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4 total sentences available.
Resplendent, happy and glorious, appeared our Princess and our Prince! and mightily enjoying the feast of music prepared for them in small parcels, sat all the Royalties and Attracting Magnates; while the great officers of State (in such a state, too! with the thermometer at ninety-five degrees in the electric light shade, if any) watched, lynx-eyed, yet with the gentle winkiness of the cooing turtle-dove.
Source: wiktionary
Very few people duped or abused his confidence, for he knew how to uncover lies with extraordinary sagacity; but even that did not irritate him: “The poor wretch,” he often said to us with his delightful smile, “the poor wretch thought that he was deceiving me; but I read falsehood on his face and divined it from the trembling of a little muscle down there in the corner of the mouth which I know very well; it was made known to me also by the ‘winkiness’ of his eyes; there was a moment when I was on the point of betraying myself. Pshaw! he ’s an unhappy creature all the same.”
Source: wiktionary
His cheeks showed plump and pleasant pinkiness, / His hair a fascinating kinkiness; / Droll was his left eye’s lurking winkiness, / But, dears, his little brain lacked thinkiness!
Source: wiktionary
The Tarantino comparison is obvious, thought it reduces Amores Perros to imply that it’s some kind of Latin Pulp Fiction — the former has a more serious dramatic agenda, and none of the self-satisfied winkiness that makes Tarantino fun but also a pernicious progenitor of empty ironizing ad infinitum.
Source: wiktionary
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