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Not a big happy toothsome smile, to be sure, but one of those cynical, lop-sided grins we get when we sense a dark and comic punch line coming.
Janice Harper: With God on Their Side: The Tennessee Pro-Bully Bill Janice Harper 2012
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Not a big happy toothsome smile, to be sure, but one of those cynical, lop-sided grins we get when we sense a dark and comic punch line coming.
Janice Harper: With God on Their Side: The Tennessee Pro-Bully Bill Janice Harper 2012
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Their funny lop-sided relationship – a mixture of admiration and frustration in one direction, teasing to the point of bullying in the other, but genuine affection too, in both directions – is perfect.
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Not a big happy toothsome smile, to be sure, but one of those cynical, lop-sided grins we get when we sense a dark and comic punch line coming.
Janice Harper: With God on Their Side: The Tennessee Pro-Bully Bill Janice Harper 2012
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I think the Conservatives had an incontrovertible argument at the time of the referendums, i.e. the end and logical result of the lop-sided constitutional changes proposed would be a resurgence of separatist sentiment and naturally following on from that, a weakened United Kingdom.
Cameron is Wrong. The Conservatives did get it right. O'Neill 2009
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Andy Murray played one of the great sets of his career to kick-start a lop-sided beating of 25th seed Feliciano López 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 to reach the fourth round of the US Open.
Andy Murray thrashes Feliciano López to reach US Open fourth round 2011
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Given the assortment of nationalities who take charge of England games, it is an extraordinarily lop-sided statistic.
Are home-loving Six Nations referees becoming a law unto themselves? | Robert Kitson 2011
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There are many factors that account for success in our very lop-sided world.
Special Guest Post: Zetta Elliott on the Myth of Meritocracy 2010
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There is something fascinating about watching Ferguson work within his means: Smalling, Obertan, Bebe – these are some weird Man Utd players, but I like them almost as much as my favourite Fergie era, the lop-sided 2002-ish team that had Juan Sebastien Veron in it and scored a lot of goals in fitful bursts.
Bursaspor v Manchester United - as it happened Barney Ronay 2010
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The post-fight revelation by Ward that he'd injured his left hand in training, then hurt it again midway during the fight, only compounded Froch's misery as Showtime's Super Six tournament descended into a lop-sided anti-climax after 26 months and enough drama to fill a play.
Andre Ward beats Carl Froch into a distant second place | Kevin Mitchell 2011
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