How To Use Assuring In A Sentence
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Sons don’t resemble their fathers in every detail, I’ve noticed it time and time again, and there’s many a woman brought to bed of a son who is profoundly thankful for that fact, and expends a great deal of her postpartum energy assuring the sprog’s tata that the sprog is a dead ringer for her great-uncle Lucius Tiddlypuss.
The First Man in Rome
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A series of enervating campus visits is marked by interchangeably chirpy undergraduate tour guides united by their ability to walk backward while extolling the school's a capella groups and reassuring parents about the high priority placed on security.
A Craving for Acceptance
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Obviously, Roosevelt was feeling his way and assuring his nomination in 1904.
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An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
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He said: 'It is reassuring but also quite unnerving.
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But it's a reassuring presence and it grows on you like the frown of a grizzled but kindly uncle.
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A large, new study may be reassuring to women considering mastectomies because of a history of breast cancer in their families.
Study Weakens Case for Preventive Mastectomy
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There were several breakout hits, films that commanded both critical kudos and broad audience appeal, assuring substantive box-office numbers.
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Several in company checked him from time to time for his bitter reflections instead of arguments, and wished him, if he could to answer my arguments, which he called sophistry, assuring him that until he did, they must receive my opinion and arguments as scriptural and sound reasoning.
Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.
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The company was playing with fire yesterday by spending time reassuring investors worried about the dividend.
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How much easier, and how reassuring, if they could all simply be understood as primitive, unevolved manikins.
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I returned the coin to Noah, assuring him that I had no further need of it, and he went away well pleased, assured of the protection of the white man's duppy -- the token of the good spirits which he venerates as much as he fears the bugaboos.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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In a fundamental conflict between constative force and performative possibility, the assuring parataxis itself begins to serve as a resistant marker of performatives that potentially contradict its simple narrative.
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I can picture Kim, her snug stretch jeans tucked into high-heeled cowboy boots, a long plaid work shirt open at the neck, reassuring Aunt Harriet, whom she knew worried about her, that she was going to start school again in the fall and that she was doing fine.
History of a Suicide
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Food shops line the outer edges (selling, for a Brit, remarkably reassuring grub like sausage rolls, meat pies and fish and chips).
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Her reassuring smile did little to reassure her dismal friends.
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The company was playing with fire yesterday by spending time reassuring investors worried about the dividend.
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The fact that the baby is still doing the lambada on all internal organs it can find is far more reassuring to me.
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He seems to have a great comfort level with these popes, which is, of course, very reassuring to American Catholics.
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Supposing Blair is correct, and parents do espy special, precious things that childless adults never can, it would still be reassuring to know that these are not outweighed by the associated burdens of exhaustion, continual interruption and prime ministerial anxiety about how to blag a first-class education without going private.
Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett
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And it is reassuring to know that my ears are taking a well-earned rest.
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Kerry became the safe choice, uninspiring but solidly reassuring.
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The reassuringly solid build and sleek finish make it feel that it really should cost more.
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The results were not reassuring, and by the time we took Fergus to the vet's the following day, we were convinced his nine lives were up.
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In Borken's messily vital urban context of supermarkets, small houses and traffic roundabouts, the bank's simple Euclidean form is a reassuringly calm, rooted presence.
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It is reassuring to know that he is keen to bat on.
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The resultant sheitels might be hard, shiny and unpersuasive, but they were reassuringly free from the whiff of idolatry.
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It was reassuring to hear John's familiar voice.
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The paradoxical tragedy of knowing this, condemns him to being given to the terrorists by his stepfather, assuring his silence this way.
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She leaned back into the taxi's lumpy seat and gave him a reassuring smile.
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For assuring your privacy, a shredder is the first action.
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The guy just has a sense of inner confidence and centeredness that is very reassuring.
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Today, powerful, targeted marketing is just as essential as any other dimension in assuring entrepreneurial success.
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It is reassuring when you come to a thinker with no desire to be an appalling old waxwork.
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There are 310,000,000 reasons to vote, one for every American raised to believe that government has a legitimate role to play in assuring the well-being, safety, and security of its citizens.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Annoying Alan Simpson: The 310,000,001st Reason to Vote
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Gavin Lawrence as the Interlocutor in The Last Minstrel Show is sleek, sly, and not at all reassuring in his oversized cutaway coat, pin-striped pants, white spats, and Cheshire grin.
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Because the idea of convening a crisis summit contradicts the reassuring messages offered by the federal government, our proposal was immediately rejected by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Philippe's refrains create a sort of hyper-personal, us-against-the-world dyad, reassuring Charles of his loyalty ‘no matter what people say.’
