Jackson felt it in the steady beat of Lee's heart, a triumphant, reassuring sound the younger general silently exulted in. |
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Yet despite reassuring figures, respondents said in interviews that big concerns remained. |
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Wouldn't it be a lot more reassuring, for most of us, to believe that second-raters can make it, at least once in a while? |
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I was nervous before seeing her, but the visit was wonderful, and very reassuring. |
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Ariane looked over at her thinly built friend, and tried to give a reassuring smile. |
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Acknowledging and validating these feelings can be reassuring for the young fathers. |
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It is reassuring to know that the Scottish Executive husbands the expenditure it makes on our behalf so wisely. |
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But that life had still been familiar and reassuring, like the quiet roar of the passing cars and the sweet melody of the songbirds in the trees. |
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A powerful, quiet presence brings a reassuring sense of order and peace to a coming relationship. |
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Perhaps it's not fashionable in one sense of the word, but it is devilishly stylish and perhaps rather reassuring to be outside of a box. |
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What good they did was mostly achieved through a confident bedside manner, reassuring the patient that all would be well. |
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But how reassuring to learn that the readers are such a literate and well informed group. |
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While the Andantio in the Opus 45 Symphony is grave and vaguely troubling, the mood quickly dissipates with a reassuring minuet. |
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Jinx liked that, because there was something reassuring in the countless little cantrips and tricks, so unlike anything he had known. |
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The reassuring physical presence of a property is enough to catch many people off guard. |
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For a band who have consistently cultivated an aura of mystique, the amiable blokeishness of much of the set is both unexpected and reassuring. |
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What Ryan had said to her was probably the most reassuring thing that anyone had ever said to her. |
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It must be very reassuring for women with dress sizes over six to have a celebrity they can identify with. |
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As it was easy to spot, photogenic and reassuring, I enjoyed ending my dives by gently surfacing between the bodacious pontoons. |
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The twin long swords, one sword-belt around his waist, the other at a slant to his side, hung comfortably around him, their weight reassuring. |
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The sight of a nurse was reassuring to nervous flyers, especially in the unsteady confines of unpressurised cabins. |
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This was her way, she writes, of reassuring him that his smart-mouthed daughter was still there. |
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Somehow, the constant, unvarying motion was reassuring, and before long Kat's eyes closed for the night, her hand still clasped in his. |
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I settled on the thin padding of the window seat and leaned against the reassuring solidity of the window frame. |
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Judging by the size and weight of the car and the way it has been put together, it gives a reassuring air of solidity. |
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Giving my little one a reassuring squeeze, I muss her hair with my right hand. |
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Somehow, in the emotional cauldron of Parkhead, that quality is hugely reassuring. |
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It was very comforting and reassuring to have such high quality care from high caliber professionals. |
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And within a minute, the hands-free phone rings and a woman with a kindly and reassuring voice is asking me what it is that I desire. |
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After breakfast I went into our Canberra office and caught up with some old colleagues which was strangely reassuring. |
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The Atlantic and Pacific coasts are being ostentatiously patrolled by large and reassuring Navy vessels. |
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The guy just has a sense of inner confidence and centeredness that is very reassuring. |
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I am always being accused of being out of it, so it's reassuring to know that ignorance is a two-way street. |
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Let's face it, we are constantly hearing from the holy rollers with their reassuring message that miracles do happen. |
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Water bosses are reassuring householders that the region's reservoirs are in tip-top shape. |
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As we spent time dithering on what to have it was reassuring to feel as though the staff weren't hurrying us along. |
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I guess the most reassuring thing is that if this English degree doesn't land me a job I'll have the stay-at-home-dad thing down pat. |
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How can we free ourselves from this sense of paternal authority which is both intrusive and reassuring? |
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While some might be disturbed by the icy stare of their future meal, I found it reassuring to see the fresh selections. |
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There's something terribly reassuring about its year in year out peevishness, isn't there? |
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Oscar descended upon him with reassuring clucks, all of which were duly ignored. |
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But, as I imagine it was meant to do, it was also reassuring to see what fail-safes and other options exist in even the direst circumstances. |
