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deliberate as in: deliberate insult
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She didn't forget. She deliberately skipped the meeting.
deliberately = intentionally
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- She deliberately added false information to the Wikipedia page.
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
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deliberately = intentionally (perhaps with great forethought)
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The answer, of course, is nobody, which has prompted me to make a conscious, deliberate decision—to make distraction my vacation.
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deliberate = intentional
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Instead of trying to wrestle his way free, his forefinger veers off and makes a deliberate X on the back of Cato's hand.
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They think their greatest concern is defending Islam and are being led astray by those like the Taliban who deliberately misinterpret the Quran.
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deliberately = intentionally
- Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye. (source)
- Deliberately he punished his body, strained his endurance, tested his capacity for strenuousness. (source)
- He told Louie that some of his rival coaches were ordering their runners to sharpen their spikes and slash him. Louie dismissed the warning, certain that no one would do such a thing deliberately. (source)
- This time he quite deliberately placed his hand firmly on Gabriel's back, and released the rest of the calming day on the lake. (source)
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It began to look as if there had been a deliberate effort to leave these open areas as big enclosures, separated from the roads by moats and electric fences.
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deliberate = intentional (done on purpose)
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He got to his feet and walked over to me, deliberately stopping four or five feet away, like the pin had some kind of voodoo curse on it.
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So in a deliberately mild voice, he said: "You know, young man, you can make this much easier on yourself."
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She had been so excited about taking his queen, only to have the master checkmate her in the next move. Sam Westing had deliberately sacrificed his queen and she had fallen for it.
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Graff had deliberately set him up to be separate from the other boys, made it impossible for him to be close to them.
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deliberately = intentionally (on purpose)
- Her father: "From what you've told me it's because Charles Wallace thought he could deliberately go into IT and return." (source)
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...a lawyer once deliberately pushed a pile of books to the floor in a desperate effort to wake him up.
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- I deliberately jounced the limb so you would fall off. (source)
- It was well known among the people of Mbanta that their gods and ancestors were sometimes long-suffering and would deliberately allow a man to go on defying them. (source)
- The minister and my aunt looked at me, and both seemed angry, as if I had kept them waiting deliberately. (source)
- I deliberately disobeyed her every command. (source)
- She thinks the Marthas have given her a deliberately impossible job so they can dump her. (source)
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Nat's eyes deliberately taunted her.
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"You know it's Passover," her mother said, sighing, in a voice deliberately low.
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- Anyone who deliberately causes such pain to someone they say they love is despicable, the lowest of the low! (source)
- Or even worse, he'll think I'm deliberately avoiding him. (source)
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Instead of sighs and accidents there was pointed and deliberate abuse.
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He pointed us out in groups, deliberately not calling attention to individuals.
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I commented on what I had concluded was simple thoughtlessness.
Willem shook his head. "It's very deliberate," he said. (source)deliberate = intentional (done on purpose)
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Would he think we had forsaken him and deliberately ripped his wife's clothes--viciously broken the pigs?
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The Diallo shooting, in other words, falls into a kind of gray area, the middle ground between deliberate and accidental.
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She felt that you had deliberately put a kind of distance between the two of you.
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- I laugh, deliberately calling attention to us because I know it's exactly what she doesn't want. (source)
- (Her hands pressed together, in a deliberately childish gesture) (source)
- There were occasions when we deliberately let you win a game so that you would stop sulking and go on playing with us. (source)
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It was unique to Haiti, lovely and expressive and born of grim necessity—the French masters had deliberately separated slaves who spoke the same languages, and the slaves had fashioned their own tongue.
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But this was shocking, like a stage deliberately set to offend.
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And the sound had not been deliberate; it had not been loud enough or prolonged enough to signify a trap.
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She stretched out on her back again, deliberately kicking water up and over him.
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- After teaching them the basic steps, Allan deliberately stayed back, giving the kids room to assert themselves. (source)
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He said he done it deliberate.
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The next week I put five wrong answers, deliberately.
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As she took her third step, she deliberately twisted her right ankle and stumbled diagonally across the room.
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He looks deliberately at me. I can't dispute it.
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- But Red ordered him to lose and he made that one mistake, made it deliberately, and got thrown. (source)
- The machinery had failed again, or the power had been deliberately turned off, or the power station had been captured by the rebels. (source)
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They might have had some natural cause, or they might be due to deliberate censorship by the Overlords.
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deliberate = intentional
- In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie. (source)
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She was accused, together with her husband, of having deliberately murdered her former employer
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- Wild and bitter words were shouted from many sides; and some of those who had before sung the old songs loudest, were now heard as loudly crying that the dwarves had stirred the dragon up against them deliberately! (source)
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"What a wonderfully intimate relationship," he said, deliberately outrageous.
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deliberately = intentionally
- When I passed the ashheaps on the train that morning I had crossed deliberately to the other side of the car. (source)
- Then as if deliberately the fire dies down again. (source)
- Deliberately courting pneumonia in that light coat? (source)
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holes were bored in the boat with the deliberate intent of letting in the water so that the boat should sink.
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deliberate = intentional (on purpose with forethought)
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He found a hard black clod on the floor and deliberately threw it.
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- He hadn't deliberately planned to be there because it was a couple of blocks out of his way and he was really awfully tired. (source)
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Then the man advanced and deliberately dealt him a frightful blow on the nose.
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deliberately = with conscious intent
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there just aint nothing justifies the deliberate destruction of what a man has built with his own sweat
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Before I could say a word, or move forward to seize him, he sprang on the bulwark and deliberately threw himself into the sea.
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Kaminer got to the hat and K., as he often had to do at the bank, forcibly reminded himself that the grin was not deliberate,
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Tempted by a dream of happiness, he had yielded himself with deliberate choice, as he had never done before, to what he knew was deadly sin.
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I deliberately did not look at his face.
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"Don't worry about me," he insisted, smiling with deliberate cheer, too brightly.
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To put on an act like that and then deliberately be so mean….
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- He took out deliberately over trails that Indians and old timers warned him against. (source)
- Some believed the authorities were deliberately encouraging the Taliban. (source)
- I keep willing the clock to go faster, but it seems to be resisting me deliberately. (source)
- Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies. (source)
- I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. (source)
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Why did he deliberately turn everything to her disadvantage?