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His life is as reassuringly bland as his daily turkey - wrap lunch.
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I elegantly e-mailed the company, who sent back a ‘dear occupant’ type response assuring it's ‘aware of the varied taste preferences and dietary needs of our consumers,’ but not specifically addressing any point, plaint or plea.
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He obtained of them the command of an expedition whose destination was known to himself alone; assuring them of the honorableness and the success of the enterprise.
Mosaics of Grecian History
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This phraseology cannot be very assuring to the Karzai government.
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Darrow had whispered, throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder.Sentence dictionary
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After spending what he described as a stressful weekend with his sick 3-year-old daughter, Santorum resumed his campaign at a suburban St. Louis community college -- assuring people that his daughter was improving and forecasting a political revival in swing states such as Missouri.
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He had tried to commiserate, assuring her she wasn't alone or useless or hateful or shallow or selfish.
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Even the headlights scream safety at you: the dipped beam has height, depth and breadth to give a reassuring night view without blinding oncoming traffic.
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He is a reassuringly solid point in the social whirl.
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American soldiers committed, their demeanor has been warlike, which is not perceived by the occupied populace as reassuring or secure, but as frightening and dangerous.
Jane Smiley: The End is Nigh
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someone demanded, and Victor answered reassuringly, `We brought a busload of supplies.
THE WHITE DOVE
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He is a reassuringly solid point in the social whirl.
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It's reassuring to know our numbers are in agreement with previous estimates of the mass of the stars based on the stars' motion.
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It is reassuring to know that the two conditions are not incompatible.
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The face that stared back at her from the small mirror was reassuringly familiar, her expression faintly aloof and withdrawn, the cleverly tailored cut of her thick glossy hair making it fall in a smooth, controlled curve.
Passionate Relationship
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The good and the bad parts of our lives do not interlock with reassuring neatness across the course of a lifetime; instead they sit together in heterogeneous disarray, elbowing one another like distant ancestors told to bunch up tight for a family photograph.
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The review team interviewed staff, assuring them that what they said would not be traced back.
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It's very reassuring that some companies can be relied upon to give good customer service and satisfaction.
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Giving my little one a reassuring squeeze, I muss her hair with my right hand.
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Apparently the act of binding the baby tightly to itself in strips of fabric is reassuring for babies, although the evidence for this seems to lie more in presumption than science.
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He had tried to commiserate, assuring her she wasn't alone or useless or hateful or shallow or selfish.
RIOT
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He is a reassuringly solid point in the social whirl.
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Ignoring the plaintive protests, I began to disrobe, assuring myself that a nice, calm bath would be just what I needed.
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Quite reassuring is the fact that all political pundits are unanimous over one point.
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The rebels' failure to win sympathy from fellow officers is reassuring, but their grievances are real.
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For the time, as they endured the miles, Kashpaw's openhearted ease was reassuring.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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Today, powerful, targeted marketing is just as essential as any other dimension in assuring entrepreneurial success.
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None of this is reassuring for British or American hostages.
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A plea bargain was offered by the state assuring her that she would not go to prison.
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There is something reassuring about a good bar of soap.
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Recently Read has also done comedy gigs, regaling audiences with chilling autobiographical tales while assuring nervous listeners he has never hurt a woman, child or innocent person.
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Barbara declared afterwards, was magnificent, and plodded her way through bread sponges flavoured with soup, assuring the distressed cook that it was really quite remarkable "potage," and that she had never tasted anything like it before -- all of which, of course, was perfectly true.
Barbara in Brittany
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I'm trying hard not to take this as an indictment of my efforts, assuring myself it's symptomatic of our age, an aimless seeking without focus.
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Clinging to that same range every week is safety net in assuring that vocal mistakes are not committed, thus fooling people into thinking that Archuleta sings flawlessly with his pure voice.
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Then the shade of Marx was gone, and the walls of the official residence had reassumed their reassuring solidity.
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A plea bargain was offered by the state assuring her that she would not go to prison.
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This was a reassuringly lucid explanation.
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The therapist says reassuringly that it is a natural to have such curiosity and such wishes.
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The humor consists in watching the hero's falsely assuring world of "boring predictability" quietly crumble.
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In short, Wong and Perdue's findings are reassuring because the "price data generally confirm the outlines of the export trade based on qualitative information.
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I hefted it by the barrel, finding the weight somewhat reassuring: at least it'd make a satisfactory club.
