You are a old man, she purred appreciatively, rubbing up and down against his leg.

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In their sharp-sightedness, if not much else, here were two men who could clasp each other appreciatively by the hand.

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Politicians will not appreciate how one of their own is pictured, but most readers will bob their heads appreciatively at the portrait.

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Academics nodded appreciatively and extracted cans of beer from a cooler.

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Anyone who wants to look clever at a cocktail party can simply make a disparaging remark about American schools and everyone will giggle and nod appreciatively.

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He looks appreciatively at the Jersey cows grazing contentedly behind him and says that theirs is the pinot noir of milk, which makes very good butter (as the pinot noir grape makes very good wine).

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Although he has written appreciatively of some modern artists Picasso, Klee and more recently even Antony Gormley he has been critical, too, of certain conceits underlying the vogue for abstract art, particularly the belief that it is somehow necessitated by the spirit of the age.

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Cyclists wave to them appreciatively.

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The second approach doesn't necessarily preclude the first, but it also requires a period of reflection say, 24 hours during which you ask yourself if the piece will fit with everything you own and whether you could see yourself wearing it in years to come, or at least opening your wardrobe and stroking it appreciatively from time to time.

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