How To Use Dalliance In A Sentence
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Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
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Keira's last dalliance with the Pirates franchise (she's not returning for Part IV) failed to resolve any off the major problems that Dead Man's Chest encountered.
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The band's R&B dalliances push the song 'n' the band forward from simple slash 'n' burn to a cocky swagger.
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Art historically, they imaginatively summarize his stylistic dalliances with Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism and the period's interest in ‘primitive’ art.
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Not that there's anything much at stake in all of this, for he isn't a realist, and the same-sex dalliances he discloses are pure Hollywood fantasy.
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But, sir, according to my judgment, you do understand both of and by yourself that here stealth signifieth nothing else, no more than in a thousand other places of Greek and Latin, old and modern writings, but the sweet fruits of amorous dalliance, which Venus liketh best when reaped in secret, and culled by fervent lovers filchingly.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
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He won a first-class degree in natural sciences in 1868 and, after a four-year dalliance with a career in medicine, was chosen for the Challenger expedition.
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That’s not in conflict with what you said, and I agree that an individual who wishes to overlook the dalliances is free to do so (and in essence even free to amend the interpersonal contract to allow such behavior — this is not as uncommon as people think).
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?”
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We stayed pretty close (even had a couple more dalliances, but neither of us was laboring under any illusions that we could restart it, so it was okay).
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Silly ghost stories are otherworldly dalliances, whereas Frankenstein projects dilemmas of coherence and comprehension that are a permanent challenge for narration.
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Affairs of the heart are not encouraged, although sexual dalliances can be handled with deft precision by those intimately, although not actually, involved.
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Man Ray's dalliance with sadism and masochism took place primarily on the theoretical level.
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When her cuckolded husband blackmailed him, Hamilton paid hush money to keep his wife from learning of the dalliance.
A Short History of Political Suicide
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That dalliance with the truth about why sport actually exists spawned a little hybrid that would grow to take over the game, mostly because of its novelty.
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She'd no notion of leisurely love-making, either; thirty seconds of gentle dalliance and she started behaving like the Empress Theodora run amok, with poor old Flashy fighting for his life, belaboured by balloons of black jelly.
THE NUMBERS
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Please NB, lets not equate passing "dalliances" with promoting a lifestyle in public law.
Bulova/Marsden Town Hall
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Parts of these ideas had appeared in prior films as well - Videodrome is by no means the origin of Cronenberg's dalliances with these concepts.
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Jessica is the kind of woman few heterosexual people want to know about - the woman who is basically straight but has had the occasional dalliance with another woman.
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Anti-urban thinkers feared the anonymity of the city setting would lead to a lack of discipline and therefore dalliances with immoral behavior.
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His dalliance with another woman ended when his wife found she was pregnant.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the steady stream of allegations about her infatuations or dalliances has certainly dimmed her reputation.
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Most of the film flips back and forth between Vera and Fred and their respective sexual and financial dalliances.
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The documentary was surprisingly upbeat for subject matters that included his chronic gambling and alcoholism, as well as a dalliance with suicide.
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If you love someone and they love you, why do something as silly as a one-time sexual dalliance if it would ruin a good thing?
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The government may live to regret its recent dalliance with Euroscepticism if forces hostile to greater European integration unite to defeat the referendum on the Nice Treaty on May 31.
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It turned out to be his last dalliance with the education system.
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I fear that Dubya will get his testosterone stirred up again and make some kind of oafish, I'm a tough-ass from Crawford remark, like his moronic "Bring it On" dalliance with idiocy.
Is Bush China Competent?
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He was involved in a series of "dalliances" outside his marriage, he later acknowledged to his biographer, Robert Timberg.
Mikarrhea
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That answer focused on the personalities of the two extant sexual partners as being merely unstable, unsuitable for sexual dalliance.
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That I saw evidence of what they call intrigue because he said that he had dalliances with other women but he never crossed the ultimate line but he had some physical contact.
CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2009
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There was a weird flowering of interest in Eastern mysticism and brief dalliance with Krishna.
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The biggest no-no remains the illicit affair: 93 percent of Americans find romantic dalliances between married men and women morally unacceptable.
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But are we talking about the real thing, or a little dalliance at the drinks dispenser and a flirtation at the photocopier?
Times, Sunday Times
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He says his brief but intense dalliance with the private sector taught him a lot, including the importance of sticking to what you do best.
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Who would have thought that the sexual dalliances of a 56-year-old football manager could generate more column inches than the infidelities of his star player?
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But even an arm's-length dalliance with the right in states such as Oregon has given ammunition to opponents, who now portray him as a willing accomplice to the Bush / Cheney campaign.
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His latest disc, Square, is his first dalliance with a major label, but it offers no ready singles.
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My relationship with cigarettes has changed from a casual dalliance to a dominant dependency.
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Expect Braff's character, JD, to have further fraught romantic dalliances with Elliot.
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The great Andromeda Galaxy owes a bit of its beauty to a dalliance with another galaxy billions of years ago, according to new data gathered with NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
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The purple heather, the blustering gales (or wuthering winds if you're an Emily Bronte fan) and the winding paths that encourage all day dalliance - what's not to love?
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As for ambition, following a brief dalliance with politics (in 1996, he stood as a candidate for mayor of Bucharest), all his hopes are for those close to him.
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Men have a bimodal distribution of sexual behavior: short-term dalliances to impregnate young and healthy women, and long-term bonds to raise children with women who are both fertile and faithful.
A Kuranian Take on the Religious Gender Gap, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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We track Hemingway through his four marriages (and an occasional dalliance, such as the Italian girl Adriana who inspired some of his later work) and considerable globe-hopping.
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No one likes it when a prime minister is put to the sword over untested claims of a sexual dalliance 43 years ago.
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Those extra-marital "dalliances" reflect faulty judgment and poor choices, traits that have been evident in the Senator's subsequent legislative record.
I've caught this viral video and must convey it to you.
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It's reasonable to hope a wife could manage to overlook a casual, brief dalliance.
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Can Dr Ken save the day, or will his occasional sexual dalliance become the next victim of The Psycho Lover?
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His dalliance with another woman ended when his wife found she was pregnant.
Times, Sunday Times
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But is not this much more agreeable and animated than the sweet dalliance of a sugar-plum life, or the dull, monotonous existence resembling a Dutch canal, which we term connubial happiness?
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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And Messer Giojoso, full of parental indignation at this gross treatment of his child, and outraged chastity at the notion of a young man of churchly aims, as were mine, being in perversive dalliance with that peasant-wench, repaired straight to my mother with the story of it, which I doubt not lost nothing by its repetition.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
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‘I guess I'm never going to be forgiven for my dalliance with popular culture,’ he says.
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You're lucky to get a repeat, but who needs one when the band whip out with one-time, eight-bar dalliances like the ecstatic, whirling bridge on upwardly mobile single ‘Graffiti’?
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Romantic visions of harmony with nature are a dalliance, more than a practical reality.
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You mean a bonk with a Brit backpacker or a dalliance in Christchurch last year and you can't give blood?
Survivor guilt
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For short-term sexual dalliances, women focus more on physical characteristics and personality traits such as a sense of humor.
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It takes four solid years of overdubs, rewrites, and revisions - not to mention several label dalliances - to finish their third album, The Meadowlands.
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‘So much celebrity profiling takes the position that they were heterosexual with, maybe, some same-sex dalliance on the side,’ says Mann.
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One, who in dalliance affects the male, no female is, And he who is effeminate of step's no male, ywis.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
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Contrary to the dalliances of the rich - who've lately been slumming it like it's 1979-there's nothing fun or ‘cool’ in wondering when you'll eat next.
