How To Use Blinking In A Sentence
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what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
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Even I, a tolerant representative of the Middle Way, found myself blinking at this unquestionably Romish style of adornment.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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He admired Machiavelli for recognizing that sometimes our ends are mutually exclusive and for facing that fact unblinkingly.
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It was laying on its front and looked as if its head had been resting in its folded arms before rising up enough to let one of its unblinking eyes stare at Kyri through strands of long red hair.
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Because then that bald spokesguy with the BIG VOICE!! and unblinking stare is on my TV every bloody commercial break.
I hate it when The Brick has a sale
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The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun.
The Redemption of David Corson
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A red light blinking in the answer machine slowly flicked on and off.
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We love writing about bands and singers that emerge from the tangled undergrowth and come blinking into the bright glare of publicity.
The Sun
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He felt his skin abrade as he skidded off the tarp, but he lay still, apart from eyes blinking in the sudden light.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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But no matter how skilfully it's done, it shows somewhere: the stretched grimace, the unblinking eyes or in the body below, if it hasn't been done to match.
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Yet despite all this there was an air of conservation, the odd glimpse of the Old World in a narrow dingy lane where a dray horse shifted his weight from one hock to the other, blinking lazy lashes above the nosebag containing his lunch.
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She was blinking rapidly to keep the tears back, aware it was no time for tears.
A Plague of Angels
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After a romantic daydream (not of love but of adventure) and blinking, the doe-eyed girl hugged her books to her bosom and proceeded to him with a pale face.
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The real problem is I don't want to be a blinking teacher at all, despite the fact that I like the children.
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She just stood there, staring at him with unblinking eyes.
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The refugees stumbled toward military buses, blinking at the harsh lights.
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Aidan woke, blinking up into the gray of predawn, confusion at his whereabouts making him question the heavy oaken beams above his head, the draft from a rattling set of windows, and the dampness in the smelly blankets covering him.
Earl of Durkness
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I can see her now, fingering her brittle bangs, blinking so fast that this microscopist she's found might be alarmed if he were to look at her, but he has not done much of that; instead he peers at the monitor, uses a sterling accessory to show her the worms.
Florida
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Washington, Lincoln, Jackson, and Franklin stared at her with unblinking eyes, un-changing faces, and green hair.
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It simply points out that some folks who can buy a rackful without blinking probably will not.
What to Do With Your Gift From George W.
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Blinking produces tears that can help moisten and lubricate your eyes.
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When Christian does not protest and only peers back unblinkingly, Lucas allows his hand to lightly graze the downy skin of Christian's cheek before gingerly laying it upon the blonde's hand.
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She lay there for a few seconds before blinking the tears back.
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He's a genius with a cue in his hands, he's world No. 1, he's the defending champion, blinking you're missing, he's the rocket, Ronnie O'Sullivan!
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‘There have been a few old biddies here today who've been confused about how to vote… ‘said one broadcaster without blinking.’
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And on Wired News, these photos I shot at the convention this week, including the one at left of a young woman overwhelmed by blinking, bleeping things inside Microsoft's Xbox pavilion.
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It could also mean the driver in front of you is going to turn left or that the blinker is still blinking from a previous turn.
Driving in Mexico
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I ran the entire bath but it was too cold and then the blinking water ran out.
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This rhetoric could only reassure if you were a blinking idiot and hadn't seen any news coverage of the current situation at all.
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I stare unblinkingly at the woman as I say it.
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Perhaps she hopes to halve the processing time it currently takes to sift through the various minerals she must analyze, or perhaps she needs a younger version to 'aimlessly' crawl toward that Army weapons depot, blinking her 'eyes' in rapid succession at key strategic weak spots without arousing suspicion.
Gawker
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We love writing about bands and singers that emerge from the tangled undergrowth and come blinking into the bright glare of publicity.
The Sun
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The man's hooded eyes stared back, unblinking, into his own squinting, gaze.
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One boy assumes the head, turning it this way and that, blinking furiously, another boy was in charge of the lion's hindquarters and its wagging tail.
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From the tops of these rats the size of house cats watched them with unblinking eyes.
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Thus, the wind renders me unable to see for all the blinking and eye-watering attempts to rid my eye of said debris.
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They emerge blinking in bewilderment at the unfamiliar daylight and smells of the bush.
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They also claimed that printing and binding would make such sized books economically unviable, which is a claim that had me blinking at its self-evident absurdity.
