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Overall though, Moneyball is more melodramatic than one might expect from the pen of Sorkin who massaged an earlier draft by Steven Zaillian, gooier in the middle and coshing the audience with emotional wallops.

Moneyball – review 2011

One showed me how to diddle locks with a bit of wire and one angelic-faced boy gave me a lot of points about coshing people. '

Twin Moons 2010

We've got bills for overtime running into millions, we've raised security on every public building in the country, we've interviewed thousands of suspects, done wiretaps, a bit of burglary too, and for all I know we're coshing the Roman Catholic Cardinal to see if he's heard anything in the confessional.

Whispers Of Betrayal Dobbs, Michael, 1948- 2000

Adrienne, not coshing to increase, by prolonging it, the awkwardness of this ridiculous situation, went straight to the door and opened it, to the great surprise of Philemon, who recoiled two or three steps.

The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830

Adrienne, not coshing to increase, by prolonging it, the awkwardness of this ridiculous situation, went straight to the door and opened it, to the great surprise of Philemon, who recoiled two or three steps.

The Wandering Jew — Volume 10 Eug��ne Sue 1830

What’s coshing a bloke on the back of his legs as he staggers/wanders away from you supposed to do for anyone?

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