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Feel that little tugging at the edges of your heart?
Tugging at the buttonholes, he lamented a recent weight gain.
"Told you!" the boy says tugging at his father's hand.
Something is tugging at my heartstrings but I ignore it.
GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian puppeteer is tugging at heartstrings in Gaza.
It could be as simple as Teufel tugging at his ear.
Otherwise, it is my constant companion, whimpering and tugging at my sleeve.
The fast water moving across my ankles, tugging at me, exhilarated me.
"It had been tugging at me for a long while," Harris said.
But everywhere you can feel his marriage tugging at touring's frayed tether.
Agnes crawled along the ground, the cold mud tugging at her clothes.
But tugging at that thread unravelled a vast, tangled skein of male angst.
Olympus keeps tugging at our heartstrings with digital cameras that resemble film cameras.
Poile: [tugging at collar] Now, when you say "space"... that could mean anything.
"I'm a rice farmer, not a fisherman," he sighs, tugging at the net.
He might as well be OJ Simpson tugging at an ill-fitting glove.
Maybe it was age; maybe it was other responsibilities tugging at his attention.
His team was tugging at him because it had an 11:30 p.m.
This is what he always did, tugging at his father's arm with each step.
In the cities children crowded around him, taking pictures and tugging at his robes.
Carl is tugging at Rick, who seems to be in some kind of shock.
"Look," he said proudly, tugging at the shoulder strap of a silver-foil bag.
Then here is a little boy, maybe ten years old, tugging at your sleeve.
Cervantes pokes an electrode down into Kennedy's neural jelly and starts tugging at the wire.
Dix said the producer forced her into a bed and started tugging at her clothes.
"It just feels squishy," she says, tugging at the ballooned-out skin on her neck.
Nor is it the only Canadian food tugging at the heartstrings of twenty- and thirtysomethings.
Mr. Ratner began tugging at her clothes, she said, then masturbated and ejaculated on her.
"We don't usually use this," Dr. Hamidi said, tugging at a black-and-white scarf.
The video shows him tugging at the wax to free it while cleaning the surrounding area.
His wife sits beside me, their 4-year-old son tugging at her, crying for falafel.
A man in his mid-30s answers with a smile, two toddlers tugging at his shirt.
But when it comes to tugging at heartstrings, Thrones: Season 8 has been less than skillful.
It's not just their tugging at my attention span that was ruining these apps for me.
But you didn't see anyone stroking someone else's faux lashes, or tugging at their blue-streaked wig.
And when it comes to animated animals tugging at your heartstrings, BoJack Horseman has some impressive form.
I've been tugging at that barbell for the last three years in my home state of Pennsylvania.
Her story showed unnamed hands tugging at the Lip Kit maven's zipper, trying keep it in check.
A breeze is picking up, tugging at my green overalls as I start my walk back home.
"Ching chong chang chong ching!" boys chanted on the playground, tugging at the corners of their eyes.
Pro wrestling and MMA orbit one another, tugging at each other, sometimes strongly and sometimes less so.
Every time you go in there, he's solemnly doing his breathing and tugging at his own lapel.
"Something began tugging at my heart, and I began feeling a pull toward reopening Magnolia Market," Joanna explains.
There's no tugging at the skin, no broken capillaries, no change in circulation, and yet they felt better.
Members like India, South Africa and China have been tugging at the pages of the WTO's rule book.
He snaps out of it in time to cut an arm off a zombie who's tugging at Carl.
Getting your foot in takes a bit of maneuvering and some tugging at the loop on the heel.
Tugging at the heartstrings, however, does little to allay the doubts of economists sceptical about the efficacy of charity.
It could be, according to the video, that a "ghostly alien world" is tugging at Kepler-19b from afar.
" During a hotel meeting around 1990, Weinstein pushed the actress on the bed and started "tugging at her clothes.
They slowly made their way up the mountain, heads down, bodies leaning forward, the wind tugging at their pherans.
"I so strongly believe in the power of intention," she said, tugging at the sleeves of her black bodysuit.
