How To Use Swoon In A Sentence
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The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
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It also makes you swoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
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She played the tambourine, the xylophone, and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
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No sentimental swooning with love for Austen.
Times, Sunday Times
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This time the swoon was a deathly one, and did not yield easily.
Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.
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The boy smiled toothily, and more girls swooned.
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The flock simultaneously screamed and swooned as Way crooned "Cancer," a dirge about a slow death from the title illness, all while backlit with a massive white spotlight and engulfed in a faux smoke haze.
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Some of the fans swooned at the sight of their beloved stars.
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A more light-minded woman than Anna Reynolds might have swooned at the romance of this troubled courtship.
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The swoony new British film My Summer of Love conveys this phenomenon with unusual power.
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Getting suited and booted makes many women swoon, but leave out the formal tie so you look different from a day at the office.
The Sun
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I never understood the screaming hysteria, swooning, and sobbing that seem conventional behaviour for thronging female audiences at big rock concerts.
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It's great that we swoon over the relationships we see in romantic comedies and cheesy sitcoms, but real life isn't like that.
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Some people may swoon over fluffy animals - but not Maria.
Times, Sunday Times
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The young girls swoon when they see their favorite pop singer.
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In the eighth round, she faced syncope, which means a faint or swoon.
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Smile and swoon as much as you like at the flowers, but it won't help you cut through the crowds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her first feature, La Ciénaga, or The Swamp, exuded a fetid, toxic atmosphere: a film on the verge of swooning, overcome by its own unwholesomely sensual fumes.
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Virtually every woman in the '20s swooned over Valentino.
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Funny, but I thought her continuous chaine turns at the end were gorgeous, and I thought it was supposed to look out of control, that she was supposed to swoon, falling into his arms.
Tonya Plank: Shannon Elizabeth Needs to Stomp That Latin Out
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Dreamy, swoony indie pop that calls out to sensitive sweater nerds and English majors everywhere.
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He gave me his famous lopsided smile and I suddenly knew what it felt like to be one of those girls who swooned at the sight of him.
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But since I noticed that by the second commercial break the only person whose name I knew was Jamie, the dishy doctor our nurses swoon over, I'll leave you to work it out for yourselves.
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Better yet, that was the album's focus, with the swoony schmaltz-experiments Fridmann usually abets providing only the thinnest layer of icing.
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The young girls swoon when they see their favorite pop singer.
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It's tragic!" swoons Jeffrey in mock horror.
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It also makes you swoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yawn in a semiswoon lay awailing and (hooh!) what helpings of honeyful swoothead (phew!), which ear-piercing dulcitude!
Finnegans Wake
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It also makes you swoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two party patrons swooning over the calorific Oreos were Patty Godfrey and Lyn Stewart.
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The foxy temptress and swooning beauty of popular imagination was a violent pragmatist for whom death held no chill.
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Similarly, his image of St. Francis conveys the saint's swooning spirituality with all the appropriate trappings - halo, monastic robe, stigmata and the animals to which he preached.
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Straight back to her dinner of ham and pickled beets, then an immediate swoon of profound, dreamless sleep.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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His biceps bulged; his abdomen rippled and the mere sight of him made the faint-hearted swoon.
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The nominating system, despite the folksy patina that quadrennially makes reporters swoon, is thoroughly idiotic, and it's gotten worse every time than the cycle before, yet we treat it like a force of nature, not an act of hacks.
Marty Kaplan: President Giuliani. President Romney. President Huckabee. President Just-Shoot-Me.
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Reuters New York Giants players Still, the schedule lends credence to Coughlin's insistence that there's no trend to his teams' second-half swoons, just coincidence, and that maybe there's something a tad pat in the idea of an inevitable Giants "collapse.
A Study in Second Halves
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That sort resents the 'girl' in the situation because she's getting more attention by being a sexual attractant and not actually 'earning' her place as a TRUE swooner in the manly bully's pack.
Speaking of indescribable stupidity …
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Toryn studied her for a long moment while he bit back a dozen comments that would likely cause her to swoon in appalled shock.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six
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They had nutritionists swooning but Oliver soared clear over double-oxers, and Cassidy outsang the birds.
The Elvis Latte
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Getting suited and booted makes many women swoon, but leave out the formal tie so you look different from a day at the office.
