South Korea will top that, guaranteed at least a silver after a nervy victory over Japan secured when skip Kim Eun-jung delivered a nervy draw to the button for the winning point.
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Mr. Trump is taking defiance in a nervy new direction.
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IT HAS been a nervy few days for financial markets.
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It's violent, nervy and one of director Martin Scorsese's best.
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Huppert's performance as Erika is a triumph of nervy contradictions.
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Avoiding runs in that predicament would require a nervy escape.
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That's because nobody else would have asked such nervy questions.
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He delivered each dish himself, fizzy and nervy as cava.
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"Pretty nervy of you to come to this club," Trump snapped.
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With Big Brother watching, some prisoners are now more nervy with COs.
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It's a show that lives and dies by Platt's nervy, vulnerable performance.
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You can call it unscrupulous, or greedy, or nervy, or even sleazy.
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He had to make a nervy 14-footer to salvage a five.
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He also drained a nervy five-footer for bogey on No. 7.
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"It's getting very nervy," said Aly-Khan Satchu, an investment adviser in Nairobi.
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Hughes as a nervy milquetoast whose problems stem from the erotically-charged dominance
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The camera has a nervy quality, frequently moving and close to the actors.
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Its vulnerability was its strength, the brash openness of its raw, nervy weirdness.
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Zhao was also, in those nervy spring days of 1989, sympathetic to the students.
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But Mr. Branagh's Wallander, smaller, spikier, more nervy, is distinctive in its own way.
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"Nerves are always there and I was definitely a little nervy," Hurd told Reuters.
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Yes. This is a nervy question, but how many bespoke suits do you have?
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It was the kind of nervy, mid-budget drama that Pascal lived to make.
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If they're nervy, they sidle up to Guy and ask to take a picture.
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Unfortunately, the produce section can lead a nervous (or nervy?) person to be inappropriate.
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You've got to be nervy enough to push cards on behalf of the company.
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It has a nervy, exasperated quality that elevates the show above a mere game.
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They've got the nervy energy of someone who's replaced their blood with pure caffeine.
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Case in point: their unrelentingly nervy new single "Middle Of," which Noisey is premiering above.
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Their negotiations across the green room door are nervy and hilarious, the rebellious freegan vs.
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Walker's first putt scooted three feet past the hole, setting up yet another nervy moment.
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It's bracing, a nervy and grounded protest from a band that ordinarily prefers to soar.
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I love that word "nervy," exactly right in evoking Stritch and her tough-gal persona.
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The Israeli producer Gideon Raff ("Homeland") created the nervy six-episode thriller, which debuted Friday.
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In the end you won by two shots, but how nervy was that final round?
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After a great third shot, Woods sank a nervy 8-footer to match McIlroy's par.
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Yet Mr. Shandling performs the hurt with nervy realism, finding the pathos in this silly man.
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But it isn't just that, after Funny Girl, she kept taking roles as nervy, Jewish chatterboxes.
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"The book is lifted by French's nervy, almost obsessive prose," Stephen King writes in his review.
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Tiny Trax will be at the Los Angeles expo, rubbing excitedly nervy shoulders with far bigger productions.
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The nervy ebb and flow of the battle for Libya's capital shows no sign of changing soon.
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Sometimes the why of ambition can only be discovered in nervy actions that cut against our instincts.
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The Yankees brought in Aroldis Chapman, but there were more nervy moments before he closed things out.
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"It's been a fantastic week for me," Bautista Agut, who endured some nervy moments in the decider, said.
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An underlying dancehall pulse propels tiers of staccato electronics and backup vocals that build to a nervy taunt.
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Its telegraphic lyrics pack far-reaching implications into a few words; its succinct melodies harbor nervy sonic experimentation.
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The sonnets of John Donne provide a brooding counterpoint to the gruesome turns of this nervy historical novel.
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Several Russians, including Zabelinskaya, were reinstated at the last minute but she said it had been a nervy wait.
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Will it create a panic, though, with nervy incumbents flouting leadership in an effort to save their own hides?
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Nervy interactions between pro-Trump surrogates and hosts like Cupp or Jake Tapper have become a kind of theater.
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"It was a nervy day," said Chappell, who has now been the runner-up six times in his career.