Some women seeking entry in shortish skirts reported being examined scrupulously, with some female guards tugging at their hemlines.
The bugger is stubborn, requiring some yanking and tugging at the sticky gunk to remove everything from under Ken's shoulder.
It went viral, tugging at the heartstrings of animal lovers and beyond, who viewed it over 400,000 times on Facebook.
She was often just there -- cradling a sick baby, feeding a child, patiently engaging a toddler tugging at her sari.
Protesters tugging at the barbed wire scramble by them toward the south, hoisting their long rope over the women's heads.
The best of such productions work on a subliminal level, tugging at the edges of your mind through sensory means.
There were two foreclosures, and for a while it seemed the quicksand of family fate was tugging at her ankles.
During the harvest season, she left home before dawn, one of her children trailing behind and tugging at her burqa.
But the idea of public service, at what she considers an urgent time for climate science, is tugging at her.
"I wish I had the ability to pretend to be mysterious," she says, tugging at the collar of puffy black parka.
The MP02 is the phone for people who want to escape the barrage of notifications and alerts tugging at their attention.
As we walked, I could feel the pistol holstered on my side, the weight of my gun tugging at my belt.
All that said, it's album closer "Here Comes The Night" that should leave Ocean nervously tugging at his bespoke shirt collar.
"I think consistency makes it easier to be a happy person," he says, tugging at the drawstrings on an oversized hoodie.
My thoughts crisscross with the shouts of brothers tugging at each other and at what they can grab from the shelves.
As Leydiana Puyarena raced from the gunshots, people fell around her, some tugging at her feet and pulling off her shoes.
Trump emerged from his limo tugging at his jacket, looking tense, his red tie dangling, as usual, below his belt buckle.
During her 2010 reign as Miss California, she gained a better understanding of the competing interests that were tugging at Phelps.
I can feel these three attributes tugging at me whenever I am working on a project and aiming for great results.
Pete isn't tugging at heartstrings on the trail, he's keeping it together like the Very Fine Young Man he's always been.
In the video, an American flag is seen flapping frantically and tugging at its flagpole, which is shaking in the wind.
Here's what I can remember: When I was younger, my parents would wake me up for school by tugging at my feet.
I know it's a leap of faith, but you have to do that if that's really what your heart is tugging at.
I spoke to Metz about all of this, and the show that has been tugging at all of our heartstrings for a year.
The danger is that now, with the investigation tugging at the bases of Brazil's power structures, she will be tempted to step in.
The video, obtained by WPIX11, shows little Jariel tugging at a wall AC unit for several minutes before eventually pulling it out completely.
"It works with natural phenomenon when you need it," he said, the suggestion of a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
Just yesterday, NASA had to release a public statement to refute theories that Planet Nine was tugging at its intrepid, Saturn-orbiting Cassini probe.
There's been something tugging at the Milky Way Galaxy, subtly pulling it one way while the universe's expansion should be pulling it the other.
The gospel singer Deitrick Haddon has over the last decade been one of the genre's limit pushers, tugging at its musical and ideological boundaries.
The last interaction we had was me tugging at the end of her hospital sheets, and her laughing under her breath, covering her mouth.
This new video showing a young girl singing "You Are My Sunshine" to her foster dog is tugging at the heartstrings on Facebook and beyond.
With no apps to scroll through or poke, I went to the dog park with the dead weight of my device tugging at my pocket.
The greater world always presses in on the star-crossed lovers even when the movie pretends otherwise, shaping or just quietly tugging at their story.
A lot of health experts want to find a better balance to the medical, economic and moral issues now tugging at us all at once.
His son Hunter, 7, kept tugging at the back of his pants, clamoring for attention as Mr. Newsom tried to speak at the rally here.
The franchise digs its hands into the soil of the world, tugging at the roots of large themes—then lets those themes grow and blossom.
And England had News of the World, the nation's top-selling tabloid, which specialized in tugging at heartstrings while peeping through the keyhole at the gore.
"I was the one they guessed most likely not to be a fashion designer because I was fat-ish," she says, tugging at her belt loops.
