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  • Ballack set him free with subtle chip over the top, and Klose skinned the out-rushing keeper before slotting it home with ease.
  • They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
  • Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
  • But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair. South Wind
  • Here, Monostatos is a guy clad in a green spandex bodysuit (that is, he’s green-skinned), and when the same scene occurs, Papageno’s musing as translated in the supertitles is about green birds and green men. Zauberflöte 2005
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  • That this witty pioneer of the blogosphere, who made her name deflating the pretentions of the insider club of thin-skinned mediawhores no longer identifies with that sentiment is a cautionary tale. Hullabaloo
  • Ellie sighed, said, ‘Okay, you're forgiven,’ and skinned the rabbit very carefully.
  • So, while everyone else was noticing that Avatar hates pale-skinned people with a passion, I was enjoying watching the battles between dragons and helicopters. Movie Review: Avatar
  • Stay peachy-skinned by applying soothing, unperfumed skincare products to moisturise and protect. The Sun
  • Toast the skinned almonds in a dry frying pan over a medium-high heat. Times, Sunday Times
  • The curly haired, dark-skinned child who stared up at him with “hero-worship” adoration was oblivious to the fact that his white shirt was pulled halfway out of the waist of his pants or that his clip-on bow-tie was askew. Who Said It Would Be Easy
  • They were all olive skinned, with dark curling hair of various lengths.
  • Small hard-skinned fish such as snappers, grouper, breams and hind should be gutted and scaled on capture and kept in slurry.
  • Of the nashi grown in New Zealand, 95 percent are Hosui, although smooth-skinned, greenish-yellow Nijisseiki and the mottled Kosui also make excellent eating.
  • Halve the skinned fish fillets lengthways, season lightly with salt and slip them into the pan, encouraging them under the liquid. Times, Sunday Times
  • The classification was subjective, and families were torn apart when paler or darker skinned children or parents – or those with curlier hair (apparently as a test, pencils were placed in the hair and classifications were made based on whether or not it stayed there), or different features – were placed in separate categories. 2009 April 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • Although the title automatically brings up favoritism involving race (well, since he's light skinned he .... know what? Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • The first thing I ever cooked was rabbit pie - she skinned the rabbit and I did the rest.
  • Her pieces feature groups of young pale-skinned models, often naked from the waist down and with a blank expression on their faces.
  • External mass balances were installed on the elevator which was also reskinned with a thicker aluminum gauge.
  • Rose of Ireland and the White Rose of Devon, a noted Society phrasemonger had dubbed them, seeing them together on the lawn one Ascot Cup Day, their light draperies and delicate ribbons whip-whipping in the pleasant June breeze, ivory-skinned, jetty-locked Celtic beauty and blue-eyed, flaxen-locked Saxon fairness in charming, confidential juxtaposition under one lace sunshade, lined with what has been the last new fashionable colour under twenty names, since then; only that year they called it _Rose fané_. The Dop Doctor
  • Advertising has also been blamed for maintenance of a contentious concept that long-haired, fair-skinned women with aquiline noses have the monopoly on attractiveness.
  • Craig has always been very thin-skinned that way - he reacts very badly to criticism.
  • Peel a thick-skinned orange and square off the ends with a sharp knife.
  • The ones I saw were being guarded, not by Americans, but by brown-skinned soldiers, men of their own size and race, incongruous in alien boots and uniforms.
  • My father is an ex-serviceman. As he is introspective and taciturn, I seldom hear the word "love" in his speech even once. According to mother's evaluation, he is a thin-skinned man.
  • I'm alarmed that people over the age of 16 can act so unpleasantly towards their fellow humans, but I suppose that makes me naive and thin-skinned.
  • Instead, they went after the lesser-known "petits ma î tres" (mainly 18th-century French paintings, 17th - through early 19th-century Italian and French sculptures), usually following their private tastes for soft-skinned, sensuous women and muscular naked men, whether suave and still or erotically writhing. Nice Wing, Pity About the Art
  • White nectarines and peaches are fine, but the yellow nectarine is really something else - smooth-skinned and warmly sweet and the color of sunshine.