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It requires nervy precision to pass narrowly through locks with just a few feet to spare on either side.
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As Annio — another trouser role — the mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo conveyed youthful tension with a high-voltage, nervy tone.
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Then, on her second serve, Williams went all out, pounding a nervy service winner at 106 miles per hour.
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Tablets are expensive bits of kit, so handing over your precious device to a child can be a nervy experience.
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It would make the process more dramatic, rather than a nervy after-thought for fans to endure after every goal.
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Underneath its nervy premise, off-kilter jokes, and bold stylistic flourishes, Swiss Army Man is a movie about being scared.
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The nervy visuals also brought to full boil a number of subplots that have been simmering all season or longer.
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During "Carriage Without a Driver," Mr. Riesman emphasized a nervy percussive quality that isn't as prominent in Kronos's recorded version.
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But one day, after solving a puzzle, I had a nervy "I could do that!" thought that wouldn't go away.
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"'The Nickel Boys' — a tense, nervy performance — is even more rigorously controlled than its predecessor," our critic Parul Sehgal writes.
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At No. 2 was the beautifully balanced 20143 Netley Road Vineyard, nervy and earthy with just a hint of sweetness.
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"My legs were shaking, my hands were shaking," Ariya told reporters after her nervy five-footer at the last in Alabama.
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You've got to be very nervy and somewhat nutty, as well as possess a lot of self-confidence, to try this.
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The world number four endured some nervy moments in the decider before sealing the contest in one hour and 47 minutes.
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He had a friendly yet nervy air, chain-smoking and rattling off his thoughts; the amber streetlights illuminated his scarred face.
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As it stands now, his drives look like strong straight-line drives, lacking in the nervy jumpiness of most European dribblemen.
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There was a nervy moment for Froome when he had to stop because of a mechanical issue with 70 kilometers remaining.
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Nervy, complex and richly shaded, Ms. Agresta's timbre was far removed from the limpid ingénue voices typically cast for this part.
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What this novel offers is the sound of a serious and nervy writer working at near the top of his form.
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I sat opposite her, tugging my raggy school uniform sleeves down over my thumbs, like I always did when I got nervy.
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The competition was short of upsets on Saturday, and Liverpool had to scramble to secure a nervy draw at Exeter on Friday.
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Woods needed to sink a nervy six-footer on the 18th hole to force a three-hole playoff with challenger Bob May.
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He spoke quickly, hunching forward in his chair and steadily tapping his feet, his dark eyes glinting with a nervy, cheerful energy.
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His second shot was slightly wayward, but after a delicate pitch and a nervy two-putt, Walker had proved his championship poise.
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Mr. Williams had been listening to the nervy jangle of post-punk and avant-punk: Gang of Four, Suicide, Devo, Talking Heads.
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Trump shouldn't be tweeting about it, but it is nervy for McConnell and Ryan to criticize publicly almost everything the president does.
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Doctor Manhattan believes that a world of endless adulation and obedience would be great for a self-obsessed, nervy man like Veidt.
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She is keen to convince nervy investors that Britain's exit from the European Union will not make it a less attractive business partner.
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Froome was left 1953 seconds behind in the overall standings, with another week of nervy rolling stages before the race enters the Alps.
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Mr. Carrabba's songs — scarred wails pulsing with nervy punk energy — were among the genre's most recognizable, but all that wailing took its toll.
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They were an ambitious foursome whose nervy vision of adolescence was every bit as high culture as it was keen on bebop accents.
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Nonfiction STILL HEREThe Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine StritchBy Alexandra Jacobs Here are two things I can tell you about Elaine Stritch.
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None of these encounters, however, do much to flesh out a character who, despite Watts's magnificently nervy performance, remains a messed-up mystery.
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Separately, the bleary, harsh sunlight of "State Forest," the nervy urban exploration of "Nightmarket," and the crackling void of "Beachfires" may seem aimless.
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Madeline Brewer's nervy, childlike performance also left me confused as to whether Janine was meant to be an object of empathy or pity.
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Take ten guests and all of a sudden that's quite a decent chunk of commission, which just isn't forthcoming from nervy investors these days.
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His putting had been nervy throughout the week: he was the second-most accurate player off the tee, but only 26th on the greens.