Would I have embraced my true self when I was a child, a teen, instead of tugging at a series of fraying threads that spanned decades?
Through all times the moon has endured out there, pale and distant, determining the tides and tugging at the heart, a symbol, a beacon, a goal.
You won't have to deal with the cotton tugging at your skin, causing premature wrinkles, or causing friction to your hair that could ruin your blowout.
Can tugging at these thick, tar-like masks and pulling the bejesus out of skin ever possibly be the way to a clear, blackhead-free complexion?
During the GOP debates, I kept having this nagging memory tugging at the back of my mind — some movie I'd seen, some character I half-remembered.
I did notice a small girl tugging at her father's shirt and pointing, and in the second half the two came over for a selfie portrait.
The detectives are still tugging at other threads, one of which is revisiting Freddy Burns (Rhys Wakefield) to see if he remembers anything else from that night.
Had this event been a tsunami, a flood killing thousands, you would have seen more media people than relief workers, with tales tugging at the tear ducts.
Tugging at Husqvarna's heritage as an off-road force, they resemble the retro-futuristic scrambler bikes made by Triumph, but also the more flamboyant ones from Ducati.
"We are changing them so that we can feel like citizens again," said 20-year-old Bushra, her infant child tugging at the bottom of her abaya.
Or a beer ad tugging at the heartstrings of Americans who remember folk music and those who only remember crying over those same horses in another winter.
Traditional bath towels can be too rough, tugging at and breaking your hair and ruining all the hard work your conditioner just put in during your shower.
While Internet advertising has the potential to rake in millions of dollars per year, it isn't the only thing tugging at your wallet via social media, either.
"It was tugging at my heart strings and it seemed like a horrific situation for the families to deal with this choice," he said in an interview.
"There's this myth that you're a failure if you have to have a job," she said, casually tugging at the fringed bangs of her crimson-red hair.
Brown's hardships were mentioned on-air as his team continued to advance through the College World Series, with his daughter's story, in particular, tugging at many viewers' heartstrings.
The cameras pan to the deck, where one fisherman can be seen tugging at a yellow rope along the side of the boat until he's suddenly flung overboard.
With his dark glasses, embroidered kofia hat and a playful smirk tugging at his lips as he doles out sharp one-liners, Mr. Abdela is hard to miss.
After months of cardiac rehab, running on the treadmill, lifting weights and tugging at the rowing machine, I slowly began to repair the physical damage that was done.
He did it while playing 54 of the game's 55 minutes, tugging at his jersey while hitting three-pointers and driving to the hoop to the very end.
This glut of data revealed shifts in Barnard's Star's radial velocity, meaning that the red dwarf was slightly wobbling as if an orbiting object was gravitationally tugging at it.
Bartos is Nabakovian in her pursuit of these conundrums, constantly twisting and tugging at the viewer's comfort levels while needling the hard line drawn between family intimacy and sexuality.
Right now, the far right and far left are badgering their political parties, tugging at the anchors of our two-party system and, sadly, the heart of our country.
" With a nod toward the rear of the gallery, where seamstresses were still tugging at the fabrics, executing Ms. Hanley's 11th-hour instructions, he added: "Raffaella is hands-on.
Nearly a decade since it came out, (22018) Days of Summer is still tugging at the hearts of its most avid fans—and, apparently, of its star Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
It's less about selling the Xbox Adaptive Controller to new audiences, and more of a method of tugging at the heartstrings to show that Microsoft isn't just a giant corporation.
One club had a child of no more than 6 standing at the door with a false, practiced grin, grabbing at people's hands and tugging at them to come in.
A grandfather who took time to celebrate his granddaughter's wedding with his late wife is tugging at heartstrings across the internet thanks to a viral photo capturing the special moment.
What kept dragging me out of individual scenes was the rigid way each character moved about each scene, as though a puppet master was tugging at their strings off-camera.
From the moment he leaves his residence in the morning, his two young daughters tugging at his trousers, he is a man on the move, trailed by secret service agents.
Tugging at the root of how we live and interact with the objects in our lives, as opposed to just decorating their surfaces, is an act of radical design, indeed.
