How To Use Deceptively In A Sentence
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It is deceptively big with neat bedrooms, a large kitchen with dining room, two sitting rooms and a playroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here he pauses, then continues, sounding like a cook admitting that a recipe is deceptively simple.
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Passenger jets often look deceptively slow and graceful as they cruise over the clouds.
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Near the audience hall was another immense gathering space with one hundred columns, as well as the large and well-guarded treasury constructed of deceptively plain mud bricks.
Alexander the Great
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I hesitate to think that the firm deceptively put this out just to attract potential teeny-bopper customers who would fall for it.
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The duduk is a simple instrument; but deceptively so, in that it requires an embouchure and diaphragm of steel plus circular breathing to elicit its haunting, cool sound.
Michal Shapiro: Grandfather, Grandson, Grandmasters (Video)
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The fundamental argument of those who oppose abortion anywhere is deceptively appealing.
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Court observation can, however, be deceptively straightforward, and anyone who spends time in courtrooms quickly becomes aware of its drawbacks.
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There was clear, deceptively simple typography in a uniform typeface and a single strong image, often truncated for effect.
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Mass media is a grazeable prairie of deceptively unfenced pastures.
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Even PBS's interview program NewsHour, which deceptively bills itself as a news show, draws a reported 3 million viewers a night.
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Again, although deceptively simple in outward appearance, this salad satisfied completely with its subtle flavorings.
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Written in richly described flashbacks that slowly reveal the characters 'almost surreal connections, this deceptively understated novel asks crucial questions about how to live and reconcile history in an atomic age.
The Ash Garden: Summary and book reviews of The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock.
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The triumphalism flowed, he notes, from a deceptively simple rationale.
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In three movements, played without a break, the symphony begins deceptively, as a more-or-less neoclassic toccata.
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It's heavy stuff, but heavy needs to either be deceptively light on its feet (ala Deep Purple) or unremorsefully jarring in its very density (a la Black Sabbath).
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At face value, the story is deceptively simple - a young girl, Charlotte, goes missing in the woods, and her mother, Dessa, enlists the help of a pilot, Maxine, to aid in the search.
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Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project.
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He is deceptively fast and so technically gifted.
The Sun
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More info at website of the Brooklyn-based label that released the full-length version, temporaryresidence.com, and at Eluvium/Cooper’s site, eluvium.net, which houses two additional MP3s: the lush, if peculiarly detuned, “Under the Water It Glowed” and the deceptively rudimentary piano piece “Genius and the Thieves,” which sounds like Rufus Wainwright playing a Harold Budd cover.
Disquiet » Three Eluvium MP3s
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A deceptively fragile and refined appearance belied her dedication and untiring industry in the cause of justice for women.
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She looked out the front window at the street below them, which appeared deceptively quiet and sedate as a cart rolled by innocently.
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More like a liqueur than an aperitif (although it is deceptively sweet), only the unwary would approach it with abandon.
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His language is deceptively simple; it is not easy to recreate his elegance and poise.
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Deceptively "primitivist," with a vivid palette of color, it conveys precisely the intent of its designer, Nick Locke, art director for the feature film "Little Red Wagon.
Battery Shots
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Jane Seymour does an excellent job with the deceptively difficult role of Solitaire, who must be a bewitching beauty but also one who is convincingly sheltered and innocent.
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His voice was deceptively mild.
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Calculating the angular velocity of the Earth is a deceptively easy task.
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Again, although deceptively simple in outward appearance, this salad satisfied completely with its subtle flavorings.
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That would explain why the team tanked deceptively early this season, before suspicion could be aroused.
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Sarah Karnasiewicz on Lunch Break has a baker's guide to classic molded holiday cookies - springerle, gingerbread and frankfurter brenten - that are drop-dead gorgeous and deceptively easy to make.
Wunderbar Cookies
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Obviously no corporate lobbying organization is actually in favor of democracy in the workplace, as their name deceptively implies.
