How To Use Confiding In A Sentence
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There is the story of the victorious trainer telling his interrogators in a confiding manner: 'That was the plan.
Times, Sunday Times
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She spoke in a low voice, leaning towards him confidingly.
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first she was suspicious, then she became confiding
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Ford's letters to her are fond and confiding.
Ford Madox Ford
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Nevertheless, You've Got a Friend (against Noble's soft, gospelly chording) has a confiding solemnity, there's an exposed and soulful fragility to Home Again, Way Over Yonder and the title track and, after Noble's gliding Brad Mehldau-like intro, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow has a sombre reflectiveness.
Christine Tobin/Liam Noble: Tapestry Unravelled
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The last time we made love, as I draped my arm around her, settled my fingers on her hip, she spoke confidingly of her children, especially the two that weren't speaking to her.
Types of Circus
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There is the story of the victorious trainer telling his interrogators in a confiding manner: 'That was the plan.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't really feel close enough to either Jo or Lee to be comfortable with confiding in them.
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Drawing a breath, she turned confidingly to Lady Hester.
Gatlinburg
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Clients must feel secure in confiding their secrets and entrusting their most personal affairs to lawyers.
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Our long association has taught me that confiding in others allays pain.
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My husband tells me that working one on one with women makes a familiarity between a man and woman that often leads the women to begin confiding personal confidences.
Taking Time To Reflect
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Then other current stresses and supports in the social environment may moderate its consequences, such as outside employment and confiding relationships.
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Also consider confiding in the leader of this project.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of her time was spent in confiding to her diary her thoughts about Richard, and in gleaning together and treasuring in her memory every scrap of news she could gather concerning him.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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Electrical recording has made this fatally easy to do: much easier than confiding to a written diary.
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Rather uglier had been Bassett's identification with the organization of the White River Canneries Company, a combination of industries on which a scandalous overissue of stock had been sold in generous chunks to a confiding public, followed in a couple of years by
A Hoosier Chronicle
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Clients must feel secure in confiding their secrets and entrusting their most personal affairs to lawyers.
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She seemed willing to do her best, though she thrust the hearth-brush into the grates in mistake for the poker; and malappropriated several other articles of her craft; but I retired, confiding in her energy for a resting-place against my return.
Wuthering Heights
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Also consider confiding in the leader of this project.
Times, Sunday Times
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Murmuring to me softly, his confiding smile and the concerned wrinkles on his brow creating gentle reassurance, Vora explained.
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Hunter; and the idea of doubting the truth of what Mrs. Beaumont had asserted could not enter his confiding mind,
Tales and Novels — Volume 05
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His height impresses; his belly, which should in justice belong to a more sedentary man, is merely another princely aspect of his being, and on it, confidingly, he often rests a large, white, beringed hand.
Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall'
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The gun speedily put the wicked-looking snake out of action, and a bulge in the body indicated the site of the last meal -- the confiding thrush and her fledgeless brood.
Tropic Days
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Sex is good. Pillow talk is better. Sex is easy, intimacy is difficult. It requires honesty, openness, self-disclosure, confiding concerns, fears, sadnesses as well as hopes and dreams.
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His height impresses; his belly, which should in justice belong to a more sedentary man, is merely another princely aspect of his being, and on it, confidingly, he often rests a large, white, beringed hand.
Cromwell & Wolsey: From 'Wolf Hall'
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Freddy disliked the idea of confiding family secrets to strangers.
There was a King in Egypt
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If midwives jump in and act on confessions, pregnant women are likely to clam up, become reticent about confiding in them or even leave antenatal care.
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The common Greek tortoise, hawked on barrows about the streets of London and bought by a confiding British public under the mistaken impression that its chief fare consists of slugs and cockroaches (it is really far more likely to feed upon its purchaser's choicest seakale and asparagus), buries itself in the ground at the first approach of winter, and snoozes away five months of the year in a most comfortable and dignified torpidity.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
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Isabelle and Alec think I talk too much, he said, confidingly.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
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Other research has shown that women with a confiding relationship are much less likely to become depressed.
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No feast at any court in those days was complete without this diversion of recitation, when the nation's heroes, or some passage from its greater classics, furnished the theme; or when some improvisator wove a tissue of myth and legend, embroidered with fact, which won its way through confiding ages as historic truth, till the time, growing sophisticated, laid it heroically aside for a curio.
The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus
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There is the story of the victorious trainer telling his interrogators in a confiding manner: 'That was the plan.
