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Nancy looked away, trying to appear casual, before acting surprised that the question was directed at her
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She told Jorma about the papers, as if it was something casual
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No, this is no casual question – she’s clearly been worrying about this
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If used as a casual friend and sex partner without coming to depend on her, she was fine, but for an impressionable youngster, she might be too callous with his heart
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Their casual, consensual, informal and strictly forbidden exchanges of secret intelligence had been the secret of their remarkable successes for years, even when Mirielle had been a junior intelligence officer
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Few women randomly chose to be single mothers in the Highlands, even here in the Gengee, so he doubted that any of his casual encounters were fertile
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Ricci enters, sporting a fresh change of wardrobe (the guy’s really a clothes horse): This time it’s a palace casual, a brilliant blue thobe trimmed with gold thread
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He had always been a casual follower of the faith until now, but this made so little sense
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In the thinking time afforded me by slow recovery it became clear that while the casual maltreatment of heathen prisoners might be acceptable as part of the day-to-day routine of hostage supervision, the loss of one of their precious bargaining chips before the cards have been dealt, was unthinkable
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Over the next few weeks, as the procedures and the rituals bedded down, as Robbie and Mick and the other guards who rotated on shift, mixed bonhomie with casual insults and violence, I started to listen and to watch
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distinction has to be drawn between a serious relationship and a casual relationship
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In a casual relationship, the importance is always for the physical attributes
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They might have their reasons of course, but I, for one, feel that such a decision based largely on looks is more suitable for a casual
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He was capable of constructing it, but passing the suffering on to Jaseem was all out of proportion to the casual callousness that Jaseem had committed
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"I would hope you wouldn't leave important papers that could mean the death of the whole world in the care of a casual one-sleep
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It was a casual sail between choke points, and ships going by on the uphill side of the sandbar could hail them and chide them on their misfortune
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Should she tell Alan it was none of his business who she had sex with? That was the truth wasn't it? Was Alan a casual friend? An adopted son? He was something more than the first but less than the second, not a complete partner in her life
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I tried to turn my mind off the impending take-off with some casual conversation about the library but, 'This is my first flight and
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"Perceptive," Luray replied, "Yendee, Yarin and shaNai have offered, though shaNai seemed rather casual
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Bougainvillea, morning glory, hollyhocks, dusty white acanthus, all waving and grinning from everyday, ordinary tins brightened with casual splashes of paint - they just wouldn't look the same in Britain
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Oh it hurts me that you were hurt, but it hurts me that a woman such as you would pine away like that for a man such as him, while all I know are casual affairs
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With that he was gone, but just that quick and casual little snuggle actually added to her appreciation of the beauty in this scene
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Apart from a few casual jobs that he managed to get during the summer season, when Britain’s residential masses poured out of their suburban homes to spend two weeks basking in the melange of weather systems that blow in across the great western seas, he spent most of the year fishing from beaches and rocky breakwaters, eking out a meagre living by selling sea bass to local restaurants and pubs
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I knew I had to escape, but it had to look casual
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Each time I stopped for a drink, I did my best to be casual and filled my mind with all sorts of loopy trivia to try to keep my nerves at bay
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If you had it in casual dress, that setting would also change the emblem on its shirt
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Maybe you could give the school a ring later in the week, have a chat with her tutor - just a casual chat to see how she’s doing at school
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He wore the Australian team shirt, but had a pair of casual khaki shorts on
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Apart from a few casual jobs that he managed to get
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Should I go ultra casual
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I could wear that little black skirt with a casual top, I’ve got a nice long sleeved one which isn’t too dressy
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Police forensics might find enough to hang a man, but to a casual observer there appears to be nothing amiss
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He could go another week with only casual company if he had to, but saw no reason to bother if it was pointless
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When he was honest with himself he knew why, he was just a casual thing to her, a roommate with a handy dick
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It was true that she could make casual friends easily, but she had never been in a situation where new friends were all she had
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On the casual stroll back to the boat after a late lunch that Morningday, they ran into hSkaiya
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built construction; at a casual glance, Tom considered, they could
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made some casual remark to that effect
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Why couldn’t she become like a native woman? Why couldn’t she take what she got without strings, without regrets, without attachment? Why couldn’t she be just a man with a vagina? After eighty years in this native body, why did she still have to think like an Earth girl? Why did she still have to hurt like an Earth girl? Why couldn’t she be like that casual slut Jorma had simply taken in when she moved down the hall?
