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Officials are also aware that a change in the cabinet will be seen as mere window
dressing
unless people are shown that the government has a plan to rescue the economy from collapse and alleviate the burdens faced by ordinary people.
The perverse irony here is that Europe’s shrewdest secession-minded parties are
dressing
up their programs in European garb, promising that the new states will have automatic EU membership.
Other arguments are just window
dressing
that should not fool anyone.
In Rome, for example, Clodius, a noted ladies’ man, committed sacrilege by
dressing
up as a woman and infiltrating the female-only religious festival of the goddess Bona Dea, with the aim of seducing Pompeia, Julius Caesar’s wife.
I wake her up in the morning, assist her in toileting, bathing, and dressing, make us breakfast, and help her feed herself.
The leading economies of the West are doing pretty much the same thing – just
dressing
up their manipulation in different clothes.
If you are a woman watching, you feel in your gut that these women won't be window
dressing.
But performative acts of censorship like the removal of Trump’s tweet are window
dressing
that sends no larger signal.
But Putin subsequently turned the Yeltsin Constitution into mere window
dressing.
Knowing full well that this is an unrealistic and absurd assumption, economists often emulate medieval theologians by
dressing
up their prognoses in arcane language and jargon.
It has been remarkably successful in doing so, going from a parliamentary assembly that served as little more than window
dressing
to a full-fledged influencer and co-legislator.
Her purpose in
dressing
was now quite the reverse of what she had had in view thirty years ago.
Dolly found her politeness, tidiness, and attention pleasant, but did not feel at ease with her; she was ashamed to let her see the patched
dressing
jacket, which as ill-luck would have it she had brought by mistake.
I returned to Russia and had to be with my wife, and in the country besides, and in a fortnight I took to a dressing-gown and gave up
dressing
for dinner!
With her intelligent invalid's eyes she followed her sister and her two brothers, who were now
dressing.
The parents were there, and besides he still had for her a feeling, half of friendship and half of spite, which prevented him from treating her as a girl to be desired, in the midst of the abandonment of their now common life in dressing, at meals, during work, where nothing of them remained secret, not even their most intimate needs.
but I'm dying of cold," he said,
dressing
himself in turn.
After
dressing
the poor man's wound, I redid the linen bandages around his head, and I turned to Captain Nemo.
Emma, in her room, was dressing; he came up on tiptoe, kissed her back; she gave a cry.
He walked up and down waiting for Emma to finish
dressing.
She wore an open
dressing
gown that showed between the shawl facings of her bodice a pleated chamisette with three gold buttons.
She who was formerly so careful, so dainty, now passed whole days without dressing, wore grey cotton stockings, and burnt tallow candles.
Just then the servant, Madame Lefrancois, and Madame Bovary senior were busy about Emma, finishing
dressing
her, and they were drawing down the long stiff veil that covered her to her satin shoes.
She was very well made, and this way of
dressing
suited her to perfection.
He threw himself down on his bed, and from the
dressing
table he took the nice apple that he had put there the previous evening for his breakfast.
He pulled his
dressing
gown together and disappeared.
We finished dressing, and, when it came to the extras, we remembered that we had packed the tooth-brushes and the brush and comb (that tooth-brush of mine will be the death of me, I know), and we had to go downstairs, and fish them out of the bag.
Rather an amusing thing happened while
dressing
that morning.
While they were
dressing
their wounds, I tried to make a hole in the thing with the spiky end of the hitcher, and the hitcher slipped and jerked me out between the boat and the bank into two feet of muddy water, and the tin rolled over, uninjured, and broke a teacup.
Their hunger being appeased, and many of their garments thrown aside for the better opportunity of
dressing
their wounds, the gang began to plot measures of revenge.
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