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    foils


    1. The Motion Picture industry has enjoyed a long running fetish with strong, physically intimidating women routinely beating up on or otherwise skillfully out-maneuvering the obnoxious designs of pretentious, self-centered males filled with a heightened sense of their (own) self-importance; convenient foils portrayed as anachronistic, insensitive, chauvinistic types deserving an occasional thrashing every so often from women scorned or in response to inopportune or unsolicited (sexual) banterings or harmless wisecracks intended to make a definitive statement about strong women coming of age


    2. The swords we used were little more than foils, whereas Ria here is a light saber, but she hefts about the same


    3. � Meanwhile, the Wellington bombers feigning a raid on Cologne would first attract the attention of the German air defense system, then confuse it by releasing in midair tons of strips of aluminum foils which would create massive false echoes on German radar screens


    4. I will be there, of course, with Marian in support, working the view foils and flip-charts and so on, and we shall have to pretend to be surprised if they should mention Jim’s activities to us


    5. He knew he was embarking on one of the most important briefings of his career, but without the comfort of notes or slides or view foils or video clips or auto-cues - nothing but his own memory


    6. Even if some enterprising were to venture regardless, our way of life foils their bid to find a place for lovemaking


    7. encounter a witch who wants to eat them, but Gretel’s quick thinking foils her plan


    8. “I deny it this victory! I deny it this trophy, this triumph! As of this moment, I do not step here willingly! And it is vanity—supreme boastfulness—that foils the demon now!”


    9. man adjusting the aluminum foils covering Neil’s head


    10. foils that rustled as Neil moved

    11. Spike handed over the paper and I took in the Vulcan with those steely green eyes and that silver spot on his forehead as well as his jet black hair done with indigo blue foils


    12. Greenhouse Insulation - Aside from the glazing, the greenhouse could use insulation made of bubble sheets or poly bubbles in combination with foils and other reflective materials to reduce heating costs


    13. Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease,


    14. Give us the foils


    15. These foils have all a length?


    16. "If you did not pique yourself more on your dexterity with those foils you carry than on dexterity of tongue," said the other student, "you would have been head of the degrees, where you are now tail


    17. He would lead an artist's life there! He would take lessons on the guitar! He would have a dressing-gown, a Basque cap, blue velvet slippers! He even already was admiring two crossed foils over his chimney-piece, with a death's head on the guitar above them


    18. There were collected and piled up all Albert's not a taste but a fancy for music; easels, palettes, brushes, pencils—for music had been successive caprices, hunting-horns, bass-viols, flutes—a whole orchestra, for Albert had had succeeded by painting; foils, boxing-gloves, broadswords, and single-sticks—for, following the example of the fashionable young men of the time, Albert de Morcerf cultivated, with far more perseverance than music and drawing, the three arts that complete a dandy's education, i


    19. A dark-blue oar crossed with a cherry-pink one above his mantel-piece spoke of the old Oxonian and Leander man, while the foils and boxing-gloves above and below them were the tools of a man who had won supremacy with each


    20. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils

    21. One day, the buttons were removed from the foils


    22. In the Rue du Cimitiere-SaintNicholas, an officer of the National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to emerge at nightfall and in disguise


    23. This was the ability, and the inclination, through a trick in the use of the foils, to disfigure his opponent's face badly, without at all endangering his life


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