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who was leaning on the stone wall in the studiously casual fashion
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She knew Althart would be late but she liked it here and wasn’t adverse to spending a few hours lounging and catching up with a few casual acquaintances
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He tried to take it slow and casual, I saw it happening
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His questions and observations of aspects usually neglected by casual admirers brought him a level of respect from the craftsmen generally reserved for one of their own, and they said as much
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“I’m just not that casual,” Ava kept trying to tell her as she lead the way upstairs
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But at the same time, any casual observer would think she was the one with the most motive for taking this body
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“Oh I don’t believe our record keeping is that good,” he was still trying to act casual, but not completely succeeding
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His interest in sex is fairly casual
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This left Harry alone looking out over the Cricket pitch and the rest of the grounds within casual view
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In fact he knew she was just using him for support and casual sex
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The depths of his own experience and resources were his own second nature, and would have given any casual passerby only the glimpse of an official telegrapher at his routine chores
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“A casual conversation revealed that there is someone in town who may have some knowledge of history
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The formality of the otherwise casual meeting was not lost on Harry nor Kaitlyn
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He tried to look casual, but Desa could see that he was concerned
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Though to the casual observer she appeared to be no older than Harry
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He had been working as casual labour in the winter of 2013 employed in the vicinity of Coonabarabran sorting grain
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He lives out of his backpack and works in the Pilbara region as casual labour
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She documented that ten percent of the city's macrofauna lives above casual human reach
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In casual conversation with people who didn't know him he gave his life story as 'Grew up with fundamentalist parents way out on the desert fringe of Wescarp and left it as soon as I could and came here with Desa and lived happily ever after'
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She had taken off the tassely drape and hair beads so the casual observer in the audience didn't recognize her
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Oh she was polite enough and considerate enough and physically pleasant enough, but even a quick 'let's fuck' from a casual encounter in a concert hall seemed like a deeper and more caring involvement than this
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"Our arrangements with our clients are solemn oath, even if our words about it are casual
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During this decade she had only casual relations with quite a few different guys who lived and/or worked and/or hung out in the castle
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The way she moved was very casual and easy, not what he would have expected from a university professor mixed up in a missing-lab-apprentice-from-a-lost-basin case
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"I thought they were just casual friends, that she just worked for him?" Klowa asked
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house, I can leave dressed casual, with the
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The disadvantages with casual outsourcing are multiple:
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This creates a casual and genuine atmosphere
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Too casual can just
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Let’s hope that all of that casual studying, all those days spent in the museums and libraries in Cyrodiil pays off, eh?”
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It's sad as much as it is funny… bullets are flying just a few blocks away and we're just laughing at the situation, shrugging it off as if it was the most casual thing in the world
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Still, if I ask for something prefaced by 'Dearest' or 'Darling' or any of the myriad modifiers I'm likely to use off-hand, please know that I am trying to maintain a casual familiarity with you, even though it is very difficult for me to do so
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It would hardly have been proper to err towards the casual in one's relations with Mr Rudolph Snickerty, known to all as 'The Adjudicator' in connection with his official position relating to the administration of relief to the poor and needy
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” Her tone was casual, even matter-of-fact
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Casually, or at least in a manner she thought was casual, she kicked off her shoes, pulled down her pantyhose, removing them completely
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To the casual observer the probe on its journey through the Lyrabes system was nothing special, just one of thousands of explorer probes
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The enfilading fire coming from these was murderous and was cutting what was left of the Company to pieces with casual ease
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The man shambled into her office, wearing a casual top, workman jeans and a sour expression
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But the directors of a regulated company, having the management of no common capital, have no other fund to employ in this way, but the casual revenue arising from the admission fines, and from the corporation duties imposed upon the trade of the company
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He still wore the smart casual clothes he’d been wearing during his tirade of destruction
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To a casual observer the device seemed to defy physics, as if it were still fixed to the full mass of the moon
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visiting, so this was more than a casual invitation
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"You will," replied Angela, with the same casual confidence she'd shown all along
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being so casual with him, why she was working
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It wasn't a casual habit
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She said, keeping her tone casual
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He had been prepared for a bit of a ramble about old times with Mother Imelda and then a casual question about the improbable possibility of his parents
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punters; a casual undoing of a top button on her cheap cheesecloth
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While the casual
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“You did what you had to, Adem,” Jean said with a casual wave
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Her frame seemed tiny with casual clothes hugged against it, frail and delicate, not even fully formed yet
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is accepted dress is too formal or too casual, you are welcome to your opinion, but wear it anyway
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I was neatly dressed – you can look neat wearing anything – but definitely I was casual
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She wore little gold heart earrings, and sandals, so the effect was casual, but arresting
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Sespian kept catching himself tugging at his collar or wiping moist hands on his trousers, so the casual facade probably wasn’t fooling anyone
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Whether as (casual) observers or active participants, each of us is equally to blame, more so the former for our indifference!
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Art Stupefaction conceals an inherent baseness common to affected styles and manners that is often lost on the casual observer, captivated as many of them are by erratic forms for their own sake without giving considered thought to their (social) implications; radical ―art‖ forms whose intended meaning, if any, are often unclear, its premises anti-social, tasteless, adolescent, absurd, valueless and immoral
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Although I firmly agree that professionalism is a function of character rather than appearance, I am equally inclined to support the notion that many individuals (including yours truly) require (some) structure in their lives and that the degree an employee adopts a more casual approach to his or her personal appearance, he or she will likely to adopt similar (laid-back) attitudes as they relate to work; that is to say, that the one arguably feeds off the other
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When a society begins to lose its moral compass or becomes less critical of questionable points of views or unseemly behavior that diminishes an individual‘s intellectual and moral character, however, and when principled and far-sighted judgments(s) become increasingly muddled and uncertain and when that society fails to exercise reasonable discretion by indiscriminately embracing every hare-brained idea for tolerance sake or taking every (novel) proposition at its face value without giving serious thought to the matter and when an individual, lest he or she be perceived as close-minded or confrontational, remains on the sidelines as a casual observer rather than an active participant, such actions or inactions, whatever the case may be, must inevitably usher the moral and intellectual decline of that society
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otherwise it fulfilled its (dual) purpose of recharging our nutritional batteries while engaging family members in casual mealtime conversations that brought the family (closer) together as a unit
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Nixon‘s presidential candidacy (1968) although once in office, his casual indifference, if not outright rejection of conservative principles, and the voters who supported them, betrayed the confidence of his faithful followers who had come to expect so much from him