Otherwise Russia may risk being the eternal debutante: chattering prettily to all her suitors, but never getting very far with any of them.

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It's a forgiving recipe, emerging from the oven with its prettily placed apples glazed with caramel and perched on a golden pastry ring.

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Many critics praised its style and tone, and its submerged critique of the French class system, while others complained that, while nothing happened very prettily, nothing happened.

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Foolishly, I turned them down as too prettily squeegeed canvasses.

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Still, we can say pretty firmly that its thinness, lightness, and comfort in the hand is far and away its strongest feature, and one that it beats a lot of its more robust competition prettily handily.

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But it was true, profoundly so, especially when I lived by myself in DC or during the hundred or so times when just the two of us watched the sun descend prettily over a trout stream.

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But that was soon under three feet of water as he waded ashore, a weary soldier still smelling his own vomit from a night in a close boat on a choppy sea, and whose kilt in the freezing water was floating prettily round him like a ballerina's skirt.

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