  • The meat of this clam is often sliced into cutlets and fried while the siphon is often skinned and then ground in a food processor or chopper and used in chowders.
  • With the move to common templates, the teams reskinned entire fleets for 2003.
  • Their mom was a dark-skinned black woman and their dad a fair-skinned Dominican. True You
  • This article looks at the roots of colourism and how it has impacted the interaction of dark-skinned women with light-skinned women.
  • It was an unlikely boast from the fair-skinned figure with the sideburns and thinning hair.
  • But our champagne coupes runnethed over when the taut-bodied café-crème-skinned new Josephine Baker, a.k.a. Brian Scott Bagley, leapt onto and around the stage in his J.B. wig and skirt made of a string of artificial bananas, as Ms. Baker once had in her famous Danse Sauvage. Beth Arnold: Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man)
  • While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
  • Mexicans that I know refer to family members and friends as güero/a, as well as using it as a descriptor for any blonde/fair-skinned person. The Scarlet Letter (another word game)
  • Provided you according to aphotic skinned teens getting busy, that's one. We Blog A Lot
  • The stairs were hard on my elbows and knees, and I skinned them all badly.
  • She caught the creatures in a trap, skinned and disembowelled them and suspended them by their tails in a ‘strong sugar syrup in a cast-iron saucepan over a slow heat‘.
  • It may also be mentioned here that the sight of a green, freshly-skinned hide, or a freshly-skinned carcass, will frequently cause cows to "slink" their calves. Ranching, Sport and Travel
  • The youth is described as dark skinned, of slim, athletic build, with dark, short hair.
  • I look at myself in my twenties, pathetically cyclothymic, my judgment hopeless, my competence all over the map, and I wish I could give that smooth-skinned young self some of my own wry strength. Yatima » 2009 » April
  • As the story goes, nationally televised images of well-dressed children marching into jail, and of protesters being blasted with hoses and attacked by German shepherds, at a time when the United States was engaged in a competition with Communism for the hearts and minds of dark-skinned people in the Third World, made segregation a contradiction that had to be eliminated. A Renegade History of the United States
  • He was a wonderful dark-skinned white man with jet-black hair who was often mistaken for a light-skinned black man.
  • And just a few days ago I was castigating someone else for being a thin-skinned Narcissist.
  • According to Variety, Alan Cumming (Eyes Wide Shut, Spy Kids) has been inked to play the blue-skinned mutant teleporter.
  • One of these common beliefs is that "thin-skinned" thrust plates are stratigraphically controlled thrusts with little or no involvement in thrusting of crystalline basement.
  • Ronde de Nice squash, hard-skinned and as smooth as a cricket ball will bake well with a dab of garlic butter, and yet the young marrows would be just as good.
  • A caste system that novelist Alice Walker termed "colorism" has existed within the black community since slavery, stemming from the hierarchy established by slave masters for the light-skinned blacks who worked in the house and dark-skinned slaves who tended the fields. MultiCultClassics
  • The truck barely skinned through the gate.
  • He shows himself to be an ill-mannered, thin-skinned, easily flattered narcissistic ignoramus, given to stupid jokes, banal observations, casual rudeness and hypocritical pieties.
  • A young man, tan-skinned, with his hair shorn down to a round fuzz, opened the passenger door.
  • Walther Bothe was brilliant, disciplined, and notoriously thin-skinned Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics
  • One of the relatives is a dark-skinned Chicano-looking male named Jesus with a goatee, dark sunglasses, a ponytail and a guayabera.
  • I like to use nice red-skinned apples off our tree.
  • Halve the skinned fish fillets lengthways following the line of the fish. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was a strange-looking man, olived-skinned face marked with scars and pocks from unknown battles.
