How To Use Tongued In A Sentence
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Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and the Appeal of Socialism
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Deliciously charming or incredibly irritating, depending on your point of view, he is always ready with smooth-tongued flattery, eyes innocently beaming behind his spectacles.
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They fire off blasts of shockwave soul-punk that makes you feel like you just tongued an electrical socket.
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Robin, a sharp-tongued New Yorker, was working for a magazine aimed at woman issues as an assistant editor. Frank was Robin's two-day old boyfriend.
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The former silver-tongued charmer did not utter one word during the entire occasion.
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And at two places sharp-tongued women would not allow him to enter, frankly stating that icemen were too dirty creatures to allow inside the door of a respectable house; the women received their ten-cent cubes in pans and slammed the door in his face.
The Landloper
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Whenever anything goes wrong, politicians begin blaming their messaging operations, as if a better-chosen sound bite by a more silver-tongued aide would have spared them the consequences of their actions.
Column: What Ben Bernanke needs to tell Congress
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For example, we have mitre halving in Fig. 34, a mitre bridle joint in Fig. 74, a tongued and grooved mitre in Fig. 116, mitred mortise and tenon joints in Figs. 148 and 159, a dowelled mitre frame in Fig. 202, and a mitred dovetail in Fig. 286.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.
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For the next thing that was heard of her, and that by a mere chance, was that she was marred to Mynheer van Hunker, 'a rascallion of an old half-bred Dutchman, 'as my hot-tongued sister called him, who had come over to fatten on our misfortunes by buying up the cavaliers' plate and jewels, and lending them money on their estates.
Stray Pearls
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It's been bruited about by well-known theologians, sharp-tongued satirists and social critics (Mark Twain among others), but it's not really a very subtle point: The life of eternal blessedness sounds boring.
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Old gaffers recited love-poetry, and made the evening shadows creep with more tales about a Greek-tongued demon of the hills.
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However, the cornucopia finial of the original has been replaced by a pink-tongued dragon.
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His greatest strengths - the uncompromising determination, sharp-tongued irreverence, and unblushing idealism - turned out to be critical flaws.
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The silver-tongued Clent charms her with "phrases as vivid and strange as spices".
Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
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Moreover, says the performer, that painful experience is what led Shakespeare to become more than a sharp-tongued wit, more than the derivative writers of his era and ours.
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This strange expression comes from the north of England and is used, mainly by women in my experience, as a sharp-tongued and effective put-down of a certain kind of pushy, over-confident male.
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The sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey - tongued Shakespeare.
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golden-tongued
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A silver-tongued charmer with celluloid in his veins, he veers between boy-wonder genius and self-promoting charlatan.
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long-tongued
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Gone are the towering heels of last summer, to be replaced by thick-tongued brogues, clunky flatforms and Birkenstock-style sandals.
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Some are kind-hearted, some are sharp-tongued and some are doing nothing except having fun all day long.
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Eventually she spits out an animated lizard, a reference to a folk tale about a sharp-tongued girl whose speech is transformed from words into reptiles.
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Sliding without apparent effort into the baggy matrix of Apatow-ness, where every character — however half-assedly written — is allowed his or her lopsided human value, Brand played a sharp-tongued, oversexed cheeky-monkey rock star with the accent of a Blakean chimney sweep.
Brit Wit
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The sharp-tongued and nomenclature-obsessed Mr. O'Neill is well-known for coming up with the acronym BRICs, a grouping of fast-growing and large emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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Single and fortyish, Greenberg is intelligent, witty, sharp-tongued – and, like Florence, something of a lost soul; he is at a crossroads in his life.
5 Movie Clips from Noah Baumbach’s GREENBERG Starring Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig and Rhys Ifans – Collider.com
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That was what was wrong with him; he was still thinking about that stupid, acidic, bitter, sharp-tongued, amazing sophomore.
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Henry III, though undeniably pious, could also be sharp-tongued and quick-tempered - he is recorded as tearing up the clothes of one of his court jesters, and throwing another into the Thames.
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I am resolved to avoid all potentially explosive topics and I'm even mentally preparing myself not to take sharp-tongued jabs at my sister even though it's really easy and really fun.
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These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats.
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In the Bible, St Paul says that those who aspire to leadership 'must be serious, not double-tongued, not indulging in much wine, not greedy for money, they must hold fast to the mystery of faith with a clear conscience.