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The Proud Family had Zoey (Soleil Moon Frye), a nervy brace-faced sidekick, and Rugrats: All Grown Up gave Chucky some well-deserved braces.
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Investors can be forgiven for feeling nervy after being caught off guard by Britain's EU vote and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The data are part of the bigger picture over why global investors are suddenly being so nervy and selling pretty much everything except bonds.
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A little smaller and a little later, but still weird and nervy and occasionally musical, this monthlong festival has returned for its 21st season.
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She's expected to be on the linoleum floor, surrounded by a swarm of nervy patrons, each of whom could potentially pass her the disease.
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Having something stuck in your teeth during a nervy life moment â€" a first date, say, or an interview â€" is everyone's worst nightmare.
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You don't need any familiarity with Batman lore to dig this inventive, nervy cartoon about the aspiring supervillain Harley Quinn (voiced by Kaley Cuoco).
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Can it really surprise you that a person nervy enough to invite herself (and her posse) to dinner would pre-emptively change its terms?
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She catches a fearless shrub or nervy marigold sidling up to the safety-cone-orange tarp, nature finding an opening to reclaim some real estate.
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This is the case with "Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980" at the Met Breuer, a nervy multimedia survey of postwar art.
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Hitting the stage is tough and nervy, but the let-down afterwards, when you're offstage and immediately severed from that energy, can be overwhelmingly lonely.
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With Bronstein, they started thinking about a heist film, "Good Time," in which a nervy lowlife named Connie tries to carry off a bank robbery.
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Pella, the 26th seed, made a nervy start, saving two break points in his opening service game on Centre Court before settling into his stride.
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Implied sterling volatility options show it well They are more in demand than other G10 FX counterparts, showing just how nervy the pound markets are feeling.
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Still, the Azzurri had nearly 70% of possession across two nervy games, and 37 shots to Sweden's 12, metrics that are strongly correlated with winning games.
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However, what started as a lesson in pass-and-move attacking soccer under the new coach Pep Guardiola turned into a nervy finish at Etihad Stadium.
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Greengrass has taken a lot of fire over the years for his hectic visual style, which blends documentary realism with a nervy, stream-of-consciousness aesthetic.
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We've all been on the middle school field trip, with its high jinks and nervy bravado — pubescent energy burst free from the institutional rigor of classrooms.
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And yet, owing to Jeffrey Tambor's nervy performance, we also see that Maura is courageous just for refusing to disappear, to shrivel into little-old-ladyhood.
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Nadal faced down a break point, and then at deuce he carved out a nervy forehand slice drop shot to give him his third match point.
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Implied sterling volatility options show it well GBP1MRR= They are more in demand than other G10 FX counterparts, showing just how nervy the pound markets are feeling.
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Mr. Appleby brought nervy physicality to the part, but could seem a little blank vocally, singing with smooth and pliant tone but few variations in tone color.
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The capture was a face-palm of a denouement to a tense, nervy episode that inaugurated the clash with the Saviors quicker perhaps than most viewers expected.
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And yet here's a terrific, nervy little half-hour drama that tells the story of a young woman (Riley Keough) who finds herself drawn into this world.
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Whatever his damage, the apparent suggestion, in the nervy interrogation scene, that it derives from some rage, shame or fear over his father fell a little flat.
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Rising 21-year-old Humbert regained the upper hand to take a 1-0 lead but looked nervy in the second set, allowing Paire to draw level.
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Yet Letterman's true originality may be that only a Midwestern boomer who was every bit as easily unnerved as he was nervy could have combined the two.
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The movie plays out like a nervy cinematic experiment, more about trying to push the art form forward rather than fully having the expertise to execute it perfectly.
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At a time when studio blockbusters feel overblown and impersonal, this nervy, giddy audacity was downright liberating—a low-budget gem you wanted to share with your friends.
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The movie insists on a breezy optimism that skirts glibness, then doubles down on it with a having-it-all finale that's as ridiculous as it is nervy.
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Halep and Sharapova both made nervy starts, with neither able to hold serve until the seventh game, when the Russian finally managed to get her nose in front.
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Oil and Middle Eastern stock and bond markets also steadied after a nervy few days caused by a purge of royals and top officials by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince.
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His flop shot from there was short, his long double bogey putt ran past the hole and Mickelson finally sank a nervy downhill putt to end a disastrous hole.
