How To Use Amorous In A Sentence
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Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale.
Country of the Blind
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His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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In the tome, full of glamorous soft-focus pictures of the footballer, he waxes lyrical about the art of seduction, with fish his favourite weapon for luring girlfriends from the dining room to the boudoir.
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I think there would be a certain amount of consensus about that, even amongst the most quixotic and naturally amorous of us.
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Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio.
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The advertisements depict smoking as glamorous and attractive.
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Both men are from Brooklyn, both have children named Satchel, both are basketball fans, devout Knicks supporters, and both have made the clamorous city of New York their sound stage.
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Testing the new bike in the dizzying mountains north of glamorous Monaco, all of these improvements came together beautifully.
The Sun
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In theory, this could be a smart strategic move but it is likely to "domesticate" Julian Assange; running such an NGO would require too many boring meetings with potential funders many of whom have already been alienated by the organisation and a nine-to-five office routine - the exact opposite of the glamorous nomadic lifestyle that the founder of WikiLeaks has become famous for.
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An egomaniacal celebrity author lives in Paris with his glamorous young second wife and his shy and unhappy grown-up daughter from his first marriage.
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The film centres around the amorous adventures/exploits of its handsome hero.
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Cleveland, had often mentioned him, without in any respect diminishing the insignificancy with which fame insinuated he had conducted himself in those amorous encounters: she nevertheless had the greatest curiosity to see a man, whose entire person, she thought, must be a moving trophy, and monument of the favours and freedoms of the fair sex.
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The days of playing unglamorous locations like the South Morang Hotel are all over.
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It was hard to believe Lana had once thought of her as glamorous, even an adventuress.
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Glamorous guests mingle at the bar while jazz noodles in the background.
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The story goes that downtrodden Sophie works in a hat shop and one day meets the glamorous wizard Howl, a charming ladykiller who has garnered the reputation of eating girls' hearts, despite looking more like a ladyboy.
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She also brought along a pair of glamorously large sunnies which we're rather upset she didn't wear.
Princess Letizia Wears Sheer Dress To Prince of Asturias Awards (PHOTOS)
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It was destined to collapse, but it went in such a glamorous way.
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Few of the studios' prime big-budget offerings these days are reliant on glamorous big-paycheque names.
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In the 16th and 17th centuries, the cries turned still more colourful and clamorous, as a kind of auditory arms race developed between the vendors.
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I also want them to see how unglamorous the process is.
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The most glamorous newcomer to the Volkswagen Golf range is the revamped GTi 16 valve.
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My mum was extremely glamorous, beautiful and very into style and fashion.
The Sun
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At first sight, they appear as alluring as a soft-top sports car - glamorous, flash and a little racy.
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Such preoccupations rarely seem to have troubled the solitary beings who inhabit the clamorous pages of her witty, erudite and anecdotal - if inconclusive - study.
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Feeding soldiers is not a glamorous business; for the most part it is an administrative function that goes unnoticed.
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The film centres around the amorous adventures/exploits of its handsome hero.
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An odd, amorous fragment from a letter written in Rome in June 1819 has survived.
Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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However much the glamorous image of the corseted and gartered, smoky-voiced chanteuse remains, he says they never bought into that aspect of the culture.
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He stood upon a glamorously designed rug in which bore a peculiar star-shaped symbol sewn in red, the rug itself was black; it appeared he was in a strange cave.
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We wouldn't want anything glamorous, just basics such as a hot drinks dispenser during winter, a small TV to wile away the hours, comfy sofas, a small toilet and maybe a crèche for the little ones.
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I think she was a little gauche, thoroughly charmed by the literary excitement of it all, and didn't realise he was maybe a little more amorous than she gave him credit for.
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It's flattering, glamorous and something to hide beneath.
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She led an exciting and glamorous life.
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The cooler temperatures of the last week should have quelled the amorous residents' ardour and after their recent exertions they should have quite an appetite.
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The Drive programme will have extensive coverage throughout this glamorous event.
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Book well in advance for a massage at this glamorous 17th-century farmhouse outside Broadway.
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Predictably, producing gourmet food for celebrities from a makeshift kitchen can be far from glamorous.
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Such a glamorous home is a perk of the job for a wealthy international sportsman, the kind of holiday hideaway that footballers have long enjoyed.
