As he starts to rattle off a list of his skills, he stops himself.
But Mr. LaPratt said a sommelier shouldn't simply rattle off facts or dazzle his audience with his erudition.
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Yun and Lee rattle off what they consider medicine's mishaps in the last three decades of treating clogged arteries.
Forest conservationists, schooled in failure, rattle off a list of possible reasons why.
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In casual conversation she'll rattle off the relevant cases and issues she thinks are most important to the hacking community.
Whether she can overcome the apparent parity in the women's game to rattle off a Djokovic-like streak remains to be seen.
Right now everyone could probably rattle off their three favourite mobile applications, and they would not all be on the BlackBerry platform.
Higgins took the first frame but Doherty hit breaks of 76, 90 and 70 to rattle off the next three before Higgins pulled one back.
It appeared the client prospect was taken in by the fact that this senior executive could actually rattle off the names of these top-tier outlets and journalists.
The fear comes into play when a consumer takes to Twitter to rattle off a Tweet complaining about this or that or ask specific product and service questions.
So you begin to rattle off your list of accomplishments: your degrees from Harvard and Yale, your prestigious internships, your intimate knowledge of essential software and statistical analysis.
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Again, without drifting off into theory too much, the way the pads represent notes has been arranged so that you can rattle off scales, chords, etc. if you so wish.
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It aims to let chatters rattle off multiple instant messages to many recipients at once, and it wants to let you do Internet searches tied to sites your friends like.
On the side of the road, with traffic whizzing by, lights flashing and you incredibly nervous, they rattle off a series of instructions that they expect you to follow to the letter.
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Sharp has just wrapped a rather dry press conference at IFA, where it announced very little, but did rattle off a series of fairly benign and boring numbers (which we will spare you from).
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Completed in 1854, it stood on the highest pinnacle of the rock, but even at that height it was pounded mercilessly by high seas, and during storms the crockery would rattle off the table.
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Untold legions of Superman fans spanning both the continents and the decades can rattle off his celebrated "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men": super strength, super speed, super vision, and the ability to fly.
Seemingly on his way to a straight-sets defeat, Djokovic dug in to rattle off the next six games to take the third set -- the first time in seven matches that Nadal had lost a set at Roland Garros.
It isn't hard to rattle off a list of things that could go wrong in the next 12 months, deepening the financial crisis and making it harder for individuals and families to preserve their savings and maintain their living standards.
Whether your business is media, financial services, retailing, B2B, or even non-profit, your director of analytics should be able to rattle off your key customer touch points, tell you the current strategies for measuring those touch points and let you know which touch points would most benefit from improvements in measurement.
Many can rattle off the names of the Argentina winning team in 1978 or the great Brazil team of 1982 but the truth of the matter is that before these tournaments we, the soccer watching public (and journalists for that matter), knew very little about these players who were to become stars.
He can rattle them off in sequence, like body percussion: left arm, right arm, broken jaw, broken nose, mountain bike, BMX, skateboard, street luge, snapped finger, split brow, sprained joint, severed pinky.
As the rhetoric heats up, concerns over the looming fiscal cliff could rattle already jittery markets, throwing off risky assets and disrupting anemic economic growth.
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When the boys bashed the box, it flew off its supports with a clang and satisfying rattle, left dangling by the machine bolt.
Once upon a time we could have laughed this fixture off and run sweeps on the number of goals we would rattle past a goalie in a sou' wester and an Aran knit sweater.
Myerson is a bit of celebrity in fishing circles as the owner of the all-tackle world record for striped bass, an 81.88-pound giant he caught off the coast of Connecticut in 2011, using his trademark rattle sinker attached to a live eel.
We need to unsettle them, rattle their scrum, steal line-outs, things that could put them off their game.
And its threats--like the recent taunt by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to cut off oil shipments to the West if the U.S. attacks Iran--can rattle international markets.
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