Across the room, near the fireplace, he spotted his ex-wife, Nona, chatting with Bob Wykoff, the new chief exec at RiverHill Capital Management, and tugging at his lapel flirtatiously.
" — Lamin Bojang, 57, Silver Spring, Md. "Ever since the election of Barrow, my heart has been tugging at me to return and to be able to help my homeland grow.
Members of the House and Senate brought along their families — elderly parents with canes, small children tugging at uncomfortable lacy hems — as well as former senators and other special guests.
"Emails are coming in, you want to check Twitter ... all those little pieces of attention that are tugging at you are part of viewing the piece, in my mind," he said.
Reminder that the Los Angeles federal courthouse has a statue of Abraham Lincoln where he's a shirtless young stud suggestively tugging at his waistband like a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model: pic.twitter.
With headphones, it's helpful to imagine three competing priorities tugging at the corners of a triangular piece of cloth: one is sound quality, another is portability, and the third is affordability.
The question tugging at the minds of viewers is whether Holoborodko will resist the urge to use his office to enrich himself or succumb to it, like so many before him.
If you're constantly tugging at your junk, he explains, you're going to harm the nerves, veins, and arteries in the penis, which can lead to decreased sensation and — ironically — erectile dysfunction.
Idea: Try drunkenly forgetting to take your socks off cold-turkey style and let me know how it feels in the morning when your alarm clock won't stop tugging at your toes.
Beyond tugging at the heartstrings of audiences across the U.S., Sterling K. Brown's This Is Us character has made a positive impact on parents nationwide who've adopted children of a different race.
Barry and Iris might be on a break for now, but we're betting that won't stop them from tugging at our heartstrings (or tear ducts) as we race towards the season finale.
Adding a gut-wrenching kick to the scene was that the woman's 303-year-old daughter, wearing purple footie pajamas, was tugging at her mother's limp arm, trying to wake her up.
Yet they had not been such a big factor in voting decision-making until he made them so, by drawing out his audience's inner grievances, like a magnet tugging at a metal splinter.
Tugging at your mascara with makeup wipe after makeup wipe is a wasteful shortcut to irritated skin, and washing your face at night only to wake up with raccoon eyes is just frustrating.
He looks up tenderly at those who try to speak to him, constantly tugging at a strand of hair concealing a scar on his forehead, but where it came from, he won't say.
That leads to a central question in the case: does tugging at the individual mandate unravel the entire health law, including popular provisions like its protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions?
Something mysterious is tugging at the hem of our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is causing a "galactic warp" at its outer edges, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Astronomy.
Yet you can also sense a different, less cerebral urge tugging at his attention, and it's embodied with gorgeous precision by Ms. Ashford (a Tony winner for "You Can't Take It With You").
Once the prince greeted 5-year-old Luke Vincent of Buninyong Public School, the young boy leapt into his arms for a giant hug before playfully caressing his face and tugging at his beard.
This raises the question tugging at the heart of Last Black Man: How can working- and middle-class ethnic and racial enclaves maintain community—a more permanent state than "authenticity"—while growing generational wealth?
You learn much more about that journey as you go—guiding the old man through beautiful, saturated watercolor landscapes, gently tugging at the 2D scenery, structuring it just so in order to make progress.
At Saturday's show, the cats did not seem to notice the chaos, whether it was small children tugging at them or the sight of a woman dressed up as Marie Antoinette holding a papillon.
Kelly kept her own eyes locked on his even as another student — a little girl with a devilish grin and a long dark ponytail — leapt onto Kelly's back and began tugging at her hairnet.
Nathan Lane as Clarke Hayden Of all the supporting player character evolutions on the show, and there are so many great ones, Nathan Lane's performance as Clarke Hayden stands out for tugging at our heartstrings.
Once the prince, 34, greeted 6-year-old Luke Vincent of Buninyong Public School, the young boy leaped into his arms for a giant hug before playfully caressing his face and tugging at his beard.