ANC Today
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Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman -- last stateside as perhaps the hottest Amanda and Elyot ever in Private Lives and before that as another pair of saturnine lovers in Les Liaisons Dangereuses -- also have their moments, as does Belton portraying a snake-eyed, quick-tongued Mrs. Wilton.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman Unleashes Acting Blizzard
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She was critical, she answered back, she was bad-mannered at table, sharp-tongued - all to impress that young horror.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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Here a silky tongued ganja salesman keeps us up to date with Indian pot terminology .
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There are deadly bar brawls, living gods made of molten bronze, silver-tongued demons, razor-clawed gargoyles, talking green-eyed spiders and page after page of broken bones and spilled blood.
Archive 2009-02-01
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For me to be overly critical and sharp-tongued wouldn't be a reflection of my true personality.
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The cast includes a seasoned drunk, a honey-tongued scandalmonger, a veteran who can never quite synchronise lines and moves, and a fretful worrier anxiously seeking the motivation for every piece of comic business.
Noises Off - review
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My son needs a sharp-tongued aunt to show him how to take care of the bullies.
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Much to her obvious delight, I'd tongued away the last vestiges of the toast before I dared answer.
THE MANANA MAN
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She became the sharp-tongued wife, he the hen-pecked husband.
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You'll never forget her as Kalinda Sharma, the sharp-tongued, keen-eyed investigator.
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If Brown's going to have any chance of capitalising on, say, the Budget, then you feel he's got to rein in his loose-tongued advisers and spinners, as well as some of his own inflated rhetoric.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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Carmichael's the usual handsome dud one expects in these kind of romances, but at least there's a great scene where, after discovering that Mary is actually one of the "harpies" of San Francisco who lures men to give up their gold, the two wayward lovers engage in some spiteful, sharp-tongued repartee across a roulette table.
Barbary Coast
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It's period perfect but feels contemporary and vibrant and it's because of Herman's ability to coordinate the visuals with the dialogue and recruit a cast that is not just nimble-footed but nimble-tongued as well so that, though they may trip over their various imbroglios, they don't stumble over their dialogue.
James Scarborough: The Importance of Being Earnest, Long Beach Playhouse Mainstage Theatre
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The old house had been built of the best materials, and its woodwork dowelled and mortised and tongued and grooved by men who knew their trade and had not learned to scamp their work.
The Colonel's Dream
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The others, including people with similar damage to other parts of the brain, were able to correctly place the sharp-tongued words into context.
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Yet the one shall be dubbed a hero, the other called an admirable fellow, and be contended for by every client, and his double-tongued abilities shall carry him through all the high preferments of the law with reputation and applause.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Viewers gazed in astonishment as the supposedly silver-tongued trial lawyer lurched from one inanity to the next.
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It is a gift, and this silver-tongued charmer has it in spades.
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Then he exploded and began to roar the other side, the loose-tongued, to verbal abuse.
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As ambassador in Washington, Mr. Haqqani was often referred to as "silver-tongued," a man able to communicate effectively with officials of different political persuasions.
A Hostage in Pakistan
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More plausible and quick-witted was a smooth-tongued operator who employed the alias ‘Ethelbert Louis Hector Alfred, Baron de Richemont’.
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Michael Sata, the silver-tongued victor who once worked for British Rail, may himself be from the liberation generation but he harnessed the frustrations of the young.
A good news story out of Africa brings hope | Ian Birrell
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To be double-tongued is to speak with a forked tongue, to be a liar and a deceiver, while a word wrester is one who picks and chooses his own interpretation of scripture in order to have it conform to his own lifestyle, rather than modifying his lifestyle according to the standard doctrine of his faith.
Languagehat.com: DOUBLE-TONGUED WORD WRESTER.
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It is, I think, the duty of Canada to give trumpet-tongued expression to Canadian public opinion against such fiendish doctrines; to broadcast her views throughout the world; to take the lead, if needs be, in arousing other nations, and thus to produce a world opinion that man is subject to divine laws.
A Complimentary Luncheon to The Right Honourable Sir William Mulock, Chief Justice of Ontario, Chancellor of the University of Toronto
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And this makes sense, you have to admit, in a moment of grief since Newt is so smooth-tongued and sort of a comforter.
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With sharp mind and witty words, the silver-tongued diplomat skillfully coped with the tough questions from the press.
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As teenagers, Jamie was easy-going and popular while I was sharp-tongued and more aloof.
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Everyone knows that the boss's wife is sharp - tongued, and no one dares provoke her.
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a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady
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We have been warned about Aleppo's honey-tongued vendors, but are unprepared for the wonders of the souks - a labyrinthine network of dark passageways, which form the world's biggest covered market.
