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These poor journalists, harassed by editors and struggling with deadlines and word count are mostly under the impression that I write stories about swooning heroines being swept off their tiny feet by identikit strong-jawed heroes and carried into the pink sunset.
Guest Author: India Grey Nalini Singh 2010
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These poor journalists, harassed by editors and struggling with deadlines and word count are mostly under the impression that I write stories about swooning heroines being swept off their tiny feet by identikit strong-jawed heroes and carried into the pink sunset.
Archive 2010-02-01 Nalini Singh 2010
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There's also a tit-for-tat quality to a lot of this: Oliver Stone's chumpy W versus the strong-jawed big-swinging-dick of 9/11: Time Of Crisis, for instance.
Fair Game revisits the George W Bush years but is it too soon? 2011
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The one where she's sitting on his lap with that smile, and he sits with his arm around her, a strong-jawed Son of the Soil and his beautiful frontier bride.
Hometown News: The Ballad of Ray and Rose Matt Lubich 2011
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Seated on the edge of the bed in black, thick-rimmed glasses was a second man -- this one clean-shaven and strong-jawed.
Todd Clayton: Stickers, Someday Todd Clayton 2012
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A photograph of Michael, athletic, strong-jawed, almost bursting out of his uniform, takes pride of place.
'My son was shot by a British sniper, now all I want is the truth' Jamie Doward 2010
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Seated on the edge of the bed in black, thick-rimmed glasses was a second man -- this one clean-shaven and strong-jawed.
Todd Clayton: Stickers, Someday Todd Clayton 2012
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The tallest of the three, silver-haired and strong-jawed, started walking toward the casket.
Crusade Nancy Holder 2010
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She would have been quite beautiful, in a strong-jawed, straight-backed sort of way, had it not been for the scowl of disapproval that twisted her lips down.
The Shattering Christie Golden 2010
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She would have been quite beautiful, in a strong-jawed, straight-backed sort of way, had it not been for the scowl of disapproval that twisted her lips down.
The Shattering Christie Golden 2010
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