Times, Sunday Times
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Had my father lived, he might have sought my advice the way Nancy's seeks hers, confiding his conflicts in private, in his den.
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He was rather better-looking in the face than she had supposed; and in this light she observed more clearly the rather odd expression he wore about the eyes, a quality of youthful hopefulness, a sort of confidingness: not the look of a brick-thrower, unless you happened to know the facts in the case.
V. V.'s Eyes
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And John Bold was a man to be loved by a woman; he was himself affectionate; he was confiding and manly; and that arrogance of thought, unsustained by first-rate abilities, that attempt at being better than his neighbours which jarred so painfully on the feelings of his acquaintance did not injure him in the estimation of his wife.
Barchester Towers
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To Herder as to everyone else Goethe aired his opinions with the "frank confidingness" which he notes as a trait of his own character, and which gave Herder frequent opportunities for scathing criticism.
The Youth of Goethe
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And there is a fundamental problem with logic: why are those people that he identifies as rabid anti-Semites confiding in him of all people, and revealing their innermost thoughts to him?
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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I won't stay out too late, went on Suraiya, confidingly.
For the Sake of the Boy
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Your cousin clearly didn't understand that, by confiding in you, she was making you a party to her guilty secret.
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She was a practised swindler and took advantage of the old man's confiding nature.
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You know, " she said confidingly, expertly unlocking the case, 'lots of women are gifting themselves with diamonds for their right hand.
Sundays at Tiffany's
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The gun speedily put the wicked-looking snake out of action, and a bulge in the body indicated the site of the last meal — the confiding thrush and her fledgeless brood.
Tropic Days
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I tried out for the part of Emmeline originally, she says confidingly.
The House at Riverton
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Had my father lived, he might have sought my advice the way Nancy's seeks hers, confiding his conflicts in private, in his den.
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She giggled, as if confiding a scrumptious secret.
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Electrical recording has made this fatally easy to do: much easier than confiding to a written diary.
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They combined the confidingness of a child with the poet-passion of heart and of intellect; and in gazing into them it was easy to read _why_ Mrs. Browning wrote.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
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She was a practised swindler and took advantage of the old man's confiding nature.
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When the macer had withdrawn, Melville left the manse, and, confiding his intention to only
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
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He remembered Thelma's shuddering repugnance at the sight of her, -- a repugnance which he himself had shared -- and which made him shrink with fastidious aversion, from the idea of confiding to any one but Sir Philip, the miserable secret of his connection with her.
Thelma
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The low-key manner is analytical, confiding, with a touch of the dosshouse philosopher engrossed in offbeat speculation.
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She was described as prepossessing, “open, confiding, expressing strong feelings on her countenance, but neither hardened in depravity nor capable of cunning.”
Elizabeth Fry
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Pardon me, Lionel, nor wonder that the expectation of contest with my mother should jar me, when else I should delightedly confess that my best hopes are fulfilled, in confiding my sister to your protection.
I.5
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Ford's letters to her are fond and confiding.
Ford Madox Ford
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If you feel comfortable confiding in one or both, share these feelings with them.
The Sun
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But Matty had an English tongue in her head, -- a courteous, which is to say a confiding, address with strangers; she seemed almost to be conferring a favor at the moment when she asked one, and she knew, in this business, that there was no such word as fail.
The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
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Anyway, the idea of confiding in Mom was anathema to me – because I knew that she’d somehow use this information against me.
State of the Union
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There is a carefulness which is inconsistent with confiding prayer to God, which excludes the spirit of filial supplication.
The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: I. The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians, Practically Explained.
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She was described as prepossessing, "open, confiding, expressing strong feelings on her countenance, but neither hardened in depravity nor capable of cunning.
Elizabeth Fry
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He could be confiding and larky one moment, then aloof and distant the next.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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“Oh yes, I should like to learn French,” Newman went on, with democratic confidingness.
The American
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She paused an instant, with a pale, absent expression, as if she searched herself, then looked up clearly in the confiding face above her, and promised what she faithfully performed in afteryears.
Behind a Mask: or, A Woman's Power.
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Even her husband, it is said, upon whose fortunes her talents and address had produced such emphatic influence, regarded her with respectful awe rather than confiding attachment; and report said, there were times when he considered his grandeur as dearly purchased at the expense of domestic thraldom.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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But I would suggest talking calmly to your wife in private and confiding your feelings before you do anything else.
