As such, a department in the suitor's role often finds itself expending time, energy and self-esteem on what turns out to be an elaborate tease. |
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This concern was especially true in their dealings with Chicanos who would taunt and tease them in English and Spanish. |
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The only element Kurtzman adds to shape the events is drama, which serves to tease out the absurdity skulking just below the romantic surface. |
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Surely it makes sense to avoid five rushers than to tease all eleven defenders on some elaborate option play. |
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My expectations were aroused by the implied metaphor, but the cover is ultimately a tease, and by page four I found myself loathing the book. |
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How was I going to tease her for having bird nest hair if she didn't and had beautiful, lustrous raven hair? |
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Rounded ripe gooseberries tease the nose and their flavours tantalise the taste buds. |
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If you are not offended by Iowa's pink locker room, it may be because you recognize a joke, a tease, and a riff. |
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It was instead a facetious response to an anticipated tease in an email between friends. |
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The tease is very hard to resist, and the carefree and bubbly tone of the piece is refreshingly palatable. |
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Yeah, it can even be the same red that matadors use to tease the bull to charge. |
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Just to tease the boss, the drovers made a big to-do about who would sit next to Laurie but, in the end, Gil ended up at her side. |
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I put my hands on the cool stone and let the gentle breeze tease my hair away from my face. |
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Instead, use a sterile needle or forceps to gently tease out and unfold the hair. |
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The way he would tease her, call her names and insult the fact that she was Indian. |
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I love everything about Bruce's music as a package, but if I tease out the strands, this is what I come up with. |
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The word has also become associated with the French Caribbean of course and there it is fun to tease French roots out. |
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Put on a skinny headband, then tease the back of the hair with pomade or hair spray. |
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Whatever, there is still a person somewhere there to tease, interest and captivate us. |
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But Destiny's Child had more to celebrate than doing just a burlesque tease dance on-stage, they actually picked up the award for Best Group. |
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Being a terrible tease from way back, however, I deliberately posted here recently another quotation from Lott. |
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Now I slur my words and mangle the language with the best of them, though people close to me do still tease me for my tendency towards pomposity. |
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He was an awkward kind of fabulist, a tease who directed his subtle ironies as much at his readers as at his cats and foxes. |
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Either Drudge is a tease, or I'm just too-outcast hip for my own good sometimes. |
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But as a filmmaker, Meyer was more of a tease than the women who starred in his films. |
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She meant it as a playful tease but snickers from the corner of the room made her lighthearted smile disappear. |
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I told him I thought Jessica was a tease and that he should drop her, to which he replied that he was planning on it. |
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Many girls, which I have learnt over the years are a complete tease, complete show offs and most of all just seem to want our money. |
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Either she was blissfully innocent of being a tease or she knew what sort of effect that was likely to provoke. |
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This woman is obviously a flirt and a tease who is looking to get into trouble. |
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This involves bantering, oftentimes between two people who good-heartedly tease each other. |
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However, scientists have yet to tease an answer from the chicken-and-egg dilemma of which came first, cooperation or a sense of fairness? |
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When he was a schoolboy in Glasgow his father would take him to matches and tease Alex for being a jinx when Rangers lost. |
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Using a pencil, tease out the young plant from the seed tray and make a hole in the compost deep enough to take the roots of the seedling. |
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The excellent cast manage to tease out the humour of the play without undermining its tragic elements. |
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Maybe he spotted the wedding ring on my finger and that took the wind out of his sails, so he decided to tease me instead. |
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I'm around other people's fathers and Ayesha's father used to tease me and Anya, Anya especially, and we kidded him right back. |
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A hard copy mini-magazine will exist only to tease people with brief extracts from specific articles. |
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The only real problem is the length of the side games which are more of a tease than anything. |
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Sorry to tease but I can't give any more details at the moment as there's a news blackout. |
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She's crude and loud and crazy and loves wearing skimpy clothes and being a tease. |
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Working dogs should not be forced to perform over and over again or left chained in the sun for hundreds of strangers to tease. |
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We met because I took out her best friend, and she wrote me to tease me about it. |
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If this was party policy based on the attractiveness of a summer tease, it was a poor joke unworthy of even the worst seaside comic. |
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To tease out the details of the transition, other researchers recently turned to lancelets, vertebrates' closest spineless relatives. |
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However, those matches involving the odd incisive break at breathtaking speed, where the ball invariably ends up in the back of the net, are something of a tantalising tease. |
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Journalism assumes an immutable truth, that a few more calls, a bit more reporting will tease it out of reluctant informants. |
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She remembered her father use to tease her about washing her skin away, and how he would bath once a month, using her dirty water and taking only ten minutes at most. |
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The key to convincing selfhood seems to be to rely neither completely on the self nor completely on an other, but to tease out options in-between the two extremes. |
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Decked in lacy lingerie her public tease dancing emphasizes her, um, flexibility. |
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I only tell you this to assure you that many Mac people are near and dear to me and I would never do anything intentionally to taunt, tease or torment any of you. |
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We were about to go to sleep, but I decided to tease him about his weird habit of having the pillow a certain way on the bed. |
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Harry appeared to tease his blond friend after the wardrobe malfunction was spotted. |
