And he is right not to be coy about asserting Germany's weight.

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Rolland, for his part, plays a coy game, not taking on just any client.

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Not only is this device coy, but it does nothing to intensify the drama or enrich our understanding of the characters, who might as well be speaking to one another instead of the audience.

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The difficulty here is not that Mr Johnson has been coy about what he thinks, but that in 25 years as a journalist and frequent public speaker he has collected so many enthusiasms.

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Mr Darling says stoutly that it is time to do and not to talk, but is ominously coy about what the doing will consist of.

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It is unfortunate that Coy's school has not learned the lesson that so many other aspects of our culture have already acknowledged, that a person's gender is more complicated than a body part or a chromosome.

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Both parties are coy about the details, but the arrangement does not seem to be giving KarstadtCoffee the 9% return on sales that it predicted so boldly when it signed up to the deal in 2001.

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Though that slowdown has not yet hurt Mr Cardoso much in the opinion polls, formally he remains coy about whether he will run for re-election at all.

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Mr. COY: If you look at the stock price of Exxon Mobil, it has not really budged since March.

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Anderson wasn't coy about his quest: He put a lightbulb on the cover of the 1995 annual report, not because Panenergy was in the electricity business, but because he wanted it to be.

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