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One of the more depressing aspects of this is the "news management" of the story by the BBC, who delightedly showed the Blairesque General Synod Claque (with a few principled dissentients) applauding this loose-tongued Archbishop.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Julia was a very tough, sharp-tongued woman.
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a smooth-tongued hypocrite
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Its best to get in reasonably early as it can be fiendishly difficult to get into, and the doorstaff can be unyielding and obdurate, despite your silver-tongued attempts to gain access.
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It was a powerful tale, and spun from the captivating silver-tongued artist who breathed life into its antique words, it brought deep, billowing swells of grief and joy to all who heard.
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Now, vexation at having missed the festivities made her sharp tongued.
JUST BETWEEN US
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He has also restricted traditional public access to City Hall and demanded civility and politeness from traditionally sharp-tongued and sarcastic New Yorkers.
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This doublethink is at the heart of forked-tongued politics.
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That would include sharp-tongued humor, strong observation, and surprising insights, not platitudes and legalisms.
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tongued boards
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Even worse, the Inaugural was a "double-tongued" address, for it renounced Lincoln's campaign promise of working toward the "ultimate extinction" of slavery, Douglass said.
John Stauffer: What Obama Can Learn from Lincoln's Inaugural
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It did his heart good to hear that sharp - tongued Sixth Treasure get told off in public.
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Sarah Silverman: Why did that acid-tongued pisher with a guitar pick have to ruin it for the rest of us?
Doree Lewak: My Jewish Achilles Whore
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It's aboot a mannie Kemp, he's a caird tongued fang
The Barns o' Beneuches
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And it is only ever used by loose-tongued people like Zaphod Beeblebrox in situations of dire provocation.
Making Light: Heads Up For Our Friends at Random House
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I also continued to obtain a few new birds, among which were two or three kinds of small hawks and falcons, a beautiful brush-tongued paroquet, Trichoglossus ornatus, and a rare black and white crow, Corvus advena.
The Malay Archipelago
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A blue-tongued skink and a bearded dragon are just some of the many varied creatures on display at a new centre dedicated to animals which has been officially opened.
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Anyone who studies theology will immediately note that to be called a "double-tongued word wrester" is not to be complimented.
Languagehat.com: DOUBLE-TONGUED WORD WRESTER.
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They may well be venal, amoral egomaniacs, but the one thing you can pretty much guarantee is that they will be sharp-tongued.
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In the first three years of his career, he was sharp-tongued, cocky and bullheaded, and he got ripped for it.
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Several leading members of the governing Democratic Party threw their support behind Mr. Kan, a sharp-tongued political veteran who earned a name for himself by battling Japan's powerful bureaucrats.
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But Hermes was angry because he was double-tongued, and struck him with his staff and changed him into
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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The open hall and galleries have suspended timber floors, and, rather than running floorboards over joists as we do, they use short tongued planks to span between grooves in the supporting beams.
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His wife, Pamela, whom fortunately he had left behind, was an acid-tongued woman who managed a fleet of launderettes.
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An exchange of livings had been arranged with an acquaintance who was incumbent of a church in the south of London, and as soon as possible the couple removed thither, abandoning their pretty country home, with trees and shrubs and glebe, for a narrow, dusty house in a long, straight street, and their fine peal of bells for the wretchedest one-tongued clangour that ever tortured mortal ears.
Life's Little Ironies
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Kaffrarian friends, so when two glib tongued scoundrels endeavored to claim my burrow on the score of prior occupation, they were soon hunted off.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
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Michael Sata, the silver-tongued victor who once worked for British Rail, may himself be from the liberation generation but he harnessed the frustrations of the young.
A good news story out of Africa brings hope | Ian Birrell
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My first call was answered by a woman who sounded very sharp-tongued and who gave me the third degree when I asked to speak to Derek.
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From the instant she'd recognized his style, she'd equated Vane Cynster with her father, another smooth-tongued, suavely elegant gentleman.
A RAKE'S VOW
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What an unflattering contrast to the unclad natives who had dominated yet blended with the scene-the girl the prototype of a swaying palm, the boy that of a tough young bloodwood beside the creek, among the topmost branches of which a crimson-flowered mistletoe made a splash of colour in harmony with the single red feather from the wing of a black cockatoo which the soft-tongued youth had entangled in his hair.
Tropic Days
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Alan could be as ferocious and mocking a critic as the sharp-tongued Sebastian.
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A big-boned, sharp-tongued farm girl, Josie is the beating heart of this play and the kind of role actors dream of through years of movie walk-ons and commercials.