President Obama: Small 'Change' and the Mendacity of 'Hope'
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Here called Trio A Pressured #3, danced by the seven White Oak company members, its original soundlessness and famously uninflected movement - a long, deceptively simple, unpunctuated phrase - have been seriously compromised.
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It is a fable recalled by a lonely man who lies between the clumps of grass on the sands by a river (the scene looks deceptively lyrical), like a survivor washed ashore after a shipwreck.
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We move on to a variation of dodgeball and it's deceptively exhausting.
Times, Sunday Times
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I sing "Suzie is a Headbanger" in deceptively empty streets.
Poetry and Healing
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Cherubic and deceptively guileless, she used "humour as a dodge, intimacy as a smoke screen", Ms Salomon notes.
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Miller, who also co-produced the movie, describes the shoot as ‘deceptively difficult.’
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On Golden Pond tells the deceptively simple tale of one family's summer.
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His black comedy and his portmanteau romcom Trivial Matters are both biting, complex, visually stunning and highly idiosyncratic works., his latest project, looks like a deceptively bouncy horror comedy.
New York Press
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The terrain is often deceptively steep .
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And it didn't help any that she was probably wearing something that would make his grandmother faint underneath her deceptively modest robe.
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Some are large, others little more than snapshots, hung in a disarming and deceptively casual manner.
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The fearfully serious event inspired this bright and deceptively playful assemblage.
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Sarah Karnasiewicz on Lunch Break has a baker's guide to classic molded holiday cookies - springerle, gingerbread and frankfurter brenten - that are drop-dead gorgeous and deceptively easy to make.
Wunderbar Cookies
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The house benefits from a deceptively spacious kitchen .
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A pueblo city that scouts had described as ringed with gilded ramparts proved to be built of mere mud and clay, which happened to glimmer deceptively in the setting sun.
Colossus
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Apparently free-flowing, deceptively indisciplined and associative, this is one of the book's most experimental and, as a result, arresting pieces.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Here, in a Toussaint arrangement that is the soul of the term spot-on, trumpeter Nicholas Payton shows just how deeply he understands this happy, jaunty number in a free, easy, yet deceptively commanding performance of the song's famous changes.
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From July 1, fines for deceptively labelling the wrong species will increase from $3,000 to a maximum of $275,000.
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The new A-class range features both five and three-door models which it labels deceptively with Saloon and Coupe designations, boasting a completely new look designed to distinguish the new model from its controversial predecessor.
Australian Car Advice | News Blog
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All three retread familiar themes and narratives by their respective filmmakers, and use an exact, refined visual style that is unfussy and deceptively simple.
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Brown Canon III for The Wall Street Journal Students practice the veronica, a deceptively simple pass in which the bullfighter attempts to hold his ground and draw the charging bull through the pivoting cape.
Learn to Be a Matador
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Its steering is direct and at times feels deceptively quicker than the 2.7 lock to lock turns may suggest.
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It’s a bit awe-inspiring to be confronted with a number like that — a number far more comprehensible than yesterday’s deceptively complex statement about the amount of data we’re producing daily.
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And herein lurks the deceptively soft, and indeed ever-welcoming, bosom of Nanny State.
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The central character is a deceptively emollient senior figure in a Conservative Government.
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However, he is simply content to just play it out on his deceptively simple levels of broad comedy and syrupy sentiment.
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‘I wanted to be a politician,’ he says in that voice, sonorous, well-tempered, deceptively weary, every syllable pronounced for maximum just-so.
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This deceptively simple five - sentence has become united and motivate the weapon.
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It's a century which is deceptively familiar - nineteenth century English is much the same as today's, after all, and the men have the common decency to run around in trousers - but also more alien than the far side of the Moon.
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Once opened, you are greeted with a very modern, high-tech interior which is deceptively spacious.
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Within the deceptively small establishment are numerous and unique fresh flower arrangements, from small desktop bouquets to massive special occasion arrangements.