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In the nervy chromaticism of Bartok's late-Romantic first quartet, the ensemble's sound was glossy and generous, with only Mr. Zlotnikov's cello occasionally giving hints of a violent undertow.
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Ranked 81st in the FIFA rankings, China scraped through to the final phase of Asian 2018 World Cup qualifying with a nervy 2-0 win over Qatar in March.
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Modest gains from Europe's main bourses relieved nervy investors after the latest escalation in an increasingly global trade dispute pummeled Wall Street and sent China into bear market territory.
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In her home, she was met by her girlfriend's nervy black cat Onyx and a quiet apartment, so neat it looked as if she had only recently moved in.
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"Traders are a bit nervy, the only positive news we've been getting out is probably rate cuts or tax cuts," Michael Baker, an analyst at ETX Capital in London.
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"The weeks and months ahead are going to be a nervy time for business leaders," Simon Walker, director general of British business lobby the Institute of Directors, said on Friday.
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These digital dubs paved the way for guys like Burial, who incorporated wistful R&B samples into his productions, and Joker, who grafted G-funk keyboards onto dubstep's nervy template.
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Thomas and Bernal endured nervy rides in Saturday's 194km opener, both snagged by a mass crash in the peloton inside the last three kilometers, although it cost them no time.
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Basketballteams leave zero doubt After a somewhat nervy quarter and a half, the U.S. men showed little restraint in pounding the Venezuelans to improve to 2-0 in group play.
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We still contend that a great, nervy, dark romantic drama lurks at the heart of Passengers, if anybody involved in the film had just had the guts to explore it.
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CNN has reported that former Trump deputy campaign manager Rick Gates is nearing a plea deal with Mueller, which will also meanwhile mean a nervy weekend for the White House.
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In masterful woodcut prints, such as "Ballad of Terror" (1975), she contrasts bold, abstract (but symbolic) images with pale, thin, rice paper so that nervy color inks may filter through.
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Similarly, it's fun to watch Scorsese and later episode directors (who include longtime TV hand Allen Coulter and indie film genius Mark Romanek) give 1970s office politics a tense, nervy edge.
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Though tested by nervy putts, deep bunkers and narrow fairways, he shot even par after he was told he might be penalized after his final stroke and built a cushy lead.
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With its swift pacing and nervy fluctuations in warmth, their playing had all the best qualities of period-instrument performance — responsive to the music's emotional eddies without ever breaking the flow.
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What didn't change is his aesthetic: nervy and dense, speedy and ominous, twitchy and unstable, with a distant, dissonant melody line besieged by a percussive overload until a final staticky swerve.
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But in the nervy 1970s and 1980s, when an American attack on the Soviet Union might happen at any time, an alert might be a practice, or might be the real thing.
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But where Green is a loose mumblecore drama, Always Shine is a nervy thriller that owes as much to Single White Female as it does to deliberate touchstones like Ingmar Bergman's Persona.
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Even for a man once ranked in the world's top five, these are nervy days for American Blake, now 39, as he watches over the transformation of one of tennis's biggest events.
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The cherry on top — an Altidore penalty kick, on a nervy chip after Bobby Wood had been cut down on a run into the area in the 42nd minute — erased all doubt.
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World number 45 Olesen, the lowest ranked of the 24 players taking part, looked dry-mouthed as he addressed his ball on the first tee and sent a nervy drive into water.
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Last year, Chipaumire presented a characteristically raw and nervy work reflecting on her development in her native Zimbabwe in the 1970s, '80s and '90s as represented by punk, pop and rumba music.
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With a fiercely committed cast that includes Imelda Staunton and Janie Dee as former chorus girls drowning in disenchantment, this 1971 portrait of waning expectations paradoxically pulses with a radiant, nervy vitality.
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The NYC-based crew term their music "anxiety pop," not that their tunes will set you on edge so much as there's a terse, nervy energy that runs through their shimmying songs.
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Djokovic said he was a "a bit more nervy" than usual playing against Tsonga, even if plenty of seats were vacant at center court, with the late hour caused by a scheduling logjam.
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Too late, because here are three brand-new chapter-book series, two nervy enough to brand their premier installments with big, fat numeral 1s — no hedging of bets for these eager, confident beavers.