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At first Peter insisted that they be deliberately inflammatory.
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She wouldn't hurt you deliberately; you know that.
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- She said the name deliberately and was rewarded by his startled eyes. (source)
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Then I realize that they've been deliberately tamped down into the earth.
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- When I had to use the potty, I deliberately made more noise to get the snoring to stop. (source)
- Forgotten was the word, because surely no gentleman would deliberately choose to go tieless. (source)
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He killed those men, that woman, like a madman on a deliberate rampage.
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deliberate = intentional (on purpose with forethought)
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Paul was educating her, she felt, though not deliberately.
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The teachers deliberately stretched the meetings on for hours.
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- Perhaps I should be deliberately provocative, perhaps I should confirm their deepest suspicions. (source)
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A deliberate smokescreen of confusion, the contract itself fiction.
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And why had Delta deliberately used the name Washburn?
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- I said no more, and deliberately went back to reading. (source)
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Louie made a deliberate effort to avoid thinking about the men who had died, and had to push away the memory of the gurgling voice in the water.
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Rounding the corner into the alley, the young man had deliberately forced the older one into the side of the building and ground his face against the rough bricks.
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- I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. (source)
- He added they had used two local Swati men who had collected information about me and my route to school and had deliberately carried out the attack near an army checkpoint to show they could strike anywhere. (source)
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But the longer it went on, with no one coming to the door, no one looking for him, the more certain he became that this was something deliberate, meant to disconcert him.
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- Deliberate Living: Conscious attention to the basics of life, and a constant attention to your immediate environment and its concerns, examples A job, a task, a book; anything requiring efficient concentration (source)
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Katrien and Annaliese could not understand any more than I could Peter's deliberately doing something that would attract the attention of the authorities.
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- His defeated name remained in bronze on the school record plaque, while Finny deliberately evaded an athletic honor. (source)
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I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.
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deliberately = with intentional effort
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That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil.
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- Louie and the other men were kept there for about eight hours a day, but they worked only when the Bird was around, and even then, they deliberately stitched the leather improperly. (source)
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"What did they do, Father?" inquired Judith coolly. Across the table her eyes met Kit's deliberately.
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deliberately = consciously (on purpose)
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So is any deliberate injury.
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I've hid anything having to do with me from Father, never shared my ideals with him, deliberately alienated myself from him.
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- So Ender deliberately took hold of what they were treating as a floor and dangled from it upside down. (source)
- We explained the whole thing to him, about how we'd deliberately spread the rumor of the officer and the car to throw the Germans and anyone else who might come looking for us off the track. (source)
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deliberate as in: need to deliberate
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We deliberated into the evening.
deliberated = thought and discussed
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We need to deliberate on this further before making a decision.
deliberate = think about or discuss with care
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She knew the scale of the prejudices against her and that an early verdict would mean there had been little deliberation, which would mean conviction.
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deliberation = thought or discussion
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I was afraid I'd deliberate, ruminate, agonize, rationalize, and talk myself into not going.
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deliberate = think about with great care
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As they deliberated they could hear the Mother of Spirits wailing for her son.
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Without a second's deliberation she acted. Kicking off her buckled shoes and dropping the woolen cloak, she plunged headlong over the side of the boat.
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deliberation = consideration of the situation
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After long deliberation, I finally came up with an idea, something funny.
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deliberation = careful consideration
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I deliberated for a moment, and decided she meant it.
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deliberated = thought
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He blinked a moment at seeing people in the hall, then turned with great deliberation to the meter on the wall.
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deliberation = careful thought
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Deliberate thinking is a wonderful tool when we have the luxury of time,
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deliberate = consideration of all sides of a question
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The sun could have set twice on his deliberations but with his eyes quitting, his farm in Azua now dust and his familia in need, what could he really do?
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deliberations = thoughts or discussions of considerations
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After much deliberation, my mother asked Mr. Landell to come and dig them all up
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deliberation = careful consideration
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I urge you to deliberate honestly and thoughtfully.
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deliberate = think about or discuss with care
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Deliberations were often slow and cumbersome, so these gatherings were not particularly thrilling.†
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deliberations = discussions
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We came to a T in the road and stopped, the pigeon deliberating between left and right.†
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deliberating = thinking about or discussing
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"This is not as it should be," Dick deliberated.
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I am truly thankful that she is to be left out of our future work, and even of our deliberations.
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deliberations = discussions
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At that epoch of pristine simplicity, however, matters of even slighter public interest, and of far less intrinsic weight than the welfare of Hester and her child, were strangely mixed up with the deliberations of legislators and acts of state.
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deliberations = discussions and thoughts
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"You examine me, Miss Eyre," said he: "do you think me handsome?"
