With so much communication via email these days, it can be hard to pull the trigger and initiate a face-to-face conversation when you sense that an online interaction is becoming too heated or simply too difficult to do well online.

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In the Mac version demonstrated for the developers, a click and pull of the mouse an operator reshaped an animated face, watched it change shapes as he pulled it through a virtual knothole, twisted it and turned it.

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Today, you can instantly tell the politics of a Brit by the face they pull when you mention her name.

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Unless Mr Marchionne can pull off a dramatic improvement in Fiat's fortunes, the group will face some stark choices.

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Condit was initially due to face Rory MacDonald but the Montreal fighter had to pull out with a neck injury.

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Do you face a bit of an uphill battle there in trying to pull the federal courts into this in trying to determine the boundaries or the limits on presidential authority?

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She tells them to bring their cheeks up higher and pull their whole face upward, and she makes sure the eyes show the warmth of a sincere Duchenne smile.

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My father forced me to come with him, and made me pull up a pike that scared me witless, and when I refused, he hit me in the face, and then I hammered a nail into my foot, and we were forced to go home.

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