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Music-induced ecstasy is not the same as speaking in tongues in a religious frenzy.
Since its inception, the EU has made each member state’s language one of its official tongues.
But most held their tongues.
Likewise, it remains uncertain whether journalists will hold their tongues respectfully or give Trump the kind of shellacking that Peter Hoekstra, the new US ambassador to the Netherlands, has been getting from the Dutch press.
The banks, it would be fair to say, do not wholly accept regulators’ arguments about that, but they have bitten their tongues and paid up.
Ethnic minority students in Romania may now take university entrance exams in their native tongues and the Hungarian-language Bolyai university in Cluj, closed since the late 1950s, is to be reopened.
Yet, barring particular sectors like steel, most American politicians and bosses bit their tongues about the dollar's strength and few, if any, have jumped for joy at its recent decline.
Israel must learn to speak in fewer political tongues.
Their leaders can scarcely hold their tongues, so badly do they want a Kerry victory.
In this sense, are we living in the époque of Trump, in which Trump’s revival of the “America First” slogan of the American Nazis in the 1930s has encouraged a loosening of bigoted tongues?
The violent reactions last year to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper saw a confused Western response, with governments tripping over their tongues trying to explain what the media should and should not be allowed to do in the name of political satire.
President Lula and others on the left mostly prefer to hold their tongues.
One name on the tip of many tongues here is Central Bank Governor Sadiq al-Kabir.
Thirteen official tongues from six distinct branches of the Indo-European group of languages – Germanic, Slavic, Uralic, Romance, Celtic, and Greek – are spoken in the eurozone.
And Trump’s nominee as the next Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, is a member of the People of Praise, “charismatic Catholics” who have merged the Catholic faith with Pentecostal practices, such as speaking in tongues and communing directly with God.
She has been involved in a charismatic Christian group, People of Praise, which believes that in households men are superior to women, and its members speak in tongues.
"You're sensible," he said to Maheu; "make them hold their tongues.
The women were commencing their day around the coffee-pots, with their fists on their hips, their tongues turning without ceasing, like millstones.
I'll finish up this catalog, a little dry but quite accurate, with the series of bony fish I observed: eels belonging to the genus Apteronotus whose snow-white snout is very blunt, the body painted a handsome black and armed with a very long, slender, fleshy whip; long sardines from the genus Odontognathus, like three-decimeter pike, shining with a bright silver glow; Guaranian mackerel furnished with two anal fins; black-tinted rudderfish that you catch by using torches, fish measuring two meters and boasting white, firm, plump meat that, when fresh, tastes like eel, when dried, like smoked salmon; semired wrasse sporting scales only at the bases of their dorsal and anal fins; grunts on which gold and silver mingle their luster with that of ruby and topaz; yellow-tailed gilthead whose flesh is extremely dainty and whose phosphorescent properties give them away in the midst of the waters; porgies tinted orange, with slender tongues; croakers with gold caudal fins; black surgeonfish; four-eyed fish from Surinam, etc.
The seats began to empty, some card-players were still left; the musicians were cooling the tips of their fingers on their tongues.
In fact, the cowherds and shepherds had driven their beasts thus far, and these lowed from time to time, while with their tongues they tore down some scrap of foliage that hung above their mouths.
The discussion was endless, this theme will occupy the minds and tongues of France for the next half-century.
Evil tongues had uttered the word galleys.
They used these things in ancient days for curbing women's tongues.
They buried the shingle close to the wall, with some dismal ceremonies and incantations, and the fetters that bound their tongues were considered to be locked and the key thrown away.
Every pore inside the boys' cheeks became a spouting fountain; they could scarcely bail out the cellars under their tongues fast enough to prevent an inundation; little overflowings down their throats occurred in spite of all they could do, and sudden retchings followed every time.
At times, tongues of reddish flame escaped from the wood, and then the faces of the murderers were touched with fleeting gleams of blood.
They thoroughly well perceived that they guessed the thoughts of one another, and that if they did not hold their tongues, the words would rise of themselves to their mouths, to name the drowned man, and describe the murder.
ANTONIO'S BALLADThou dost love me well, Olalla; well I know it, even though love's mute tongues, thine eyes, have never by their glances told me so.
And so in course of time, the devil, who never sleeps and puts everything in confusion, contrived that the love the shepherd bore the shepherdess turned into hatred and ill-will, and the reason, according to evil tongues, was some little jealousy she caused him that crossed the line and trespassed on forbidden ground; and so much did the shepherd hate her from that time forward that, in order to escape from her, he determined to quit the country and go where he should never set eyes on her again.
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