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The Dream was a deceptively slow looking tramp freighter about 50 meters long and twenty meters across at her widest point.
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She glanced at Charles; his expression deceptively open, he was watching Nicholas.
A Lady of His Own
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Most magic tricks are done with specially made gadgets that are deceptively hollow but which look solid.
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At one point, Piccoli – deceptively unmacho in a brilliantly subtle performance – puts on a cowboy hat and wears it in the bathtub; when Brigitte comments on this, Piccoli says he is emulating Dean Martin in Some Came Running (1960; directed by Vincente Minnelli; co-starring Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine).
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Deceptively mundane, the stores are ephemeral polling and pollinating organs, transient fruit-bodies of information.
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Organising an open plan area without physical divisions can be deceptively complicated.
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Nevertheless, this deceptively insightful series offers a fascinating chronicle of love - and lust - in a cold climate.
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Musically, it seems fairly straightforward, but it's deceptively hard to pin down.
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‘Mother’ dispels the pall with a burst of wistfully playful pop, while ‘For Sheriff Allison’ trades in affected age for unstrained, deceptively simple folk.
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Of course professional use is significantly more, but even than the actual period of continuous operation is deceptively low.
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Within the deceptively small establishment are numerous and unique fresh flower arrangements, from small desktop bouquets to massive special occasion arrangements.
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The arguments in support of cheap nuclear power have always derived from a deceptively simple premise.
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Payne hits the ground running in the deceptively simple, inimitable style of Edgar Allen Poe meets Margaret Thatcher:When did you last come across the words "coruscating" or "magisterial"?
Archive 2004-08-01
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Recruiting posters for the 1914-18 war deceptively advertised the army as a chance to see the world, hoping to sign up immigrants who wanted a cheap trip back to Europe.
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Her books are deceptively slight, superficially easy, and so easily misunderstood.
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His mouth looked deceptively gentle.
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Within the deceptively small establishment are numerous and unique fresh flower arrangements, from small desktop bouquets to massive special occasion arrangements.
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Even more enigmatic is the correspondent who begins, ‘Your reviews are always deceptively written so as to give the impression of content’.
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Its lush harmonic arrangements conceal some vituperative and downright nasty lyrics, delivered in a deceptively deadpan manner.
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the exam looked deceptively easy
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He dressed casually in a red golfing sweater, pale blue trousers, and deceptively ordinary-looking hand-made shoes.
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These poets were portrayed by actress Fiona Choi, who looked deceptively Vietnamese and Japanese in costume, despite her Chinese heritage.
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But what energises Bloom's deceptively simple book is not the homespun wisdom, but the extraordinary energy which he invests in his writing.
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Readers will find here the same elegant, deceptively simple prose that garnered so much praise for her short stories.
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It's deceptively muscular and surprisingly athletic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just as the form and color of the stop sign seem matter-of-fact yet are linked to rich visual cultures, so too is its verbal STOP deceptively simple.
The English Is Coming!
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Laconic, deceptively unassuming and structurally clear, these works have a straightforward factuality that ultimately carries the weight of their conviction.
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On a technical level, the look of the film is deceptively simple and austere.
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This is his paciest and cleanest-cut book, told in a deceptively plain style.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clothing was deceptively simple, with soft, heavy materials giving fullness and weight.
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Don't be fooled by the slick advertising and deceptively impressive hardware and launch titles.
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The 308 doesn't look the biggest hatchback but it is deceptively roomy inside.
The Sun
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His writing was often deceptively whimsical, full of surreal creations and semi-fictional characters, but behind the knockabout humour lay some of the sharpest political commentary to be found in the educational press.
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The construction too is rendered rather basic and pure, with deceptively simple detailing that could even be called overprecise.
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Deceptively "cartoony" in style, Danny Phantom is quite simply the purest example of the superhero genre ever to originate outside the pages of a comic book.
