Diplomats are increasingly wary of water-bomb attacks at functions one thin-lipped European ambassador lodged a protest after being drenched in 2005.

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Motahari had a sour expression, recessive and thin-lipped, beneath a dark brow.

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Thin-lipped Tarrin is the very model of decorum, not a crease out of place and game for verbal jousting about corporate sector debt resolution and similar scintillating topics.

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Behn's high-nosed, thin-lipped and French-educated Oroonoko is essentially an idealised European prince in blackface, while the sighs and tremblings of the lovers and the wanton dalliance of the king have an air of cupids and harpsichords and peeping breasts.

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