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Crude and bossily patronising, the opera is of a piece with much official discourse in today's China.
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Some 30 of their fellows amble unfettered around the seven-acre estate, steering clear of the geese, which honk bossily under the house.
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Gizmo is "extremely affectionate and opinionated," meaning that he loves to snuggle, but will bossily nibble Ms. Borgmann's toes when he wants to be picked up.
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He got the hint and tried to undo her bra, but he couldn't work the clasp, his evident frustration reminiscent of his struggle with the keys, until at last he said, bossily, "Take that thing off," and she complied.
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Before Pippa grew into a teen-ager, and lost her nerve, she had been so full of ideas, running in the garden and in races on Sports Day with such flat-footed eager assurance, her plait flicking bossily behind her, her plain long face raised to the sun.
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In an early scene in The Secret Commonwealth, she bossily forces a classmate to skip a lecture and sneak off campus for lunch because Lyra can see that the girl needs comforting over something; Lyra both wants to comfort her, because she's kind, and wants to know what the story is, because she's nosy — just like she always was.
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Socialite Valerie "Val" Parks is informed that she is not eligible to claim her trust fund until she can demonstrate responsibility. In response, she decides to join the Women's Army Corps (WAC) to show she is a mature young woman. En route to the training camp in Des Moines, Iowa, she meets Ann Darrison, a housewife who chose to enlist in the WAC after her husband is deployed overseas; and Leigh Rand, the daughter of a military family. Val and Leigh, assigned to the same barracks, immediately clash, with Leigh acting bossily toward the servile Val.
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