He seemed a bit upset, naturally enough, and spent a deal of time rubbing or wringing his hands while the police talked to him. |
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Oh I am so, so sorry about the weather, cried the marketing manager of Lilianfels hotel wringing her hands, when the driver dropped me off. |
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They grievously overstate the costs of bringing new drugs to market in hopes of wringing extortionate payments from desperate patients. |
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The fact that people were wringing their hands and arguing the point disgusts me. |
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There are no questions, no wringing hands and no doubt that good will prevail over evil. |
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She returned into her room, took the towel off her head, and scrunched her hair, wringing her tresses of the water. |
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His talent for wringing bitter humor out of miserable lonely men is matchless. |
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He is like an old Bolshevik, wringing his hands over the murderous policies of his Stalinist progeny. |
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That we can still think of wringing out a song from all this is worse than heresy, blasphemy, sacrilege. |
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She continued, wringing her hands in excitement to finish her adventurous story. |
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Blanch the spinach until wilted, then drain well, wringing thoroughly with your hands until it's dry. |
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The was a light knock on the door and Sister Nicci stood wringing out Cassandra's hair and shaking her hands then opened the door. |
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That's what she got, getting high marks from critics for wringing every ounce of effort from her team. |
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This quarter, companies are still wringing every bit of productivity they can from their existing workforces. |
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It took everything inside of him to keep from jumping over the table and wringing the man's neck. |
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To paraphrase Dr. Seuss, stop wringing the hands that should wring his neck! |
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The unfortunate chickens that were contaminated by the pigeon droppings we were forced to kill by wringing their necks. |
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I stared at the picture, something new and foreign squeezing my heart and wringing it dry. |
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Most of the passengers had moved as far away from him as possible and one lady kept glancing at him and wringing her hands together. |
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Still, I'm perfectly willing to spend the first few days of the month wringing my hands over the situation. |
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She's dressed as she was at Pluskat's, dungarees and a work shirt, wringing wet. |
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The old rules have broken down, and no amount of hand wringing can bring them back. |
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Instead of wringing his hands, shouldn't he be finding out where the van came from? |
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She'd sat quietly as her father drove her to the hospital, wringing her hands in her lap and mouthing silent prayers for Mark. |
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The reporter made a big mistake all right, but it wasn't the one that the rest of the press corp is unctuously wringing its hands over. |
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I nodded, my hands suddenly wringing in a strange and unexplainable nervousness. |
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Now you see this is the sort of tradition you want, a timeless prohibition on wringing out strangers' smalls. |
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The music swells to a spellbinding apex, wringing every last ounce of emotion out of the song in the process. |
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At the end of the driveway, Roxanne is making vroom, vroom sounds, wringing her hands like she's doing wheelies. |
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By releasing this record, she implicates that someone, somewhere, is wringing their hands in anticipation for it. |
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This renders it damp enough to work with, but not wringing wet. |
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The man started wringing his hands, jabbering in some language. |
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It is hard to see what purpose would be served by second-guessing the administration over every setback, or wringing our hands over every difficulty. |
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When the pillow, wringing wet, was sent up to Pittsburgh for analysis by Mr. Espy, it was found to have been saturated with human tears. |
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Fans of Northampton Town and Scarborough must be wringing their hands in anticipation of their clubs' fourth round ties against Manchester United and Chelsea respectively. |
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He fell in, tried to get out, fell in again and rushed back to the car, wringing wet. |
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I walked home wringing wet with a smile on my face that night, I can tell you. |
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We cannot longer remain indifferent to what is going on in the world, but we need not stand idly by, hopelessly wringing our hands. |
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Let the element dry completely and immerge it in clean engine oil before wringing the excess oil out. |
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A light detergent can be used in a water solution, and then soaking and wringing dry the cloth for cleaning. |
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We do not want to be in a position of merely recording that the election was fixed and standing back and wringing our hands afterwards. |
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This makes the unions more effective at actually wringing concessions out of companies, since it effectively removes the competitive pressures on them. |
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Many are wringing their hands about the pay appraisal system. |
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Neither Dixieland nor New Orleans is yet a corpse, of course, but nowhere else is quite as adept at wringing joy from tragedy. |
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The great majority of investors choose to be passive bystanders, hoping for the best and wringing their hands occasionally when they hear of another collapse. |