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But this nervy moment also presents an opportunity for the candidates, as the president has responded to this crisis as he has all others: lashing out on Twitter and golfing with famous people.
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Its first SummerStage show, on Wednesday, July 12, is likely to be packed with fans of Princess Nokia, the Nuyorican rapper, born Destiny Frasqueri, whose pugnacious rhymes are full of nervy uptown attitude.
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The match was not without some nervy moments, but veteran keeper Gianluigi Buffon came up with the big saves when needed, including one on Gerard Piqué in the 90th minute, yards away from goal.
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Teenage midfielder Phil Foden nodded City ahead in the fifth minute and Guardiola's side battled through a nervy encounter for their 298th Premier League win in a row, which kept Liverpool a point behind.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Swiss eighth seed Timea Bacsinszky recovered from a shaky start and survived a nervy finish to beat Canada's Eugenie Bouchard 6-53 6-4 in the French Open second round on Thursday.
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It might have been an uncharacteristically nervy Mario Draghi in front of the cameras in Frankfurt last month, but the ECB (European Central Bank) President has made some of his shrewdest moves to date.
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The North Africans were unbeaten in their World Cup qualifying campaign but had to endure a nervy finish when they drew 0-0 with strugglers Libya to edge out the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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It all helped ease concern about the recession risks facing the global economy, sparking a selloff across the major bond markets that nervy investors huddled into when worry levels spiked earlier in the year.
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In a good, creative, dominant side like Arsenal, it stands to reason he'd score plenty of goals, though never from half-chances, or taking the difficult opportunities to settle nervy games against top teams.
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His nervy claim is the embodiment of an ethos practiced by law enforcement and other public institutions that regard their role in minority communities as being an occupying force rather than a protective one.
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The scenes, filmed with a combination of body doubles and actual sets of twins, have a fun, nervy feel to them, like they could have been a sci-fi spinoff of the show proper.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Chelsea recovered from their shock weekend defeat with Eden Hazard's double securing a nervy 2-1 victory over Manchester City that maintained a seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League.
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Not that there aren't jarring, nervy scenes, like Shoshanna's visit to a Tokyo S-and-M club or an impromptu photo shoot in which Hannah poses on the Cafe Grumpy couch like a Renoir nude.
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After riding a wave of enthusiasm to power in 2008, the last couple midterms and even Obama's 2012 campaign were nervy exercises in protecting the tentative gains Democrats had made—and seemed half-embarrassed by.
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One of the looser ends is Lex Luthor, whom Eisenberg plays as a manic, lighter version of Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight, all nervy babble, alarming tittering, and nihilistic challenges to the world.
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Jones is a nervy, jutting actor, who comes at his scenes from surprising angles; you won't be able to quite figure out what he's getting at, but it's terrifying to watch him go about it.
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The formation at the weekend of a minority Spanish government after a 10-month political stalemate has prompted markets to throw the spotlight east to Italy instead for what could be a nervy year-end.
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With the Americans clinging to a one hole lead, Kim sent a charge through the chilled crowd when he drained a nervy seven-foot birdie putt at the 15th to leave the match all-square.
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Touching on everything from race and class to single-payer health care, this bracing exercise in unvarnished honesty is a nervy tightrope act that feels as vertiginous as its protagonist's own madcap journey to clarity.
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Episodes with cameos by Jaboukie Young-White and John Mulaney were excellent, but "The Viewing Party" highlighted Madeline Wise's nervy, sexy, frighteningly vulnerable performance as the girlfriend Pete both needed to escape and didn't deserve.
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What we mean by that is, in a type of nervy hitchhiker's state of mind, they were self-sufficient, like puffer coats that could double as sleeping bags and sweaters that were as big as blankets.
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"When the historians find us we'll be in our homes, plugged into our hubs, skin and bones," he sings, writhing with nervy intensity as the band behind him drops out to let his words sink in.
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China and Hong Kong had pulled Asian stocks lower overnight and Europe fell early on as weak-looking updates from media group Pearson and Norwegian seafood company Marine Harvest added to nervy signals from bond markets.
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After Song bowed out a hole later with a par, the survivors returned to the 18th one more time and both managed nervy pars in almost total darkness, though floodlights surrounding the green provided some vision.
