According to her equerry Colin Burgess, she wondered why people were always thrusting babies at her, to kiss.
But Kazan was always an aggrieved outsider, an angry, thrusting intruder - at Williams College, Massachusetts and the Yale School of Drama, friendless, he said, fuming at being ignored by the lovely "Wasp" girls - until they were moved by his alien intensity.
He was always a realist onto whom idealism was thrust.
He was always happy in the cut and thrust of rubber bridge, and the diagramed deal was played on such an occasion.
He argued that "having a game like Halo 3 share the same rating as Saints Row IV, which carries the 'Blood,' Intense Violence,' 'Partial Nudity,' 'Sexual Content,'Strongng Language' and 'Use of Drugs' descriptors was always silly, and it weakened the thrust of the ratings system".
As a youngster, his defects were a lack of discipline and goals for a thrusting winger, but he was always a naturally gifted crosser of the ball.
Mr. Ryan's new prominence has abruptly thrust Medicare into the top tier of issues, but it was always going to be a theme in the 2012 House and Senate elections and was already playing a role in advertising.
Neguib was always a figurehead: the real leader emerged when Nasser, somewhat reluctantly, was persuaded to thrust him aside.
He was always elegantly dressed, his suits as sharp as his conversation; his verbal thrusts were often delivered with a wicked twinkle in his eye.
The thrust of it was that although war may be the lesser of two evils, it was always, in a sense, a failure.
