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No other wine in the world can range from bone dry to toe-curlingly sweet and still find the balance to keep a bowling ball on a tightrope a hundred feet in the air.
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It is indeed toe-curlingly bad – from teens who really should have written stuff down before committing lines such as "Ima ride my bike in the motor life" to a webcam and making "stupidly random" raps with bad British accents, to TV commercials that make R Kelly's Trapped In The Closet video look like Citizen Kane.
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If you go, you'll have your own favourites – possibly Posy's toe-curlingly precise dissections of middle-class marriage.
Simon Hoggart's week: We won't be taken for a ride, cabbies 2011
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The affair is an embarrassment for the ICC with the chief executive, Haroon Lorgat, who is in London to promote the Lord's Test, the 2,000th in history or as an ICC promotional video toe-curlingly referred to it, T2K, barely concealing his frustration that the Test has taken on an old-fashioned feel.
India and England risk controversy as technology is rejected in Tests 2011
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No other wine in the world can range from bone dry to toe-curlingly sweet and still find the balance to keep a bowling ball on a tightrope a hundred feet in the air.
Evan Dawson 2009
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No other wine in the world can range from bone dry to toe-curlingly sweet and still find the balance to keep a bowling ball on a tightrope a hundred feet in the air.
LENNDEVOURS: 2009
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While not as bad the toe-curlingly wretched RED DWARF remake this is still just very ... dull.
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*I believe there was a Canadian TV show along these lines called Prisoners of Gravity, except what little I've been able to force myself to watch is so astoundingly, toe-curlingly condescending and cheesy, that whatever idiot came up with the idea in the first place should be dispatched without mercy.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Anything you just absolutely toe-curlingly cannot wait for?
Archive 2008-05-01 SVGL 2008
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*I believe there was a Canadian TV show along these lines called Prisoners of Gravity, except what little I've been able to force myself to watch is so astoundingly, toe-curlingly condescending and cheesy, that whatever idiot came up with the idea in the first place should be dispatched without mercy.
Books on TV 2010
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