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Abel Tesfaye seems to feel this nervy music in his blood, and that confidence–similar to what one must feel putting on one of the leather jackets Tesfaye's been sporting–is the reason "False Alarm" works.
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But it was a nervy seven-footer that he made to save par on his third-to-last hole that gave him reason to believe that he was on the verge of a really good run.
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It's a nervy show that deliberately plays your own expectations against you, so dedicated to its own vision that it might make you laugh, and then make you want to throw up about five seconds later.
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The vote to leave the European Union and the constant threats from the Scottish National Party — a virtual political monopoly in Scotland — to demand a second referendum on independence have made Britain into a nervy, febrile polity.
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The resulting movie feels as gleeful and nervy as a student film that the drama club threw together in secret, as if the cast kept whispering to each other, Can you believe we're getting away with this?
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Four awards, including best comedy, for Amazon Prime Video's nervy, dirty, brainy "Fleabag," rather than a valedictory send-off for a routine final season of HBO's "Veep," was the most exciting and significant development of the night.
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On a visit to the bridge itself, it is easy to understand why Mexican drug cartels have fought vicious battles to control the Nuevo Laredo crossing, turning the city into a hotbed of teenage gunslingers and nervy soldiers.
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He broke Wawrinka to go up by 5-4 and then worked his way through a nervy game that included his first two double faults of the match and finished off the victory with a forehand volley winner.
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This is the question at the heart of "Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch," Alexandra Jacobs's meticulously researched biography, which uses Stritch's struggles with alcoholism as a window into her work and her life.
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They are the married authors of "Changers," a well-received series of young adult novels, each a nervy exploration of what it may be like for an adolescent to swap identities at the start of every school year.
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Now, he's brought the nervy energy of his turns in Nightcrawler or Okja to the world of Marvel, and he keeps making fun of the cinematic universe he finds himself in, like he's Abed from Community or something.
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The nervy tone was set earlier in the day when Asian markets extended losses after North Korea conducted its fifth and most powerful nuclear test, while investors are keenly awaiting a speech on Monday by U.S. policymaker Lael Brainard.
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Later on in the afternoon, we head to the top room of the pub to catch the last few tunes from a nervy, rake-like man in his mid-40s billed as the President of the UK's Autoharp Society.
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Also in the mix was Jen Carroll, a talented but nervy chef who apprenticed with renowned chef Eric Ripert, and Kevin Gillespie, an adorable Southern chef with kind eyes, who is now one of the show's most successful alums.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Andy Murray survived a nervy fifth-set decider against Czech veteran Radek Stepanek to complete a 212-210 43-24 215-230 6-3 7-5 comeback win and scrape into the French Open second round on Tuesday.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was hearing about her sore eyes that convinced Lawal Zannah his daughter Aisha was still alive, the first sliver of good news to emerge after months of nervy silence enveloped Nigeria's kidnapped Chibok girls.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Real Madrid have suffered a number of nervy Champions League moments in recent seasons and could draw on a vast bank of European experience as they survived a heart-stopping quarter-final second leg against Juventus on Wednesday.
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There's a tremendous amount of trust in a set-up like this — usually when I'm on a motorized vehicle, I want to make sure I can see exactly where I'm going — but even that lent a nervy edginess to the experience.
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" It's is a booming, searing track anchored by a frantic, nervy riff and McCauley menacingly yelling with paranoia and anger oozing from his delivery: "Heading nowhere / With the last of my kind / I'm a martyr / And I live on borrowed time.
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They saw a stunted start in which Romania nearly scored in the first few moments — the French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris made a stunning save on a shot from close range — and a nervy performance from the hosts in the first half.
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The second seed broke a nervy-looking Thiem in the opening game thanks to a double-fault and was never really challenged as he produced a clinical serving display in which he did not even offer up a break point.
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He moves with a nervy, scrappy sincerity: When he spins in ecstatic circles across the stage during "Tonight," you believe he's fallen in love, but you also believe him when he launches himself into the rumble between Jets and Sharks.
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Try if you like: The scenes on The Sopranos where Tony and his mother yelled at each other TNT's spin on Animal Kingdom isn't as nervy or exciting as the enjoyable 231 Australian crime movie it's based on — at least not yet.
