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finesse
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  • He was looking for finesse but I came after him with muscle.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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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  • Unfortunately, it failed to engage properly; and—for several minutes, hoping that the desk clerk was too out-of-it to notice —I stood in the open elevator trying to finesse the card-slide until the steel doors hissed and slid shut.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • She felt exposed, finessed, put down.†  (source)
  • But the matter is of such importance, that one must passer pardessus toutes ces finesses de sentiment.†  (source)
  • We'll rush home, and I will drop them in a new pot on our old stove with all the finesse of a girl who has lived many Cape summers while Nick giggles and pretends to hide in fear outside the kitchen door.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Scarlett was used to men asking her to marry them, men much more attractive than Charles Hamilton, and men who had more finesse than to propose at a barbecue when she had more important matters on her mind.†  (source)
  • 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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