'I was cheek-by-jowl with him.
"I was face to face and cheek to cheek with Grace Coddington," he said.
Before you could wonder, Why an icebox, exactly?, she cried, "So there I was, dancing cheek to cheek with a Sikh!" When my father first heard that story overheard it, actually, from an adjoining booth in a New Haven diner he thought, Who is that horrible woman?
"I was biting my cheek so hard my whole cheek was sore," Murphy said.
I nonchalantly put my napkin to my face like I was patting my cheeks, and spit the hunk of blubber in my napkin.
In the audience, Murphy said in a loud whisper, "I was biting my cheek so hard trying to keep from laughing".
You go anywhere in the world and if I see things that mirror the kind of experience that I know first-hand, I think it's cheek in a way for someone else to tell you, 'no, you are wrong in feeling as you feel about what you have seen.'".
The other day when I was brushing my cheeks with shaving cream, Madeleine came into my bathroom.
I go to give him a kiss – just a peck – and he veers off, jerking his head out of the way like a nervous racehorse, too late to alter my trajectory and pretend I was aiming for his cheek.
When Chrissy Teigen balanced a plate of wings on one butt cheek, I was moved.
When I felt the salty water dripping down my cheek I was attending a rally in front of the apartment of close friends.