The Sun
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Hero is publicly denounced by Claudio on her wedding day, falls into a swoon, and apparently dies.
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Into the valley aswoon, listening to the harmony of night.
Sandhya Songs of Twilight
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Aside from a swooning housing market, soaring energy prices, a credit crisis and fresh concerns about jobs, this fall was one of the balmiest on record.
Lookahead: Can It Get Worse?
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Copper and cadmium yellow and rust and persimmon and vermillion - what a swoon of color.
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Also special: Kurt, who gets a big swoony win as well — no trophy, but a trophy boyfriend, plus a performance spotlight alongside Blaine after schooling the Warblers star on his "numerous" solos: "I feel like we're Blaine and the Pips.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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Maidens and old hags alike swooned in his presence.
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With timing so flawless and a tenor so strong he made bobby-soxers swoon and tough guys cry, the awkward kid from Hoboken became the standard bearer for almost all aural bliss.
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However, my frantic eye-fluttering demonstrations merely provoked inquiries after my contact lenses rather than the swoons of desire I had anticipated.
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George Pataki have felt it necessary to lend the dignity of their offices to the national swoon this incident has provoked.
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Seafood platters swoon for this.
Times, Sunday Times
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Never without his denim jacket, loose white shirt, and dark, black Levis, all the girls swooned at the sight of his puppy-dog-brown eyes and combed back brown hair.
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When Hasan saw her in this state of torment and misery and ignominy and infamy, he wept till he fainted; and when he recovered he saw his children playing and their mother aswoon for excess of pain; so he took the cap from his head and the children saw him and cried out, “O our father!”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It challenges the listener, one minute cutting you blankly dead in your tracks, the next minute swooning you with a roughly cut appeal.
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Andrew Strauss's men also provided the evening with a degree of paparazzi-friendly A-list heft: the shrillest cheers of the evening on the red carpet outside MediaCity were reserved for Alastair Cook, emerging swooningly tuxedoed from his vast limousine.
Mark Cavendish a fitting winner of BBC Sports Personality of Year
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A faint-hearted woman, Mirjan Akhtar, swooned and died of fright.
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Then Marjanah dismounted from her horse, and Al – Ghazban did in like sort, and they made fast the bridles and helped the Princess to dismount, for she was aswoon from excess of anguish.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Smile and swoon as much as you like at the flowers, but it won't help you cut through the crowds.
Times, Sunday Times
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As he told it, his swoon was a mere untoward incident and hindrance in a spiritual drama, the thrill of which, while he described it, passed even to her.
Robert Elsmere
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Which is redolent with the central tenets of surrealism that made Lamarkin swoon (“beauty will be convulsive or not at all.”), when it involved a deep awareness of the unconscious, before it became a synonym for indolence and an excuse for the dirty word of indifference.
Nadja | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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I am arguably the least ladylike swooner of all time!
Regretsy – PURE UNADULTERATED AWESOME SAUCE
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Virtually every woman in the '20s swooned over Valentino.
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I may have to revise my claims that I don't swoon over living artists to the same extent as I do the dead.
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‘Here you go, sweetheart,’ she swooned as the kitten hastily lapped up the milk with its little pink tongue.
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Yet Far From Heaven is a triumph on all counts, from Elmer Bernstein's swoony yet sabre-toothed score to the precise work of the cast.
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She struggled to her feet with grim determination, took one wobbly step, swooned and collapsed.
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If that wasn't enough, he plays a dishy, sensitive stand-in father in the film, which is guaranteed to have the nation swooning and asking for more.
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Soft and dreamy, a perfect pre-echo of the song's exquisitely swooning melancholy, the guitar lead-in to
The Guardian World News
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The first time my own transgressions were revealed to me by this handy gizmo, I nearly swooned from the shame, but we needn’t discuss that.
The Case of the Mysterious ¶ or Things Your Creative Writing Instructor Never Told You
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He has planned his first swoony days in office, a post-election honeymoon, but with the United Nations, not the U.S. Congress.
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The press, all aswoon over McCain's manliness -- many of whom obsess over this because they're still working out their Boomer man-issues -- claimed that General Clark was somehow "attacking" Senator McCain or even more hallucinegenically "swift-boating" him.