I should, if I had deliberated, have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from my tongue before I was aware — "No, sir." (source)deliberated = thought about it
- They had deliberated for three hours.† (source)
- An all-white jury deliberated for ten minutes before convicting George of rape and murder.† (source)
- The Psychs are deliberating even now.† (source)
- Deliberations resumed at ten o'clock Monday morning.† (source)
- He ran a long feature on George Vandeveer, charlatan attorney for the Wobbly defense in the Everett Massacre deliberations.† (source)
- Sort of like an Allen charge, Alex realized-the instruction a judge would give to a jury that wasn't getting anywhere in its deliberations, which basically reminded them of their duty as American citizens, and assured them that they could and would come to a consensus.† (source)
- , Harry deliberated, wondering whether he ought to lie or not.† (source)
- He deliberates over a pair of shorts, but they're too big around the waist and wouldn't protect the backs of his legs, so he hangs on to his flowered sheet, doubling it over, knotting it like a sarong.† (source)
- HALE, nods, deliberating this.† (source)
- He deliberated a moment, pursing his lips.† (source)
- At first —" he deliberated several moments over another piece of veneer, then put it in the maybe pile—"at first he told me I'd have to take a year off—four years, five, however long it took—and earn the rest of my college money the hard way.† (source)
- The difficulty lies in making sure that those with power include you in their deliberations.† (source)
- As Jenny wound up to counterpunch, I quickly tried to return the deliberations to my leading candidate.† (source)
- They had watched her painful deliberations over when and how to give her parents the news that she wasn't coming home.† (source)
- He sat through the two days of the trial surprisingly calm, and for eleven more days he waited, without feeling anything in particular, for the court to finish deliberating and to come up with the document he now held in his hand.† (source)
- After deliberating for a long moment, I choose a swirl of pink watermelon and green apple.† (source)
- About three hours after we'd first become aware of it, the vapor suddenly lifted, saving us from our formal deliberations.† (source)
- The jury's deliberations had lasted forty minutes.† (source)
- He reads the phrase "Equal Justice Under Law" and tries to make out the characters carved just above it, a row of squatting, deliberating white men from some period of antiquity or otherGreek, maybe, he thinks-but muscular, like black men.† (source)
- Messengers had been dispatched there to ask the Downworlders to wait while the Clave deliberated, and Clary could only hope they were willing to do it.† (source)
- ON OCTOBER 18, a raw, gloomy Wednesday, a congressional committee of three, including Benjamin Franklin, gathered by a roaring fire in Washington's study and, after lengthy deliberations with the commander and his generals, concluded that if an attack on Boston meant the destruction of the town, they could not approve.† (source)
- And then came the time I have just spoken of and see as the key to his life: Standing by the window, he looked out over the courtyard at the walls opposite him and deliberated.† (source)
- She agreed not to go to bed with Captain Black again or give him any more of Nately's money, but she would not budge an inch on her friendship with the ugly, ill-kempt, dissipated, filthy-minded old man, who witnessed Nately's flowering love affair with insulting derision and would not admit that Congress was the greatest deliberative body in the whole world.† (source)
- "Mom, we're not going to starve to death," he complained as she stood deliberating in front of an open cupboard.† (source)
- I deliberated.† (source)
- The sum of my deliberations added up to a frightening conclusion.† (source)
- You will be allowed to take all documents and exhibits back to the jury room when you begin your deliberations.† (source)
- Vlad deliberated for a moment whether Henry was answering his question or simply musing about his troubles with Melissa, but he didn't have long to speculate.† (source)
- I deliberated over which part disturbed me more: the imaginary boyfriend or that she claimed we'd had an actual conversation.† (source)
- There would be no more deliberations or debate.† (source)
- But to win the Germans over, the Continental Congress printed German translations of some of its deliberations, including the Articles of Confederation, and German Americans did support the Revolution.† (source)
- She had only waited, deliberating on his fate, expecting Eddis to make some effort to retrieve him, not expecting the mission that arrived on her doorstep to toss threats in her face the way a man might bait a dog.† (source)
- "Forensic, deliberative and epideictic," he answers calmly.† (source)
- The council was so completely democratic that all members of the tribe could participate in its deliberations.† (source)
- "May the Crone guide the deliberations with her golden lamp of wisdom," said Lady Falyse, most piously.† (source)
- Jason had to stop deliberating and take what he wanted.† (source)
- "I shall comply with your terms," she answered; her voice had the shrewd, confident, deliberating slowness of a trader.† (source)
- I've tried to make it my guide throughout this contest as it has guided America's deliberations of all the complex issues of the past five weeks.† (source)
- She paused for a moment as if deliberating, though it was quite clear to all of us that every word she spoke and every action she carried out had long been planned and practiced.† (source)
- His deliberations went fast.† (source)
- After deliberating for three days, the nine-member jury finds Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, and David Herold guilty.† (source)
- He assists at the deliberations of the States-General.† (source)
- He was a few years older than the others, more deliberative in movement, calmer in demeanor.† (source)
- When the court deliberates, it will have to decide about the efficacy of the way our room worked.† (source)
- She deliberated, then said, "She can leave the court, but she cannot go home until the hearing is finished.† (source)
- In the first place you were deliberating whether or not the rhinoceros which passed by just now was the same one that passed by earlier, or whether it was another.† (source)
- Nevertheless, the House, still small enough to be a truly deliberative body, overshadowed the Senate in terms of political power during the first three decades of our government.† (source)
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He turned at last, with measured deliberation.
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deliberation = thought
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Their deliberations were short, and it would seem, by the silence of most of the party, the decision unanimous.
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deliberations = discussion of considerations
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"Nothing can be more natural," said Sir Thomas, after a short deliberation; "nor, were there no sister in the case, could anything, in my opinion, be more natural."
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deliberation = consideration of the situation
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Here, leaning over the banister, I cried out suddenly, and without at all deliberating on my words — "They are not fit to associate with me."
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deliberating = thinking
- I swallowed, daring to say what I'd been deliberating over for a very long time.† (source)
- He stopped speaking, and she seemed to be deliberating something.† (source)
- However, his point is valid, Nasuada; we cannot have this child present at our deliberations.† (source)
- He deliberated for a moment as we walked.† (source)
- You may adjourn and begin your deliberations.† (source)
- He let the Rabbit idle in front of the house, deliberating with an unsure expression.† (source)
- I wonder if they'll take a break or go right on deliberating while they eat.† (source)
- Brom deliberated, then said, "Let's find out.† (source)
- She deliberated for a long time about whether she should confide in Dragan Armansky.† (source)
- Only a second had passed; Caius was still deliberating.† (source)
- The judge rebuffed him and sent the jury, including Mrs. Tyo, back into deliberations.† (source)
- I deliberated where I stood, wanting to return to him badly, but afraid I might have morning breath.† (source)
- He deliberated for a short second, and then his phone was in his hand.† (source)
- I deliberated for a moment, then left the room, crossing the hall to Carlisle and Esme's suite.† (source)
- For a split second that seemed much longer than it really was, Carlisle deliberated.† (source)
- I pursed my lips, deliberated, then shook my head with a tight grin.† (source)
- They're deliberating, but they've decided to tell him no. The Volturi?† (source)
- Alison, a doctor's wife who hadn't said much during the original deliberations, glanced at her.† (source)
- In addition, a large part of the deliberations will deal with the defendant's guardianship.† (source)
- I was the reason we deliberated so long.† (source)
- Is the number of readers greater or less than— I paused and deliberated.† (source)
- Hmm..." he gazed out across the heaving gray waves, deliberating.† (source)
- When I'm finished, you will retire to the jury room and begin your deliberations.† (source)
- Apace for them might mean months of deliberations.† (source)
- Cedric puts down his fork, pauses thoughtfully, and takes a deliberative sip of Sprite.† (source)
- Wouldn't their deliberations be full of discord?† (source)
- The longer I talk, the more distance I put between him and your deliberations, so I'll be brief.† (source)
- Only, these deliberations are trying in the extreme.† (source)
- New laws are written with the greatest technical skill and passed after long deliberations.† (source)
- There were no guidelines on jury deliberations.† (source)
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deliberate as in: a deliberate thinker
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She is a deliberate thinker--not the fastest, but always thorough.
deliberate = careful and slow
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She wasn't accustomed to cold weather, but she managed to cross the icy street with deliberate care.
deliberate = slow and careful
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He picked his footing deliberately along the slippery bottom, working his way upstream.