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The whole place is impossibly glamorous and the wealth on display is something else.
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He had a glamorous life, flying to LA to appear as a celebrity lookalike at basketball games.
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Their ministerial responsibilities, however unglamorous, matter to thousands of people, as the family credit fiasco showed.
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‘There remained only those rare periods of amorousness, which still came to them at times but did not last long.’
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By choosing to anchor her fiction within the realms in which most crime occurs, Mina eschews the glamorous settings of other, less realistic novels of the genre.
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Clinton the elder here withdrew, and had scarcely disappeared when two voices were heard in the hall, in a kind of clamorous remonstrance with each other, which voices were those of Father Magowan and our friend
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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But some of the silk eveningwear was fit for the most glamorous of parties, apron bibs floating across the chest then twisting into straps over the shoulders and asymmetrically across the back before dripping into a train.
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These leather sandals aren't platforms, but they look so glamorous that I couldn't resist mentioning them.
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I guess its not as glamorous as Montana or Alaska, but there are miles of uncrowded waters.
Nominate the Best Fly Fishing State in America
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Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky.
Success A Novel
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an unglamorous job greasing engines
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And the glamorous lawyer showed she meant business earlier this week when she arrived at a Downing Street reception in a red figure-hugging outfit, upstaging the World Cup heroes in whose honour the reception was held.
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The power pose was one of those nuggets of glamorous research which gained instant global popularity.
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Drove down to the city center in the early afternoon and found a bar in which the lunchtime trade was brisk but not clamorous.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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The way she writes you might think that tantra is a solid, inescapable fact of true polyamorous living, and that every polyamorist is a spiritual yogi seeking enlightenment through the energies released and shared during intercourse, provided of course that one has taken the time to properly align one’s chakras.
Poly people « Love | Peace | Ohana
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Their task has been consistent and unglamorous: encourage learning up to a prescribed level and foster social discipline.
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Snatches a thousand kisses, in amorous extasy biting.
Poems and Fragments
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Talent Gazette, her hair done up in sophisticated curls, her chin nestled into a glamorous touch of white fur.
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It might not look glamorous, but it will always be fresh and classic.
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Laurel Canyon (2003), each focused on an innocent young woman swept up in the glamorously baffling sex-and-drugs scene swirling around a charismatic older female artist, the situation here is reversed; unexpectedly drawn in to and fascinated by the ultra-domestic household created by a pair of charismatic femmes, the swinger is the straight man (literally).
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In his pocket was precisely the room - rent for the following week, the advance payment of which was already three days overdue and clamorously demanded by the hard - faced landlady.
CHAPTER XVII
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Unglamorous, usually unexciting and normally invisible , the world's financial plumbing is gummed up.
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What has made the tension between press and government especially "clamorous" is that people in charge of the Bush White House decided on a strategy for rolling back the national press.
Jay Rosen: "We are Covering the War on Terror, It's a Classified War."
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Being a burlesque dancer wasn't as glamorous as folk singing suddenly is.
The Sun
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The pig whisperer: Author Jeffrey Masson explores the emotions of - and cruelty inflicted upon - the most unglamorous animals
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Then, when hunger made them desire to go on with the repast, finding there was nought upon the table, they called clamorously for the cook.
The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
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When the dinner hour arrives, he bangs about as clamorously as possible, crashing the door into the coatrack, simulating a coughing fit on his way out, all to ensure that Eileen across the hall hears him leaving for his supposed dinner plans, although no such plans exist.
'The Imperfectionists'
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The ship's more homely than glamorous, but it handles heavy seas well and should be just the thing for a little jaunt such as this.
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As a woman, how do you reject a man who is amorous in his advances in a way that doesn't scar him for life.
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But to me the most frightening aspect of the whole disaster was that the clamorous Tasman Sea went suddenly quiet - eerily so - and though I waited for its comforting roar to resume, I can't remember ever hearing it so noisy again.
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Most arrived at this condition as industry tumbled in the latter half of the past century; earlier they had been hard-edged, unglamorous communities of strivers.
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She went to glamorous parties and enjoyed exotic holidays.
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These extend to minor league stadiums as well, which shows off some of the non-glamorous locations of other parks, such as those within neighborhoods or other cities.