  • She went over to stand by the gorgeous dark-skinned woman, Uhura, and her own crewwoman Aidoann, while the captain, with occasional snickerings, read the document the lieutenant had brought him. Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
  • The approach requires a devil-may-care swagger, a thick skin and also thick-skinned editors, who seem to be in short supply.
  • He's very thick - skinned and has no sense of shame.
  • From the dark skinned Grandfather who I never met, an alcoholic baker, from the Grandmother traumatised by “The Troubles”, from the Mother with skin scarred by burns, serving time in a hospital which rewarded her with diphtheria and isolation. Archive 2008-02-01
  • Countless examples could be cited - including earlier works by Regnault himself - that predict the dissolute male figure and white-skinned women.
  • And this was the PC version: originally they were a black-skinned African pygmy tribe.
  • The horses passed and repassed one another, beautiful thin-skinned equines in rich shades of mahogany and brown. BARN BLIND
  • The filling comprises podded and skinned broad beans that are cooked in milk, drained, then mixed with fried pancetta, sweet and strong spices, saffron, and freshly made cheese. Delizia!
  • He was smooth and rosy-skinned, cherubic-faced, with a thatch of curly yellow hair, but his body was as hugely thewed as a Hercules.
  • Of the more substantial dishes the most pleasing was some crisp-skinned but rare trout with bright orange roe and an acidulated julienne of crunchy vegetables. Restaurant review: Viajante
  • The victims of this war are the same dark-skinned people whose deaths we ignore in order to sacralize our own, far less numerous ones. A Holy Day in the Empire
  • This article looks at the roots of colourism and how it has impacted the interaction of dark-skinned women with light-skinned women.
  • “I†™ ve found that the HOTTEST women, mexican, latina, light skinned black, or any girl other than white with natural tans (my favorite) seem to be attracted or relate to the lowest, gayest, douchest, and tackiest guys.” Douchebags – meet your god | My[confined]Space
  • And I love that the lesbian who doesn't play one in this movie or on TV, has the steamiest, most alabaster skinned, and way too brief, sex scene. Kate Clinton: Big Love Trumps Mr. Big
  • White-skinned anemic patients on a rest cure, they slop suntan lotion on as if they will fry without it - which they will in this tropical sun.
  • Perhaps mentally tough would be a more sensitive description than thick-skinned.
  • A neighbour of mine very lately killed a chief who had been tattooed by Aranghie, and, appreciating the artist's work so highly, he skinned the chieftain's thighs, and covered his cartouch box with it. A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827
  • And so, when one of our own, brown-skinned, desi chokras or chokris actually hits the big money button in Hollywood, they can't stand it.
  • Clean-skinned, copper-colored, lithe and wiry as a tiger cat, with the long, lank, oily black hair of his race, Norton bore himself with all the airs of a European princelet and dressed himself in the beaded buckskins of a savage. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark
  • They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
  • You may have heard of "irresistible" letters -- sales letters that would sell electric fans to Esquimaux or ice skates to Hawaiians, collection letters that make the thickest skinned debtor remit by return mail, and other kinds of resultful, masterful letters that pierce to the very soul. How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence
  • Hadn't it seemed to glisten like a skinned tomato?
  • To be regarded by the dominant society of Australia 1965 as being a "boong", "coon" or "Abo" was a passport to discrimination, prejudice and poverty, and many light-skinned Aboriginal people opted to assume a non-Aboriginal identity Indian, afghan, Maori, etc to escape the extreme difficulty of life as an Aboriginal person. Archive 2005-04-01
  • But when he goes behind the curtain and sheds the costume, a flinty, thin-skinned, immature man who has never taken responsibility for his mistakes emerges.
