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Example sentences for: dalliance
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The collective implication is that Bauer's denials must have been couched to protect some unspecified kind of dalliance.
In this context, it's not clear whether the writer or the subject appreciates the irony of the profile's key scene--Spielberg fatuously defending the behavior of his close personal friend Bill Clinton ("Morality is defined not just by a sexual dalliance") as he puffs contentedly on a cigar.
Jones' evidence, which I detail in a 15,000-word article in the current issue of the American Lawyer , includes clear proof, scattered through the public record, that then-governor Clinton's state trooper-bodyguard interrupted the then-24-year-old state employee on the job on May 8, 1991, and took her to meet Clinton--the boss of Jones' boss--alone in an upstairs suite in a Little Rock hotel, for the apparent purpose of sexual dalliance.
Flirt (Gk. phlért ) is no longer a person who indulges in harmless dalliance but a lover, male or female or the love affair itself (more often than not, illicit); hula hoop means leotards; nylon is the transparent kind of plastic; shocking, used as a plural noun (Gk. sókin ), means off-color or risqué stories; and Texas , as in the sentence, It has become texas, means out of control, maniacally chaotic and violent (though this may be an idiosyncratic use by a small group of people).
Zeus spread a cloud over the Earth to conceal the dalliance, which had the unintended consequence of alerting Hera.