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deliberately = with great care
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In a case like Khalil's, I would much rather that you spoke out in a more deliberate and planned way.
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deliberate = thoughtful
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We made it about half a mile up the mountain, moving deliberately so as not to frighten the horses, winding our way through the wheat fields.
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deliberately = slowly with care
- The gallery was quietly expectant as he approached the jury and stood at the railing, passing his eyes deliberately from one to the next. (source)
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She stood up and spoke slowly and deliberately. "I have no desire to marry you, Luis, now or ever. Frankly, your offer offends me."
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deliberately = slowly with great care
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Rahim Khan slowly uncrossed his legs and leaned against the bare wall in the wary, deliberate way of a man whose every movement triggers spikes of pain.
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deliberate = slow and careful
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Then I hear myself saying, "Once upon a time there was a gorilla named Ivan." And, slowly and deliberately, I try to remember.
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deliberately = with great care
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And the way he moves, even the way he holds himself, is refined and graceful, deliberate and delicate, like he's lived his life as a prince and is now pretending to be the pauper.
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deliberate = done with care
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Moving deliberately around the display, Billie points out Chris as a toddler astride a hobby horse, Chris as a rapt eight-year-old in a yellow rain slicker on his first backpacking trip, Chris at his high school commencement.
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- It moved deliberately, cautiously, with none of the swiftness that it had displayed in a pack. (source)
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Lunelle pressed her fingers to Mary's heart, then kissed each one of them in a slow, deliberate way, a way that brought tears to my eyes.
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deliberate = done with great care
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In the hall outside her room, the grandfather's clock ticked deliberately, unimpressed with anyone's impatience
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deliberately = slowly with great care
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Always so deliberate, hardly surprised by the most outlandish advents.
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deliberate = careful (and typically slow)
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Marie-Laure takes each step as deliberately as she can.
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deliberately = slowly (with great care)
- He closed it, folded it deliberately, dropped it in his lap, and pushed his hat to the back of his head. (source)
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Shoving in his long bamboo poles he pushed deliberately forward and slid slowly away from me down the gradual slope, standing very upright, his skis far apart to guard against any threat to his balance, his poles sticking out on either side of him, as though to ward off any interference.
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deliberately = slowly and carefully
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Then he began to speak, quietly and deliberately, picking his words with great care: "It is Okonkwo that I primarily wish to speak to," he began.
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deliberately = with great care
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Lost in her own thoughts, Kit barely noticed that William's dignified pace was even more deliberate than usual.
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When still no one moved, the officer very slowly and deliberately removed the pistol from his holster and pointed it at the feet of a man standing near the edge of the crowd.
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deliberately = with great care
- Braced and heartened by that easy encounter, she picked up speed and began to look deliberately at the neighborhood surrounding her. (source)
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With deliberate slowness, his hands slid down the sides of my neck.
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Ahead of us, to my surprise, a doctor was using a stethoscope with all the deliberateness of a real examination.
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deliberateness = careful attention
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The actors throw themselves around, passionate, but their words are plain and deliberate.
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deliberate = said with great care -- often slowly
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He performs each movement deliberately.
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deliberately = slowly with great care
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Hiatt presided, tall and thin, uttering the opening remarks at his usual deliberate pace, as if his tongue weighed every word.
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deliberate = slow
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The enemy force was moving south with a slow, deliberate pace, but Eledir directed the elves to rush forward and establish a center line to hold as far into the shallow valley as possible.
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Each of the creature's words is deliberate, as if it wants to make sure I don't miss a single one.
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In the stillness the old man could hear the slow, deliberate breathing of the figure beyond the cloth.
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Lee looked over the prints in her precise, deliberate way.
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His touch was too light for anyone to notice unless they were deliberately watching for it, and the moment he located the distinctive strain of wild music that marked Blodhgarm's thoughts, he narrowed his focus to the elf alone.
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He rose deliberately from his chair and came towards them across the soundless carpet.
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Blore said deliberately: "It wouldn't be the first you've made-if that gramophone record is to be believed!"
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He used a deliberate, thoughtful slowness.
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The peasants wrap up their booty with the utmost solemnity, and then get out their big pocket knives, and slowly and deliberately cut off a slice of bread for themselves from their supply and with every mouthful take a piece of the good tough sausage and so reward themselves with a good feed.
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She did them ... so deliberately that even her movements seemed thoughtful.
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She deliberately picked up Anne's clothes, placed them neatly on a prim yellow chair, and then, taking up the candle, went over to the bed.
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...he swam in that direction, swimming with slow, deliberate strokes, conserving his strength.
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A certain deliberateness characterized his attitude. He was not prone to rashness and precipitate action; and in the bitter hatred between him and Spitz he betrayed no impatience, shunned all offensive acts.
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Then he deliberately set himself down to prepare for the task. He find in patience just how is his strength, and what are his powers.
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Just then Sherburn steps out on to the roof of his little front porch, with a double-barrel gun in his hand, and takes his stand, perfectly calm and deliberate, not saying a word.
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He deliberately scrutinised each sketch and painting.
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At first, as he spoke, there was a slight rushing movement of this group in the direction of the intruder, who at the moment was also near at hand, and now, with deliberate and stately step, made closer approach to the speaker.