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Just over a year ago, to be a literary agent in the Anglo-American world of books must have seemed like the plummiest, most glamorous job imaginable.
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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This is so far the only production directed by the glamorous French ballet star who is among the world's most famous ballerinas at present.
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But I don't think my amorous rival Pascoe was too delighted to receive advice and assistance from me.
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The acclaim was richly deserved, but things were less glamorous from her point of view.
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On the face of it, coming up with and implementing these changes is dull, unglamorous work.
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Asexuals might form unconventional relationships and therefore identify as polyamorous or queer.
MetaFilter Projects
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The battle to balance her books was far less glamorous.
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It never looks half as glamorous today, now that the motive power is diesel.
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The Rev David Knight, rural dean for Shipston deanery, said the money would be spent on ‘necessary but unglamorous’ masonry and glazing repairs.
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The film centres around the amorous adventures of its handsome hero, Mike Mather.
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However much you try to dress it up, office work is not glamorous.
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He thanked them and followed their directions to the hotel, which as he guessed was ritzy and glamorous and all the things he never could afford to be.
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Her longtime hairstylist Kim Kimble tells People, "Even when she's dressing down, she will accessorize with items that make the outfi t pop or wear her hair in a glamorous style.
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Although it was less glamorous, it was still very comfortable.
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But, sir, according to my judgment, you do understand both of and by yourself that here stealth signifieth nothing else, no more than in a thousand other places of Greek and Latin, old and modern writings, but the sweet fruits of amorous dalliance, which Venus liketh best when reaped in secret, and culled by fervent lovers filchingly.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
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Shapiro bills the series as an unglamorous look at life in the clink and the power of music as a means of rehabilitation.
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But please, don't stop name-dropping your glamorous existence in the sweaty cosmopolis on my account.
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The first advance of the little army of the elect reawakened their rage; they grasped their arms, and waited but their leader's signal to commence the attack, when the clear tones of Adrian's voice were heard, commanding them to fall back; with confused murmur and hurried retreat, as the wave ebbs clamorously from the sands it lately covered, our friends obeyed.
III.4
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In March it will reopen as a glamorous hotel within spitting distance of London.
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Of all the lurgies he'd been testing for over the last three days, typhoid was by far the most glamorous.
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This accolade was accompanied by the wonderful spectacle of dweeby scientists getting narked because they invent everything yet remain unloved and unglamorous.
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Why, nothing more glamorous than a Greggs pasty.
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And no, there is no insurer who can protect you from the advances of amorous waiters or leather jacket salesmen.
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Getting up early and having the world to yourself is the cheapest way to feel glamorous.
The Sun
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Parties, drugs, and a stream of glamorous women - his was a life in the fast lane.
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Want to buy underpriced apartments in a glamorous location that has few vacancies and little competition from new construction?
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But I don't think my amorous rival Pascoe was too delighted to receive advice and assistance from me.
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In one glamorously posed shot, he's dressed in denim and a Stetson.
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The amorousness of youth has little to do with the desire for the union of souls; what Shakespeare mocks time and again is the borrowing of the imagery of the union of souls for something far more immediate and specific and transitory.
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I think the experience of being polyamorous would make me more accepting of people and different types of relationships.
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While you probably imagined that my family tree was chock-a-block with international playboys and glamorous socialites, I actually come from a long line of caravanners.
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While that's certainly true of the Target Lady, Kristen did bite at my suggestion of a film chronicling the glamorous backstory of stage star-turned-game show flubber Mindy Grayson: "A Mindy Grayson movie," she says.
Keck's Exclusives: A Kristen Wiig Variety Show?
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To an outsider it may appear to be a glamorous job.
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The shrill, small voice of the sunbird is almost indistinguishable from the stridulation of one of the leaf insects, which makes its amorous noises in the evening as well as during the sunny hours.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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I know she will appear poolside on that first morning and part of me won't recognise this glamorous young woman in her bikini.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our special supplement is packed with inspirational ideas for healthy and glamorous hair.
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Parties, drugs, and a stream of glamorous women - his was a life in the fast lane.
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THERE'S something glamorous about being a sniper.
