Pairings

The problem with food pairings is that so many back labels simply list a string of foods from cupcakes to chicken vindaloo and everything in between, all in fifteen words or less. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The idea of animal/human pairings is a huge sub-genre. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the meeting of anatomy at some point evolved in myriad directions: into long-term pairings centered around raising young; groups of related individuals living together; unions of same-sex, non-mating animals for protection or companionship or both; even alliances between cooperative neighbors. ❋ ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ (2009)

My favorite thing is the back to back title pairings of a line from an Adam Sandler sketch to a Lord of the Flies reference. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Outside the Lines on Sunday on whether male coaches are discriminated against in pairings for the women's tourney that ESPN televises. ❋ Unknown (2002)

To call the pairings is a bit of a misnomer, since there are three golfers per group, at least early in the tournament. ❋ Jon Azpiri (2010)

I’m not disposed to sit around making elaborate lists all day, but if you wanted to do this, I think you’d want a set of cultural categories and a set of philosophical ones, though of course certain pairings are a lot more common than others. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is a book of kinky word pairings, a book of shameless SELF EXCLAIMING, a list of assertions, a book of titles that trumpet themselves. ❋ Lemon Hound (2009)

Christakos describes her own work as employing strategic word pairings harvested from the internet and elsewhere, to construct "forceful collages." ❋ Lemon Hound (2008)

The Playhouse is a hot destination these days, because of the intelligence of its classical work and the brio of the performances: "Funny how eloquent cheap emotion can be," someone remarks, ironically highlighting how real the play's affections are: there's never any question about the justness of the pairings, which is only half true in the original play. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Few word pairings can excite your average anime fan faster than "Studio GAINAX" and "new mecha series," the venerable animation studio having perfected the giant robot genre with ❋ Jason Green (2010)

Minnie: Please keep in mind that these series of posts will deal with shippings aka pairings from various manga and anime. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Search Stairs, where you make your character climb a flight of collapsing stairs by selecting word pairings that will result in the most hits, and the multiplayer Bomb Surivial, where players take turns selecting words and the player who pics the word with the fewest hits gets bombed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Faldo had tried to laugh off his slip-up yesterday, suggesting the sheet featuring the pairings was the players '"sandwich list" before having to confess that he had been caught out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Iconoclasts is one of those slightly awkward "pairings" shows in which successful celebrities meet each other, although this episode – musician Paul Simon meets longstanding Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels – is funnier than most. ❋ Lyndsey Fineran (2010)