Flirtingly


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Flirt´ing`ly


adv.1.In a flirting manner.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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A young lady teacher inquired: "Where are you going for the summer holidays Mr Poskit?" He said: "Kingston Jamaica." Flirtingly she said: "Wouldn't you like to take someone with you?" "That would be like taking sandwiches to a banquet dear," he replied.
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Cleopatra is flirtingly reminiscing about Caesar's father's kissing when Antony enters with Enobarbus and (partly rightly) reads the image as Cleopatra's giving of 'Fauours' (TLN 2256).
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The seductive little scene where Mandy and Vandy and Archer, surviving many attacks by the rebels, run into an apparently disciplined and determined Kamajors (the pro-government militia) goes well enough until you remember, if you knew already, that the Kamajors would not have allowed a woman to so flirtingly hobnob with them, as Mandy does in the film.
When the spinning stops: I have to admit that Blood Diamond is a powerful thriller. The acting, particularly DiCaprio's, is stunningly good. As a credible recreation of Sierra Leone's tragic story, well, that is another matter altogether, writes the Sierra Leonean journalist and author, Lansana Gberie

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