  • Other scientists are exploring personal qualities that span phylogenies and allegories: Recent research suggests that highly sensitive, arty-type humans have a lot in common with squealing pigs and twitchy mice, and that to call a hypersensitive person thin-skinned or touchy might hold a grain of physical truth. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
  • Synelle was there, and four other women, alabastrine-skinned blondes who seemed to wear variations of one face. Conan The Triumphant
  • The Indian man has found a replacement fantasy from abroad: busty, fair skinned, big hipped.
  • Thin-skinned, labile, multi-hued and engaging, these poems enact as much as describe. The Times Literary Supplement
  • We can no longer be pussyfooting around thinking how thin-skinned people are when dealing with the matter of national security.
  • On any given vessel you might find a teacher, a doctor, an investment banker, or a leather-skinned yachtie who travels from festival to festival. CNN.com
  • For their part, the dark-skinned highlanders were amazed to confront men so pale that they seemed like spirits of the dead.
  • The people are dark skinned, their faces pinched, their bodies hunched as though perpetually cold.
  • Both trousers are cut to be loose fitting and this is a tremendous benefit for the fair skinned in hot climates.
  • While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
  • Hitching the blanket more firmly into place, laying a hand on his wide shoulder which was as disconcertingly warm, smooth-skinned, and heavily muscled as his arm to steady herself, she gritted her teeth and put the flame to his flesh with no more roundaboutness. Shameless
  • His creations include the Kama Sutra, a vodka-based drink which includes Demerara syrup, a dash of grenadine and fresh skinned ginger, garnished with a kaffir lime leaf.
  • While walking with her baby, she runs into Ms. Eva Turner, an old, kind, light-skinned African-American woman who takes her into her home and refuses to charge her rent.
  • ridgy" work and endures the horror of seeing the gentle, thin-skinned creatures bleed under his awkward shears. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
  • There be two of these things; and one is an image of a tall woman of middle-age, red-haired, white - skinned, and meagre, and whiles she has a twiggen rod in her hand, and whiles a naked short sword, and whiles nought at all. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • Under the systems of older naturalists the thick-skinned animals were lumped together under the order UNGULATA, or _hoofed animals_, subdivided by Cuvier into _Pachydermata_, or thick-skinned non-ruminants, and _Ruminantia_, or ruminating animals; but neither the elephant nor the coney can be called hoofed animals, and in other respects they so entirely differ from the rest that recent systematists have separated them into three distinct orders -- _Proboscidea_, _Hyracoidea_ and _Ungulata_, which classification I here adopt. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • The first white men to press the soil of the township were the armed, belted and buckskinned knights under Col. William Crawford, in 1782, as they went silently, swiftly and with grim determination to battle. death and disaster on the Sandusky plains.
  • Mike and Dave began work soon after the aircraft arrived and have completely reskinned the fuselage and installed new longerons.
  • That can happen to rich guys, particularly touchy, thin-skinned rich guys who prefer to surround themselves with yes-men.
  • Sometimes it seems TV has decided that women all have to fit a stereotype of thin, fair-skinned, regular-featured etc, to be allowed on the telly.
  • For the pepper and olive tart - roasted deskinned red peppers roughly sliced, olive tapenade (we prefer to use a version without anchovy), pitted olives and a tasty goat cheese.
  • If she saw Rafe Moretti, she wouldn't've pinched his cheek, she would've bought a gram off him and skinned up right then and there.
  • As the Gamekeeper (son of dgr) wanders in and slaps a dead rabbit (paunched not skinned) on the table right next to the triple-tiered cake stand I'll have hysterics and scream "take it to cook this minute" followed by an attack of the vapours. 54 entries from April 2007
  • Either Americans 'reaction to the shootings at Fort Hood are a reversion to the early days after 9/11, when every brown-skinned man in a skullcap was a terrorist suspect. False Dichotomies
  • She was very fair, pale-skinned, with eyes of a strange green colour.
  • “Would you have your fair greyhound, dear lady, grow up a tall and true Cotswold dog, that can pull down a stag of ten, or one of those smooth-skinned poppets which the Florence ladies lead about with a ring of bells round its neck, and a flannel farthingale over its loins?” Westward Ho!