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Sir Thomas could not give so instantaneous and unqualified a consent. He debated and hesitated; ... —but no sooner had he deliberately begun to state his objections, than Mrs. Norris interrupted him with a reply to them all, whether stated or not.
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He watched the old man deliberately eating, and he felt a chill.
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Assef unbuttoned his winter coat, took it off, folded it slowly and deliberately.
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John would smile, mark his place with deliberation, and come to join her.
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She stood up straight and tall and deliberately blotted her face with a handkerchief.
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Matthew Wood closed the door deliberately and came back toward the table.
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Slowly and deliberately Calpurnia told her the simple story.
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With a deliberate pace, she started down the path that ran past Eragon's tent.
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Distinct, deliberate, two sets of shoes cautiously climbing the staircase.
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"With all deliberate speed," said Crawford, nodding.
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Down the stairs the footsteps came, steady and deliberate.
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He chose Cain deliberately. It was symbolic.
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I moved with deliberate slowness, anger suddenly building in me. How could he leave Rosaleen in jail like that?
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His actions were deliberate, and he spoke as he performed them: "I hope our in-laws will bring many pots of wine."
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The flames ran along the deliberate rows of the vines, like long curved fingers reaching for the horizon, lighting the night sky.
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She was studying, with deliberate appraisal, John Holbrook's bent head and the delicate chiseled line of his profile against the firelight.
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It seemed like the longest evening she had ever lived through. William rose deliberately to his feet.
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- Deliberately Kit stepped closer. (source)
- He could not move as fast as he might wish or with the strength he knew he had, but he could move deliberately. (source)
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The boss deliberately put the little book in his pocket.
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George put down his cards very deliberately.
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- George cut the cards again and put out a solitaire lay, slowly and deliberately. (source)
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Kino, in his pride and youth and strength, could remain down over two minutes without strain, so that he worked deliberately, selecting the largest shells.
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We do it ceremonially, we stretch our legs out in front of us and spit deliberately, that is the only way.
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George laid out his deliberate solitaire hand- seven cards, and six on top, and five on top of those.
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"Yes," says the duke, kinder slow and deliberate and sarcastic, "WE did."
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"Well," Matthewson said, slowly and deliberately, so that all could hear, "I've got a thousand dollars that says he can't..."
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This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in greater suspense than ever.
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If you think so, you must have a strange opinion of me; you must regard me as a plotting profligate — a base and low rake who has been simulating disinterested love in order to draw you into a snare deliberately laid, and strip you of honour and rob you of self—respect.
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And the pocket-book was again deliberately produced, opened, sought through; from one of its compartments was extracted a shabby slip of paper, hastily torn off: I recognised in its texture and its stains of ultra-marine, and lake, and vermillion, the ravished margin of the portrait-cover.
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Having indulged a while in this sedative, she raised her bent body, took the pipe from her lips, and while gazing steadily at the fire, said very deliberately — "You are cold; you are sick; and you are silly."
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- After a moment's deliberation, I purchased a flak vest and a Glock 47C pistol, along with three clips of ammo.† (source)
- The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting.† (source)
- He threw some things into a suitcase and carried it out to the truck and then carried it back in again and threw some more things inside, and all the while he did this, Almondine watched Trudy dress slowly and deliberately.† (source)
- Albert Einstein possessed, according to my father, deep, penetrating eyes; he spoke in a deliberate and gentle manner.† (source)
- Thus, all of them tried to deliberately hide their technical competence as they went about their jobs.† (source)
- "Not afraid," he said deliberately, looking down from the ceiling to stare into my eyes.† (source)
- Whether through careful consideration spawned by books and spirited debate over coffee at two in the morning, or simply from a natural proclivity, we must all eventually adopt a fundamental framework, some reasonably coherent system of causes and effects that will help us make sense not simply of momentous events, but of all the little actions and interactions that constitute our daily lives—be they deliberate or spontaneous, inevitable or unforeseen.† (source)
- After a short deliberation, she changed her mind.† (source)
- As his mother had made him aware of the hostility, he began to see things that had escaped his attention before: people deliberately crossing the street when he came out of the synagogue with his mother, Alfons carefully removing graffiti from the shop's window or door.† (source)
- I don't think they sat down and made a deliberate choice like, "We're going to get involved in the dark stuff today."† (source)
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- I got mad, then-mad at my mother, at Grover the goat, at the thing with horns that was lumbering toward us slowly and deliberately like, like a bull.† (source)
- His walk was slower, heavier, more deliberate.† (source)
- I proceeded with great deliberation.† (source)
- I had a notion that if we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable.† (source)
- Eddie lowered his voice, his words slow and deliberate.† (source)
- I pushed Will's chair through the oblivious groups of people, deliberately bashing into heels when they failed to react to my second "excuse me."† (source)
- With deliberate, desperate effort, she sent the tendrils of her mind out of this room, out the window, away from this man, over the street outside, over the city now, and its flat-topped houses and bazaars, its maze of narrow streets turned to sand castles.† (source)
- She unrolled the papyrus and read the poem aloud in a deliberate tone.† (source)