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The towers look like beacons in the stormy night, still strangely reassuring in their solidity and familiarity. |
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Golden light makes the landscape seem otherworldly, yet it has the reassuring impress of humanity about it. |
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So why not make use of modern technology, he whispered, reassuring himself that his reasoning was sound and infallible. |
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The establishment of a community inshore lifeboat would be a reassuring safety feature for the thousands of visitors. |
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The rock fit perfectly in my pocket, felt reassuring in my hand, and the little fellow painted on the front seemed to invite confidences. |
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It's reassuring to receive confirmation that I am not completely misguided. |
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I haven't even come out in pimples as reassuring evidence of my body purifying itself. |
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Try reassuring a nervous flier by reciting the tiny probability of an airplane crash. |
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This sounds eminently reassuring, but I cannot believe that we will get through the forthcoming election without somebody, somewhere crying foul. |
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His photographs of haze-covered hills and dark cryptomeria forests conspire with the texts to draw the viewer into a reassuring fantasy. |
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A reassuring assortment of hard-bitten men in sportscoats and gold-chained gangstas frowned at the tables. |
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In this increasingly garish context, there can be no denying the reassuring twinkle of a traditional fairy light. |
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They are just so darn reassuring and they were traveling in a pretty darn good direction, about 160 degrees, at about 15 mph. |
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How reassuring it is, to know that our governing party staffs its conferences with persons of such gentility, good sense, and tact. |
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On the other hand, it is reassuring to find undisputed giants of human progress like Shakespeare, Newton, Darwin and Brunel up there, too. |
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He tried and failed to sound reassuring, giving his most trustworthy smile. |
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Quite reassuring is the fact that all political pundits are unanimous over one point. |
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The presence of armour is reassuring protection and deterrence to hostile action. |
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The rebels' failure to win sympathy from fellow officers is reassuring, but their grievances are real. |
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You sure she wasn't just humouring you, reassuring you, guilting you into staying? |
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The entrance hall is a dignified and reassuring double-height space separated from the library areas by a glass wall. |
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Careful cultivation of the UN pays dividends, like the need to present its policies abroad in a more reassuring manner. |
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Mr. Lake intercepted Sara's sidelong glance and sent her a reassuring smile. |
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After reassuring him that all was well, I discovered he had heard the rumor from his account executive, with whom he had a close relationship. |
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The oft-heard attempt at reassuring a doubting public may indeed have some substance, but actions speak louder than words. |
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Dinner is taken in the homely dining-room, which on our visit had a reassuring mix of regulars and weekending urbanites. |
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There was a reassuring air about him, a comforting quality that he seemed to radiate from within. |
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The Buddhas I saw in corners were not serene or reassuring presences, as they might be in other parts of Asia. |
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The reassuring sound of a milk float whirring by outside your window in the early morning is now a rarity. |
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She reached over, grasped his forearm, and gave it a light reassuring squeeze. |
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He is an unassuming moral giant of a man, loved by all those around him and always ready with a reassuring song and a piece of simple wisdom. |
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It's also a wake-up call, a reality check from which you emerge with a reassuring sense of integrity. |
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It's reassuring to know our numbers are in agreement with previous estimates of the mass of the stars based on the stars' motion. |
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Despite such incursions splitting the Hibs rearguard, some of the attempts were timid and those that were not were met by the reassuring Colgan. |
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Then the shade of Marx was gone, and the walls of the official residence had reassumed their reassuring solidity. |
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He nods at me then I smile, as if reassuring him that I will never do that again. |
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He then spent the next half hour reassuring the man, who has not been named, until police arrived. |
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Sure enough, eventually we came to a tree with a windsock and, more reassuring, a small airplane resting in its shade. |
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Its colours and moods thrill the soul, ever changing in a reassuring regular manner, season after season, without fail. |
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It's a reassuring recourse for women like me who might even be accused of approaching life too conservatively, too responsibly. |
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I found something reassuring and redemptive in this record, which went above and beyond anything that its creators could have envisaged for it. |
