The teacher was Mr. Zuberti, a stuck-up Florentine or Genoese -- from up North somewhere, where they thought Sicilians were scum.
In reality though, women often struggle with how to graciously accept a compliment while not coming across as vain, overly confident, or stuck-up.
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Richard arrives with his glossy new wife and stuck-up stepdaughter.
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You know, I thought she was gonna be this cold, calculating, stuck-up woman, and I was just surprised to see that she really is just like me and you.
This is where at least some of the current pressures are coming from, with people spending 24-36 hours - and in some cases up to three days - stuck in emergency wards because they can't be transferred elsewhere in a hospital.
And yet Spurs have not only gone down this road once, they've done it twice and are now stuck with a management set-up that has, at best, a very chequered history.
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He missed a good deal of ELN's eventual run-up but he stuck to his convictions.
British parents, stuck washing and cooking for their grown-up children, are typically less enthusiastic.
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Not just one but several pictures of a wealthy, upper middle-class former law professor are stuck up on the walls.
Yet investors still stuck in a bubble-era mindset have bid shares up 158% in the last 12 months.
She was up against books such as Stuck by award-winning illustrator Oliver Jeffers.
Also on the lookout is Tommy Munroe, 21, a music student and singer-songwriter from Woking, Surrey, who stuck up a friendship with anarchists while performing on London's alternative scene.
In my case, I stuck with an alarm clock app that offers soothing wake-up calls and nerdy charting features that make for interesting water-cooler talk "My REM was so on last night!"
Hudson (3-1) stuck out six and walked two while giving up one run.
These are classic symptoms of companies stuck in the rut of kludging around technological limitations such as boot-up times.
National governments have deliberately stuck to a short brief: to decide the size and make-up of the commission, and the nature and weighting of voting by countries in the Council of Ministers, once the Union is bigger.
As you know, Kemba was waiting for you -- when you were up in the air, he was down on the ground, because -- unfortunately, he actually was up in the air stuck at LaGuardia Airport for three hours.
It prevented him from reappearing for the second half and in the absence of a player with 57 goals, Vilanova's side struggled to break down a PSG team who stuck to their game plan, one which featured a surprise call-up for former Real Madrid midfielder David Beckham.
And worst of all, the upgrade is not completed, so my phone has been bricked--it's stuck in emergency mode and won't start up.
Sure, you could blame the evil carrier -- hell, that's always the easy route -- but where in this scenario can HTC insist that it stuck up for the enthusiasts?
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The danger is that Vietnam may end up like some other South-East Asian countries, stuck firmly in the middle-income trap it is trying so hard to avoid, and suffering from predatory elites, weak institutions, crony capitalism and a pseudo-democracy.
And just when they need more from you, you're stuck with falling revenues, leaving you with impossible choices that keep mounting up -- putting projects on hold or having to furlough key employees.
It is wrong for parents to have to choose between care for themselves or their children, to be stuck in dead-end jobs just to keep their insurance, or to give up working altogether so their kids will qualify for Medicaid.
The quota for H1-B visas filled up immediately last April leaving June graduates stuck with no recourse but to find work in other countries.
For those stuck in the final 10%, there are plenty of innovative community-based schemes popping up.
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In tackling the vexing problem that most solar panels are rigid and thereby limited in their applications, Stanford researchers came up with a technology to create decal-type panels that can be stuck to virtually any surface.
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It opens up the prospect of Ferguson effectively being stuck with the country's most high-profile sporting superstar after making it clear he was surplus to requirements.
"My hands became stuck like this, " he told me, tensing up his digits into a wooden, claw-like shape.
And Lara should be able to tell us how we can avoid sitting stuck in gridlock under a Bangkok underpass, whether Hong Kong's cross-harbor tunnels are backed up and the location of the nearest Starbucks in Singapore.
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