Here, the sensuous wooing of the traditional lover is replaced by a display of coy and squeamish chastity. |
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It seems everyone has an opinion on the goings on of the pitch and are not coy about sharing it with anyone within earshot. |
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He brought Italy out of the dark ages when TV advertising had to be camouflaged in coy little sketches to be shown to children before bedtime. |
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I honestly think he's being puckish with his coy answers, and that he has no intention of being the running mate to a left-liberal Democrat. |
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Vaughan Williams seems to have been particularly coy about the programmatic ideas that had propelled the symphony, crucially in some places. |
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Her slight frame and elfin appearance suggested a coy, pixieish quality but her work revealed wit and tough-minded resourcefulness. |
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It seems we remain a little coy about investigating one of our most basic drives and motivators. |
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She firmly tells her audience that chivalry and courtliness are about real things, that hypocrites and coy flibbertigibbets are without honour. |
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For a women who takes her clothes off for a living, Ms Deneuve is a bit coy. |
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She's coy enough to curdle butter, looking up at him from under her lashes. |
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Her smile was coy, and she playfully tilted her head, an inquisitive glimmer in her eyes. |
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Aurora had stated gently, giving him a coy side glance without realizing it. |
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They should also know what symptoms to look out for and not be coy about seeking medical attention. |
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Not surprisingly, the phone network companies are a little coy about admitting they have this ability. |
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One reporter decided to be less coy and actually used the word ' groin ' in his copy! |
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Adrian Eastwood is a little coy about the idea that bookies know better than polls or punters. |
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As a writer she is coy about her influences, although she will admit to admiring Jilly Cooper. |
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The former Boro player himself remains coy on the subject but, tellingly, does not rule it out. |
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But she's coy about revealing how many, with what qualifications, or where they are based. |
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People flash coy looks at one another, hoping that they won't be asked to make the first move and speak about what they make of it all. |
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If her girls have been compared to prepubescent Lolitas, her seniors seem just as coy, if comically spry. |
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A woman with a coy smile and slumberous eyes could gain access to locales and secrets a male counterpart would have to kill for. |
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Not a single fact in that plagiarised thesis was untrue, a former Campbell acolyte averred in coy defense of his one-time master. |
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The coy reticence that he exhibits when asked the tough questions about his position don't inspire confidence in his motives and agenda. |
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We must take it at face value for there is no torment beyond the exuberant grins, coy smirks or contemplative musings of any of the grandmothers. |
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The third great album from this Ohio quintet sees them in melancholy mood, easing out songs packed with coy observations and lyrical moments. |
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Caelyn asked, pretending to act coy as she kept one hand around his neck and used to the other to trace his collarbone lightly. |
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Brunet, with a rich, beautiful voice, is vocally more fiery and seductive than her all-purpose shimmy and coy smile suggest. |
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Yes, I know that's a coy name for a database but perhaps I was feeling coy when I filled in the title box. |
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How is a reader supposed to understand what an article is actually about if everything is all coded and coy? |
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Hibs are coy about the cost, but the ballpark figure for such stadium developments is typically 1million per 1,000 seats. |
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She was funny and sharp and confident and clear when she was with her girlfriends, and then became indecisive and minxish and coy around men. |
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He was teaching Boyle's Law and Archimedes' Principle to coy, simpering 13-year-olds who giggled at everything he said. |
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Certainly, the former, part caterwaul and part coy coo, will be an acquired taste. |
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It has a huge number of synonyms, ranging from coy euphemisms to joking proxies, to coarse vulgarities. |
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There are plenty of hoots and whistles, derision for the woman's coy smile and smeared-on lipstick. |
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Perhaps it could have been the coy way that she covered herself with those feathered appendages I normally took for granted. |
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The company pleads competitive sensitivity for being so coy on this. |
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She yawned dramatically and cast me a coy look through hooded eyes. |
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I saw the girls giggle as they passed, flicking coy glances at me. |
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But even those who decide to play coy won't have long to wait. |
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She raised her lips and eyebrows in a coy pout that I couldn't resist, so I broke all known social convention and filled her martini glass with scotch. |
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But the rather coy hopping between engaging, raw-chord punchiness with its electric hard-boppish theme and tempo changes that dilute the impact is mildly irritating. |
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She'll start acting coy, and then suddenly blink, stammer, turn red, and hurry off quickly or, if we're in our room, she buries her nose in a book. |
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She smiled at Rochelle and nodded with a coy smile playing on her lips. |
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We've flirted at balls, and she was as coy as a twenty-four year-old! |
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Everyone else acts coy, stupid, and young throughout the rest of episode. |
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She gave him a coy glance and leaned over to whisper into his ear. |
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Gem returned the stare, a coy smile creeping its way onto her countenance. |
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A coy smile slipped onto his face, and he cocked his head slightly. |
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His second memoir can thus be read as a rather coy critique of his first. |
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My vote for the most untranslatable word would go to nyakaa, a Bengali word that could mean coy, or teasing, or bashful, or suggests fake niceness or phoney innocence. |
