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"Sometimes you'd have to pinch him to get him to shut up.
Strathairn is an attractive, intelligent actor; sometimes, though, I want to pinch him to make him jump, and energize him.
The "storms" of temptation, as he calls them, buffeted him with almost physical violence; voices urged him to blaspheme; the texts of Scriptures, which seemed to him to threaten damnation, took on personal shape and "did pinch him very sore".
"It's a little bit different in training as you can kick him, pinch him and pull his hair and get away with it but when he is switched on like he was it is nearly impossible to mark him," said the centre-back.
When Prince Ahmed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia watched his 11th-hour purchase, a colt named War Emblem, bounce from the gate at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday of last May and lead every step of the way, the prince turned to his trainer, Bob Baffert, and in a high-pitched squeal, asked him to pinch him, "right there in the grandstand".
Parents and teachers will play games such as encouraging autistic youngsters to mimic and discuss different facial expressions, or even to pinch him and discuss why he cries out and looks sad, recording the results for the Hertfordshire team to analyse.
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She pinches him under the covers and holds back his food.
But with Kurt Thomas behind O'Neal, Marcus Camby in front of him and Sprewell and Rice pinching him from the side, every angle was shut off.
Bertie recalls his persecution by a nanny who preferred his older brother, David (the future Edward VIII), who pinched him when he was presented to his parents and who forced him to wear painful leg braces to correct his knock knees.
He told the story of his first trip to Caribou, Me., to harvest potatoes, and the local people, who had never seen such black skin before, pinched him to make sure it was real.
And even though I have a secret signal with my husband that involves my pinching him very hard on the upper arm, a signal that means, "Throw your name at this person because I have no idea whom I'm talking to," my husband always forgets the secret signal and can't be counted on to respond to my pinching, even when it produces a bruise.
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