- After a lot of deliberation, he decided to keep his mouth shut and went running with Minho for his second day of training, below a bleak and colorless sky.† (source)
- Gryffindor back in possession and it's Katie Bell, Katie Bell for Gryffindor with the Quaffle, she's streaking up the field — THAT WAS DELIBERATE!† (source)
- Tally deliberately turned her eyes away from him.† (source)
- Deliberately, almost lazily, the bombers shed altitude.† (source)
- It was a deliberate decision to make field repairs easier.† (source)
- Do you believe that if you deliberate further you will get a verdict?† (source)
- He made up three hamburgers but deliberately put only one in the pan to cook.† (source)
- He sets his own not too far off, deliberately upcurrent, and fishes until late in the evening.† (source)
- She was determined and deliberate in everything she did, and that quality attracted people to her.† (source)
- Everything was very clear—her surprise at finding the kayak, her moments of deliberation and doubt, then her quick work of bringing the vessel to the water and paddling out of view.† (source)
- He finally said, "It's like Brian Baylor did it deliberately.† (source)
- He explored the family rift in the deliberate way a surgeon might probe a wound, not poking or cutting, but holding one layer out of the way while inspecting deeper ones.† (source)
- Power turn: A manner of surfing where each turn is taken with strong, deliberate force† (source)
- The jury decided that in the case of Matt Royston and Courtney Ignatio, he had not been acting with premeditation and deliberation.† (source)
- CRUEL AND DELIBERATE MOCKERY IS WORSE THAN DRINKING; STUDENTS WHO BAIT AND MERCILESSLY TEASE THEIR FELLOW STUDENTS ARE GUILTY OF WHAT SHOULD BE A MORE 'PUNISHABLE OFFENSE' THAN GETTING DRUNK—ESPECIALLY IN THOSE INSTANCES WHEN YOUR DRUNKENNESS HURTS NO ONE BUT YOURSELF.† (source)
- Deliberately averting her eyes from Dr. Lucafont's car to avoid catching even a glimpse of Uncle Monty's body, the eldest Baudelaire walked toward the pile of suitcases.† (source)
- I promised to pay back any debts I might have incurred (this deliberately fuzzy in case Nirmala read it).† (source)
- I'd been waiting to give her the money anyway, once it added up to something, but it's true, my timing today had been deliberately planned.† (source)
- Had he done it deliberately, to pay back Mars Bar for all his nastiness?† (source)
- "Too bad," she said, deliberately not sounding very sorry at all.† (source)
- After four seconds of intense deliberation, I was on my way.† (source)
- The Grand Maester's nod was as slow and deliberate as a glacier.† (source)
- I can feel we've both about worked it out when Peeta steps deliberately between us.† (source)
- With quick, deliberate steps, he moves toward the door like he's trying very hard not to run.† (source)
- She scanned the pages quickly, not reading the foreign English symbols, seeming to search deliberately for nothing in particular.† (source)
- Kate poked the keys deliberately, calling out the letters as she typed: "C-O-N-T-R-O-L." Nothing happened.† (source)
- She stands deliberately, with a hand resting on her hip, as if nothing in the world can catch her off guard.† (source)
- She was to concede that she may have attributed more deliberation than was feasible to her thirteen-year-old self.† (source)
- The superintendent, after a long and thoughtful deliberation, decided to listen to the teacher.† (source)
- He was amazed that Tita had been able to assist at the birth so calmly and deliberately, and under such unfavorable conditions.† (source)
- When we read, "Down with the new tsars!" someone deliberately dragged out the English phrase and turned it into Chinese, niu-zha-zi, beef crackling.† (source)
- She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house—it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.† (source)
- More often than not, she took them to be a deliberate affront to her lack of education and (earlier) gullibility.† (source)
- I take a deep breath, reload, and then deliberately turn and pump some more lead into the innocent trees.† (source)
- It wouldn't be the same to make that choice deliberately.† (source)
- I tore it open and read the brief note, its deliberate scratch completely familiar.† (source)
- She nodded deliberately at the floor.† (source)
- He's doing it deliberately.† (source)
- What worried me was the people I'd deliberately sold—deliberately lied to.† (source)
- They weaken themselves deliberately.† (source)
- Four soft but deliberate knocks, one right after the other.† (source)
- The other boys were all moving around the field in that deliberately languorous way they have when they're warming up, but Tommy, in his excitement, seemed already to be going full pelt.† (source)
- I stole from Nick, from his pockets, $20 here, $10 there, a slow deliberate stockpile—it's like that budgeting plan where you put the money you'd spend on your morning Starbucks into a jar, and at the end of the year you have $1,500.† (source)
- Garrow finished his mouthful of food with deliberate slowness and laid down his fork.† (source)
- Later she told him that she had chosen the words deliberately.† (source)
- Then suddenly but deliberately, as if he had all the time in the world, he put down the casket and wrapped his thin arms firmly around the Magpie from behind.† (source)
- I move toward the bassinet, deliberate, as if rehearsed.† (source)
- Mack looked down at the gun and after some deliberation reached slowly for it and the shells, putting them carefully in his pocket.† (source)
- But before I could ask, two house servants came in and Sarah deliberately turned her back to me, ending the conversation.† (source)
- After they made up their tales, shaped and decorated them, those that saw her that day on the porch quickly and deliberately forgot her.† (source)
- The death of Old Earth had been deliberate, planned by elements of the TechnoCore and their human counterparts in the fledgling government of the Hegemony.† (source)
- "I think he had a demon in him," the boy said with careful deliberation, as if he'd been thinking about the words for a long time.† (source)
- And very deliberately, I pictured myself meeting Nobu somewhere in Kyoto.† (source)
- She frowned and looked back and forth between Edward and me, this time very deliberately.† (source)
- Each step, each acquisition, no matter how small, involves deliberation, consultation with Bengali friends.† (source)
- Even the simplest choice, like whether to have a Touch-Tone telephone or a rotary one, required enormous, painstaking deliberation.† (source)
- While my sister was outlining the rules, I slowly and deliberately opened a can of soda, turned it over, and poured it on the cloth seats in the back of the convertible.† (source)
- In that poem, he plays off our cultural expectations of spring and rain and fertility; better, readers don't even have to ask if he isdoing it deliberately, since he very thoughtfully provides notes telling us that he's being deliberate.† (source)
- After two days it became clear that Tashi was deliberately biding.† (source)
- And no doubt the sort of person who would buy a flier with no documentation, no proof of ownership—a flier, moreover, that had obviously been deliberately disabled to prevent its being moved by anyone but the owner—it might very well be a good idea to avoid confronting such a person.† (source)
- For thousands of generations, you humani have deliberately distanced yourselves from what you laughingly call magic.† (source)
- I could almost see the web that spun from dancer to dancer, the way they pulled each other in and out, as if there was a deliberate pattern, and they were all a part of the design.† (source)