  • Within an hour of setting off, he had shot a roe deer, skinned and cleaned it.
  • Do you remember those charity infomercials with smiling white adults holding the hands of pathetically malnourished dark-skinned children?
  • But the fallout from the incident has highlighted his weaknesses, casting him as both a thin-skinned brawler who berates reporters for asking questions and a publicity hog who seems to relish media attention, no matter how it comes his way. Ambitious Weiner sees media strategy backfire
  • I had skinned my knee so I sat down and Jennifer said that you could see everything from here.
  • He said that he was fair skinned, and with a pointed chin.
  • I quickly ran over and skinned the large beast that had caused these wounds on him.
  • Dark-skinned people in Brazil are more likely to be poor than light skinned-people and whites have average monthly incomes almost two and a half times greater than nonwhites.
  • The scrawny swarthy-skinned kid in the mirror blinked back at him.
  • For all his claims to resilience in the face of criticism, he is not as thick-skinned as he professes to be.
  • Powell regards himself as "thin-skinned," said this adviser, and he worried that he would let himself be "baited" by the far right. Why He Got Out
  • Portrait of Seale-Yearwood Esq shows a Barbados planter seated in front of a shadowy, brown-skinned man serving him sangaree.
  • Bevel wore a feathered porkpie hat and an uneven beard -- both of which made him look like a member of a lost, dark-skinned Amish tribe. Shawn Amos: Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 2)
  • Yellow robes worn by mandarins inspired the 19th-century English name for the loose-skinned mandarin oranges.
  • My spiel is, if you're fair-skinned, watch for discolorations.
  • Any amateur would be skinned alive competing against the world champion.
  • Toast 100g skinned hazelnuts and chop them in half. Times, Sunday Times
  • Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of. Watershed
  • Cook for 3-4 minutes and then add 250g of fresh salmon which has been boned, skinned and chopped.
  • Beyond this, Aertsen skillfully foreshortened objects never before honored with such attention: sausages, fish, a skinned ox head, a recumbent haunch.
  • So it's a bit of a shock when a healthy-looking, bright-eyed, clear-skinned young man walks into his agent's office.
  • If all else fails, steam 12 ounces of boned, skinned sole fillets in a single layer until opaque but still moist-looking in the center, about 5 minutes.
  • These thicker-skinned grapes revealed unripe fruit aromas and flavours, green tannins and mean acidity.
  • Borlotti Bean Salad Serves 6 Borlotti beans look like dark-skinned pinto beans.
  • The fuselage has also been completely rebuilt with new longerons and the airframe has been completely reskinned.
  • Why are these defensive-sounding scientists and thin-skinned writers getting so overexcited?
  • I can have a five-footer skinned, deboned and processed in about 15 minutes," she says. Alligator Farmers Snap Back At Florida's Plan to Sever Funding
  • His bare feet were smooth on top and rough-skinned underneath.
  • The approach requires a devil-may-care swagger, a thick skin and also thick-skinned editors, who seem to be in short supply.
  • Current crop dried tapioca material, double - skinned, and dried, without moldy, white nature color, without insects.
  • Braying an ordinary fool in a mortar is an unpromising job; but an extraordinary official leatherhead, PLUS thin-skinned conscience, and religious scruples, requires the upper and nether mill stone. At the Mercy of Tiberius
  • Fair-skinned people who spend a great deal of time in the sun have the greatest risk of skin cancer.
  • The dark-skinned natives were the cool ones amidst the flurry; and the boatmen were the coolest. Gold Seekers of '49
  • Jees Uck was of a swart-skinned breed, it is true, but she was not an Indian; nor was she an Eskimo; nor even an Innuit. THE STORY OF JEES UCK
  • One experiment in the artificial setting of a lab might not be very persuasive on the question of whether racism is eradicable, especially when pitted against real-world evidence of how African-American home buyers are discriminated against by financial institutions, for instance, and dark-skinned criminal defendants are treated more harshly than whites by jurors. How Your Brain Looks at Race
  • He became extra excited when my well-shaped, brown-skinned ass bounced, jiggled, and collapsed into his hands. Show Stoppah
  • Mike and Dave began work soon after the aircraft arrived and have completely reskinned the fuselage and installed new longerons.