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We were surrounded by hungry, sweaty, red-faced men finishing their lunch, not very reassuring. |
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He wrote to my wife, Jeanette, while I was in prison, reassuring her that he would look after me, and he was as good as his word. |
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The two organisations have key allies and it s reassuring for economic development. |
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The fact that the baby is still doing the lambada on all internal organs it can find is far more reassuring to me. |
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His reassuring smile relaxed me as I hurried to my first class seat and settled in for the flight. |
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Alternately, these findings may be reassuring for other centers where ischemic time is usually below five hours. |
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For a society slow and too poor to discard the traditional facade, the sharks set a calculatedly reassuring trap. |
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First of all, his lank, angular appearance combined with his monotone voice and gloomy disposition aren't very soothing and reassuring. |
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Laudable too are the recent measures by republicans aimed at reassuring unionists that the war really is over. |
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Its reassuring vegetableness, its green leafiness, the way it looked natural on a farm, spoke to our deep cabbagey values. |
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The court's determination will go a long way toward reassuring citizens that they may anonymously criticize public officials. |
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The results were not reassuring, and by the time we took Fergus to the vet's the following day, we were convinced his nine lives were up. |
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He seemed on edge and nervous, returning her looks with reassuring gazes that were none too convincing. |
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A bug-eyed waiter approached silently to offer me a multi-coloured drink in an asymmetrical glass, reassuring me that it was just a dream. |
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You begin to read his column, expecting to find something as smooth as his preppy clothes, as reassuring as the photograph's avuncular smile. |
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An avuncular African doctor had the time to be reassuring and overflowing with human kindness. |
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Food shops line the outer edges selling, for a Brit, remarkably reassuring grub like sausage rolls, meat pies and fish and chips. |
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She leaned back into the taxi's lumpy seat and gave him a reassuring smile. |
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Hardly a reassuring forecast coming from a former casino croupier and Ponzi scheme salesman. |
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Climbing into the reassuring softness of the carriage, Evelyn promised to pay the coachman on her arrival at her home, then rested her head back against the seats. |
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The female ambo straps her in and gives her a reassuring smile. |
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Long before the war is over, we'll all know its reassuring code name. |
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His chuckle was as affable and reassuring as the skirr of a buzz-saw. |
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Spend a lot of time reassuring this woman that you see beyond the bod and aren't just another voyeur looking to put another notch on your stripper pole. |
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In the case of a falsely reassuring prenatal test, there are two possibilities for a lawsuit against a health practitioner. |
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This is the problem facing the Halls and anyone else who receives a falsely reassuring result on a prenatal test. |
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Gently she stroked her hair and consoled her with a reassuring touch. |
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In this exhibition, however, visual culture is not reductively promoted as a reassuring link between peoples or as a mindless celebration of plurality and multiculturalism. |
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Her reassuring smile did little to reassure her dismal friends. |
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The roles of the kindly professor and Santa Claus were tailor-made for Liam Murphy, whose avuncular presence must have been very reassuring for the children at the outset. |
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She was grateful for his comforting words and reassuring gestures. |
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Just as importantly, a jury forms a reassuring lay tribunal between the polished professionals in their gowns and wigs and the common man or woman. |
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It was reassuring for them to enjoy such an invigorating taste of a brave new world, while the team did enough to suggest that it can be inhabited on a more regular basis. |
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The concordance between the earlier physiological study and present morphometric investigation is reassuring, given the number of assumptions of the latter. |
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It may be reassuring to some Americans to think of our country as above the community of nations and beyond the footling machinations of minor states. |
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Not that these regulations are necessarily reassuring to rattled residents of Burundi. |
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But Husain said the video presents a compelling argument against such reassuring boilerplate. |
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He was supposed to be reassuring a civic-minded soldier that there was something redeeming about our political culture! |
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He offered her a reassuring smile before nodding toward her hand. |
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It's totally hokey and cliched, but there's something reassuring about it all the same. |
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It is also a little reassuring that scholastic achievement across the range of abilities is so welcomed and valued in the public reaction to the results round. |