The Sun
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard Rizzoli From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Reuter table with shagreen and ivory marquetry From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Collectionneur chest in black lacquer No designer has come to stand for the glamorous 1920s and '30s more definitively than Jacques Émile Ruhlmann, with his exquisite marquetry of ivory and rare woods, sumptuous textiles and gleaming metal accents.
All Hands on Deco
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Gisele Bündchen, in Versace, and Tom Brady: They just looked like the most glamorous couple there.
The art of looking like a star
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Bruce's office is a corner one, utilitarian and unglamorous.
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It doesn't come with the glamorous hernia ‘bulge,’ so my HMO's team of medical geniuses had it pegged as an abdominal strain for three months.
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They were hatcheck and cigarette girls, dancers in chorus lines, singers with small bands and combos, and glamorous frequenters of night spots.
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These works are considered as icons of amorous pursuits in an age of gallantry and the accompanying and complementary coquetry.
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When Suzanne Lenglen, the predictably glamorous French tennis star of the 1920s often dressed by Jean Patou, wore a knee-length dress with three-quarter sleeves to win Wimbledon in 1919, she opened the flood gates of "risqué" tennis fashion, which soon included Helen Jacobs in shorts at Forest Hills in 1933 and Gussy Moran in those much-photographed lace knickers beneath her tennis skirt at Wimbledon in 1949.
Serving an Ace on the Courts
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The calls for them to scrunch their locks is nonetheless clamorous, due to the sheer success of the scheme.
A Good Time Beats A Long Time
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And the Fresh Air's one-way valve honks when you exhale, emitting a sound akin to the call of an amorous sea lion.
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The film centres around the amorous adventures/exploits of its handsome hero.
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It is time to do the unglamorous job of sweating the assets a bit harder.
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The car crawled at 11 miles per hour, as excited onlookers cheered the smiling President and his glamorous wife.
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All those beautiful women will make swimming seem more glamorous to the rest of the world.
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Chump, deceased, in amorous mood, had praised her management of the fan once, when breath was in him: "'Martha,' says he, winkin 'a sort of' mavourneen 'at me, ye know --' Martha! with a fan in your hand, if ye're not a black-eyed beauty of a Spaniard, ye little devil of Seville! 'says he.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Often when players leave big clubs for less glamorous surrounds, they find it hard to adapt.
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No, don't worry, I'm not about to argue that it's those with looks of glee on their faces and amorous suitors latched onto each arm.
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His early life was glamorous beyond belief.
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His "foul forepassed progeny" consisted of his plays, his novels, and his amorous poems.
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The Dior scandal came a week after Vogue's profile of Syria's first lady, who is described as glamorous, young and very chic - "a rose in the desert.
In fashion, global statements
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The clamorous ticktock, ticktock of his watch would have put any self-respecting alarm clock to shame.
THE LONELY SEA
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It will also require a great deal of hard, technical and politically unglamorous work.
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Three non-glamorous examples are spam catching, obscenity blocking, and terrorist interception.
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The equally glamorous Einstein's Cross, composed of five fiery white balls in a deep blue field haloed by a flickering ring of red, is closely based on a Hubble telescope image taken off the Internet.
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Aber Cuawg, singing 'clamorously' to the sick man: 'there are that hear them that will not hear them again!' the sound of the large wave grating sullenly on the pebbles, --
Figures of Several Centuries
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It has a more glamorous look, also called 'emo de luxo'.
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It could be funny and a touch mischievous - one self-regarding, supposedly glamorous female TV anchor frostily asked her to desist from addressing her as ‘ma'am’ during a live interview.
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The movie has fascinating echoes and anticipations of films like Casablanca, Paths of Glory and Lawrence of Arabia, and it tells an unglamorous truth about fear among the officer classes.
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Can there be a more glamorous way to face our mortality?
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Despite his gradual ascent up the World Cup rankings, his lifestyle has remained far from glamorous.
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Their videos evoked a glamorous existence, globetrotting around tropical locations; they were sharply dressed; they went out with supermodels; their lead singer had nearly drowned in a yacht race.
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Diônê], one of the _agnomina_ of Venus (properly her mother's name) and intended to denote the amorous temperament of his personage, to which, indeed, the erotic character of most of the stories told by him bears sufficient witness.]