Greasing the Wheel of Time for all it's worth
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She stood in front of the mirror and applied mascara and kohl to her eyes, blinking a few times.
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He looked up, blinking, and it wrung me to see that his lashes were wet with unshed tears.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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The first time I saw Wiwin, she looked like a wizened old woman, with wrinkly, hairy skin and big, unblinking eyes.
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She held the tears back and continued observing, blinking a few times so her vision could clear.
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His eyes were open, but unseeing, hazed over with a frightening coldness, unblinking.
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I watched as his eyes fell shut of their own accord, watched as his breathing slowed, and watched as his eyes snapped open again, blinking away their bleariness in confusion.
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He was blinking in the strong sunlight.
Bomber
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“See that,” she said, and of course he did, for he was gawping and blinking at it, the nubble out of the babba’s belly.
At Swim, Two Boys
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The slot machines are surrounded by armies of meter men and women with plastic containers, either pulling handfuls of coins out of or putting fistfuls of coins into the blinking and barking machines.
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The signal lights blinking only amber meant that one hapless policeman made a valiant effort to control traffic which seemed to swamp him from all directions.
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We love writing about bands and singers that emerge from the tangled undergrowth and come blinking into the bright glare of publicity.
The Sun
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My outgoings were less than my incomings this month… and about blinking time too.
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Shergahn's dead, unblinking eyes stared up into the rain, and the Bloody Sword chuckled with grim, cold humor.
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A lattice of thin white strands flashed dimly on the oak, forming a binding, blinking silvery spiderweb.
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The TR-107 Tricorder Mark 1 (Vital Technologies; 905-9511219; $398) combines an electromagnetic field sensor, temperature and pressure meters, a colorimeter and enough blinking lights to bring a smile to any Trekker's face.
Tri This
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My overriding reaction, apart from blinking back tears from the sheer pain of surgery?
Times, Sunday Times
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the convicted killer listened unblinkingly to the reading of his sentence
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It took him a little while, but he finally opened his eyes, blinking tiredly.
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HAL gets overtaken by the “please hold” Apple pinwheel, HAL engages in a blinking contest with AUTO from WALL*E, HAL gets a makeover from Alicia Silverstone and Stacey Dash …
HAL 9000 vs. IBM 7094: Which 'Daisy' is creepier? | EW.com
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These include tongue protrusion; lip smacking; chewing movements; blinking; athetosis of the fingers and toes; shoulder shrugging; and myoclonic movements of the head, neck, and extremities.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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They acquired the habit of blinking in the face of destiny.
Times, Sunday Times
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And with this in mind, and in the renewed hope that I may live long enough to see the task through, I shall now relate the extraordinary story of Cicero’s year in office as consul of the Roman republic and what befell him in the four years afterward—a span of time we mortals call a lustrum, but which to the gods is no more than the blinking of an eye.
CONSPIRATA
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Yet the man himself has always seemed robotically inhuman, a familiar figure at grand prix meetings with unblinking eyes riveted to a monitor screen, never smiling, never revealing emotion.
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Her gaze fixed on his and held it unblinkingly.
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You'll be presented with a flashing, blinking riot of color.
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A little red Volkswagen had situated itself to drive behind them, but the driver was mindless, having a blinking light on his car indicating he was turning left.
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I mean, eventually I prevailed upon her to show me, for instance, how to read a story without blinking your eyes.
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Photocopy pages from a travel guide: don't take the whole blinking book, and look like an idiot tourist while trying to find page 576.
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The muzzle of the gun just stared Czerell in the face like an unblinking eye of accusation.
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Her eyes were unblinking, staring intently on the path in front of her, taking in every dark detail.
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After blinking in surprise, Tyler recovers with a snort of disbelief.
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As I slept, the moon outside shone brightly, and the black sky was alight with stars blinking down over my little neighborhood in suburban New York.
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Josie's eyes weren't focussed, she wasn't even blinking.
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I finally emerge, sunburned and blinking, into the glare of an urban antiseptic airport in Melbourne, Australia.
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We guarantee you'll look blinking perfect!
The Sun
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It's an unblinking portrayal of a self-destructing relationship, and one which anchors much of the second half of the album.
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David was meticulously trimming the mainsail when Howard stumbled out of the aft cabin and went up on deck, blinking in morning sunshine.