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After a fifteen-minute break, we went around the room confiding why each of us was there and what we wanted to write about.
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All of the women without a confiding relationship or a job who also experienced one of the other vulnerability factors became depressed.
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Nichols, dressed in crisp white shirt and blue power tie, spoke in confiding and confident terms about the injustice of White House correspondents 'dinner seating arrangements, the need for "newsy" background meetings and early-morning gaggles, the disrespect shown toward the press by interminable delays.
White House reporters see the other side while campaigning for board spots
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-- This confidingness, this complaisance, this showing-the-cards of German HONESTY, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the
Beyond Good and Evil
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The shopkeepers, restaurants, and gambling-houses, with an amiable confidingness peculiar to such people, had trusted the miners to that degree that they themselves were in the same moneyless condition.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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The metage duty on coals which may belong to the Corporation after the year 1862, under 1 & 2 William IV., and 8 & 9 Victoria, is not to be affected by the present Bill; but he must be a confiding and unsuspecting individual who can trust to a long enjoyment of that source of income.
The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
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A truly devout Catholic, in her grief she leaned with all a woman's trust and confidingness upon the love and power of Christ, and something of the divine calmness which we associate with the character of the mother of our Lord, and which has been so wonderfully depicted to the eye by some of the older painters, pervaded her spirit.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick
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Alone, alone … "So am I," he said, on a gush of confidingness.
Brave New World
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‘I have to be honest,’ he says, confiding in his audience.
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While never failing duly to receive and return Hugh's rather stiff attentions, and while doing superb justice to the repast, Ramsey, with side glances from her large, unconscious eyes emotionally enriched by long auburn lashes, easily and with great zest contemplated her mother's charming complexion, so lily-white and shell pink for a Creole matron, as well as the lovely confidingness of her manner, so childlike yet so wise.
Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
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He came to cheer her up and invariably ended morosely confiding his marital miseries.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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The Hollywood actress has been calling her ex while he is on tour and has spent hours confiding her secrets and emotions to him
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And he closed the privileged arm of the bridegroom round her waist, that had the yieldingness of the willow-branchlet, the flowingness of the summer sea-wave, and seemed as 'twere melting honey-like at the first gentle pressure; she leaning her head shyly on his shoulder, yet confiding in his faithfulness; it was that she was shy of the great bliss in her bosom, and was made timid by the fervour of her affection; as is sung:
The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4
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Her tone was suddenly confiding.
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He was not seeking consolation, merely confiding how he saw his chances in a manner so matter-of-fact it was chilling.
Times, Sunday Times
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For one brief second Alessandro revolved in his mind the idea of confiding everything to her; only for a second, however.
Ramona
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Having looked to our arms and said our prayers, we retired to rest, "confiding," Sir Moses observed, "in the protection of Heaven.
Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883
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To work this sportive vein still further, Mr Brass, by his counsel, moved in arrest of judgment that he had been led to criminate himself, by assurances of safety and promises of pardon, and claimed the leniency which the law extends to such confiding natures as are thus deluded.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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And more than one-in-four children who took part in the survey also said they worried about being badly treated at home, even if they were confiding their worries to parents.
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The truant was a pretty, white-nosed creature, a special pet of his master's, with great brown, confiding eyes, and ample ears, and Amberley had named him Simon.
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book
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She spoke in a low voice, leaning towards him confidingly.
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If you feel comfortable confiding in one or both, share these feelings with them.
The Sun
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“Now, my dear Miss Summerson, and my dear Mr. Richard,” said Mr. Skimpole gaily, innocently, and confidingly as he looked at his drawing with his head on one side,
Bleak House
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She seemed willing to do her best; though she thrust the hearth-brush into the grates in mistake for the poker, and malappropriated several other articles of her craft: but I retired, confiding in her energy for a resting-place against my return.
Wuthering Heights
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They also said that they did not feel comfortable confiding in school authority figures, because the girls believed that their culture was misunderstood or not respected by their teachers and counsellors.
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You know what, I don't want a straw," she says, before adding confidingly, "Let's pick another battle.
Ann Hornaday interviews 'Please Give' filmmaker Nicole Holofcener
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Ford's letters to her are fond and confiding.
Ford Madox Ford
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He is captivating with his frankness, confidingness, and unexampled naivete!
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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There is the story of the victorious trainer telling his interrogators in a confiding manner: 'That was the plan.
Times, Sunday Times
