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  • r  with forgiveness; in a forgiving manner
    `Never mind,' she said forgivingly

  • The spirit behind Conrack is so relentlessly idealistic in tone and uplifting in intent that one feels vaguely guilty for not responding to the film generously and forgivingly.
  • The look on his face when he discovers the joys of mature sex could serve as the emblem of this sweet-tempered movie, which eventually touches--wryly, knowingly, forgivingly--on at .
  • Affectionate readers may forgivingly understand why the Duke of Windsor called this strip the "greatest contribution to English literature in the past 100 years.
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  • Mark Sanchez in International Herald Tribune
    Clearly the Iran-Syria axis is a strategic threat to Israel. We don't plan to fall asleep on guard duty, and we won't look in their direction forgivingly, as we did in south Lebanon. This is not a crisis that can be overcome with closed eyes, but a... Amir Peretz http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Peretz&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHEaNUWcJ4YDYRRL8zOrHkgyiL9kA Ynetnews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3306482,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHfGBvnr_PzaTXrHh_1yjBlvkzmkQ Sep 20, 2006 39159 50451 forgo In the end, after sleepless nights and lots of prayers, I've decided I'll forgo my fifth year and declare for the NFL draft," Sanchez said Thursday at a campus news conference. "It is with a heavy heart I am going to leave this university."

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