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Proust entered after 2am, dapper and strange, "blinking like a night-bird", as someone once said of him, and he soon got into a markedly unfriendly conversation with Stravinsky about Beethoven's late quartets.
Diaghilev: Lord of the dance
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Blinking and refocusing her eyes from her daydream onto the harshness of real life, she realized that the road had suddenly become extremely crowded, the dark of night illuminated by what seemed like thousands of lights.
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Bulging of the cheeks, chewing movements, blinking, blepharospasm, grimacing, and arching of the eyebrows also occur.
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Blaze is leaning back in her chair without blinking, with tears running down her blank, expressionless face.
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Her beautiful, perfect face was frozen like a frame from a film, her eyes unblinking, no breath of air escaping her lips.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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He read so lyrically from the the book Inkheart, that several of the book’s wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor.
Inkheart: Summary and book reviews of Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
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The robot smoothly activated, lights gradually blinking on, the rising hum of servomotors spinning up to speed, relays switching to new configurations.
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There he stood, nine years of age, blinking up indulgently at his galoot of a father speaking at him in tongues.
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But if, on the other hand, his book be written in full, unblinking view of all that is fixed and limitary in man and around him, and if, in face of this, it conduct growth to its consummation, then we may give him something better than any praise, -- namely, heed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865
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With Miami, Cleveland and Tampa Bay showing interest, he can walk away from the table without blinking.
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And a whole blinking decade later, it might be possible to wonder what you were on at the time.
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Indeed, it may be the fear of nothingness, of simply blinking out of existence which motivates many to take up their faiths.
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Then they installed blinking yellow lights around the curve.
Christianity Today
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Blinking slowly, she focused for the first time in hours on something that was farther away than the surface of a worktable.
A WOMAN WITHOUT LIES
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No he looked at his daughter, blinking and smiling a tremulous smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was no sound that I could detect and the objects maintained a steady glow - with no blinking lights.
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Well, a lot more flipping interesting than the blinking Suburbs, I reckoned.
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She stood outside, blinking in the harsh sunlight.
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A red light began blinking and flashing in the room, and an alarm went berserk.
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I had my head lolled to one side, mouth open, eyes weakly blinking.
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Only then did he notice the warning light blinking on his telephone answering machine.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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Maybe we could tell readers that cricket is a game played in trench coats, in dingy offices lit by neon signs blinking through venetian slats.
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Five years is a geological era in politics, but it is the blinking of an eye for a forest.
Times, Sunday Times
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A tendency to accumulate sticky mucus on the cornea removed by blinking.
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So here he sat, oblivious to the cold seeping slowly into his bones, unmoving, unblinking, waiting for one confirmatory glimpse.
THE ONLY GAME
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Why do fashion models have to look so blinking miserable?
Times, Sunday Times
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He has funny habit of blinking when talking with others.
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John's gaze was steady and unblinking as he stared into his daughter's blazing eyes.
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Joe asked, as they flew by a lighthouse blinking from a rocky headland.
Chapter X
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Unblinking, he stared into the fire, mouthing incoherent words, repeating the unfamiliar syllables through limp, drooling flews.
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She was so stunned that she just stared into those strange, unblinking, coal-black eyes.
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His only form of communication after the stroke is his ability to communicate by blinking through his one eye.
2008 August 17 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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They were soon blinking fearfully at the financial markets like rabbits caught in the headlamps of a truck.
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She fumbled with her keys, blinking to keep her eyes clear of the fogginess that had dared to creep upon her.
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Crouching and staring at him unblinkingly for five minutes just about drove him squirrelly, though.
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Marcus reciprocated the farewell gesture by slightly nodding his head and slowly blinking his large, intelligent eyes.
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‘My wife put the phone up to his ear and said he was blinking,’ says Kelly, who quarterbacked the Buffalo Bills to four straight Super Bowls in the '90s.
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I would turn and stare unblinkingly at the screen for the duration of the commercial.
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I cupped my groin with my hands gratefully, blinking away tears.
A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
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Followed by Fortunée's blinking husband Hamelin dressed as a Venetian gondoliere and a pretty little man dressed as a jester — Captain Charles?
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
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But Baris stood quietly, his expression forceful, his gaze unblinking when met by Klingon eyes.
