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Glen wouldn't say that, of course; that's why it was finesse.† (source)
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It wasn't until he took up running, an activity that rewards will and determination more than finesse or cunning, that he found his athletic calling.† (source)
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It had a curmudgeonly fuel transfer valve that Pillsbury and Douglas had to finesse into place, lest it stick wide open, slow an engine, or trigger a deafening backfire.† (source)
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Others, he thinks, would do this with less finesse.† (source)
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He knew the task before him would require more finesse than force, and he left his handgun in the car.† (source)
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At first they'd play tennis, on the clay court behind Crake's place, but Crake combined method with lateral thinking and hated to lose, and Jimmy was impetuous and lacked finesse, so that wasn't too productive and they dropped it.† (source)
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Unfortunately, it failed to engage properly; and—for several minutes, hoping that the desk clerk was too out-of-it to notice —I stood in the open elevator trying to finesse the card-slide until the steel doors hissed and slid shut.† (source)
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He might be a genius at finessing the budget, but he's afraid to make operational decisions, and he's afraid to get the Section involved in the necessary field work.† (source)
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It had been almost three weeks since Dexter and I had split, and not only was I dealing with it, we'd almost finessed the impossible: a friendship.† (source)
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But the matter is of such importance, that one must passer pardessus toutes ces finesses de sentiment.† (source)
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Not speed, not agility, not finesse.† (source)
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Being in thick with the Duke of Squamuglia, Pasquale plots to do away with young Niccolo by suggesting a game of hide-and-seek and then finessing him into crawling inside of an enormous cannon, which a henchman is then to set off, hopefully blowing the child, as Pasquale recalls ruefully, later on in the third act, Out in a bloody rain to feed our fields Amid the Maenad roar of nitre's song And sulfur's cantus firmus.† (source)
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She felt exposed, finessed, put down.† (source)
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Hoagland would say that now was the time for playing certain finesses, that in the wake of the activity arose those moments that could be manipulated.† (source)
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She's taken to immortality with amazing finesse.† (source)
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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chuses, and that is, his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.† (source)
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