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The cello section made the melody line sing, wringing every ounce of emotion from the unabashedly romantic second movement. |
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Companies are also outsourcing supply-chain services. Yet supply-chain management is not just about wringing costs out of a business. |
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His eyes were darting around frantically, his left leg bounced with a steady, arrhythmic, annoying rhythm and he was wringing his hands consistently. |
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He opens by wringing his hands and asking three really deep questions. |
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Our choice was simply between wringing our hands against all logging or offering plantation thinning as a positive alternative to clear-cutting the old stuff. |
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I bellowed, lunging for Cousin Liam and wringing him around the neck. |
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He says the worst of it is in his neck, which on good days feels like someone is grabbing it rather than wringing it. |
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This needs real leadership from the international community to avoid a situation where everyone's just wringing their hands and watching the situation get worse and worse. |
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With a looming humanitarian disaster in Libya, Western nations are wringing their hands over what to do. |
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It allows us to see through the false expressions of regret, the hand wringing and the crocodile tears, to understand how they really view the world. |
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And as our social ills compound today, there is no more time for hand wringing. |
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Is there a more dreadful sensation than that of your stomach wringing itself out like a washcloth? |
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What little sleep she managed to get the night before had been troubled by dreams of violence and talking animals, and she had awakened, time and again, wringing wet. |
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In many of them because of very limited resources, the threat of renewed conflict and the absence of a robust tradition of education, it is hard to go beyond hand wringing. |
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Just to make it clear that he was not the only one involved in that debate, the member for LaSalle-Émard, the former finance minister, was dancing as only he can dance and wringing his hands. |
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The reverberations of that Conreport of mine have been wringing in my ears for weeks. |
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Some of the patients waiting in the dentist's office were wringing their hands nervously. |
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Both have elicited the same hand wringing and pearls clutching. |
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One can imagine the devout Doylist wringing his hands over every fresh appearance of Sir Arthur in the character of an exponent of spiritualism. |
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Amid the general hand wringing among City supporters at Wright-Phillips' pounds 21million move, one man could not keep the smile off his face. |
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There is much hand wringing about education these days, as there should be. |
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For wringing the heart of its blood, for unstringing our gut No killer like love. |
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The wringing of his hands, the dropping of his ice cream into his lap. |
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We don't want pathetic hand wringing from Labour ministers about time scales and paperwork. |
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We were boy preachers, wringing wet with the Word. |
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Shirts and trousers were of flannel, first becoming heavy with sweat, then wringing wet and finally virtually transparent, clinging restrictively to the body. |
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Their harrowing images sprint among Modern styles while wringing all they can from the combination of etching, aquatint and dry point, not least by regularly equating acid-bitten surfaces with wounded flesh or riven terrain. |
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High-quality stainless steel wringer for wringing out flat mops. |
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Amongst a guilt-ridden wringing of hands, the media would have called for an investigative inquiry into the origins and scope of the serious social problem represented by these racialized students and their families. |
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These findings show clearly that, despite all the earlier prognostications-complete with the hand wringing of many and the enthusiasm of some-marriage remains solidly entrenched in Canada. |
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Apple had lost the stagy quaver in her voice and had become adept at wringing more than just fear and anger from her favorite trope: a relationship with a man that goes terribly wrong. |
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It seems a bit like wringing a dirty mop out on the fire that's just warmed the entire house but after the glow of Cardiff it all comes down to the maths. |
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Are British investors just better at wringing a return from their money? Stephen Nickell, until last year one of the economists on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, puts forward a couple of explanations. |
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Members only have to look at some other recent investments in industry to understand that despite the hand wringing of members opposite the auto industry has a great future in Quebec. |
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High-quality wringer for wringing out mop fringes and flat mops. |
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After much soul searching and hand wringing over ho would be honored as the 2006 Skater of the Year, we had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity. |
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And when by hard wringing them the blood appeared at their ends, they pricked them with some sharp point, and then mutually entersuck't each one the others. |
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Within health care and insurance, there was fear and loathing about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and continued hand wringing over rising costs. |
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