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
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In the half-light his face was as still as a wax mannequins, his eyes unblinking, his expression stony.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection
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His eyes dart around, blinking at the lights and shadows of village nurses attending to his mother.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moore has just finished his autobiography, One Voice - My Life in Song, a funny, moving and searingly honest book, as you would expect from an unblinking chronicler of Irish ways and Irish laws.
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Davin's house was curiously quiet when I arrived, and I stood blinking at the unlighted windows while I contemplated the idea of a joke.
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He was a ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a silver ship descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake.
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I mean, he could be talking until morning if they didn't have a little red light blinking there on the podium.
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His face flamed unwillingly when he realized that he'd been staring at her for about two minutes straight, unblinkingly.
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She stood in front of the mirror and applied mascara and kohl to her eyes, blinking a few times.
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Stretcher-bearers pushed past Jack as he stood blinking at the top of the tunnel, breathing the damp air.
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Beyond this garden, abrupt, there was a grey stone wall overgrown with velvet moss that uprose as, gazing, Matthew stood long, all mazed and blinking, to see this place so eerie and fair.
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The quotation propelled an unpretentious poet called Minnie Haskins blinking into the light.
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Her glazed eyes were still open, unblinking, staring fixedly at nothing in particular.
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Consumers can be rewarded for their participation with Molson Scratch Cards or handouts such as blinking buttons, tins of mints, key chains, beverage wrenches and T-shirts.
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Waal," he said, dropping his hand and blinking in the ruddy glow from the west, "I guess I ain't done nothin 'fur the Union yet, but I'm a-goin' to now, miss.
Special Messenger
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He exposes his characters to an unblinking scrutiny, probing their yearning, desire, and heart-break with eyes wide open.
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Why do fashion models have to look so blinking miserable?
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, for an answer, stare into the slitty, unblinking puddles of evil that masquerade as a cat's eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lynn laughed, blinking back unexpected tears.
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Stopping to check it out, he was startled to find a message written in English blinking at him.
Wraithbait
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In the meantime, I'm gonna take a moment of silence on Saturday to honor Tombaugh and his persistent blinking.
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And as evening sets in, those same brainiacs, wedged three to six per office, huddle in quiet conference or patter away at their computers in unblinking concentration.
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Stretcher-bearers pushed past Jack as he stood blinking at the top of the tunnel, breathing the damp air.
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We've been sitting on the front stoop of an unlit house, blinking into the darkness, waiting, or so we thought.
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Even if you bid me good riddance and send me packing; if you wish I was dead as a doornail; if you think I am an eyesore, a laughing stock, the devil incarnate, a stony-hearted villain, bloody-minded, or a blinking idiot, Then -- by jove!
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Strange WordFellows -- Sarah Palin & William Shakespeare
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His mouth was open slightly and his eyes where wide open and not blinking.
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And so, I walked in without my customary bright smile, wan, blinking hard.
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Lee was ready; his eyes going to each one as they stared at him with unblinking eyes.
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You can look at blood without blinking, you can say the word rape and not wince.
Perfect Match
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Her gaze fixed on his and held it unblinkingly.
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The Wynn Macau looks different from anything around it: The city is aglare in blinking neon, but the only ornamentation on his hotel is a large cursive signature of his last name.
Macau’s Big Gamble
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How long can you stare without blinking ?
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One never-to-be-forgotten Friday, Don and I returned from grocery shopping to find the light blinking on our answering machine.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family
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A spaced-out teen gazes dreamily into the camera, slowly blinking her eyes.
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Not only have greyhounds stepped blinking into the limelight of top billing on the racing pages, but desperate men with desperate withdrawal symptoms set up hamster races in London last week.
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Nick emerged from the shady inn into bright sunlight, blinking as his eyes adjusted.
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A ragged decrepit old man blinking in amazement as a parachute descends into the valley, landing gently beside the lake.
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In the weak, graying sky, Maia saw the blinking lights of aircraft in liftoff.
Maia in Yonkers
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`This is where we go down,' said Mac, counting the steps out of habit, and blinking in the frowsty yellowish light.
HUMAN VOICES
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Thylac leans forward and presses several blinking controls on the dashboard.
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But "don't stare unblinkingly at the camera", either, which will just make you look weird.
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We made love in the cheery, blinking lights, and I gave her a ring with a little pinprick of a diamond in it.
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As you can imagine, the carefully positioned, unblinking magazine cutouts were very amusing to many of my classmates.
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The trio emerge blinking and gasping but unharmed, and the damage to the den is minimal.
