| He would have much more to be cheerful about and before we knew it he would be full of the blarney, not to mention the Guinness. |
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| Amid the usual blarney about fitness tests and winning the flag for the crew, it was quite refreshing, really. |
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| This sweet, straightforward story has enough Irish charm to overcome the occasional blarney. |
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| The person who prefers his brand of bilious blarney is probably wondering why this wonderful set wasn't simultaneously released on DVD as well. |
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| The self-financed record gained unexpected wings from an old Irish charmer, the king of breakfast blarney on the radio. |
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| Don't let this week's quick-thinking, speed talking blarney artists bamboozle you into making decisions or doing anything before you're ready. |
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| Right now you're either dazzling the general populace with brilliance or charming them with blarney. |
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| You'll hear some blarney, but you'll also get a picture of the center that seems pretty true to my sense of it. |
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| There are the old women flower sellers searching for the cheapest blossoms that with their blarney must earn them their livelihood. |
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| Like all American real-estate ventures since colonial days, it's a mixture of vision, business, and blarney. |
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| Just as his Irish father has a bit of the blarney in him, so does he like to talk, too much in fact for his own good. |
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| There was bluster, bluff, and blarney, with everybody trying to talk over everybody else. |
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| It's a role that comes with certain duties, chief among them to keep the blarney coming until the lights go down. |
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| The world, for its part, has begun to see what lies underneath the blarney. |
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| That was a load of blarney probably told to her by one of his many enemies to give yet another person reason to kill him. |
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| Certainly, for a man short on blarney and long on awkward reflection, his future plans come as something of a surprise. |
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| There was a great deal of blarney spoken about the chances of Irish horses, some of it nonsense and some of it all too true. |
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| There's a difference between artful blarney and honest feedback that's worth being aware of. |
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| Trust the Irish to give it to you straight, with no blarney, when it's something as important as drink. |
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| Former Republic of Ireland manager he might be, but there is more Yorkshire bluntness than Hibernian blarney to Mick McCarthy's manner. |
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| There was quite a bit of the old blarney left in this extremely complicated New Englandy-Irish lady yet. |
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| Although he possesses none of the blarney and bluster of his southern Irish contemporaries, the humour is droll, earthy and occasionally laugh-out-loud. |
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| We're invited to enjoy how contemptuous they are of anyone whom they can bully, cozen, or blarney out of money. |
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| Appalachia was settled by the Scotch-Irish, and it is tempting to credit sheer blarney and love of storytelling. |
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| He was described as possessing all the legendary Irish charm, but without the blarney which usually goes with it. |
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| He was brilliantly convincing with a strong Irish brogue, righteous indignation when confronted with the insignificance of his rumours, and disarming blarney. |
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| With his astonishing mix of blarney and brilliance, personal empathy and political calculation, he could have walked off the pages of a southern novel. |
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| Though he let his natural blarney take him into areas where he should not have gone, there was nothing I could see which was illegal or suggested that he was up to no good. |
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| He gave a speech on his new charity work, and it was one of those smooth unctuous bits of California blarney no one could make with a straight face today. |
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| I can imagine other readers who would find it more profound than I do, as well as those who might dismiss it out of hand as just more self-indulgent blarney. |
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| I cut through the blarney at the fair to ask a cross-section of tourists who consider themselves aficionados of all things Celtic if they had heard of St Andrew. |
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| The character was a rollicking success from day one, a marvellous, surreal, genuinely bizarre mix of whimsy, blarney, satire and violence packaged in outrageously funny plots. |
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| Many supporters have been fooled into thinking the senator was as green as the hills of Kerry but, as it turns out, his Irish ancestry is a load of blarney. |
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| I KNEW it would only be a matter of time before blarney boy Brian McFadden was seen all doe-eyed with Australian singer Delta Goodrem. |
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| Every St. Patrick's Day, I take out of our dining room cabinet a Belleek tea cup from Ireland, and I drink a cup of tea in honour of all things Irish-especially in honour of my father, sentimentality, and love of the blarney. |
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| My acceptance was notably heroic, as I do not specially care for the stuff, but Hennessy, an intoxicating mixture of modern French suaverie and residual Irish blarney, is a persuasive tutor. |
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| That's no small feat, considering that the movie traffics in more sentimental blarney than you could shake a shillelagh at, and that the musical ran on Broadway for only two months. |
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