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LONDON (Reuters) - If October's bond jolt reverberates through a politically nervy end to the year, many funds fear it may trigger an exodus from all richly valued financial assets as investors re-price intertwined stocks and bonds and hurry to protect 2016 gains.
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FONTENAY-LE-COMTE, France (Reuters) - It was supposed to be a relatively quiet day for the overall contenders on the Tour de France, but defending champion Chris Froome and other big guns lost significant ground in a nervy finale to Saturday's opening stage.
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Golden State welcomed Klay Thompson and Kevon Looney back from injury in this Game 4, before a noisy and nervy sellout crowd of 19,596 at Oracle, but the hosts could not muster a response to Toronto's 173-21 edge in the third quarter.
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Turning Adolf Hitler into a little boy's imaginary friend sounds like an unworkable conceit, but Taika Waititi's nervy crowd-pleaser treats Der Führer as a Beatles-like phenomenon that whipped young people like Jojo Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) into a nationalist frenzy.
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But there was no repeat of England's 6-0 rout of its neighbor at the European Championship two years ago, with Scotland ensuring it was a nervy end for England coach Phil Neville's side after Claire Emslie pulled one back in the 03th.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro won a semi-final thriller against Spain's Rafa Nadal on Saturday, outgunning the Spaniard 5-7 6-4 7-6(5) in a nervy final set tie-breaker to advance to the Olympic singles final.
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S. Open 20, Australian Open 26) 23 French Open performance: Third round Best French Open performance: Third round (22016, 13) A nervy Osaka flirted with a first-round exit on Monday as she recovered from an opening set bagel to beat Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The U.S. men's basketball team closed out pool play with an unbeaten record but a nervy 294-260 win over France on Sunday confirmed that getting to the top step of the Olympic podium will not be an easy climb.
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There were slashings, shootings and spearings aplenty, of course, but also horse tramplings, neck-bitings and, in one nervy, claustrophobic sequence, a near suffocation by Jon Snow as his army found itself caught between a shield-lined pincer and a sturdy bank of dead soldiers.
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First-time finalist Cibulkova opened with a double fault and Kerber, who won two grand slam titles in 2016, took advantage of her opponent's nervy start to grab an immediate break without having to do much more than get the ball over the net.
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Now he's not so confused because he's had those six years of therapy, and you can never have enough therapy, he instructs us (mildly because, being post-therapy, he's pretty well lost that nervy edge) because there's always more dark beyond the dark. Discuss.
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His sculptures started out clearly enough as polite, wheel-thrown vessels but evolved into nervy and transgressive abstract paintings, looming behemoths fired in industrial-size kilns, precarious assemblages and live-wire performances (no ritual immolation but lots of smashing and dropping of plates and vases).
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NIIA "I" (Atlantic) The debut album by the patient soul singer Niia moves at a deliberate pace, and the slower it goes, the more you can hear: a voice that's husky in depth but tender in tone, production that's so spare it's almost nervy.
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Silver Apples, which was a duo in the late 1960s and is now just its vocalist, Simeon, used an imposing, asymmetrical construction of oscillators and effects pedals to generate nervy, repetitive, insistent and ultimately unstoppable tracks that now sound like precursors to bands like Suicide and Can.
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" McInerney has long been celebrated as a social satirist, going back to 1984 and his nervy second-person debut, "Bright Lights, Big City," a Reagan-era coming-of-age novel set against a backdrop of magazine fact-checking and late nights fueled by "Bolivian marching powder.
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Social warrior or just plain sociopath, he has frustrations that are real; and as he and his balaclava-wearing accomplices (Andrew Tiernan and Daniel Kendrick) terrorize their hostages, the film's jazzy tone and nervy editing — Guy Ritchie's stylistic fingerprints are all over it — hustle us along.
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The cast is so good that it can make almost any material at least somewhat funny, and their weird, nervy chemistry means that almost any story that locks all of them in the same location will gain lots of humor simply because they're all hanging out together.
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His favorite, naturally, was Ebbets Field, the Dodgers' longtime home in Flatbush, where he saw Sandy Koufax pitch as a rookie in 21956 and where, he said, his "nervy" mother once slipped into the team's locker room — "a room of half-naked men" — to collect autographs.