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I imagine there's some effect, but I doubt it's large enough to ever tease out of our noisy economic data. |
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And the president has to attempt to tease out from Romney the less commanding tone evident in the second debate. |
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It had become a familiar yarn, Brad playing on his own vanity to tease out frustrations in his military life. |
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What happens between now and then is an epic bureaucratic tangle, the details of which are difficult for anyone to tease out. |
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I worked in a Connecticut boatyard, where my workmates used to tease me about it but they couldn't physically do the eyebrow act without bobbing their heads. |
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We will hold informal meetings to try and tease out the underlying issues. |
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His youngest son, orange Scott, was a rough-and-tumble trickster and a terrible tease. |
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It comes out of the drawer, the attic, the trunk of your car with the first tease of spring. |
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But he reminds me of a tease who acts interested yet won't go all the way. |
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Did Mia stop to think how her coy tease might be perceived by the widow Sinatra? |
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My dad used to kid her and tease her about it on election day. |
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He kneads my flesh slowly now, using his fingertips to tease my skin. |
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He spent much time trying to tease out this knotty problem with Laing. |
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Though we tease a bit, please don't mistake us for anti-intellectuals! |
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Yet, as he travels from airport to morgue, waiting room to railway carriage, these bland modern spaces seem to tease out of him at last a rueful sense of guilt and blame. |
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Cats are also dangled from pieces of string to tease the fighting dogs. |
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Again, she kissed him, to tease him into state of fiery desire. |
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In this article we have tried to tease the meaning out of just a few of the sounds that have either been ignored or dismissed as relatively unimportant. |
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For a messy look, tease the hair on the crown of your head, adding height. |
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Lightly tease a section of hair on top, and brush sides into a ponytail. |
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Spring Break girls were a tease for the guys and an obvious embarrassment for the parents and grandparents, but it was certainly not a boom for any of the girls. |
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It is guest-written by Elsie, companion to the Doctor and a big tease. |
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She has always been a flirt from the first day I met her and just because she was a little older, doesn't mean she has forgotten how much fun being a flirty tease can be. |
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Ahhhhh, I love the idea of teasing Mr B. I am such a tease and I love it. |
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It started out as a joke, a tease, but then one by one, each of us succumbed to the spirit of V-day and quite pathetically, whined about wanting a boyfriend. |
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I wondered if he was just trying to bait me, jokingly tease me. |
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Her power lay in her beauty and she used it as a weapon, dressing to please, to tease and even, on one mischievous occasion, to upstage her husband. |
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Gorky's drawings are so rich, so various, so complex, and often so mysterious that they must be studied with rigorous concentration if we are to tease out their secrets. |
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A prankster, he would tease his friends and put underwear over their heads while they slept. |
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She's a real tease, taunting him to steal a kiss or cop a feel. |
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In the lead, the muscled-up actor has never looked better, and even his stolidness works here because it gives her something to play off, to tease. |
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Not generally known for their sense of humour but generally good-natured these lefties are always happy to tease the champagne socialists that inhabit Islington. |
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Swinburne portrays Michelangelo's art as an adumbrative tease that suggests and suppresses, reveals and reserves. |
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Then they'd spend hours trying to tease hundreds of feet of snarled-up cassette tape out of the tape-deck of their car. |
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If you buy a tree that's been in a container and it's potbound when removed, tease the roots open before planting out, or growth will be stunted. |
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Small cards, called flick cards, are used to flick the ends of a lock of fibre, or to tease out some strands for spinning off. |
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The referential frenzy elicited by Rauschenberg's tease can be purely iconographic, and then it is pathetic. |
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Frizzed by sun, sea and sand we often find ourselves trying to tease delicate tousels out of pan scrubber locks. |
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Dillon, and director Chris Darwin, aim to tease out the emotions of an evening which started so well and ended so disastrously. |
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I tease Labour's Deputy Leaderene as a politically correct Hattie Harperson, though I accept to be PC is to treat others with respect. |
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He never presents his argument in a clear and accessible form but forces the reader to tease it out labouriously. |
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Best Quote Given his meticulous, pragmatic and unexcitable nature, it's not always easy to tease a blockbuster line out of Kenny Jackett. |
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The return to six should tease further progress from Mayson, who can take the step up to this level in his strid. |
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Tease the knot down to a size where the hook has just sufficient room to swing freely, pass the tag end through the crimp and use the cup to cup pliers to crimp hard. |
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It is not to tease you, and hurt you, my sweet, But only for kindness and care, That I wash you and dress you, and make you look neat, And comb out your tanglesome hair. |
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She knew how to tease beauty out of waxy rock, and to experience her rutabaga casserole was to partake of a miracle of transformation rivalling the one that killed my prince. |
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These are the key findings from a dose-ranging study designed to tease out the complex roles played by both testosterone and estrogen in so-called androgen deficiency. |
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Tease them out gently and get rid of any claggy soil which may be around them and trim any dead or very thin roots. |
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Here's how to tease, tousle and transform your hair for high summer. |
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But it will rank as a shock of Simcock can't tease out further progress from a horse having just the sixth racecourse outing of his life, and Cafe Society has strong claims. |
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On many, a cold freezing night, of temperatures hovering near zero, the finocchios tease and try to encourage Tedesco to join in their warm body orgies. |
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Rating 2 MAGIC MIKE XXL APART from the tease in the title of this pelvis-thrusting sequel, Gregory Jacobs' feature is longer and showier than the original. |
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