| Leigh's Petruchio is too strong to fall for a woman who is blatantly manipulative rather than a match for his own true shrewishness. |
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| Nobody does shrewishness better than McEwan, who turns Sister Bridget into a crooning, purse-lipped avenger. |
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| He begins a thorny flirtation with Tabitha, a young lady renowned for her shrewishness and her devious sense of humor. |
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| It is winter, and they believe cold weather is enough of a whip to tame the wildest of beasts and even the shrewishness of both Kate and Petruchio. |
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| Obviously, Ms. Chen was also a good student, although she played Cui so gracefully and fetchingly that it was hard to take her shrewishness entirely seriously. |
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| We can be grateful that the women don't turn up in fat suits and housecoats — the wives are wiry blondes with addictions to shrewishness and Ritalin. |
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