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Taking place over 24 frigid hours at Christmastime in upstate New York, the film — which was both written and directed by Hedges's dad, Peter — veers from family drama to nervy thriller as Ben returns home unexpectedly and upends his mom's life (drug dealers from the past come knocking).
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The win also gave nervy locals here a temporary reprieve from the growing fears that James, who was born and raised in nearby Akron, might elect to leave his home-state franchise for the second time when he has the right to become a free agent on July 1.
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More than anything else, the swift, nervy dislocations of his style remind me of the early Creeley of "For Love," albeit deliciously inflected with generous helpings from multiple African-American literary and musical traditions — Young's mix of wit and plaintiveness put me in mind of Billy Strayhorn in particular.
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I've been saying for weeks that what we've seen from him this postseason adds up to the second-finest hour of his career, because this Cavaliers team that finished 29th in the league in defensive efficiency and faced two nervy Game 7s in the Eastern Conference playoffs really didn't belong here.
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Platt's performance doesn't transfer perfectly from stage to screen — his nervy emotiveness is pitched to the back of a Broadway theater and can look overdone on a TV screen if you're not used to it — but at its core is an unnerving vulnerability lurking anxiously under the soaring warmth of his voice.
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Braves 19533, Dodgers 5 ATLANTA — Reliever Arodys Vizcaino escaped his own jam in a nervy ninth inning, Ronald Acuna Jr. hit a grand slam, and the Atlanta Braves held off the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 Sunday night, cutting their deficit in the National League division series to two games to one.
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As a stream of isolated, confused or despotic presences mill about the stage — introduced by a character called the Spectator — Mr. Glass reaches for nervy effects, as when a pair of winds join drums and electric bass during the climax of a mad dance that takes place near an eyeless Oedipal character.
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Where Bell was precious and naive, Chilton was nervy and sardonic, but the band's steady downward spiral would set him on the dark path of personal disintegration—booze, pills, violence, and attempted suicide—documented with harrowing lucidity on Big Star's final album, which, depending on who you ask, was either called Sister Lovers or Third.
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Which is why I leave you with this, a short list of a few of the great longer songs in Spiritualized's catalog, each of which demonstrates—in 17 minutes or less, a few of the different sides of Spiritualized, from "Cop Shoot Cop"'s narcotic spirituality to "Hey Jane"'s nervy emoting and existential dissatisfaction.
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Some of Stone's best characters—most notably James Woods's wiry performance in Salvador—are manic figures driven by restless, nervy energy, but his signature leading men, from Jim Garrison in JFK (Kevin Costner) to Chris Taylor in Platoon (Charlie Sheen) to Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July (Tom Cruise), are straight shooters.
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After a nervy two weeks, during which the Celtics could merely watch because of an obscure league rule, they will now get an opportunity to make a run at Davis in the off-season — although Davis is said to remain adamantly against signing a long-term contract with the Celtics should they trade for him.
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But by playing so much of this with a nervy kind of confidence, and by reducing Mr. Robot to what amounts to a cameo while playing up Elliot's seeming spiral back into both hacking and the mental issues the hacking exacerbated, the series both reduced him to a supporting character in this episode and smartly advanced his overall storyline.
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But they are also broiled under minced seaweed and Parmigiano-Reggiano in a nervy, compelling take on oysters Rockefeller; poached in sherry and cream along with late-summer succotash for a soup that is halfway between oyster stew and chowder; and steamed with garlic, vermouth and butter, a suave oyster-dunking sauce that becomes a soup once you add oyster crackers.
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Then, after a late goal by Iceland in its final group game shunted Portugal to the opposite side of the draw away from juggernauts like Italy, Spain, England, France and Germany, it edged past Croatia in extra time, beat Poland in a nervy penalty shootout and knocked off Wales in the semifinals — its only win in regulation of the tournament — before pulling off the shocker on Sunday.
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But it must have been a very, very nervy couple of hours... You can totally take a Thanksgiving turkey on a plane, according to Stephen Colbert Seth Meyers traces Trump's made-up 'war on Thanksgiving' back to (duh) Fox News John Boyega reels off all the things you WON'T hear in the new 'Stars Wars' movie Simone Giertz of 'Truckla' fame has correct reaction to Tesla's Cybertruck
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