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finesse
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    The words start to spill out, without finesse or sophistication.†  (source)
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    They had no great finesse, but they were dogged, and would eventually get the creature down.†  (source)
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    Finesse would have to wait, as would tenderness.†  (source)
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    But we're the Army, so together with finesse the occasional hammer will also be necessary.†  (source)
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    He might be a genius at finessing the budget, but he's afraid to make operational decisions, and he's afraid to get the Section involved in the necessary field work.†  (source)
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    She felt exposed, finessed, put down.†  (source)
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    But the matter is of such importance, that one must passer pardessus toutes ces finesses de sentiment.†  (source)
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    It wasn't until he took up running, an activity that rewards will and determination more than finesse or cunning, that he found his athletic calling.†  (source)
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    Being in thick with the Duke of Squamuglia, Pasquale plots to do away with young Niccolo by suggesting a game of hide-and-seek and then finessing him into crawling inside of an enormous cannon, which a henchman is then to set off, hopefully blowing the child, as Pasquale recalls ruefully, later on in the third act, Out in a bloody rain to feed our fields Amid the Maenad roar of nitre's song And sulfur's cantus firmus.†  (source)
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    It had been almost three weeks since Dexter and I had split, and not only was I dealing with it, we'd almost finessed the impossible: a friendship.†  (source)
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    Hoagland would say that now was the time for playing certain finesses, that in the wake of the activity arose those moments that could be manipulated.†  (source)
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    It had a curmudgeonly fuel transfer valve that Pillsbury and Douglas had to finesse into place, lest it stick wide open, slow an engine, or trigger a deafening backfire.†  (source)
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    There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chuses, and that is, his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.†  (source)
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