MIND MELD: The Best Superhero Movie and TV Show
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The deceptively named Australian Youth Orchestra may be short in years, but not in stature.
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Ma Jacobs spoke again, but this time her voice deceptively soft and indulgent.
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Among the band's most deceptively complex fare, "Lotus Flower" weaves a spartan electronic bass line through a percussive game of patty-cake, while a billowing vocabulary of electronic sounds float into the picture, almost intravenously.
Album review: Radiohead, "The King of Limbs"
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Don't be fooled by the slick advertising and deceptively impressive hardware and launch titles.
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The deals allowed them to artificially inflate cash flow and hide debt, which deceptively boosted share price and ultimately led to the company's collapse.
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Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project.
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This herringbone stitch looks deceptively easy to knit, as you are knitting and purling on both sides of the fabric, it can get a bit fiddly and tricky, since the pattern is difficult to read from the pattern.
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The terrain is often deceptively steep .
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Above the church stalls to the left of the altar, however, hangs a small painting that is deceptively unassuming.
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Barry is pushed deeper and deeper into a hair-tearing abyss, until his sister introduces him to Lena Leonard who, with deceptively simple tenderness in this love story, awakens Barry to his inner strength.
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Most magic tricks are done with specially made gadgets that are deceptively hollow but which look solid.
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What appear deceptively as inert objects or stationary structures are dynamically transformed into plasticized components free to move within the screen space with a metallic clang similar to a tuning fork.
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They wrote bouncy, catchy tunes that were deceptively sophisticated.
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And the White House has used it deceptively before.
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The first bars of the opening track ‘Le Garage’ lure you in gently, and deceptively, since there is nothing gentle either about the rest of the track or the remaining thirteen.
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The atmosphere was relaxed and deceptively informal, with low-key lighting and dancers wearing socklets and casually sporty costumes of muted blue.
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French choral music of this time is often in a deceptively simple homophonic style.
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It's deceptively roomy inside with sliding rear seats allowing you to have more leg or luggage space.
The Sun
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Though many of the songs sound deceptively simple at first, a closer listen proves that the songs are lyrically brilliant, and the tunes show a maturity that far outreaches his 21 years.
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Within the deceptively small establishment are numerous and unique fresh flower arrangements, from small desktop bouquets to massive special occasion arrangements.
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His descriptive language is deceptively simple and profoundly evocative.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suffice it to say that the term "deceptively simple" has rarely been more apt, as a couple we understand to be strangers turn out to be anything but - and the context and meaning of their conversation shifts dramatically in kind.
NPR Topics: News
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The tank is deceptively small: it actually holds quite a lot.
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Much of the diary, rather than mapping the thrilling peaks and troughs of Meeting Mr Right, records the more deceptively challenging, quotidian slog across the lifelong plateau thereafter: Living with Mr Right.
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His mouth looked deceptively gentle.
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From the front, the Jefferson Arms could be someone's house - deceptively - it stretches a long way back, and you make your way up through what looks like it will be a pleasant little beer garden in summer.
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This property is deceptively spacious and is in turnkey condition.
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Beautifully balanced and deceptively fast, he was a classic winger on the dribble, lethal on the turn inside the box.
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At Campo Bravo we spent hours alone in the sun practicing the veronica, a deceptively simple pass in which the bullfighter attempts to hold his ground and draw the charging bull through the pivoting cape.
Matador for a Day
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The sound of footsteps gradually registered in her mind, and she glanced up, only to find Eric standing there, an odd half-smile on his deceptively handsome face.
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The double-skinned glass curtain wall reflects the trees and changing light to become a subtly mutable (and deceptively insubstantial) external membrane.
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The initial ascent is deceptively steep: to be completely honest, it is a swine to climb.
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The rules for surrendering are simple to understand but are deceptively difficult to put into practice.
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Overtly unshowy, it is deceptively lighthearted and rueful, its sharpness masked in humour.
Times, Sunday Times