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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But the nobility, though not always noble, are always depicted as elegant and glamorous.
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Steve told Tim it's best to avoid buying glamorous houses, and slums.
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Glamorous stage performers like Jane Hading, Lily Elsie and Billie Burke were adulated by male and female fans who bought millions of postcards with their images, read thousands of magazines that featured their 'private' lives, and, in the case of women especially, closely followed and often copied their every fashion move.
Evelyne Politanoff: After Hats comes Staging Fashion at the Bard Graduate Center
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She described her look for the film as ‘completely unglamorous, almost no make-up, bit of a dumpy potato’.
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We stare back in distress, pondering the prospect of spending the better part of two hours at a clamorous pre-teen boys' party.
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The Berkeley Court Hotel's opulent ballroom with its lofty ceiling, tall mirrors and huge chandeliers offers the perfect backdrop for a glamorous night.
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One reason is that our image of her art is so bound up with its first clamorous appearance.
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Then there was a clamorous demand for “wharfage,” and the hackman charged half a dollar for taking me a quarter of a mile.
The Englishwoman in America
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It was great to see a photo of you all toffed up too, you glamorous thing!
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‘I act as the glamorous spokesmodel,’ Newmark says.
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Preventing and treating fistulas is far from as glamorous as microfinance, but imagine the impact.
Rebecca Kantar: What I Would Do with $29 Million
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He first turns her down stating that he had quit practice but later takes up the case as the young lovers reminded him of his amorous youth.
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It must have seemed so simple for a man once fêted as one of most glamorous entrepreneurs of his generation.
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And frequenting the company of civill youths, observing also the cariage of Gentlemen, especially such as were amorously enclined: he grew to a beginning in short time (to the wonder of every one) not onely to understand the first instruction of letters, but also became most skilfull, even amongst them that were best exercised in Philosophy.
The Decameron
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She sent photos of herself posing in her underwear, a bikini and a glamorous ballgown.
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In June he complained to Robinson that people owed money by the regiment had “grown very clamorous” and might sue if the next appropriation was insufficient and went to pay the troops instead of civilian vendors.
George Washington’s First War
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About this collection: Romantic, exotic, glamorous or abstract: thisspring's floral patterns provide an injection of creativity and a loveof fashion into your wardrobe.
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The exhibit consists of a heavily grommeted rocket ship and glamorously adorned gravity boots.
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Chump, deceased, in amorous mood, had praised her management of the fan once, when breath was in him: "'Martha," says he, winkin 'a sort of' mavourneen 'at me, ye know --' Martha! with a fan in your hand, if ye're not a black-eyed beauty of a Spaniard, ye little devil of Seville! 'says he.
Sandra Belloni — Volume 3
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Performing a whimsical mix of popular German chansons and original compositions alongside Cuban rumbas, cheery foxtrots, elegant tangos and covers of modern pop songs, Palast has earned rave reviews and standing ovations in glamorous concert halls across the globe.
UCLA Live Unveils Their 2007-2008 Jazz Series
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His demands for republication, for objective critical recognition, became clamorous.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Barbara has won countless Glamorous Grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977.
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One of her roles was to design the glamorous costumes that the studio's film stars would wear to premieres and film festivals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Peter-Dale affair is spicy enough, but Melanie's on-again, off-again fling with a younger reporter is rather coyly handled, and the glamorous president seems doomed to celibacy.
Review of "Eighteen Acres," a political thriller by Nicolle Wallace
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I'm a polyamorous, bisexual woman who enjoys swinger parties.
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It's hard to say what's worse: a summer blockbuster that treats death with video game flippancy or a dour bit of Oscar bait like this, pretending to legitimise ‘necessary’ violence through glamorous gunfire.
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So the sets look glamorous and glossy, yet the lighting creates startling contrasts between light and shadow.
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Okay, before we got on the subject of where I work, I'll just say that it's not glamorous or ritzy or anything like that.
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The power pose was one of those nuggets of glamorous research which gained instant global popularity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Did he go hunting or riding or sailing, play tennis or bowls, and indulge himself in decadent or amorous pursuits?
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She's being called impossibly glamorous -- the French president's new wife is drawing frenzied comparisons to Jackie Kennedy Onassis.
CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2008
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Philosophy, one of the poets says, is but ‘a clamorous hound, baying at her master’; the philosopher, says another, is ‘great’ only ‘in the vain babblements of fools’.
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Reagan's massive military buildup had sacrificed unglamorous functions like transport ships "sealift" and minesweepers to pay for high-tech programs like "Star Wars," stealth technology, fighter aircraft, attack subs and cruise missiles.
Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part I of II
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The rear party's jobs were unglamorous, but we could not have survived without it.
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
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Hopefully, my kids will recall afternoons playing badminton with their cousins, and boogie boarding at Pacific Beach, and watching two orangutans cuddle amorously at the zoo, long after I popped my final Xanax.
Thelma Adams: Obama's Family Vacation: An Oxymoron Case Study
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It's all about glamorous gizmos, like the D. J.-tested, matte-black TMA-1 headphones from the Danish company AIAIAI (tma-1. com), which go on sale later this summer
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Lyndon is a 20-year-old polyamorous, pansexual genderqueer.
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Where is the proof here of any prior amorous relationship between the defendant and the decedent?
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Eleventhly, God of his grace had pierced her heart, it is read that S. Clare for to dispend amorously the time that God had lent her, in especial she was determined that from the hour of mid-day unto evensong time, she would dispend all that time in thinking and beweeping the passion of Jesu Christ, and say prayers and orisons according thereto, after unto the five wounds of the precious body of Jesu Christ, as smitten and pierced to the heart with the dart of the love divine.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6
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Working as a political organiser is in fact not at all glamorous in fact it is pretty boring.
Exposing the Real Face of New Labour
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So why are we suddenly hearing clamorous cries that we should, as the National Journal put it, "dismantle" this 40-year success story?
Carl Pope: If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix it
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Sep did not, however, enact as noticeable a development as Donne, whose early ‘Songs and Sonnets’ are amorous works heavily using metaphysical conceit.
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By the mid-1520s Wyatt was one of Henry's "Esquires of the Body" – part servant, part playmate, part bodyguard – and a keen participant in the Henrician craze for chivalric games and tourneys, as well as the endless round of amorous banter and titillation which went under the guise of "courtly love".
The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review
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To those who did not think so deeply, and they were the greater number by a hundred to one, the splendour of Prince John's rheno, (i.e. fur tippet,) the richness of his cloak, lined with the most costly sables, his maroquin boots and golden spurs, together with the grace with which he managed his palfrey, were sufficient to merit clamorous applause.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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Or the way that many people invent glamorous exes to boost their own cachet.
Times, Sunday Times
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In all relationships , but especially polyamorous ones, if you have a boundary, it is your responsibility to express that boundary.
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Celebrities made places like Studio glamorous to those who wanted to be celebs.
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It's too bad that our soap operas only show the glamorous and comfy lifestyles of the upper class.
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In most people's eyes, Shanghai was an extremely glamorous city during that period, with a splendid variety of entertainment venues for revelries.
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The amorous gaze of the disguised daimio suddenly affected her with such ill-disguised mirth that the Japanese felt deeply hurt and humiliated.
The Child of Pleasure
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In America, this would have been a simple task — picking out from the sea of glamorous, young faces the occasional laughline of an Oprah, Martha Stewart or one of the consecutive series of models and celebrities on the cover of More Magazine.
Shock and Awe at the Swedish Magazine Rack (The Boomer Blog)
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None of this will make vaccines as glamorous - or as profitable - as drugs.
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The suspended beauty of dining upstairs comes at the expense of no acoustical buffer, and when the bar is clamorous, the sound rises up, rounds the arches, and comes crashing onto this suspended atoll like a final smackdown.
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Forbidden Fruit offsets a studio photo portrait of an innocently luscious teenage girl with a Gourmet magazine cover featuring glamorously lit ripe pomegranates.
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The lines abnormity , with the artistic conception, simple and elegant, amalgamating thousands of species amorous feelings, deduces the beauty of the natural world.......
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Barbara has won countless glamorous grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977.
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Nostalgia for glamorous times gone by is evident in most of the fashionable ranges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her unglamorous look was her stock-in-trade while her professional skills always kept her in high demand on stage, film, radio and television.