- After two weeks of deliberation the fair's directors accepted the eight-hour day but said they'd think about the rest.† (source)
- It was very deliberate, a youngster meeting another youngster, and I was afraid to breathe lest the moment he broken.† (source)
- Next to us—perhaps as a deliberate warning to newcomers—were located the punishment barracks.† (source)
- Grandchildren, then, the woman insists, and so after more deliberation they pick out three ebony elephants for the children of the children.† (source)
- She felt strong exasperation mixed with an even stronger love: the love was helpless, the exasperation came from a feeling that she was deliberately being excluded.† (source)
- The militants had their own pirate radio station, featuring a smooth-voiced announcer with a deep and unnervingly sexy voice, who spoke slowly and deliberately, and claimed in a decelerated but almost rap-like cadence that the fall of the city was imminent.† (source)
- And that's the way it goes when imagination gets strangled by reasoned deliberation.† (source)
- And then that step again, deliberate, loud, echoing under the arched ceiling of the carriage way, deliberate, familiar.† (source)
- He said with deliberation: "Hodge's discs are still sharp, though his throwing arm is not what it once was.† (source)
- I've been thinking about what Kamal said, about returning to the scene of the crime, so instead of going home I've come to Whitney, and instead of scurrying past the underpass, I walk slowly and deliberately right up to its mouth.† (source)
- Even so, gentlemen, deliberate efforts have been made to entice some of those men to betray their country.† (source)
- There was something about the way he moved, slowly and deliberately, that drove me crazy.† (source)
- It was so simplified that the judges must have thought I was deliberately avoiding the difficult steps.† (source)
- Eusebius observed similar phenomena around the year 300, saying that the false prophet begins by a deliberate suppression of conscious thought, and ends in a delirium over which he has no control.† (source)
- It's like paranoia in reverse when people are really calling you insulting things and you deliberately pretend they aren't.† (source)
- I squeezed the trigger slowly and deliberately, and my shot pinged into the metal target.† (source)
- Over the years I've chuckled at people who deliberately did things they thought would make me angry.† (source)
- Then, with a single deliberate motion, he wiped the tears with the back of his hand.† (source)
- Blomkvist could not resist the feeling that the old man was telling a meticulously rehearsed story, deliberately to capture his interest.† (source)
- Narciso roared, he was now nearly out of his mind with the deliberateness of my father.† (source)
- From so high up above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.† (source)
- Then, deliberately, he wiped his finger under his bloody nose and with two strokes stained my cheeks.† (source)
- "There's another store, closer," Yetta said, deliberately misunderstanding.† (source)
- The court retired to deliberate as those words still echoed in the school that had been turned into a barracks.† (source)
- —from "Dictionary of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan Although he heard Dr. Yueh enter the training room, noting the stiff deliberation of the man's pace, Paul remained stretched out face down on the exercise table where the masseuse had left him.† (source)
- He felt there in the teachers' room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so.† (source)
- Mautz spread the paper deliberately across his expansive glass-covered desk surface.† (source)
- It was like a loose tooth you keep wiggling with your tongue, slow and deliberate, teasing the pain.† (source)
- He applauded slowly and deliberately.† (source)
- Jordan joined him, giving him the sort of deliberate, laser-eyed look that made Dan feel extremely uncomfortable.† (source)
- And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities.† (source)
- Perhaps deliberately, there were almost no widows in Coalwood to remind the rest of us what could happen in the mine.† (source)
- Caroline realized he was being deliberately calm, deliberately soothing; he might even think she was crazy.† (source)
- You hurt my feelings walking down the street with Ice and deliberately looking as sweet as you can look.† (source)
- Without losing any time be leaned over his lawful spoil and began to eat with deliberation, Insensitive to the thumps on his back that the zeks in the next squad were dealing him.† (source)
- Heinrich returned, walking in an over-deliberate and stylized manner, with elements of stealth.† (source)
- The shadow seemed deliberate in its slowness so as to shingle his flesh and cheesegrate his steadily willed calm.† (source)
- On March 28, March 29, and March 30, Philip Malloy deliberately caused a disturbance in his homeroom class (Margaret Narwin, teacher) by singing the national anthem in a loud, raucous, disrespectful fashion, thereby drawing attention to himself.† (source)
- And now Annie realized that in her deliberation she'd resorted to that old self-shielding habit of hers and rationalized it: of course children were upset by these things, she'd told herself, it was inevitable; but if it was done in a civilized, sensitive way there need be no lasting trauma; neither parent was lost, only some obsolete geography.† (source)
- Eri Asai is in a deep, deliberate state of sleep as if her entire body has been enveloped in warm wax.† (source)
- MANY RANCHERS NOW FEAR that the beef industry is deliberately being restructured along the lines of the poultry industry.† (source)
- In Afghanistan the terrain, the intelligence process, and the enemy were extremely complex, requiring more deliberate planning.† (source)
- I don't think your grandpa deliberately lied to you.† (source)
- Then, from the center of his rising storm, very slowly and deliberately, he began the slow ride home.† (source)
- Without warning, the hen's sharp beak jabs down on the chick, up again and down, deliberate as the needle on the sewing machine.† (source)
- They had never been deliberately infected with Ebola virus, and they had not come near the sick monkeys.† (source)
- Mothers do not deliberately dispatch infant girls they are obligated to give birth to, but they are lackadaisical in caring for them.† (source)
- Very deliberately, Loren moved even closer to me, holding my upper arm while he looked at the back of my shoulder.† (source)
- Carmen hops on my motorcycle and deliberately places her hands on my thighs while pressing against my backside.† (source)
- I deliberately spoke to Genet in Amharic, so her guest would see that I spoke it better than he did.† (source)
- We deliberately made the king's message to you as vague as possible, so Gen may have hoped to find the stone in our possession.† (source)
- With her eyes on the squirrel and her movements deliberately slow, she aimed the hatchet toward this target that represented survival.† (source)
- They believe they've missed out—so they're deliberately stirring up bad publicity for the company.† (source)
- Who would deliberately take a trip like that?† (source)
- However few people can successfully demonstrate a principle in common ethics when their deliberation is festered with emotionalism.† (source)
- (She flies to get it amid the general bustling of the family, who are deliberately trying to ignore the nobility of the past moment) You all start on down ....Travis child, don't go empty-handed ....Ruth, where did I put that box with my skillets in it† (source)
