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caresses
verb
Third person singular of caress
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78 min: Plasic caresses a sumptuous free-kick into the area.
His good looks habitually elicited caresses, titbits.
Thus she tries: "He slides over her moist skin through the sweet damp valley between her breasts", before "he caresses her and spins a silver spider's web from the threads of her wetness".
He paints death as a pale, lovely maiden met in a forest, offering him sexual caresses and sewing his name on a shroud; half Mortality, half Love.
Or Helen McCrory in a career-making turn as Yelena, the object of Vanya's affections: a shimmering vision in white whose caresses possess a teasing cruelty that this elegant fashionplate has turned on herself.Brian Friel's crisp version of the play, first seen in Dublin in 1998, flirts with the madness that "Ivanov" embraces head on.
In the common octopus the male and female remain some distance apart while the male caresses the female with the tip of the hectocotylized arm.
Her second presentation was an exposé of Victorian hypocrisy, especially that of George Duckworth, who masked inappropriate, unwanted caresses as affection honouring their mother's memory.
In 1896 he painted The Caresses (The Sphinx), his best-known work.
Woods caresses those promises like a blind man grips his stick.
It was a role in which everything was expressed between the lines: a scene near the end of the story in which, with sad rheumy eyes, Ennis caresses the shirts of his dead lover (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a quietly heartbreaking image of love lost.
The camera caresses the faces of these girls at these moments of high tension, drawing attention to the curious fissure between fear and desire created by the film.
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