  • In this the ancient was in nowise unlike the rest of his dark - skinned Melanesian race. CHAPTER 2
  • A thicker-skinned child would be affected by such behavior but be able to minimize the effects.
  • The ski-mountaineering race started at the base of Peak 9 where racers then skinned above the resort to the summit of Peak 10. Summit Daily News - Top Stories
  • Elk are thin skinned, so you don't really need a huge caliber. Best Elk Rifle?
  • One gets the feeling that Reid, in a moment of White guy clubbiness with two other White guys nosing around for political gossip, felt comfortable enough around similarly-skinned peers to keep it real. Charles D. Ellison: Designer Racism
  • We tried speaking in Cryptopsyisms, saying things like "he was the least unvirile keeper of something like a light-house whom she had ever laid her eyes upon, unlike the aura of a not unforeskinned deity. Meli Diary Entry
  • He humphed as he skinned the organic, free-range, corn-fed chicken breast.
  • a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got
  • At the southern and western end of that line there live the most dolichocephalic, prognathous, curly-haired, dark-skinned of men — the true Negroes. Essays
  • On a serious note, Acosta adds, "Most difficult to take in was that princely roles were only danced by the blue-eyed, blond males and not dark-skinned ones - even in Cuba."
  • In the thrones sat two fair-skinned, blue-eyed maidens.
  • Instead, it lies with an increasing number of liberal intellectuals who once supported him but now regard him as being too thin-skinned, overbearing and – they fear – increasingly authoritarian. Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Is 'Papa' still a father figure to Turks? | Observer profile
  • It was going to be very hot today, and the fair-skinned Jazmine Venter did not like the heat. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Instead, he designed the double-skinned dome to be supported by a series of internal circumferential rings that would make the dome seem to rise skyward without any visible means of support. Jane Chafin: Brunelleschi's Dome
  • It is true that there is such a thing called colorism in our society in which lighter - skinned people are viewed more positively than darker-skinned ones. CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2010
  • The rare Boar fish is usually only about 15-20cm long, thick-skinned and spiky.
  • The sight of a fair-skinned woman in a sari or salwar kameez invites stares.
  • You have to be thick-skinned enough to shrug it all off and continue to forge ahead.
  • I was lying on the ground, and I had skinned my knees and my elbows on the asphalt.
  • Production had stopped come 1992 although the vehicle's engine, transmission, chassis, and other important details lived on in the Volvo 940, which was in essence a reskinned 740.
  • You do need to be thick-skinned to survive as a politician here.
  • There is a bunch of stuff I don't like or need, but we won't go there so as to not offend the sensitive and thin skinned.
  • Berlin is sharper still on his own thin-skinned self. He belittles his large philosophical gifts, finds publication an agony and worries to correspondents that his work is rot.
  • He's really a thick - skinned gate - crasher.
  • This may well have caused mild offence, but anyone thick-skinned enough to freeload should be able to handle it. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was a fire going with a spit on it, the skinned deer being cooked to perfection.
  • While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
  • Warm woolly sheepskinned lined slippers sounded just the ticket.
  • So as soon as the bamboos were skinned, the fishermen coated them with a natural insect repellent.
  • They look like specific, persuasive individuals and Cameron and his artists succeed at the difficult challenge of making Neytiri a blue-skinned giantess with golden eyes and a long, supple tail, and sexy. James Cameron’s Avatar = Disney’s Pocahontas » Scene-Stealers
  • They are smallish, bright green, thin-skinned, bell-shaped peppers that are very flavorful but usually not hot, although there may be one or two hot ones in every few dozen. Your Guide to the Best in Summer Food
  • Thin-skinned crab ravioli are adrift in a gingery consommé studded with the same golden beets that brighten up his citrus-and-miso-dressed mesclun salad.