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She was critical, she answered back, she was bad-mannered at table, sharp-tongued - all to impress that young horror.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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Now, vexation at having missed the festivities made her sharp tongued.
JUST BETWEEN US
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So I'll join them here as a new, different word, and say that a double-tongued word wrester is one who finds a home in more than one language and who draws forth words from the zeitgeist like plucking drowning sailors from the sea, or like pulling thorns from the paw of a lion, or like picking blackberries from the brierpatch.
Languagehat.com: DOUBLE-TONGUED WORD WRESTER.
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There are many cases where a single pollinator is responsible for pollinating many species of plants, for example long-tongued flies (Tabanidae and Nemestrinidae) are the exclusive pollinators of many genera of petaloid monocots as well as Pelargonium and Erica; a butterfly is the exclusive pollinator of a phylogenetically disparate group of red-flowered and autumn-flowering species; hopliine (monkey) beetle pollination has evolved convergently in many genera, etc.
Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
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The Main Street store was run by Aldini the Magician—real name Alex Weiner—a mustachioed, tart-tongued spiel-meister who taught me all the Yiddish words I know, including the invaluable tuchis meaning “ass”, which he used as a code word to indicate that a sexy girl had come into the shop.
Born Standing Up
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It seems as though Ray's numbers are up as Paul O'Grady returns as the savage-tongued bingo caller, whose house is most definitely not in order.
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When the fools have gone home, the politicians take over center stage, although some sharp-tongued critics say there is scarcely any difference between the two.
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She was sharp-witted and sharper-tongued, able to skewer an idea or an opponent, a most unwomanly trait he found utterly exciting.
PAINT THE WIND
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Moreover, says the performer, that painful experience is what led Shakespeare to become more than a sharp-tongued wit, more than the derivative writers of his era and ours.
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He seduces a lonely teenage girl (Evan Rachel Wood) and becomes a hero to her younger brother, but dangerous forces lurk beneath his silver-tongued surface.
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Consequently, the deepest nectaried Orchids and the longest tongued moths would each confer on the other an advantage in the battle of life.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
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The day after Cesc Fábregas was on the front pages wearing a Barcelona shirt that had been forcibly pulled over his head by two medal-laden mischief-makers, World Cup-winning goalkeeper-captain Iker Casillas is getting all loose-tongued about the chances of another top player swapping London for Spain.
Football transfer rumours: Sami Khedira to Chelsea?
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Some sharp-tongued commentators even take delight in instigating crowds and fomenting a rebellion.
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He accounted for their animosity by my defiances: no good family, having such a charming daughter, would care to be defied, instead of courted: he must speak his mind: never was a double-tongued man. —
Clarissa Harlowe
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Produced by Irving Thalberg for MGM, this salty-tongued, high-seas romance adventure features Gable, then "King of Hollywood", in one of his sauciest and naughtiest roles, playing a caustic, philandering ship captain on the South Pacific who feels outclassed and unworthy of Russell's attention.
John Farr: Clark Gable: King of Hollywood
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Brazil's sharp-tongued Finance Minister Guido Mantega quickly became an international sensation when he coined the phrase "currency wars" to refer to excessive currency manipulation in these times of high volatility and dollar debasement.
Forbes.com: News
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FLUFF APPRECIATION DAY (In honor of all those who excel in the art of bureaucratic bafflegab, delightful double-speak, and twisted-tongued titillations)
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Then next day the boy, who was very strongly recommended by the carpet seller's vinegar tongued wife; arrived with his friend
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Those who arrived in that historic election aren't ready to dub the silver-tongued, silver-haired Georgian the answer to Mitt Romney just yet.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Marketplace: Do not have the glib - tongued legend middle mouth, only do not have a monograph heart.
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Here are three techniques of top performers that you can use in your own workplace interactions to be more persuasive and influential by Monday morning: 1. Lose your attachments: We tend to think of great persuaders as silver-tongued devils who manipulate others.
Lisa Earle McLeod: How to Be More Persuasive and Influential at Work
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Within this context, bumbling assistants and loose-tongued associates screw up and screw each other to a dry, droll, parodic effect.
Brad Balfour: Q&A: Channeling Cheney/Rumsfeld, Veteran Actor David Rasche Steps In the Loop
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Lately I've found myself working for a sharp-tongued buttercup.
AMBERBEACH
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His sharp - tongued criticism pulled me up thought.
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He was also a loner (despite two marriages), a sharp-tongued cynic at times, and a self-centered man who could serve humanity yet express little empathy for the problems of those close to him.