- The little man wrote with painful deliberation, finally finished with both Milo and Tock, and looked up happily.† (source)
- For half an hour, he is steady and deliberate, like someone savoring a fine meal.† (source)
- If the Indians caught him in the open, his chances would be equally slim, of course, but it took no deliberation to know that if he had to choose, and he did, he would prefer the active to the passive course.† (source)
- Wait; I'm afraid you've raised a point that requires some deliberation.† (source)
- You teased me, you bugger, by being deliberately slow and not answering my questions!† (source)
- She claps slowly, deliberately, her face stony.† (source)
- There was no time for deliberation.† (source)
- Four people stand before a giant hollow cube, and the abundance of stylish black clothing and deliberately mussed hair reveals Meredith belongs to the resident art clique.† (source)
- ' 'It was a deliberate attempt to humiliate you.† (source)
- Lead-gray water sucked quietly, stubborn and deliberate, at icy gray boulders.† (source)
- Are you deliberately repeating everything I say?† (source)
- The real punishment was not the raid swiftly inflicted by the villagers, but the family's deliberately forgetting her.† (source)
- But the idea of putting her at risk, at deliberately putting her at the center of it with him, kept him awake and restless.† (source)
- He turned his gaze to the children, speaking deliberately.† (source)
- "Listen," I said deliberately, "you are practicing medicine without a license.† (source)
- I deliberately confused 'a big sea,' that's with an a, with 'a big see,' with two es, meaning the area that comes under the jurisdiction of an archbishop.† (source)
- I see Felicity doesn't complicate the matter with too much deliberation.† (source)
- Jae thought for several moments, then spoke deliberately.† (source)
- Nothing about those experiences would alter their ability to deliberate in the case at hand.† (source)
- The president deliberately excludes him from important meetings, makes jokes about him behind his back, and ignores him at White House dinner parties—if he even bothers to invite him at all.† (source)
- He deliberately closes his eyes.† (source)
- They lingered by the doorway, and from inside my stall I could hear them whispering about Papa, deliberately, just loud enough for us to hear.† (source)
- He knew that a gull, which should have been far away at this time of year, was hanging round Efrafa and that he, Bigwig, had deliberately been near it.† (source)
- Fang deliberately looked everywhere but at my useless left hand.† (source)
- Eyes closed, he grinds his forehead, slowly and deliberately against the wall, a bubble of laughter loose in his chest.† (source)
- Then slowly, deliberately, he opened his hand.† (source)
- "Why is it," said Henry deliberately, "that you never drink more than half your second cup of coffee after supper?"† (source)
- In another of her slow, deliberate gestures, Elizabeth smoothed down the ankle-skimming skirt of her suit.† (source)
- He breathed deliberately, shrouded in the darkness.† (source)
- The following day, most of those same listeners, including hundreds of thousands of children, tuned in again to hear President Franklin Roosevelt intone the six-and-a-half-minute speech whose key phrases would resound in American folklore: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan...With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God!† (source)
- I took a deliberate step forward and caught her waist before she could back away from me.† (source)
- "Sitting in the car beside him I remember having a very deliberate thought," Tara Bishop says.† (source)
- She moved deliberately, forcing her guard to shorten his stride as she sauntered down the ramp.† (source)
- For example, the researchers deliberately substituted a real human voice recording for Baldi's computer-simulated speech.† (source)
- If I had deliberately planned on nearly getting myself killed just to help him out, it would of been a waste of time.† (source)
- The daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.† (source)
- Why should a man deliberately plunge outside of history and peddle an obscenity, my mind went on abstractedly.† (source)
- Loads of goods passed us ...that were burning on the trucks, and my nephew says that he distinctly saw one man go up to a pile of costly furniture lying in front of an elegant residence and deliberately hold a piece of burning packing board under it until the pile was lit.† (source)
- He moved slowly, he thought slowly, he proceeded with a dull and plodding deliberation.† (source)
- My style of play was slow and deliberate; my strategy conservative.† (source)
- The hour was over, and Jason left the hotel, walking slowly, deliberately, down the pavement, crossing four streets until he saw a public phone on the Quai Voltaire by the Seine.† (source)
- Courtney spoke to Mark slowly and deliberately, as if he were a child.† (source)
- When they set up to film the War Admiral match race, they deliberately chose a woefully sluggish horse to play War Admiral.† (source)
- It wasn't as deliberate as deciding, at age six, to become an atheist, but more like an imperceptible sloughing of layers.† (source)
- I pick up my books, stand with deliberate grace, and as I walk toward the door I feel eyes on my back, know at least one pair belongs to him.† (source)
- They were suffering "deliberate injustices in the distribution of positions of responsibility in favor of Tutsi elements."† (source)
- Every step was deliberate.† (source)
- He began with care and deliberation.† (source)
- At once he set off with long deliberate strides through the trees, deeper and deeper into the wood, never far from the stream, climbing steadily up towards the slopes of the mountains.† (source)
- "David," Steve said in a deliberate, slow voice, gripping me by the shoulders, "your father ...he's not going to make it.† (source)
- Francisco shook his head slowly; the conscious deliberation of the movement gave it an air that was almost sadness.† (source)
- She had grown quite plump in recent years, which made her slower and more deliberate in her storytelling and in her movements.† (source)
- In the circumstances I—" He stopped because Dart held his hand up, rigid in a halt gesture, and shook his head slowly and deliberately.† (source)
- Life should never be thrown deliberately away.† (source)
- Very slowly, deliberately, Cacciato was spreading his arms out as if to show them empty, opening them up like wings, palms down.† (source)
- She became aware by instinct, perhaps sooner than the rest of us, that she was in a hostile world, and deliberately equipped herself to face it.† (source)
- Deliberately loud.† (source)
- Mum thinks that I deliberately ignore the obvious things, but the truth is I can't tell the difference between tidy and not tidy.† (source)
- Back then, I thought memory was a deliberate, cognitive process, like remembering multiplication tables, or lyrics, or where the keys were.† (source)
- This time he will fire with more deliberation, with far more care.† (source)
- Reb Saunders had stopped inserting deliberate errors into his Shabbat evening talks the week We had entered college, but the memory of it still rankled.† (source)
- You said it after great deliberation, or when you felt reckless.† (source)
- I'd be visiting her at some vague time in the future, deliberately vague, for people like me, who realign past events to suit themselves.† (source)
- Most scholars see the conviction and execution of Socrates as a deliberate choice made by the famous philosopher himself.† (source)
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