"I'm concerned about how that's going to weigh on his older brother because he had been tugging at his older brother about going to this party, and ultimately it resulted in his death," Crockett said.
Once the prince, 34, greeted 6-year-old Luke Vincent of Buninyong Public School, the young boy leapt into his arms for a giant hug before playfully caressing his face and tugging at his beard.
I didn't feel like I was tugging at my hair or scraping my skin, and even after my face was shaved smooth, I was tempted to do extra passes because the heat was so satisfying.
Fools and frauds infused with the spirit of commerce, tugging at the reins of self-doubt, regulation, and social obligation that restrain the flowering of their gilded lives and a richer society for us all.
Brantley in Britain LONDON — The shadows are always tugging at the burned-out souls who populate Dominic Cooke's revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's "Follies," a heart-shattering hit for the National Theater here.
It positions the two of them as twin poles each tugging at Peter, so that when he gets together with the girl at the end, there's an emotional resonance that might not have happened otherwise.
Andy asks for the lyrics and I'm like [tugging at shirt collar] 'Uh... about that...' I mean, it's one thing to not print the lyrics on purpose, but who doesn't even know their own lyrics?
The model isn't afraid to talk about her period skin, her love of fast-food, or in this case, the difficulties of being keeping your ensemble together when your child is, well, tugging at your clothing.
Vicente Avila, 42, a handyman, who was tugging at a wooden red wagon loaded with what he estimated was $700 worth of food, rolled his eyes when asked how long he might be away from home.
Ever had the unfortunate experience of going to sleep drunk and hungry after wandering the streets, hopelessly craving a late-night sandwich and tugging at the locked doors of your favorite fast food joints and diners?
She collapses the universe's unfathomable scope into a few frames, tugging at the epistemological tensions between science and art, which are themselves a type of framework concerned with the building up and breaking down of objective truth.
You also want to avoid dull razor blades that require repeated swiping, and make sure to shave in the direction of the hair growth, which is most often upward, so that you aren't tugging at the follicle.
But as straightforward as it might seem to do a quick cleanse before bed and call it a day, scrubbing and tugging at your face to get rid of stubborn makeup remnants can do more harm than good.
Before we can get to that issue, however, the courts must answer a question that at first seems simple and clean but gets messy once you start tugging at the strings: Do you actually buy your apps from Apple?
No matter what social media executives may say, the black hole of more money, higher profits, hitting their targets, and getting their bonuses will keep tugging at them, inexorably, so long as their business model is driven by advertising.
After arriving in Dubbo yesterday, the prince greeted 6-year-old Luke Vincent of Buninyong Public School — and the young boy leapt into his arms for a giant hug before playfully caressing his face and tugging at his beard.
It also gave fresh energy to the nationalist impulses tugging at the Continent and moved the greatest threat to the European Union's cohesion from newer member states on the periphery, such as Hungary and Poland, to its very core.
It's the busiest time of the year — and while your family and friends may expect you to put your phone down and lean in on quality time, your job might be tugging at your sleeve and pulling you back.
A concerned neighbor named Evelyn Costa filmed a video of a dog barking from an outdoor shed and it has since gone viral, tugging at the heartstrings of animal lovers and beyond, who viewed it over 400,000 times on Facebook.
Riven by sectarian strife between its Sunni, Shia and Christian populations, and with a 15-year civil war in living memory, Lebanon is a minnow in a volatile region with irascible giants like Iran and Saudi Arabia tugging at its politics.
But the voices calling for a clean break from Paris are no less urgent, tugging at the president's gut-level instincts by arguing that remaining a party to the agreement would shackle the American economy and betray his core supporters.
Her elder son, Sergey Pyagay, helps manage the books, and his wife, Svetlana Pyagay, and his brother's wife, Tatyana Pyagay, get up from their meals to take customers' orders and bus tables, sometimes with their small children tugging at their sleeves.
Sinking into a big leather chair at one of basement studios at VICE's Brooklyn offices, where he's sitting during a break from New York's fashion week festivities, and tugging at one of the many skinny braids that frames his face, he continues.
