, rapier-like strikes at operational headquarters and communications centres. |
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| Students delivered several rapier-like thrusts of logic that impressed the panels of judges, made up of eminent scientists, artists, philosophers and captains of industry. |
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