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Granted, some mother tongues might sound a little threatening to the average American.
Now what I do is I'm an economist, and I actually study the relationship between innovation and economic growth at the level of the company, the industry and the nation, and I work with policymakers worldwide, especially in the European Commission, but recently also in interesting places like China, and I can tell you that that question is on the tip of all of their tongues: Where are the European Googles?
Have lightning on their tongues, fly whisks as weapons.
It is not scientific to say that they are hungry when they're hunting and they're tired when their tongues are hanging out, and then say when they're playing with their children and acting joyful and happy, we have no idea if they can possibly be experiencing anything.
Old English people had toungen instead of tongues, namen instead of names, and if things stayed the way they were, today we would have eyen instead of eyes.
In the Dark Ages, folks said they were snake tongues, petrified by Saint Paul.
You see, I've come a long way from that altar on the night I thought the world would end, from a world where people spoke in tongues and saw suffering as a necessary act of God and took a text to be infallible truth.
We speak in the tongues of charismatic leaders that promise to solve all our problems.
We can feel salt on our tongues.
It's kind of like an Andean Woodstock: 60,000 Indians on pilgrimage to the end of a dirt road that leads to the sacred valley, called the Sinakara, which is dominated by three tongues of the great glacier.
In its early years, doctors administered a strong electrical current to the brain, causing a whole-body seizure during which patients might bite their tongues or even break bones.
In the same way that we learned to cross our legs and tame our hair, we learned to bite our tongues and swallow our pride.
People abandon mother tongues, because they're forced to.
Some of Austen's actual dialogue is allocated to different characters and some of her narrative is recycled as dialogue that falls awkwardly from the tongues of the characters.
In one scene in the film her pal Ruby (Michelle Williams) and Liz walk through Harvard, and all the guys' tongues are wagging at Ricci, not the super-cute and sexy Williams.
See young girls wiggle their toes and stick their tongues out for the camera and wear skimpy clothes and bikini's.
My only conclusion to that query is that Satan believes watching Camp Fear is the worst form of mortal punishment, not gouging out your eyes or making you speak in tongues, instead making you sit mindlessly through one and half hours of the most awful film making ever.
Yeah it's hard to keep your mind off this fetching beauty (giving an radiantly picture-perfect performance), as she simply has tongues wagging.
If you're a big fan of flying prehensile hair and tongues that can reach all the way down into your stomach, you'll like this film.
Although the cast is fine and energetic, there was no reason to invest in this kind of soft-core homo porn, with lots of tongues, sweat & pricks.
Betty Anderson (Terry Moore) is the town "fast girl" whose romantic liaisons set the community's tongues wagging, while Constance tries to fight her attraction to high school principal Mike Rossi (Lee Phillips), again afraid of history repeating itself.
Though this movie is perhaps a little "inside" of the Hollywood Movie Industry, and the publicity machine on which it is driven, all of the regulars and the new faces invited into the fold give wonderful performances and play their parts with just the right amount of camp with their tongues in their cheeks.
They also cut tongues of people.
My mother's family has lived in Tennessee for around two hundred years, and of the many stories I have heard about Tennessee as it was seventy-five years ago, I have heard only of intelligent, hard-working people who lived in small-towns, attended church regularly, often went to college out-of-state, drove cars, had electricity, were respectful of their spouses, and did not speak in tongues or pass snakes around on Sundays.
Thus we get the odd huge close-up of mouths covered in shaving foam and a lot of tiresome hysteria and tongues.
Yes, interrogating deaf people, people with no tongues and a whole lot of others that are a bit off and such.
There's a rogue cop who was killed in an accident and then "Robo-copped" together to be a killing machine, and he has sixteen tongues grafted onto his body to replace his burned skin, so as you can imagine he doesn't look very "GQ".
My husband brought this home thinking it would be exotic- it was trite and stupid-- no one had any redeeming value- especially the girl- and they seem to think tongues are sexy.... much hype no affection or action.
An old man living on a boat together with a nubile teenage girl, is bound to set tongues wagging.
The builders of the twin towers, whatever their native tongues, wanted to be Americans, citizens of the New World, the towers they built symbolizing the stature of freedom.
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