| You will probably have noticed that Martin is scarcely a shrinking violet, nor a slack-jawed dullard. |
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| People know that I am not a shrinking violet and there will have to be major and widespread changes. |
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| So it doesn't pay to be a shrinking violet when faced with appalling service. |
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| This was no shrinking violet who wrote his poetry from the lonely vantage of an ivory tower. |
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| She was, she says, a shrinking violet for her first year at Glasgow University. |
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| In this company, the potted venison and wild boar terrine was a shrinking violet. |
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| He may have to make a self-transformation from a tall poppy into a shrinking violet. |
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| Normally, you wouldn't expect your local councillor to be a shrinking violet. |
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| Christopher Hitchens, never a shrinking violet, lets his old comrades, the loony left, have it with both barrels in today's Washington Post. |
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| Like many women in this Chamber today, she certainly was no shrinking violet. |
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| Do you think Chris Christie, no shrinking violet, is going to let Geraldo cruise to the nomination? |
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| He is certainly no shrinking violet and will not suffer fools gladly. |
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| Vanessa Oltmann, CGA, is no shrinking violet. She writes steamy romances as well as publishes her own and other writers' novels on the Internet. |
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| No shrinking violet, Gallagher likes the stage and will appear in a production of Love Letters with Sally Struthers this spring. |
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| Mind you Cliff Mackay is not exactly a shrinking violet. |
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| My question therefore, Mr President, is how long will the European Union continue to behave like a sort of shrinking violet in the negotiations with Turkey? |
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| Sue Ellen wasn't exactly what you'd call a shrinking violet, and if her handshake was any indication she would have no problem handling a wood axe. |
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| And its government is well-off, getting revenue from an industrial free-trade zone sited in the middle of the rainforest. Mr Viana, who is no shrinking violet, rather downplays these particularities. |
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| Roosevelt is no shrinking violet, but this is not a knife job or a backstabbing tale. |
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| Certainly no one who knows me would accuse me of being a shrinking violet. |
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| He is mentally strong, he is no shrinking violet, that is for sure. |
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| When the planned murder of Fred Hale goes awry and innocent cafe waitress Rose witnesses the chase, Pinkie sets out to seduce the shrinking violet to win her silence. |
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| This Cinderella is no shrinking violet but a tough little cookie in a gamine haircut who gives as good as she gets, socking her stepsisters when she can get away with it. |
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| Set during World War Two, go-getting Nancy is no shrinking Violet. |
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