Frank Bruni There are people who blushingly downplay their impact on the events around them.
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On the one hand, it's nice to get a hero with Ricky Whittle's impressive musculature who has little machismo and who blushingly admits that he likes little marshmallows in his hot chocolate.
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Mary H.K. Choi's blushingly tender and piquant debut novel, EMERGENCY CONTACT (Simon & Schuster, $17.99; ages 14 and up), about two isolated, misfit college students from Austin who fall in love via text message explores our emotional rather than geographical divides.
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Once there, he blushingly went through the procedure, having to fold and refold the flag about three times, to the twitterings and gigglings of twelve little girls.
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Julian Green, Personal Record, trans. J. Godefroi, 1939; 66; quoted New Variorum, 11, 184 In G. S. Viereck's novel My First Two Thousand Years, the protagonist, the Wandering Jew, watches a performance given by Willie Hughes, who is "positively enchanting as Juliet". He learns that Shakespeare had dedicated his sonnets to the boy-actor, but when he meets him he discovers that the boy is actually a girl in disguise. Shakespeare knew this, and the girl blushingly admits that this is why he called her "the master-mistress of my passion".
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He has a friend in Roberts, a trenchcoat wearing man who occasionally passes by St. Thomas Church. However, Sister Shannon admitted to herself that it was not a very normal childhood she was giving Jason, not with his being raised by a sword swinging Warrior Nun. Aside from that, she would teach him right from wrong, buy him ice cream, blushingly teach him about the "birds and the bees", or take him to comic book conventions. It was at one comic book convention that he was revealed to be touched by God with superhuman powers.
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Lydia is a Watcher who appeared in Seasons Five and Seven, and is played by Cynthia Lamontagne. In the episode "Checkpoint", she travels to Sunnydale with Quentin Travers to test Buffy's abilities as the Slayer. As the Watchers' Council interviews Buffy's friends, Lydia nervously questions Spike, and blushingly admits that she wrote her thesis on him. Lydia reappears in the episode "Never Leave Me", in which she reports to Travers about the increasing strength of the First Evil and is killed in the explosion which destroys the Watchers' Council.
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His costume was composed of a red > breech-clout, a red woolen shirt and upon his bare head an old dried up > wreath of faded flowers, such as is worn by all rowdies. When we spoke to > him about his island, he dropped his head, as he sat upon the sand, and > blushingly answered us. We told him who we were and where we were from, > saluted him and left him with very different ideas formed about the king of > Rurutu, than we had before meeting him. This was the first monarch of the > kind I ever saw, and the first time we were ever under the reign of a king.
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