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The most remarkable were the fine crimson lory, Eos rubra — a brush-tongued parroquet of
The Malay Archipelago
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Nailing ceilings, one nails a wood tongued-and-grooved board in place while standing on planks laid across sawhorses.
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Silver-haired and silver-tongued, Dr Sanders was talking to her in soft, encouraging tones.
THE MAIN CAGES
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These are visited by a diverse array of animals, including bees, hawk moths, beetles, butterflies, long-tongued flies, hummingbirds and bats.
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The three overlapping tales are told in rhyming monologues and feature among them a mother driven to violent revenge, a young girl looking for love and a silver-tongued serial killer.
This week's new theatre
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tongued shoes
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He’d been called silver-tongued by more than one lover in the past.
Deep Kiss Of Winter
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Happy to break with the stereotype of the demure wife, sharp-tongued Nobuko relishes the role of Kan's toughest critic and famously spars with him over everything from household chores to tax reform.
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A big-boned, sharp-tongued farm girl, Josie is the beating heart of this play and the kind of role actors dream of through years of movie walk-ons and commercials.
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It's a double-tongued strategy, employed in tandem with the deliberate use of the word "racist" to describe affirmative action programs and other measures to overcome the effects of historical racializing.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Police and trading standards representatives will warn the elderly of the scams and ploys used by silver-tongued tricksters to get their hands on their hard-earned cash.
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The sharp-tongued commentator said the airwaves should be liberalised to allow different politicians to run their own stations, and to enhance freedom of speech.
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The three rooms were lined with sweet-smelling tongued and grooved cypress.
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No. He is, in fact, a mouth-breathing brat, an uncommunicative cipher, a selfish unappreciative loafer, an aggressively stupid misfit and a foul-tongued, futureless creep.
Kim Morgan: Bobcat's Family Values: World's Greatest Dad
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Stoneville spoke to him as if he were some loose-tongued nitwit, and now Jarret was going to do the same.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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You don't regard yourself as a smooth-tongued rogue but I do.
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Instead, longer spurs only seem to be an advantage when long-tongued insects are the sole pollinators.
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The evil in this country is not presently in the Whitehouse; it is in the churches and radio shows being led by hatefilled preachers and opinionators who suckled on racist bigotry and are finallly having their chance to spew their forked-tongued poison milk of inhumaneness on the masses.
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Siddle, fast and loose-tongued, had a newish ball in his hand; Nathan Hauritz, not exactly the spirit of Shane Warne incarnate but still bowling nicely, was teasing from the River Taff End. Anderson lasted for 1 hour and 12 minutes, facing 53 balls, and Panesar, remarkably, survived 35 balls.
First Test Drama Was Torture -- But Worth It
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They may well be venal, amoral egomaniacs, but the one thing you can pretty much guarantee is that they will be sharp-tongued.
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She tongued the inside of her cheek and tasted blood.
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`David," he announced levelly, `someone has been giving you the impression that I may have become loose-tongued.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Something happened to my fluency in the weeks I missed in the middle of the year: I left a tongued-tied speaker and returned quite happy to babble at will, however ungrammatically.
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Early casks had butt joints but later the staves were tongued and grooved.
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Its shape has a little to be like a pigeon, but the neck is shorter, sharp- tongued hook song, tail feather curl.
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Harriet has been kicked out of her French lover's Greenwich Village apartment on the fairly reasonable basis that she is an acid-tongued slugabed who does nothing but sit around watching quiz shows and insulting his friends.
After Claude by Iris Owens – review
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Emilie was precocious in many ways, and by the age of 16, when she was introduced to the court at Versailles, she had matured into an attractive, intelligent and sharp-tongued woman.
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The reptile population ranges from a variety of venomous and harmless snakes to the endangered blue-tongued lizard and the goanna, a monitor lizard that grows to 8 feet.
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Supersellers puts silver-tongued salespeople to the test.
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Begin disliking arrogance is proud, and hate sharp-tongued person, hate affectation outfit innocent people hate those who makes me feel sick.
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Most memorable of the main characters was Mr Humphries, senior sales assistant in the menswear department, a camp and effete man, sharp-tongued and as light as a fairy on his feet.
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The silver-tongued Casanova, who turned deception into an art form, convinced them to abandon their studies, betray their wealthy farming families and jettison their self-respect.
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Now he has produced another star turn in Speed-the-Plow, which requires a very different, much more edgy and sharp-tongued style.
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A fax was promised to me but never came; the silver-tongued deceiver will be made to pay.