Last Dance, Last Chance for Loooove
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Watson's orotund voice is complemented by swooning strings, lush orchestration and gloriously cheery tempi, conjuring the Med, lemon trees and a large dollop of la dolce vita straight into your living room.
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And when his lines were ended he wept, till he swooned away, and abode in his swoon a long while; but as soon as he came to himself, he looked right and left and seeing no one in the desert, he became fearful of the wild beasts; so he clomb to the top of a high mountain, where he heard the voice of a son of Adam speaking within
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I can't swoon into the arms of a lover like other women are supposed to do.
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You shouldn't come here merely to revel in birthdays and anniversaries but to focus on and swoon over dishes like sweetbreads en cocotte with ginger and licorice.
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(Soundbite of song from album “Empty Houses Are Lonely”) CHRISTIAN HOARD reporting: On first listen to Tom Brosseau's mostly acoustic songs, his biggest asset seems to be a voice that recalls the androgynous swoops and swoons of sensitive compatriots, like Jeff Buckley and Devendra Banhart.
Tom Brosseau: 'Empty Houses Are Lonely'
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The consensus is that Obama's mid-term swoon has begun and the health care bill is going to be the first casualty.
Booker Rising
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To support his point, he cites Ireland and Latvia's short-term spikes in unemployment, economic swoons and high interest rates since they cut their stimulus spending.
This Is No Time For More Federal Stimulus
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All of us have watched her swoon over many different male characters in movies, and then we have watched the male characters swoon over her at least a dozen times.
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When I asked him to explain he said it's because other than the fact that the word just sucks, I am not a "swooner", I don't swoon.
Aflux
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Aesthetically, unselfconsciousness has often apotheosized eros - the effortless pubescent grace of the Athenian youth ignited the pederastic swoon of seemingly all Greek thought.
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Since 1976, when Einstein on the Beach, written with the composer Philip Glass, was performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Robert Wilson has acquired a reputation as an all-around showman, a hip, Texan Wagner who produces enormous, expensive 'intermedia' spectacles in Europe and is followed by swooning disciples and donors.
Lovely to Look At
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Having someone swoon in your arms may sound romantic, but you should probably get the swooner to the nursing station, just in case.
Undefined
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The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable.
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It lives up to its subtitle, but not in a weak and swoony way.
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Portraits: You swoon, you sigh, why deny it uh-oh!
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The drumming is every bit as good as the guitar and bass. ‘Endlessly’ too, is a welcome change from the bombastic operatics, as Matt brings it all down, swooning over a drifting, two tone synth, backed by a simple, lamenting tin-beat.
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This is a swoony set of chilled-out bliss - like the last hazy days of summer as they melt into fall.
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But that doesn't mean that, amid the swooning of his unquestioning admirers, the point should not be kept in mind.
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In fact, I've said as much from the depths of a battered sofa - oohing and aahing, swooning even - over his food, cleanliness, new hairdo, posh voice and green top.
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In the medical terminology of the period, fainting, swooning, and various states that involve the loss of sensation or consciousness are referred to by the technical terms "syncope" and "lipothymy" (or lypothymia).
Ildiko Csengei
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Is your ego so overinflated that you would think one kiss in the dark would make me weak in the knees and swoon?
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Perhaps this is why the word "swooned" is so apt: "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
The Journey Westward
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Those of us with a bit of eastern European culinary indoctrination swoon at the idea of prune-filled pastries.
Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: The much maligned prune
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The city slicker high school boy with good looks, a girl and enough attitude to burn, appears with aforementioned bike, impresses his mates and sends the girl into a swoon.
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Before I can swoon, he adds, helpfully: “And she has your underbite.”
Knowing Jesse
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Maybe even oh please, oh please sexually deviant or deliciously filthy in the eyes of a panicky, manic depressive Christian God, something that would make priests swoon, Mormons moan and more than a few Republican senators run off to the bathhouse for a hot sweat and a rubdown?
Mark Morford: Hello, Sinner! What Are You Guilty of Today?
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It's got just about everything: wonderful themes, splendid virtuosic writing, great orchestral color, moments to make you swoon or drop your jaw.
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His voice was husky and deep, definitely swooning material.
