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Bluffly outgoing, infallibly at ease in large groups, he seemed inhibited by screen intimacy.
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He seemed an ideal candidate: thick-skinned, determined, bluffly charming and a natural media performer.
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The head surgeon jokes bluffly, and a few people chuff or make the facsimile of laughter, to appease him.
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Ignored, Maximianus then ordered an unsuccessful hunting-down of this bluffly popular naval commander, who, with the means to buy loyalty if necessary, withdrew the fleet into Britain and proclaimed himself the third emperor.
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My Life in Pieces, 2010, p 41 She was dubbed "Marshal Boddington" by the young actors at the National (such as Michael Gambon and Derek Jacobi) during the 1960s, bluffly organising and rallying her troops.Callow, p. 42 She stayed at the National Theatre, until her retirement in 1987. Boddington was the first stage manager to receive the MBE for services to the theatre.
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" Delbanco (2005), 234 Throughout the majority of the novella, the crucial information that the self-liberated blacks have murdered all of the Spanish officers on board, excepting Benito Cereno, is withheld from the reader. This disruption of the ship’s status quo is repeatedly foreshadowed by Delano’s misperceptions about Benito Cereno and Babo's unusual relationship. During his visit aboard the slave carrier, Hershel Parker observes that Delano "repeats a pattern of suspicions-followed- by-reassurance, with progressively shorter periods in which suspicions can be allayed."Parker (2002), 239 He describes Melville's Delano as "bluffly good- natured, practical, and resourceful but intellectually obtuse, naively optimistic, impervious to evil." Parker (2002), 238 With regard to Melville’s choice to implement a third-person narration, John Bryant believes that no first-person narrator was used because it would have made the suspense hard to sustain, as first-person narrators "too easily announce their limitations.
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