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The helpers were moving about the plane, chatting and reassuring everyone, and suddenly ashen-faced people who had been gripping their arm-rests were smiling, talking and relaxing.
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There was a reassuring air about him, a comforting quality that he seemed to radiate from within.
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the prime minister pointed reassuringly to the silence of the British press
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He gave me a reassuring pat on the shoulder.
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To me there is something reassuring about that theory.
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It is reassuringly simple both to drive and to fix but looks and feels like a proper racing car.
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Although Gilbert and George are promoting a reassuringly pedestrian and unartistic view of art, Higgs and Noble nonetheless do them something of a disservice here.
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A jewfish, six feet long and easily three hundred pounds, his blotchy hide mimicking the sun-dappled rock, pouting lower lip thick as Anna's wrist, lay without moving beneath an overhang of a coral-covered rock less than half his size, his wee fish brain assuring him he was hidden.
Excerpt: Flashback by Nevada Barr
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He was equally unobservant about the political scene, assuring friends in 1939 that there was no likelihood of a war.
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There is something reassuring about the creeping medicalisation of extremes of human normality.
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He was expert at reassuring the apprehensive young bride.
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An epilogue wonders anxiously how the audience have liked the play, assuring them it was intended only to please.
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As it was easy to spot, photogenic and reassuring, I enjoyed ending my dives by gently surfacing between the bodacious pontoons.
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There is something beautifully reassuring about the presence of an antique grandfather clock in a home; it makes a statement about permanence and comfort that's hard to beat.
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It means you get the same amount of output with less work, but it does mean you need to find ways of assuring the confidence in the future that will enable businesses and individuals to spend.
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So it was reassuring when she clucked sympathetically at the bone-weariness I described, and suggested that I take a nap before the boys got back.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
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He was constantly reassuring himself that he had acted for the best.
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Water bosses are reassuring householders that the region's reservoirs are in tip-top shape.
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That the photograph appears iconic not only contributes an aura of authenticity, it also seems reassuringly familiar.
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Assuring the patient that she has a real and not imaginary problem is the first step.
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Assuring the patient that she has a real and not imaginary problem is the first step.
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The reassuring factor in all this is Ottway, who was the company's hired killer: Before the crash, he had spent his days shooting predators around the perimeter of the refinery, and morosely obsessing about the woman he lost.
'Man on a Ledge' Does a Balancing Act
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It is as if they resent her forcing brutal reality down their throat, as if she has reneged on a deal that she'd always be reassuringly shallow.
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Talking to an experienced counsellor is crucial in reassuring us that it is not strange or unusual to feel the way that we do.
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On the good nights, or at least, the reassuring nights, everybody knows her, and they gather in unnervingly intent arcs in front of her instruments, forming her words with their own mouths as she sings them, shouting requests in the breaks for songs she hasn't even finished writing yet.
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There is something reassuring about secret writing.
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Its reassuring to find oneself almost agreeing with Melanie again. .but: laughable as it is for this dreadful new labour hack to pretend that paying to be tied up and flogged is only depraved if you wear the wrong costume; isnt the public exposure of depravity its own kind of lechery (to paraphrase Dr Johnson)?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Plus the company is reassuring about future dividends.
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This long preamble is just a way of reassuring you that I too feel the lash.
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John was constantly reassuring me that we were meant to be together.
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Infinitely reassuring was the unresting, unhurried suspiration of the air-pumps, driving the man-made trade winds of this tiny planet.
The Sands of Mars
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Even lower level Ubermensch know that only IDiots believe in dualism and that it is anything but emotionally reassuring.
2009 November - Telic Thoughts
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Carson's topical jokes showed a barometric sensitivity to shifts in the national mood -- when his monologues made Richard Nixon their butt, that was the ball game -- but equally important was the host's carefully crafted casualness and the show's changelessness: The New York Times's Frank Rich called it "as formulaic and reassuring as Kabuki.
JOHNNY CARSON, 1925-2005
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It declared the goal of assuring "a minimum standard of living necessary for the health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." But it also allowed employers to replace striking workers.
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Yet despite reassuring figures, respondents said in interviews that big concerns remained.
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A fluoroscope, mounted near the floor and enclosed in a shielded box, revealed an image of our feet within the shoes on a fluorescent screen that we could see, assuring a proper fit while radiation leaked into the surrounding area.
William Spear: Adapting to a New World of Invisible Toxins
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It's reassuring to know that problems are rare.
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While some might be disturbed by the icy stare of their future meal, I found it reassuring to see the fresh selections.
