| Introverted, unthreatening, wimpy and polite when approached, it isn't immediately obvious why emos have suddenly become national hate figures. |
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| The band of forest outlaws is resolutely unthreatening, though there's every likelihood that this was Shakespeare's intention. |
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| He tells me single thirty-something women like it here because it's unthreatening, it's good fun and they love the music. |
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| The bamboo reacted benignly, growing replacements in a most unthreatening manner and generally seeming to know its place. |
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| To all but the ruling oligarchy in China, Falun Gong looks like any other of countless sects and groups, benign and unthreatening. |
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| Is the face's roundness, softness and unthreatening air of friendliness a factor? |
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| That might sound a facile point, but only because aircraft are so familiar and were, until recently, so unthreatening. |
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| Using the deceptively simple, the soft and the unthreatening, or bold-faced, outrageous lies, women human rights defenders change our world. |
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| Netscape is staffed by idealistic hackers, but AOL is a mass-market firm devoted to making on-line services unthreatening. |
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| Her unthreatening demeanor, she believes, was part of what allowed her access to their rarely documented world. |
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| America's Blink 182 are rude and foulmouthed and loutish, but still entirely unthreatening and immaculately tailored to appeal to a teen audience. |
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| Huncke was still very much the squirrelly ex-con and drug fiend, but he was also marvellously unthreatening, despite a certain doomy charisma. |
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| If you can now go and sit with your friends and have a coffee in a comfortable, open and unthreatening environment then younger people and more women may well be tempted in. |
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| The general forlornness supports the mood of Hamdan's prison letters to his family, which sound anguished, pious, and unthreatening. |
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| You may want to let her know how you feel about what you're seeing, and ask her unthreatening questions. |
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| It is clear to the Panel that as a vehicle to encourage open exchanges on the issues in an unthreatening environment, the CLC had mixed success. |
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| Ryan does a good job of cloaking his radicalism in unthreatening everyday language. |
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| Girl groups became known mostly as visions of unmitigated, unthreatening saccharinity. |
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| To get the change process started calls for small and unthreatening first steps. |
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| But they had a third reason to switch to the centre-right: a bright, attractive, young, united and, above all, unthreatening opposition. |
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| From an apparently unthreatening position, 30 yards out on the left, he spotted a gap and promptly fired the ball into the top left corner of the goal. |
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| She is as blameless and unthreatening as possibly can be, but barely human. |
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| Runaround's rough-and-ready approach would probably be considered too much for modern audiences, who seem to like their presenters as unthreatening and child-like as possible. |
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| He is one of Britain's most well-loved actors, best known for unthreatening, mildly eccentric roles in television sitcoms like The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles. |
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| Here and now, a tremendous variety of people, each with his or her own set of extraordinary stories, coexists in a relatively unthreatening environment. |
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| A brass band played salsa tunes as hundreds of protesters of myriad nationalities danced, sang and chanted in colourful, unthreatening resistance. |
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| The formerly overweight and middle aged Frank has morphed into the wide-eyed Wood with beatnik looks and a more unthreatening vulnerability. |
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| AlÂthough they did not feminize the car in outright terms, the promÂinence of female drivers among early VW fans underlined the unthreatening and friendly air that surrounded the car. |
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| As demonstrated here, the technology seems whiz-bang but unthreatening. |
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| One answer is that they are unthreatening to big countries. |
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| And they put training online to keep dispersed and busy employees in touch with constant innovation. Most of this is relatively easy to do because it is, on the whole, unthreatening. |
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| With or without campus jargon, the annoyingly unfair fact is that marriageable men tend to like women who are young, fertile and intellectually unthreatening. |
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| Their worry is that nationalist unrest may turn against the government and undermine China's efforts to convince the rest of the world that its economic rise is unthreatening. |
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| This dialogue needs to ensure an informal and unthreatening environment to the discussion to ensure that the different points of view can be openly discussed. |
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| All provinces and territories should establish protocols for the HIV counselling and testing process that include assessing risks to women's safety in unthreatening, non-invasive and confidential ways. |
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| The lack of such airs and graces lends life an unthreatening atmosphere. |
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| Her friendly personality and her unthreatening five foot physique is one of which hopes to inspire you, educate you and help you reach your goals. |
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| Surely, if the greater good is disallowed, a minor and unthreatening transgression, such as having too thin a mattress, should also be disallowed. |
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| Because I am perceived as being smiley and unthreatening and a bit girlie, I am always under-estimated. |
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| This was a time when Canada had an international reputation as being unthreatening and fair, and so it was a role that allowed me to build bridges. |
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| Slightly bulbous and unthreatening it remains but some of the detailing is now a bit sassier. |
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| Life in July of 1964 in the small prairie town of Dickinson, North Dakota, might seem to be quiet and unthreatening. |
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| In previous seasons of BGT regardless of how primped and preened she was, Amanda was unthreatening, a little mousey even. |
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| Green states that she chose a partner to suit herself who was also someone so unthreatening as to be beneath the notice of the king or likely to arouse his jealousy. |
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