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According to Perry, Malcolm's same-sex dalliances date back to childhood, where he enjoyed being masturbated or fellated.
Irene Monroe: Malcolm X Was "Gay-for-Pay," New Book Says
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The idea of unattached romantic dalliances within lush tropical settings is theoretically pleasant, yet unfulfilling as is the notion of a marriage without jealously or commitment.
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I didn't say anything for a long time, because if I was questioning my sexuality, I could bet my friends would if I told them about my dalliances.
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New York Daily News story says "citing unnamed sources, US is reporting that Woods had other 'dalliances' with a 'Las Vegas marketing professional at the MGM grand hotel,' with a blond and a brunette at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Upstate New York ..." tewcentsin
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But even an arm's-length dalliance with the right in states such as Oregon has given ammunition to opponents, who now portray him as a willing accomplice to the Bush / Cheney campaign.
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It may be a short-lived dalliance, but he says he has noticed an improvement.
Times, Sunday Times
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In February 1967, she began a dalliance with Robin Douglas - Home, 35, a talented and troubled pianist and the nephew of a former prime minister.
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Last year, we had a brief dalliance with the return of chintz, with some retailers featuring it heavily.
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Young Smith, instead of his dinner and his wine, ought to be, where? — at the festive tea-table, to be sure, by the side of Miss Higgs, sipping the bohea, or tasting the harmless muffin; while old Mrs. Higgs looks on, pleased at their innocent dalliance, and my friend
The Book of Snobs
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After dalliances with both superpowers, the president the country into economic isolation.
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entered into an advertising dalliance with Google, but this fell apart after antitrust authorities signalled that they would not approve such an agreement.
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Over the next few days, the princess pointedly ignored Ramirez, choosing to spend time with Kamiko instead in romantic dalliance.
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His personal life has pretty much overshadowed his music in recent years as dalliances with alcohol and drugs led to a stay in The Priory clinic.
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She doesn't have "dalliances" with cultural conservatism -- she's become a prude.thosethingswesay. blogspot.com
Hilllary Has Her DLC Moment
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Youth must have some dalliance, of good or ill some pastance;
Pastime With Good Company
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In February 1967, she began a dalliance with Robin Douglas - Home, 35, a talented and troubled pianist and the nephew of a former prime minister.
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In the hands of Iyeyasu and his captains, the formidable garrison here established was not likely to offer opportunity of a second "Odawara conference," during which dalliance with compromise and surrender would bring sudden attack and disaster.
Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2
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As long as you respect your partner, occasional dalliances are not a big deal.
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After his early dalliance as the dapper darling of the international community, in his karakul cap and cape stylishly draped over a statesman's grey flannel suit, Karzai proved his skill as an Afghan trader.
Christopher Mailander: Karzai's Next Feat
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In 1635 John Cotton, one of the principal ministers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, declared that the new land should forbid “[l]ascivious dancing to wanton ditties, and amorous gestures and wanton dalliances . . . [which] I would bear witness against as a great flabella Libidinis [fanning of sexual desire].”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Recent coverage of Microsoft has concentrated on the company's on again-off again dalliances with Yahoo or the upcoming Windows 7 operating system.
Microsoft makes over Windows Live
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They plan to make much of Bradley's voluntary departure from the Senate (though he served for 18 years) and his conference-call dalliances with mavericks such as Lowell Weicker and the late Paul Tsongas.
Al And W?S Balancing Act
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In 1635 John Cotton, one of the principal ministers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, declared that the new land should forbid “[l]ascivious dancing to wanton ditties, and amorous gestures and wanton dalliances . . . [which] I would bear witness against as a great flabella Libidinis [fanning of sexual desire].”
A Renegade History of the United States
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When your sexual dalliances have been shouted across the world, guys are probably just saying, ‘Hey, I can date a famous woman and probably get some too.’
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If one characteristic is common among all of these competitors, it's their dalliance with the impossible.