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I focused on what he was saying, and gave my best tip to make any woman swoon.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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These new automatic telephones, which are said to make the business of getting a number so easy, will mean (we suppose) that we will be called up fifty times a day -- instead of (as now) a mere twenty or thirty, while we are swooning and swinking over a sonnet.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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Certainly, orchestras have swooned under his so-called softly-softly approach; he apparently never raised his voice during his half century of conducting.
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But politics would seem to call for fairly exacting acuity, and Michal Rovner's swoony images of intractable real-world problems have angered some viewers.
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Whether she believed me, God knows, but she demanded particulars of a most intimate nature, inviting comparison between the Silk One and herself, and that inevitably led to another glorious thrashing-match which restored her amour-propre and left me in what I once heard a French naval officer describe as a condition of swoon.
Watershed
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But that has not stopped thousands of people swooning over his chiselled cheekbones.
The Sun
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Young girls are almost duty-bound to swoon over Yume's studly instructor.
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I had hoped that my roommate would not have been one of those girls who swooned at the sight of those two ignoramuses.
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Cilea's alternately swooning, scintillating and thundering score does much to ennoble the overwrought claptrap of the opera's libretto.
Review: Washington Concert Opera's 'Adriana Lecouvreur' at Lisner Auditorium
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Virtually every woman in the '20s swooned over Valentino.
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I was like to swoon, and had to grab a nearby canebrake rattlesnake for support.
Kenny Jarrett, in Perspective
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If you go here, you get a very nice slide show filled with swoon-worthy pix.
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And right so he smote his father Arthur, with his sword holden in both his hands, on the side of the head, that the sword pierced the helmet and the brain-pan, and therewithal Sir Mordred fell stark dead to the earth; and the noble Arthur fell in a swoon to the earth, and there he swooned ofttimes.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2
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Etiquette and formality are the antiquated attributes that make her readers swoon.
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Did tehy bofe need a ly-doun on teh swoonin cowch?
It’s my list of all - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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In the North Gallery, art historian Ben Divall joins the eponymous owner of the Jonathan Hope collection in curating this show, exploring "the centuries-long trade and interaction between Indian textile and Javanese batik designs," with some swooningly beautiful hangings luxuriously displayed.
An Explosion of Visual Arts
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The icing on the decay is a swoony style, which prioritizes effect over meaning, and offers sensual pleasure at best.
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The victory came a year after a late-season swoon dropped the Orangemen from the top 10 to the NIT, something that fueled their returning players.
USATODAY.com - Syracuse defense squeezes Sooners out of East title
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The mellow tracks mix gauzy female harmonies with easy rhythms for a swoony effect.
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Housing sales and prices continue their interminable swoon, which is a serious drag on the overall economy and likely to remain through 2012.
Jerry Jasinowski: A Summer Global Slowdown
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Whisper sweet nothings in her ear, enchant her with roses and a serenade and woo her and make her swoon.
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Perfect for its target audience of swoony preteens.
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She felt a swoony desire to feel its roughness on her skin, to be made sore by it.
PROSPECT HILL
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She swooned dead away, and fell senseless on the floor ere Raynal could debarrass himself of the screen, and get to her.
White Lies
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DJs all over the world make clubs hop, booties boogie and hearts swoon.
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Those were the days when women wept facilely, "swooned," inhaled hartshorn, calmed themselves with sal volatile, and even went into hysterics upon slight provocation.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel
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This courageous gentleman and hardy soldier was near swooning from intensity of emotion.
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And at this day travelers ascending to the top of the Peak of Tenerife make the ascent by night and not by day, and soon after the rising of the sun are warned and urged by their guides to come down without delay, on account of the danger they run lest the animal spirits should swoon and be suffocated by the tenuity of the air.
The New Organon
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I love roses of all varieties, including the ditzy, girly ones like PdR Rose d'Ete and SSS Velvet Rose, but I find the Deep Roses most swoonworthy: Ta'if, Parfum Sacre, and the gorgeous Lyric, of which I am anxiously awaiting a split in the next few weeks.
Andy Tauer Une Rose Chypre: Perfume Review and a Prize Draw
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Do winter coats make her swoon?
Times, Sunday Times
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Virtually every woman in the '20s swooned over Valentino.