  • One of the attackers is described as fair-skinned, aged 20 to 25 years, about 167cm tall, with a slim build and brown hair. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • The darker-skinned and wiry subofficer hurried toward Mykel, careful to keep his head below the top of the wall. Cadmian's Choice
  • I have found the Maalem, master of a bakehouse, a short, olive-skinned, wild, and wiry little man, whose yellowed eyes and contracting pupils tell a tale of haschisch and kief that his twitching fingers confirm. Morocco
  • I saw weapons brandished as the whooping and yelling grew louder; here was Spotted Tail, his huge buckskinned figure thrusting through the throng as he shouted to Young-Man-Afraid; now he was under the canopy, addressing Mills. Isabelle
  • And this stretch of the Green is famous as the site of the riotous rendezvous that drew those buckskinned adventurers here in the waning summers of the fur trade.
  • There stood a dark-skinned adolescent with close-cropped hair, whose gender I could detect only because of her ruffly dress.
  • Toast the skinned almonds in a dry frying pan over a medium-high heat. Times, Sunday Times
  • The drug company was originally interested in the stuff as a drug to help light-skinned people get better suntans.
  • From a notoriously thin-skinned TV celebrity to an ageing novelist of the club generation, the pastiches are as transparent as they are hilarious.
  • There be two of these things; and one is an image of a tall woman of middle-age, red-haired, white-skinned, and meagre, and whiles she has a twiggen rod in her hand, and whiles a naked short sword, and whiles nought at all. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
  • Kara, you're really not the most thick-skinned of people.
  • Blonde, blue-eyed, fair-skinned Disa moves to Japan with her Norwegian mother.
  • In the red corner sat a butch, dark-skinned, muscleman baring his teeth.
  • But the criticism, will do a lot more than make his lower lip tremble, it will melt the facade of confidence, and reveal the thin skinned egotist beneath. Obama gives a big thank you to fundraisers
  • Thereupon they said to me, “Remember, O youth, that should ill befal thee we will not again harbour thee nor suffer thee to abide amongst us;” and bringing a ram they slaughtered it and skinned it. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Inventory of the "taxi": one bullet right in the face of my Vickers; one perforative bullet in the motor; the steel stone had gone clear through it as well as the oil reservoir, the gasoline tank, the cartridge chest, my glove ... where it stayed in the index finger: result, about as if my finger had been slightly pinched in a door; not even skinned, only the top of the nail slightly blackened. Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air
  • The man is described as dark-skinned and clean shaven with short hair. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • This movement will be the demise of the republican party, they represent a cause that most Americans cannot identify with, I wonder if any of the Tea - (B) aggers would have the chance, would they change place with a person of a darker skinned, ethnic origin, my guess is not. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • Under the old eyes of a principal whose narrow glance is ample to subdue but not appall, the children spill around the skinned and limbless maple as if outside the temple of a declining god of simple rituals easily met. Under the Maypole
  • Every man must be his own security, my dark-skinned friend, till he can find a bailsman. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
  • He has crossbred a small, bare-skinned bird with a regular boiler chicken as part of a research project to develop succulent, low fat poultry that is environmentally friendly.
  • You do need to be thick-skinned to survive as a politician here.
  • That is the sort of dense-skinned ignorance which makes one unspeakably angry -- the ignorance which, because it has heard of or read a letter from some brave-hearted youngster, making light of hardships for his mother's sake, therefore flies to the conclusion that everything written and spoken about the horrors of this war is humbug, and what the Army calls "eyewash" -- a big conspiracy to deceive the people who are not there. Letters from France
  • His skin was darker than a Urani's wont and slightly olive skinned.

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