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I tensed up a little but he gave me a reassuring pat on the back. |
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It's also reassuring to have finally met my match in ineptness. |
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It's always vaguely reassuring to find someone with worse hair than me. |
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In earlier times religion was a major force, but today many people find a white coat more reassuring than a black one, a medical center more impressive than a cathedral. |
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And it is therefore reassuring to hear the minister stress that the publications would remain a permanent feature on our news-stands, with a complete and separate budget. |
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It's reassuring, in a way, when these technological things throw a wobbly. |
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Both men are renowned for their friendly demeanour and reassuring manner. |
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The other was to counter-attack against domestic critics while reassuring uneasy foreign leaders. |
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But their technical record during the initial certification of the 787 is not reassuring. |
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She says it is reassuring to learn that the rose is still available. |
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He listened over and over to the tape recordings in which Heim talked to his sons in a calm and reassuring voice. |
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The sight was slick, sick, and saddening, and yet oddly reassuring. |
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And the Egyptian was packed with mostly journalists, filmmakers, and publicists, which was reassuring. |
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Thankfully, the landlady, a stately, old woman with a reassuring gaze was still awake at this ungodly hour and benevolently helped me into a small room on the first floor. |
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In answering these questions, it would be reassuring, in a way, to report that the basic facts were discovered only after the war, but the truth is otherwise. |
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It would be reassuring if a sample of these diocesan reports could actually be audited by outsiders, and a closer look taken in cases that seem to be statistically unlikely. |
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I cannot know why Benny Morris and so many others have this prefernce for the reassuring certainties of the rejectionist motif. |
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Until seconds before the reassuring clunk of the landing gear, only the aeroplane's shadow skimming across the murky water is visible immediately below. |
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Kerry became the safe choice, uninspiring but solidly reassuring. |
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We walked single-file toward a wooded area, the two rifles positioned as reassuring bookends. |
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Presumably a device based on this technology could provide full body X-rays of people at airports, something much more reassuring than a metal detector. |
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The possibilities are endless, and weirdly reassuring in these disjointed and murky times. |
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In short, can you not be content with such reassuring security and guaranty as this, that the established order vouches for your blessedness in the hereafter? |
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I felt a sense of relief, reassuring myself that that girl wouldn't be me. |
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Another explanation, and this one is more reassuring, is that people aren't responding to the temporary inflation blip caused by higher petrol prices. |
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Churchill also used the radio to great effect, inspiring, reassuring and informing the people with his speeches during the Second World War. |
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Reflectors in the road thwapped beneath the tires, setting a regular, almost reassuring pace. |
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It's reassuring to see that not even persistent wintriness can defeat the combined forces of middle England and rampant calypso. |
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It's reassuring Pritch had gone and worked wonders under Mark and that's what we want to do as well. |
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A foetal cardiotocograph was not reassuring and showed reduced variability for over an hour. |
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The NHS is naturally pro-immunisation, reassuring parents that their babies can easily cope with these jabs. |
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The left hand part is a reassuring axonometric view of the exterior of two half domes. |
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And resist the urge to probe or pester for reassuring answers. |
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But the real reason for Big School's success is probably Frances de la Tour, pictured above, as vinegary but reassuring head Ms Baron. |
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For many years, the lollipop men and ladies have been a symbol of road safety, providing a reassuring sight for parents. |
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Equally reassuring is the acknowledged relevance of Fabianism to British left-wing politics. |
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The inflexibility is a reassuring ideological message for some members. |
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In this example you'd need to drive her down town lickety-split constantly reassuring her everything is all right. |
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The general findings from administering the MMPI are reassuring. |
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As the dive boats approach the island, the sea turns lighter than the sky with a greenish-transparent hue, reassuring one and all that, yes, this is going to be amazing. |
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And when Pat started talking to the boy about his burnt ear and reassuring him how doctors would repair it, the youngster looked lost for words and ready to burst into tears. |
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