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“Many beginning authors think that they can create a brilliant plot by adding layers of deception, betrayal, double-agents and triple-agents, lies wrapped within feints, etc.”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2008 » September
“Simpler Skills: Moves such as feints, drag backs and upper body feints can be applied more naturally when taking on or trying to beat an opponent.”
“These feints toward conciliation would be more convincing if Harry Reid were willing to bring the repeal bill to the Senate floor.”
“He brilliantly feints to shoot, throwing the Zambian defence off course, but having worked the opening, he drags his left-footed shot agonisingly past the right post.89 min: "Does anyone with knowledge of the stadium location know whether Drogba's penalty would have landed in the Congo or the Gulf of Guinea?" honks Simon Ward in London.”
The Guardian: Ivory Coast v Zambia - as it happened | Jacob Steinberg
“He feints one way, Alves slips, then goes the other to hit his cross that is blocked for a corner.”
The Guardian: Barcelona v Real Madrid – as it happened | Rob Bagchi
“So the plot begins to spool out enjoyably: Marianne and Willoughby, Elinor and Edward, Lucy Steele's secret, dramatic falls, deadly chills, ballroom feints and cancelled picnics.”
“Eubank is a smooth mover, full of feints and clever little shifts in power, and he throws quite a few more blows per round than did his father, a statuesque boxer in more ways than one.”
The Guardian: Tyson Fury stops Neven Pajkic to retain Commonwealth heavyweight title
“Rife with feints and obfuscation, claims and counterclaims, the 1960s quest for the heavens had been equal parts chess match, spy game, and schoolyard brawl.”
The Huffington Post: Neal Thompson: 50 Years Later: The Alan Shepard Freedom 7 Flight
“After days of firefights, feints and an ambush on unarmed local sheiks, the regime forces surrendered their hold on the vital local airport Tuesday morning—placing nearly all of eastern Libya outside Col.”
“Rand's strokes grew ever more ornate and elaborate, complex combinations of cuts and thrusts and feints, designed to make a foe open himself up for a killing stroke.”
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Libatious Lexemes
A list devoted to terms related to drinking; particularly alcohol.
reposado, armagnac, rhum agricole, tumbler, claret, medoc, muddler, tun, amontillado, amaro, chartreuse, calvados and 67 more...
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