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So pick up your light-guns, and your reassuringly non-ergonomic two-button controllers, and let's take yet another walk down a brightly lit and softly "bloop"ing memory lane.
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However, they were nothing less, as Master Aedituus told us; assuring us, at the same time, that they were neither secular nor laic; and the truth is, the diversity of their feathers and plumes did not a little puzzle us.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Ariane looked over at her thinly built friend, and tried to give a reassuring smile.
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The two organisations have key allies and it s reassuring for economic development.
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It would be reassuring if a sample of these diocesan reports could actually be audited by outsiders, and a closer look taken in cases that seem to be statistically unlikely.
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He was constantly reassuring himself that he had acted for the best.
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Powell was equally reassuring and calming in his Senate confirmation testimony.
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These are also designed with an eye to reassuring those who did well out of the switch from rates to poll tax.
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Nasser did undertake land reform and other social programs like schools and clinics for the poor, but he spent the bulk of his energy constructing a bureaucratized security state, crushing out political parties, and assuring Washington that there were no other options in view of Egypt's social problems and unreadiness for democracy.
Geoffrey Wawro: Nasser's Ghost: Time for Washington to Break the Stalemate in Egypt
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It is reassuring knowing you are going to meet people in a similar situation to yourself.
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Recent economic reports had shown hints of a pickup in consumer spending and a rebound in durable goods orders. But the data on Tuesday was less reassuring.
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Her head buried in her lap, one distressed victim is given a reassuring hug from a concerned friend.
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The female ambo straps her in and gives her a reassuring smile.
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This is the echo of the reassuring solidity of that ‘Big Other’ of received wisdom in which we live and breathe.
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Both men are renowned for their friendly demeanour and reassuring manner.
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The sight of a nurse was reassuring to nervous flyers, especially in the unsteady confines of unpressurised cabins.
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The SerosaFuse fastener is delivered over a guiding stylet, minimizing tissue trauma by assuring the fastener is the largest device entering the involved tissue.
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First of all, his lank, angular appearance combined with his monotone voice and gloomy disposition aren't very soothing and reassuring.
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The game's popularity alarmed the authorities, who promptly banned it, thus assuring the total success of the animal game.
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It was reassuring to hear John's familiar voice.
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Though an'offshore'market, it was reassuringly familiar to Chinese fund managers and their clients alike.
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I settled on the thin padding of the window seat and leaned against the reassuring solidity of the window frame.
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But he said the Protective Service was lax in assuring that security standards it set were followed by the private contract guards.
Director takes blame over lax security at federal buildings
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They all seemed safe, unexcitable and reassuringly full of themselves.
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‘That's reassuring,’ she responded, hobbling the mare with leather straps and removing her bridle so that she could graze.
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Plus the company is reassuring about future dividends.
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I could go on, dispensing reassuring numbers.
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It secretes a kind of gum to patch weak points in the walls of the arteries and larger capillaries, which is reassuring to a man of my age,
A Gift From Earth
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He wrapped a protective arm around her, trying to be assuring but he knew it wasn't working.
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He seemed on edge and nervous, returning her looks with reassuring gazes that were none too convincing.
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She was grateful for his comforting words and reassuring gestures.
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She pierces through Loomis 'obsessive secrecy and illuminates his role in assuring the Allied victory.
Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant: Book summary
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This is antidoted by the second half of the ad, in which a reassuring feeling, like safety or pride, is elicited, and linked to the commodity or politician being promoted.
Stephen Ducat: Propaganda 101: How to Decode Political Ads
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These attitudes should be of great concern; for to be effective, deterrence must not only be credible to our potential adversary but reassuring to our own people.
Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy
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Laudable too are the recent measures by republicans aimed at reassuring unionists that the war really is over.
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Nora wanted to fish about and hook some small and reassuring truth that would exonerate Kennerly and release her from her guilt.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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His reassuring smile relaxed me as I hurried to my first class seat and settled in for the flight.
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On the other hand, it is reassuring to find undisputed giants of human progress like Shakespeare, Newton, Darwin and Brunel up there, too.
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Not an hour later the windows of our boardroom shook as an explosion a block away tore a bus to pieces and everyone was called to the breakout room for a reassuring damage control conversation.
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It must be very reassuring for women with dress sizes over six to have a celebrity they can identify with.
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If this were not true, we would still be assuring ourselves that the sun revolves around the earth, and the church, centuries later, would never have apologized to Galileo, who declared the opposite.
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Don't let jealousy make you deaf or he may get fed up with reassuring you.
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It's reassuring that we've got the money if necessary.