" Irma Vasquez, 67, a former school-district worker who voted for Mr. Bloomberg, put the role the president's words played in the attack this way, tugging at the skin on her cheek: "He put a bull's-eye on our backs, especially this color.
The Catalan vote has been watched with rising trepidation — and no sign of support — by a European Union wary of stoking forces of fragmentation already tugging at the bloc and many member states, where populist and nationalist parties have surged in recent elections.
Imagine the psychological makeup of a person who clenches at the sight of Alex Ovechkin acting as though his stick is on fire or P.K. Subban tugging at his jersey or Nail Yakupov signaling his teammates to join him after an overtime winner.
A host of other demands — from Italy and France for looser purse strings, from Scandinavian and Dutch leaders to beware of fading support for Europe in their countries — are tugging at Ms. Merkel as she and President François Hollande of France consult the Continent's leaders.
But it is equally likely that venture capitalists see women as little more than lucrative sources of revenue—as consumers, rather than patients—and that tugging at the fears and anxieties women have about their bodies and life choices can be a strong marketing hook.
Wading into the debate about protests by mostly African-American players during pre-game national anthem ceremonies, Trump is exacerbating questions about his own attitude toward race and his apparent determination to keep tugging at the societal and cultural fault lines in American politics.
She has the spontaneity that the tale demands, and the punch of her performance lies in its sheer nerve; even though her character has our sympathy from the start, she keeps asking for more, tugging at us like a querulous child until our patience cracks.
He said his 23-year-old habit of twirling the tennis ball around in his fingers before every serve is no different than Alexander Zverev tugging at his shirt in between points or Rafael Nadal lining up his bottles in perfect order beside his chair.
It was bad enough that one Astros player hit a home run in the 2017 World Series against pitcher Yu Darvish of the Dodgers, then was caught by cameras in the dugout making a vulgar gesture at the Japanese pitcher, tugging at the sides of his eyes.
Admittedly, the show's reputation for tugging at the heartstrings is well earned, and there was more than a little manipulation in juxtaposing preparation for the wedding of Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Toby (Chris Sullivan) with gauzy images of what might have been had Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) lived.
If this tale of same-sex bird love is tugging at your heartstrings, might we suggest you check out And Tango Makes Three — a children's book that tells the true story of two male chinstrap penguins who hatched an egg together in New York's Central Park Zoo.
Its portrayal of Pazuzu as a malevolent concierge who moves into your brain and starts tugging at your synapses seems a little silly at first, but it grows more and more disturbing as the series goes on, thanks to Robert Emmet Lunney's work as the demon.
Woodman began her career like Castle did, making pots in a traditional way in the 1950s, tugging at the edges of her medium's traditions, only to later seize vibrant color and deconstructed forms to create works that referenced the functional on their way to an ultimately aesthetic end.
She nails the cringey awkwardness of a high school musical audition, tugging at her sweatshirt sleeves self-consciously, and is a delight to watch in the low-budget production of Merrily We Roll Along (made even more hilarious by the fact that Feldstein is currently starring in Hello Dolly on Broadway).
So all of the people who are tugging at their hair over the fact that Jerusalem has now been officially recognized by the United States ought to remember that there&aposs never been a people ever and all of human history that have named Jerusalem as its capital other than the Jewish people.
It has often been a process of tugging at strings, finding one record, seeing who released it, and then seeing if that musician released records on any other labels, then tracking back to the start, finding another musical act on the same initial label, and then tracking down other labels that second band also released music on.
Ms. Puniewska writes: If you're trying to convince someone who leans left, you can stick with the polar bear and keep tugging at their heart strings with talk of how unfair it will be to our children if the world is poisoned, but if you're with a conservative, it's wise to change up your approach — science has found that personalized climate-related messages work better.
Nadal will often take 20 seconds or more to deliver his first serves, owing to a ritual that includes bouncing the ball a few times, tugging at his shorts, pinching the fabric on his left shoulder, then his right shoulder, bouncing the ball, swiping at his nose, his left ear, his nose, then his right ear, tucking his hair behind his left ear, then his right ear, and bouncing the ball a few more times.

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