Despite her good deeds, this wizened enchantress's sinister duality surfaces when she senses the threat of a changeling among the Quinn clan. |
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When you turn on your TV, you may see a wizened old man making plebs laugh with his bad wigs and big chin, but we see someone else entirely. |
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I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering old man. |
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Cory introduced himself to the first person he spied, a wizened old woman on a stool at the door, meticulously cutting thin strips of leather. |
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A wizened man in white shirt and white tucked-up dhoti, with a dark green headcloth, put thatch on the roof of the beachside pavilion. |
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She returned later that day in the back of a police car to find two very grey old people, now wizened and wrinkly after the experience. |
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Ray Caesar creates fantastical, grimly hopeful, and gravely whimsical images of wizened children who radiate an enigmatic serenity. |
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His countenance was as bleak as the frozen northern wastelands, and he huddled within himself, a wizened husk hoarding unspoken power. |
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In a flash of light, Aidan shriveled to a wizened old man of about 3 feet tall. |
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He rapped on the door once, and it opened to reveal a wizened old woman carrying a cord with knots in it. |
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I asked the wizened servant but she made no reply, merely advancing into the room whilst she fixed my face with her dark, inexpressive eyes. |
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He was in the presence of the Great Lady who was at once, an unblemished virgin, a pregnant mother and a wizened crone. |
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Darting around the room with unusual energy for her age was a wizened old crone. |
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She props up her skeletal frame, wizened beyond her 48 years, with spindly arms wrapped around a twisted cane. |
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Eastwood plays Frankie, a wizened old fight trainer who runs a regulation beat-up gym. |
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The ancient waiting-woman bows her head in awe, and a flicker of unfamiliar happiness crosses the deeply wizened depths of her face. |
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He is two years old but his face is that of a wizened old man, his hair sparse and patched. |
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No longer the bendy punk-rappers of yesteryear, slightly wizened where they were once wiry, not even these boys can hide from adulthood any more. |
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Gnarled and wizened but full of life, they light every page on which they appear. |
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His wizened and wrinkled face and his long, flowing beard contrasted sharply with the aura of power that seemed to flow from him. |
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There is much admiring of young legal eagles, studying of wizened magistrates and cowering from unrepentant defendants to be done. |
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And he came home next day dragging one foot after another, with a wizened face and as cross as two sticks. |
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We've just reached the summit of Pendle Hill in Lancashire when the image of the three wizened witches from Macbeth skips across my mind's eye. |
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Every so often, in between weathercasts predicting temperatures in the 90s, they wheel out this wizened old bird. |
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What about all those generations of wizened peasants treading the grapes and passing on their age-old knowledge of the terroir? |
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Several portraits feature beautiful faces, some with deeply lined, wizened countenances. |
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The first time I saw Wiwin, she looked like a wizened old woman, with wrinkly, hairy skin and big, unblinking eyes. |
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The wizened old man sat in his plush office, blueprints spread out on top of the bureau. |
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Mr. Edwards appeared to be some type of shrew, but a wizened, shrunken shell of one. |
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Now wizened, and hopefully wiser too, he still is not able to leave an impression on anybody except two real nincompoops in the film. |
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Resonant of medieval folk tales, it conjures up the image of a wizened old hag casting spells on innocent children lost in a tangle of forests. |
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He was a man above middle-age, with a sharp and wizened face, and he held his head canted so that he seemed to be ear-first as he faced you. |
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You can almost see him as a wizened woman, too arthritic to stand over a pot with a spoon, but quite capable of directing from a chair in the corner. |
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I spent many a sunny afternoon in the smoky darkness of a pool hail in a small central Illinois town where wizened men took my pennies at euchre, gin rummy and poker. |
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Everything is relative: I know some very sprightly sixty-year olds just as I know some wizened teenagers? |
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As Tyzack says, female characters tend to be pigeonholed – wife, mother, mistress, old bat, wizened crone. |
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Leading the expedition is the wizened sea dog Dan Rymer, Jaffy's second father figure. |
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One old bloke, a double amputee, was being pushed in a wheelchair by his wizened wife. |
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Moreover, an animal will not be attracted to plants or berries that look wizened or dried out as a result of herbicide application. |
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When gathering time comes, the berries will have a wizened look, or the plants will not produce any berries at all. |
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What is to become of this spiteful, self-destructive, wizened old slob, viewers might ask. |
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The wizened old men are bracing themselves for the coming conflict. |
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He was better pleased with the rounded amplitudes of the Danae and the Venuses painted for him by Titian, than by El Greco's wizened male nudes the colour of fog. |
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If you go to the harbour, there are wizened old ladies selling beautiful hand-made lace and tablecloths for a fraction of what they'd cost back home. |
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His wrinkles overlapped his pox scars, giving him a wizened wizard look. |
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The losers walk away with their tails between their legs as small children hurl rocks at them and wizened babushkas cackle insults in obscure Slavic dialects. |
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On this day, I think back to an interview I conducted several years ago with a tiny, wizened woman named Tran Thi Nhut. |
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She sighs exasperatedly and dispenses surprisingly lucid advice like a wizened old veteran. |
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While no one was looking, Darth Vader has been replaced by a wizened, if still ornery, Grandpa Munster. |
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The old picture of a hustler is a wizened guy, standing on a street corner selling some assortment of unsavory goods. |
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Sometimes she scrabbled through the drifts on hilltops and found a few wizened bearberries or a handful of rock-tripe, a kind of moss. |
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The difference between idealistic young radicals who look to Chávez and the wizened opportunists is that the latter try to pass off support for Chávez as Marxism. |
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The wizened face of the old woman helping at the birth. |
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Some see you as a wizened grandpa, with a long white beard? |
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Microsoft will insist that it has done nothing wrong, as competitors cry foul and wizened regulators launch further investigations. Indeed, the European competition authorities are not the end of the line. |
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He was an old man, wizened, small, some eighty years of age. |
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I wanted a tall, dark woman and not a wizened old granny. |
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Thin as a stick, stiff and wizened, it's now old Yoakam who speaks. |
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At the tender age of nine, he met his wizened idol for the first time. |
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In the Provincial Museum in Toronto there is a wizened caveman who hasn't made a mistake for several thousand years, ever since he curled up in his grass mat and went to sleep. |
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I found a ship's biscuit and a wizened apple in my sketch sack. They smelled of turpentine and revolted my appetite. At dusk I ate them greedily. |
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We recognize it from a set of photos where she is posing under the chuppah with him, with the rabbi, and with their siblings, parents and a single wizened grandmother. |
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I saw him immediately, at a table in the furthest corner, the thin neck and browless eyes I recognized from photographs, that broad and wizened head, the blue bow tie. |
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He was old, too, wizened with age, and the hair on his face was gray. |
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In the simple fable about old age reconciling itself to memory and destiny, Mastroianni wears the wizened smile of a man who knows he is visiting his youth for the last time. |
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At the back of my car, a gnomish woman sold dubious sandwiches, and a wizened man worked the aisles with a coffeepot of mud dispensed in bathroom-sized paper cups. |
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