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What was that about reassuring noises from the Fed?
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Despite the fame and the globetrotting, the couple's domestic existence is reassuringly familiar.
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Today, powerful[Sentence dictionary], targeted marketing is just as essential as any other dimension in assuring entrepreneurial success.
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They didn't put us under restraint - after all, they weren't paying us anything - but they guilted us into staying another hour by assuring us that they were going to come back to the bloggers between 2 and 3.
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Both men seemed to be offering an assuring revelation rather than unsettling bewilderment.
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But how reassuring to learn that the readers are such a literate and well informed group.
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a very reassuring remark
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All day he had argued with himself, surmised and made excuses, sunned himself in the cove at Rapparree, assuring himself stubbornly that everything was quite all right; and at last, dinnerless, desperate, and afraid, had started off hot foot to find her; intending to crush the resistance out of her with the outpourings of his love, and force her to risk everything for the sake of a life-long happiness.
Leonie of the Jungle
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He patted her knee reassuringly.
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One by one they moved, shuffling closer to the reassuring glow and pulling their thick cloaks tightly about their heads.
The Gods of Asgard
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It's a reassuring recourse for women like me who might even be accused of approaching life too conservatively, too responsibly.
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An avuncular African doctor had the time to be reassuring and overflowing with human kindness.
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In a fundamental conflict between constative force and performative possibility, the assuring parataxis itself begins to serve as a resistant marker of performatives that potentially contradict its simple narrative.
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Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom. Bill Maher
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Her appointment is about reassuring the teachers or it has no rationale.
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A plea bargain was offered by the state assuring her that she would not go to prison.
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One by one they moved, shuffling closer to the reassuring glow and pulling their thick cloaks tightly about their heads.
The Gods of Asgard
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Don't let jealousy make you deaf or he may get fed up with reassuring you.
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One by one they moved, shuffling closer to the reassuring glow and pulling their thick cloaks tightly about their heads.
The Gods of Asgard
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As we spent time dithering on what to have it was reassuring to feel as though the staff weren't hurrying us along.
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The dialogue between elected representatives and constituents is at the heart of our democracy and plays an integral role in assuring that the legislation we write reflects the genuine needs and concerns of the people we represent.
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It is part of reassuring people that they live in a safe neighbourhood.
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I recall a LONG time ago, when one of ALA's publication I think College & Research Libraries, but that could be wrong was redesigning its cover, they spent considerable time assuring that the new "initialism" graphic would not be sufficiently prominent to trigger a "title change.
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Many resorts also offer lessons to beginners, assuring that visitors do not have to be great skiers to have a good time. The slopes range in difficulty from beginner's level to extremely difficult.
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Golden light makes the landscape seem otherworldly, yet it has the reassuring impress of humanity about it.
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Its reassuring vegetableness, its green leafiness, the way it looked natural on a farm, spoke to our deep cabbagey values.
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And Mazursky was reassuring in noting that hot toy items typically enjoy popularity for three to five years, then fade.
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This confidence is reassuring for investors.
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But the exceptionalism argument offers some voters a reassuring counternarrative to persistent joblessness, a long-term hollowing out of the middle class and a sense that the nation's best days are past.
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The copier's footprint is reassuringly small, and it's no effort to move around with an unboxed weight of 9.95kg.
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George ignored the piccaninny, but took the pigling to his heart, ever and anon assuring the community that very soon it would be fat and tender.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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During the operation, the spindle operates at 2,000 rpm or less and the tool oscillates in and out of the workpiece thereby assuring the quality of the thread form and surface finish.
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He replied, with a reassuring smile, "Oh, you don't need to worry about them.".
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And Mazursky was reassuring in noting that hot toy items typically enjoy popularity for three to five years, then fade.
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Birds are not like this: blackbirds or goldfinches vary reassuringly little wherever you go.
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They are just so darn reassuring and they were traveling in a pretty darn good direction, about 160 degrees, at about 15 mph.
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I pushed my head into her side, an armless hug, a reassuring nudge.
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For assuring the maximum flow area at outlet of plunger, the outlet runner of plunger is supposed to be streamline, which would lower the flow resistance at outlet plunger.
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He would say a word to her when he was dressing, assuring her that he had not intended to animadvert in the slightest degree upon her own conduct.
He Knew He Was Right
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The old Sunday-school hymn — "Jesus loves me, yes I know/for the Bible tells me so" — is reassuring as far as it goes, but a lot of believers are more perplexed than enlightened the more they heed Saint Paul's injunction to "think on these things.
More a Matter of Mystery than Magic
