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tapdance
verb
Alternative form of tap-dance
synonyms
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Neither should we tapdance around the heart of the argument, which is that government plays a critical role in providing the resources and demand for innovation.
The Artist made the best of its five-Oscar haul to tapdance its way to $133.4m across the world.
From Louis Andriessen's Tapdance, which requires me to imitate charleston tap shoes, to Harrison Birtwistle's sinister and spiky The Axe Manual, which piles up layers of instruments, tuned and untuned.
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They sat through December's snow and arctic temperatures with insulated stoicism while magpies tapdanced over their ice-matted backs.
There are moments of tenderness, for instance when the old man pets a small dog; calm, when he sleeps in a tent with yellow Z's rising up from his pillow; euphoria, when he tapdances to Peggy Lee's I Love Being Here With You; and fear, when he runs through a forest where the trees have glowing red eyes.
It has also been heard in movies – Christina Ricci tapdances spacily to Moonchild in Buffalo 66 (1998), The Court of the Crimson King crashes in contrapuntally during Children of Men (2006) and was also heard in the first part of this year's TV adaptation of the Red Riding trilogy.
Richard Gere has a terrific moment when he tapdances his way out of a tight spot in court, and into the jury's affections.
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