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  • Also, he was teasingly interested in the certain small garments on which Dede worked, while she was radiantly happy over them, though at times, when his tender fun was too insistent, she was rosily confused or affectionately resentful. Chapter XXVII
  • Beginning almost teasingly, it builds to a thrillingly intense climax, Cave screaming that he's not afraid to die.
  • Teasingly hermetic, liltingly musical, these are not so much poems to decode or pull apart in search of a precept or motto, as poems to sink into or wander through, enjoying a cavalcade of sensory impressions.
  • The camera teasingly zooms into the blackness outside, then eases back again.
  • She addressed only me in a silky and flocculent voice, biting her lip teasingly after her words.
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  • The writer's deployment of language might be delightfully immediate, even teasingly trivial.
  • Some of it explicit, the rest hidden teasingly away - cyphers within cyphers - as if for his eyes alone.
  • As Yeager reaches his pinnacle, seemingly within reach of a stratosphere denied him, the astronauts are treated to an iconic burlesque by Sally Rand, her giant white feathered wings teasingly obscuring her naked body.
  • She smiled teasingly and blew a kiss at Leo as he began helping the bellboy load up the trolley with the luggage.
  • The woman who could become America's next first lady is teasingly called the taskmaster by her friends, her task tonight, to sell themselves as an attractive first couple. CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2008
  • ‘Of course I'll be alright, fusspot,’ she said teasingly.
  • Laurie put the small box down on a flat rock and teasingly batted Gil's hand away as he knelt down and tried to reach inside for a sandwich.
  • That question, so teasingly close to the right one, is, Why do people join terrorist groups?
  • 'Ah, Gerald,' she laughed, caressively, teasingly, 'Ah, what a fine game you played with the Professor's daughter -- didn't you now?' Women in Love
  • Mrs. Blackwell writes her teasingly about what she calls her obtuseness, going straight ahead with her work, never knowing when she was snubbed or defeated, giving the undiluted doctrine to people without ever perceiving their frantic efforts to escape, and ignoring all the humorous features of the campaigns. The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01
  • But you can get it strange wrathfully the teasingly undismayed all terrain truck deterrent that premier it, and we gave him the web gravimeter. Rational Review
  • After all, the author of "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Sabbath's Theater" has made a literary career out of fudging the line between his life and his fiction, writing endlessly aborn misogynistic protagonists teasingly named Philip. A Tale Of Exes And Ohs
  • Her legs went forever, her hair flowed with the cloak as the wind caught both and lifted them slightly, teasingly.
  • Ryan asked, but Meg could tell he wasn't irritated; his tone was teasingly amiable.
  • `You hate things to be out of order, don't you?' she said teasingly
  • It took five more years, a label change to Atlantic, and the teasingly sapphic hit ‘I Kissed a Girl’ before the Denver-raised New York resident began to set the record straight.
  • Through flashbacks, reminiscences and circuitous conversations, the questions echo and re-echo, teasingly existential, never quite igniting. Times, Sunday Times

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