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And the lunger it takes the swooner they tumble two.
Finnegans Wake
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It's all drummy and swoony and Arabian-guitary, and she's singing in Persian, and it maketh the tingles run up and down the spine.
Life, She Goes On
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This swooning, soulful love song chimes with summery feel-good vibes.
The Sun
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I almost swooned with memories of my own long-lost Alternative Fiction & Poetry, and remembered my then-girlfriend, now-wife and I sitting at a little table at something I remember being called Swampfest but that might not be it in Madison Wisconsin, punchily joking that we were invisible, and selling three magazines.
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Ilona Domnich and Betabée Haas relished the wonderfully silly vocal rivalry in The Impresario, the swooning portamenti of one's ‘adagio, adagio!’
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In the North Gallery, art historian Ben Divall joins the eponymous owner of the Jonathan Hope collection in curating this show, exploring "the centuries-long trade and interaction between Indian textile and Javanese batik designs," with some swooningly beautiful hangings luxuriously displayed.
An Explosion of Visual Arts
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Do winter coats make her swoon?
Times, Sunday Times
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This swooning, soulful love song chimes with summery feel-good vibes.
The Sun
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Several girls practically swoon from the sight of him, and to tell you the truth I can't help but stare at him myself.
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She swooned into his arms for joy.
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Though he can still make the militantes in their Che Guevara T-shirts swoon with talk about throwing speculators in jail, standing up to Uncle Sam and browbeating the "egoistic" Brazilian elite, off the stump he has been quietly networking among bankers, factory owners, and CEOs.
Lula's Long Road
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Whatever her true malady, one thing was perfectly clear: whether her swoon was the press's fault or not, the Michiko-bashing era is over.
Imperial Swoon
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You need to tell us how you were reciting epic poetry, and making her swoon with a beautiful serenade!
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I love roses of all varieties, including the ditzy, girly ones like PdR Rose d'Ete and SSS Velvet Rose, but I find the Deep Roses most swoonworthy: Ta'if, Parfum Sacre, and the gorgeous Lyric, of which I am anxiously awaiting a split in the next few weeks.
Andy Tauer Une Rose Chypre: Perfume Review and a Prize Draw
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When a rock group "unplugs" to release a beloved single as an acoustic song, fans often swoon, but, will investors warm to the latest release from General Electric
GE Sings "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" (BHI, F, GE, GM, PBR, SLB, STD)
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Oh, and also he makes grown women swoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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I focused on what he was saying, and gave my best tip to make any woman swoon.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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Gone are the newly adolescent girls who giggle at boys and swoon over American Idol stars.
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The thought made me swoon with disbelief, so after eight songs had passed, I wasn't sure if it was the twelve cups of punch or the dance that was making me delirious.
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The audience swooned with delight.
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Not that they are markedly different from Let's See, but in his earlier books — The 7 Days Art Columns, 1988 – 1990 (1990), The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978 – 1990 (1991), and Columns and Catalogues (1994) — there is an urgency and a sense of jubilation as he antically swoons over or crosses swords with this artist or that museum show that (to my ear) have been missing in his voice of late.
An Eye on the Tremors
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Oh, and also he makes grown women swoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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I swoon with delight - if only because of "uxoriousness".
Lend Me A Tenor
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When Ditto ran onto the stage, the crowd went into a collective swoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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The girls swoon over this tall, dark and handsome man who needs a translator.
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Investors also discovered that too many telecommunications operations had glutted the market with too much capacity, and prices in that business swooned.
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She dances like the moonlight -- light, languorous, aswoon.
Perpetual Light : a memorial
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To this day I can feel myself almost swooning with shame as I stood, a very small, round-faced boy in short corduroy knickers, before the two women.
Collected Essays
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There is no such word as ‘swoony,’ I said indignantly.
Times Squared
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No doubt the Indian ladies had swooned at the sight of him.
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The poem satirizes merrily enough, being windy and rhapsodic, prostrate and profligate, swoony and bitter, and attacks various people.
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‘A secret, torrid love affair,’ Tori swooned falsely, winning a laugh from Jacquelyn and Ramona.
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The band's debut album won overwhelming critical acclaim, with fans swooning at their lysergic mixture of psychedelic textures and motorik rhythms.
