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She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.
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She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
She was quick.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.
She was bewildered.
She was standing in a thick grove.
She already knew this unwholesome, chilling atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive.
She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
She was wearing nothing beneath the coat.
She was standing with her back to the glass door.
She was just not able to break the spell.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
She confessed she was unhappy, he asked was it her husband??
She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.
She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.
She and opposite
She starred opposite Anthony Perkins in the 1978 Alan Rudolph film Remember My Name and opposite Jeff Bridges in the 1979 film Winter Kills.
She found success opposite Jack Lemmon in It Happened to Jane, a comedy film released in 1959.
She was currently under contract to Universal Studios, mostly co-starring in low budget westerns opposite Buck Jones.
Bacon's next project was to star opposite Elizabeth Perkins in He Said, She Said.
She played Lady Macbeth on Broadway opposite Maurice Evans in a production directed by Margaret Webster that ran for 131 performances in 1941, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.
She also appeared in a number of films, most notably 1980's Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was the polar opposite of the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
She is capricious and aggressive, the opposite of Willow's usual nature ; her bad behavior so exaggerated that it does not instill fear into the viewer like other female vampires in the series, but indicates more about Willow's personality.
She was buried in Westminster Abbey, on 3 August, in what has been described as a " somewhat hard to find tomb " on the opposite side of Edward the Confessor's shrine and slightly above eye level for a person of average height.
She would later make her Broadway debut in the same play in 1992 starring opposite Simon Jones.
She auditioned unsuccessfully for Yves Boisset's Bleu comme l ' enfer and Robin Davis's Hors la loi, but was eventually cast in My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister ( 1986 ) by Jacques Rouffio opposite the popular French stars Michel Serrault and Michel Piccoli.
She appeared opposite Maurice Chevalier, who commented of her, " She was lovely, brunette, talented and a delicious comedienne, and her English was perfect.
She sang in her role opposite Maurice Chevalier in the Ernst Lubitsch musical The Smiling Lieutenant ( 1931 ), and was admired by critics for her ability to shrewdly play character role opposite the Miriam Hopkins.
She achieved her last great success opposite Fred MacMurray in the comedy The Egg and I ( 1947 ).
She played opposite Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial ( 1962 ).
She played opposite Lars Hanson, a well-known Swedish actor.
She displaced Aileen Pringle, ten years her senior, and played a vamp opposite Ricardo Cortez.
She then made a comeback in her first comedy playing opposite Melvyn Douglas in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka ( 1939 ).
She continued acting for television, appearing in Family Reunion ( 1981 ) opposite her grandson J. Ashley Hyman, A Piano for Mrs. Cimino ( 1982 ) and Right of Way ( 1983 ) with James Stewart.
She first appeared in the West End, playing opposite her brother, in 1958.
She was next seen in Letters to Juliet opposite her husband Franco Nero.
She returned to acting after being cast in June 2007 in Disney's live-action-animated film, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, co-starring opposite Piper Perabo as one of three live-action characters in the film.
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