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Each time I visit a bookshop I see all those volumes blinking from the shelves like fishermen hunting for the left hemisphere of our brain, the fantastic side of our souls.
MIND MELD: Recent SF/F/H Book Covers That Blow Us Away
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But "don't stare unblinkingly at the camera", either, which will just make you look weird.
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The loud slam of the door was still resonating in her mind as the van rolled away, the left-had signal light blinking only once before turning onto the main street.
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My outgoings were less than my incomings this month… and about blinking time too.
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What in the blinking blue blazes is he talking about?
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The Wynn Macau looks different from anything around it: The city is aglare in blinking neon, but the only ornamentation on his hotel is a large cursive signature of his last name.
Macau’s Big Gamble
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Korshev looked at film close-ups and, with a colorist's eye for khakis and ochres, painted a soldier who has lost an eye but stares unblinkingly at the viewer.
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While I was blinking and rubbing my eyes in astoundment, a big, bearded man whose face was strangely familiar opened the door and whipped the captured pistol from the seat.
Branded
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he stood blinking in the bright sunlight
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They were selling - alongside actual useful items such as safes, lockboxes, and hardened steel chain - dummy security cameras. £17.50 gets you pure deterrent factor - a mock camera with a blinking red LED.
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It's part of Schisgall's unblinking portrait of this group of carnal enthusiasts.
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I scream at the ceiling, its blinking pinpricks of light, to let me fall off that edge, falling wholly into that unfeeling darkness and letting me feel no more pain.
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I also suggested that it appeared to be blinking because she was looking at it through the fluttering leaves of an aspen tree.
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You can call this crazy title blinking with something like: blinkTitle'bitches!'
Javascript Blinking Page Title - Leah Culver's Blog
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In one courtyard, a mangy, flea-ridden griffon lay couchant, chained to the wall, flies buzzing around its slow-blinking head.
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
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She sat demurely, which was very unlike her usual loud and unruly self, and stared at the wall, barely blinking.
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Others with a different signal seem to be blinking, twinkling.
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They acquired the habit of blinking in the face of destiny.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here inside, a pool of TV and still cameras watched the families with an unblinking but compassionate eye - catching President George W. Bush pass a hanky to the young son of commander Husband.
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A torch was shown in her face and she recoiled back in pain hitting the wall of wood behind her, blinking hard to try and accustom her eyes to the sharp light.
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Korshev looked at film close-ups and, with a colorist's eye for khakis and ochres, painted a soldier who has lost an eye but stares unblinkingly at the viewer.
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She stood outside, blinking in the harsh sunlight.
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Other features include masked facies, decreased blinking, stooped posture, and salivation.
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Her glazed eyes were still open, unblinking, staring fixedly at nothing in particular.
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Similarly, overlarge graphics, dancing buttons, blinking text, and other bells and whistles can draw too much attention to themselves and detract from the reader's overall experience.
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The safety car's one concession to alerting the turbo-charged 400-horsepower cars hurtling towards it was the blinking of its hazard warning lights.
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They approached the end of the sidewalk, the dull click of the pedestrian crosswalk blinking with the small white man.
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The display altered, backing up several magnifications, then a blinking yellow light appeared at the lower edge.
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She returned the stare, his dark, unblinking eyes not really piercing, but compelling.
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We have no blinking idea how to program that yet.
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Motion detector software checks for blinking, and translates this into clicks.
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He unblinkingly defines the term according to popular negative stereotypes associated with the term.
Archive 2007-04-01
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She's just surfaced, blinking like a mole, after wading through 50,000 pages of fiction in her role as a Booker Prize judge.
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Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly.
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He has funny habit of blinking when talking with others.
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The title unfortunately evokes its predecessor, a 1978 "Star Wars" clone that presented humanity fleeing through space, pursued by robots with the same blinking red LEDs that was later adopted by the talking car in “Knight Rider.”
Going ‘Galactic’
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His father's unblinking gaze was fixed on the fire.
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A man is sitting in an armchair, papers in an untidy mess strewn all around and a lap-top sits on a coffee table in front of him, blinking in anticipation of future commands.
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“Is it a druidical reference?” asked Mr. Hunnable, blinking attentively.
The Blackstone Key
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I nodded quickly, blinking as I began looking ahead of me again.
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But we can only stare in wonder at those unblinking eyes.
