tete-a-tetes

This was a place of nooks and bowers, artificial grottoes and other places suitable for romantic tete-a-tetes, all planted around with bushes of fragrant leaves or flowering vines, all planned in such a way that each was invisible to the next or the one behind.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

He's looked like a frontline punt returner in practice, and he's charmed the veterans on this team, from the irascible guard Rich Seubert, who nicknamed him "Sparky," to safety Deon Grant, who crams what he's gleaned in 10 years as an NFL starter into daily tete-a-tetes with Mr. Brown.

Diminutive Rookie Chases NFL Dream 2010

Neoconservative commentator Bill Kristol returned to The Daily Show last night to have another one of his affable-yet-contentious tete-a-tetes with host Jon Stewart.

Barrett Brown: Weekly Standard, P.J. O'Rourke Suddenly Opposed to Making Fun of People's Clothes 2009

My point is that none of them are coming out looking particularly good in these tete-a-tetes.

Hillary: Obama's Foreign Policy Experience Consists Of Him Living Abroad At Age Of 10 2009

Neoconservative commentator Bill Kristol returned to The Daily Show last night to have another one of his affable-yet-contentious tete-a-tetes with host Jon Stewart.

John David Lewis: Imagine a 'Right' to Car Insurance 2009

The film weakens its pull ever so often with some predictable "after-school special" scenes (the classic student-guidance counselor tete-a-tetes; the too well-meaning teacher played by a too beautiful Paula Patton), but the acting by the lead character and by Mon'que -- and the funny idiosyncratic fantasy scenes -- make the film, based on Sapphire's novel Push, an emotionally rewarding experience.

Karin Badt: Cannes 2009: Mariah Carey in Precious 2009

I've been stimulated by tete-a-tetes with David Hyde Pierce.

Seducing Matt Mitcham 2009

In return for ponying up the bucks for the institute's junkets, top corporate executives get private tete-a-tetes with our lawmakers.

Congress Ethics Rules Undermined by Weasels 2009

Neoconservative commentator Bill Kristol returned to The Daily Show last night to have another one of his affable-yet-contentious tete-a-tetes with host Jon Stewart.

Dave Johnson: Maybe We Really Do Want Government to Make the Decisions 2009

My point is that none of them are coming out looking particularly good in these tete-a-tetes.

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