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«I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol.»
Author: Ben Affleck
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bull, dude, dudes, greased, greases, greasing, reluctant, sex symbol, underwear
«Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.»
Author: Dale E. Turner
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conservatism, justification, painful, reluctant
«If you are reluctant to ask the way, you will be lost»
Author: Malayan Proverb
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reluctant
«Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.»
«Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.»
«Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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disgusted, fiery, merits, reluctant, shopkeeper, shopkeepers, shrivel, shriveled, shrivels, shrivel up, the press, wither
«Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.»
«Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.»
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