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Crazy electro pop with a swooning sax solo.
The Sun
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It's tragic!" swoons Jeffrey in mock horror.
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Fred Thompson is often described as Reaganesque, which is pretty much all you have to say to make Republicans swoon.
CNN Transcript May 8, 2007
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The beggar fell down in a swoon from sheer hunger.
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Ian Storey is a wonderfully swaggering Pinkerton and his powerful baritone proves the perfect counterpoint to Butterfly's swooning.
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All of your talk of thyme and pine makes the aromatherapist in me swoon.
Grimpette - French Word-A-Day
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Then weeping overpowered her and she threw down the elute and ceased singing; whereat the folks were troubled and I slipped down a-swoon.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Fred Thompson is often described as Reaganesque which is pretty much all you have to say to make Republicans swoon.
CNN Transcript May 8, 2007
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He had a livid bruise on his cheek, which was swooned over by many admirers.
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This would further be followed by epileptic fits, swoons, faints, wails and finally a happy reunion.
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When Ditto ran onto the stage, the crowd went into a collective swoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can while away many happy hours looking at gossip web sites and ogling pictures of your favourite swoonsome celebrities instead of getting on with your work.
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There's a clever reference to Fawlty Towers as they settle in, with a tangible realism that distinguishes Being Human from swoony adolescent melodramas like The Vampire Diaries and the Twilight saga.
Roush Review: Being Human and More Weekend TV
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The young girls swoon when they see their favorite pop singer.
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He never missed the opportunity to show off the good looks his Italian mother gave him, and girls were always swooning over him.
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For months, the news media and the public have swooned over how beautiful and fairy-tale perfect the bride was.
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All epic landscapes, cinematic ambitions and cosmic crescendos, packed with so many swoony moods, chiming guitars and propulsive tempo shifts that you lose count 10 minutes into it, and don't care in the slightest.
Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2011
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It's too late to start swooning because there are real crash-hot businessmen in football.
Times, Sunday Times
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Far more fruitful for pure kitsch purposes is the unbeloved, resplendently bad 1970s version that helped send Barbra Streisand's movie career into an aesthetic swoon from which it never truly recovered.
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People may love what's next, but the Night at the Museum movies are a big swoony smooch to the old.
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Mondo's nattily attired in a black and white newsboy outfit, double swoon.
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway, Episode 9 "Race to the Finish"
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With great difficulty I refrained from falling to the ground in a heart-stopping swoon and gave a little wave.
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While continentals swoon with ecstasy over white asparagus, it is the green spears we crave.
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She tends to close her eyes on such occasions and pretend she has swooned, that she has been swimming naked somewhere in a magic forest and that the first man to come by is a dashing robber baron, not a shitten woodcutter with scab and seven children.
Archive 2009-08-01
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The "swoony" element in Keats 'sensuality (as when Porphyro grows "faint") I tried hard to like, and failed.
Surprised by Joy
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Both serious wine connoisseurs, Graf and Rydman collaborated with the chairs and bistro moderne chef Philippe Schmidt on a symphony of food and wine that had patrons swooning.
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And I repeated it; whereupon my cousin swooned again, and when she came to herself, she recited these two couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Sometimes, it made me feel a little sick to see all of those women swooning over my mother.
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Iris's great-grandmother might have "swooned" under such circumstances -- not so Iris, who fainted simply because of the strain imposed by failure to eat the queer fare provided by De Sylva and his associates.
The Stowaway Girl
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While you were busy swooning over Lady Gaga and Elton John combining pianic-forces, or maybe you were trying to decode the extreme censorship of Eminem, Lil 'Wayne and Drake's show-closing performance, someone was busy keeping me Grammy-entertained through twitter.
Hot Artists at Elbo.ws
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MOST boyband stars rely on their glossy hair to keep their admirers swooning.
The Sun
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He had never met a woman who wouldn't swoon at the sight or mention of death.
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If you've never seen their stage show, you can still get an eyeful from this album's black-and-white liner photos, which show the duo swooning or flopped like cast-off goth toys.
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No sentimental swooning with love for Austen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh, and also he makes grown women swoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the closest I had ever come to fainting; in fact, it was hard not to swoon dead away.