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Bone-breaking handshakes, humor with the lightness of a large dumpling, and lace curtains guarding the coy privacy of every home. |
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Wilder remained coy about his own political beliefs, at least publicly. |
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He is diminutive to meet, a coy and obtuse public speaker and a derivative thinker. |
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Romney is coy at best about 2016, although his old running mate, Paul Ryan, wants him to run. |
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Did Mia stop to think how her coy tease might be perceived by the widow Sinatra? |
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At least he isn't pulling a Taylor Swift and trying to be coy about who the song is about. |
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The JVP leadership has been remarkably coy about providing an answer. |
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The emoticon is a weak substitute for a coy gesture or a lusty wink. |
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The film gets a trifle coy when they reach the house of good repute and lacks the necessary frankness of The Sessions. |
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No sly glance across a crowded room, no awkward conversation steered round to that coy invitation for a first date. |
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You must have something specific to say or you would not be writing: don't be coy about saying it. |
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Canadian officials were coy about whether they would put investor rights on the negotiating table, but said it was of interest. |
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But after spending so long playing coy, Ernst will reenter the national spotlight on Saturday. |
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Still, the way Zemeckis talks about Staar is in a coy, kittenish way that does not entirely suggest unparallel lives. |
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True, many were arch, whilst others were coy and over-sentimental. |
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Oh Frank, you stole our hearts with your coy jumping up and down about Ali being the bachelorette only to stomp on them later. |
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Is this your coy way of telling me you wish to join the Masons? |
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The animated actress bops to Frank Ocean and Rihanna, acting remarkably coy when Talley inquires into her Oscars dress. |
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She was very dismissive of writing that she thought evaded the issue or was coy or half-hearted. |
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The Prime Minister, however, has been coy on that issue and this undermines confidence in Canada's position on the issue. |
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A road built by RCE to D coy area was washed out and the coy HQ surrounded by water. |
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The other female role in the opera is Poppea, a coy young beauty who is at the centre of several romantic intrigues. |
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Not surprisingly, given the litigious times in which we live, most writers turn coy when quizzed about whether so-and-so was the model for a character. |
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Reached by phone, Moynihan was coy about fingering specific people as models for his characters. |
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Sleepers is coy about what the film depicts and in the course of the story, the film is destroyed. |
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But soon her mother's forgetfulness returned — like a painkiller kicking in — and she'd go back to playing the coy dingbat, the innocent coquette from the cocktail parties of Ann's youth. |
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Fenlon was coy about other signing targets. |
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Presently, Cheri lives on a small ranch near the historic town of Sequin, Texas with her beloved husband and a coy dog named Scully. |
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They argued that we should do more: they suggested that we should spend at least EUR 500 million, though they were coy about telling us where the extra money should come from. |
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But Eugene Lang is a Liberal party insider-in fact, he was the chief of staff for Ministers of National Defence John McCallum and Bill Graham,8 a partisan position that the book is coy about admitting. |
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When I asked Facebook's spokespeople flat-out whether the social network was redesigning Notes, I was met with a coy look and vague advice to watch out for something. |
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Sachs is not even slightly coy about who that expert should be. |
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We were prevented from probing forward as the average coy strength was forty-five and the casualties amongst our officers and NCOs and older men were very heavy. |
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Serkis performs the songs, accompanied by Dury's old band the Blockheads, and he does it with gusto and precision, getting both the costermonger roar and the sly, coy lounge-singer inflections. |
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I have never had any particular interest in seeing any of these actors' genitals, but I find McQueen's coy respectfulness cinematically offensive. |
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Here Lies is almost coy in the way it slips mention of Ambler's first novel into the narrative: he gives his girlfriend a bound page proof in a cinema on King's Road, Chelsea, just before the lights go down. |
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Every nervous giggle, coy look, awkward silence and meaningless remark is captured, rather prettily, by the film's director, cinematographer and co-writer, Conrad Jackson. |
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You don't need to be coy, Roy, it's not hard to get free. |
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A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets. |
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Downing Street was coy about Brown's plans in Scotland. |
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Although there's a hint of Norman Wisdom in his pantomime moves, Ant recreates his past studiously, and it only takes a hip thrust and a coy look to recall what a peerless pop star he is. |
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Bale has made it clear he wants to play in Friday's fixture but Wales are remaining coy on whether they are prepared to risk starting him given he has not played since July. |
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She would act all coy as if he was courting her. |
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But amidst all the celebrations, he too remained coy over his future. |
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Now, surveying his final link, he had the nice advantage of being able to play coy with established port cities that desperately wanted his proven railroad. |
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The tabloid favourite stretched out on a faux fur rug in a transparent body stocking to launch the new fragrance but she was significantly more coy in the interviews. |
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Dame Tim Curry is a mad transvestite cult sensation in monster mishmash of pop parody, sci-fi spoof and coy sexual daring, pulled off in end-of-pier fashion. |
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What follows is a painful comedy of errors. Almost from her arrival she is pursued by a bellhop who interprets her every rebuff as a coy invitation. |
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