Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig blew kisses at Frank McCourt yesterday, but the Los Angeles Dodgers owner turned his cheek and made it clear that there was no chance at romance.
"I can testify to the fact that it was a lot harder to turn the other cheek and refuse to fight back than it would have been to exercise a normal reaction, " Robinson wrote.
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Naturally, it helped set off the ringtone craze, becoming so ubiquitous that just two years later, it was a tongue-in-cheek, kind of retro move to still have it vibrating the table when your mom called.
Consumers place their orders on the Web, then get a kit in the mail and return it with a cheek swab or spit sample for analysis.
All you do is send in a cheek swab with DNA on it, and a few weeks later a variety of gene data will be posted on the Web, including whether you have genes recently discovered to be associated with risk for heart attacks, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer and a variety of other diseases (see: www.decodeme.com).
Ghanaians will likely turn the other cheek, secure enough to take it and even be grateful for the spotlight.
To be able to use it tongue-in-cheek at this point suggests that we've come a long way and that there is less power for such language to do us harm when we appropriate it and make jokes out of it.
If you think about it, a kiss on the cheek when you fall over is a placebo.
They like "the cheek" as one who was there put it, of "the most dynamic and exciting of all the party leaders in Wales" - at least that's how she was presented to conference.
Ross also pays tongue-in-cheek reference to several cinema classics, but only if it's in line with his theme.
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Kenneth Turan, writing in The Los Angeles Times, called it "unexpectedly - and successfully - darker and more serious than its predecessors", while CNN's Tom Charity called it "a confidently tongue-in-cheek piece of blockbuster engineering".
It's a confidently tongue-in-cheek piece of blockbuster engineering, sweetly calibrated to Downey's cavalier appeal and to Kingsley's oddball interjections, a battle royale of rampant egos in which acting speaks louder than words.
As it stands, you're reaching up to your cheek to pause or fast-forward things.
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"We put a motor in the cheek pad of the helmet so if you do not notice the object it will vibrate and give you a tactile warning that there's something to the right or left, " said Mr Moore.
Blogger Dan Nosowitz, tongue planted in cheek, declared the Mini's trade-paperback size will make it a more highbrow option for e-book lovers than the smaller Kindle Fire, which more resembles a mass-market paperback.
You have one shot to make a first impression, so muster up all of your confidence and exude it in your hello, your handshake (or kiss on the cheek), in your body language, when you look your date in the eye and when you order your food.
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They went to the trouble of letting it be known they were "baffled and disappointed" by the 'cheek' of the Welsh Lib Dem leader.
When is it okay to move beyond the handshake toward something more friendly like a hug, a cheek kiss .
The performance, when it finally kicks off, is akin to a mad jamming session with cacophonous contributions from the cheek-to-jowl audience and spontaneous outbreaks of dancing for those who can clear enough room to swing their elbows.
For today, however, it'll serve as John Hodgman's own private library, the tongue-in-cheek backdrop for his long-awaited Engadget Show interview.
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