Teasings

I rarely feel inclined to rail at the Rufe, whose gentle teasings hooked me on the belief that I could actually solve these crypticisms many many years ago I started out on Everyman, but soon I hit the harder stuff ...just like Tom Thumb but 12a, while amusingly clued, the answer is not the answer. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is a disease, which, if left alone, will increase and bring along with it all the teasings and tormentings of hypochondria, by no means dangerous to your life, but to the employments and pleasures of life. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He was the sunny, joyful child who bore the brunt of his brothers 'teasings but learned quickly how to brush it off. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If Foucault insists that the sexual body is discursively contingent, then Barthes insists that some discursive bodies are sexually contingent, that they defer and displace meanings with playful teasings that excite and arouse the attentive reader ❋ Unknown (2006)

Talking specifically about how much of an impact these taunts and teasings have later on in life. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We as a nation are constantly sexually teased--most commercials have sexual teasings in them--and since I'm Freudian, I go so far as to say that even these new car commercials in which they are talking to children about the kind of car their parents should own are very sexually teasing. ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)

Insults, slights, teasings, rudeness she had borne in studied silence . . . ❋ Larry McMurtry (2004)

Insults, slights, teasings, rudeness she had borne in studied silence, a haughty dignity her only refuge. ❋ Larry McMurtry (2004)

“The teasings do give the police—and the prosecutor—a motive.” ❋ Franklin W.Dixon (2001)

After watching a few dozen teasings, tauntings, quarrels, and kindnesses among the children, she realized that she had seen pretty much every variation on teasing, taunting, quarreling, and kindness that she would ever see. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1996)

Jimmy and Rosie had shared this chamber, and I could almost hear their giggles and teasings that were the beginning of each new day. ❋ Herriot, James (1992)

In Shetland Isle the ubiquitous household cat was similarly significant: a Shetlander caught in a social gathering he found undesirable sometimes turned to teasing the cat, repeating halfaloud the responses his teasings would presumably call forth could the cat talk. ❋ ERVING GOFFMAN (1963)

At last after a thousand delays, a thousand little teasings that excited his impatience and allowed me to snatch five or six kisses, I said ❋ Various (N/A)

Sir Peter Teazle must be no longer the comic idea of a fretful old bachelor bridegroom, whose teasings (while King acted it) were evidently as much played off at you, as they were meant to concern anybody on the stage, -- he must be a real person, capable in law of sustaining an injury -- a person towards whom duties are to be acknowledged -- the genuine crim.con. antagonist of the villainous seducer Joseph. ❋ Various (N/A)

The Count held out all this year and the next against every solicitation of the Spaniards and the importunities of his own friends, much more by the wise counsels of Varicarville than by the force of his own resolution; but nothing could secure him from the teasings of the ❋ Various (N/A)

Occasionally he succeeded; but I always escaped with ease, because I chose for my teasings only days when it had rained a short time before. ❋ Various (N/A)

But when school life began and they became exposed to the twits and teasings of their playmates there developed a shy timidity and reserve when in the presence of others. ❋ Sanford Bell (N/A)

Miss Clark, her form mistress, was apt to wax eloquent over her mistakes, but she took the teacher's sarcasms with the same stolidity as the girls 'teasings. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)

And I loved them both, and tried as a Christian not to prefer one before the other; but what with my lady's stealings of her arms about my neck as I sat at my stitchery, and popping of comfits in my pocket when I would be otherwise engaged, and teasings, and ticklings, and sundry other pretty witcheries which I do not at this day recall, I was fairly cozened into loving her the best. ❋ Am��lie Rives (1904)

We girls, as before, were loud in our wailings, and offered to forgive him the depredations in the doll-house and all his teasings, if only he would not go away and be scalped by the Indians. ❋ Unknown (1899)

"[My girl] has been [teasing] me [all day] what a I gonna do. ❋ AleTheSauceBossSSandro (2017)

Damn last night I was [teasing] him so hard he definitely wants me. Or Do you think I was [being a tease] I didn’t mean [to be one] should I tell him ❋ Atlas Elmwood (2019)

[Oliver] was [teasing] me during [math] ❋ Person#13333333 (2018)

Teasing her'With a nice [smiley] grin he [teased] her about how she always wore bright [red lipstick]... ❋ Notzer (2017)

"[Tease it]… Teeeeeease ittt… ([completion] of objective) YES!!! I'VE DONE IT!!! [SUCK MY KNOB]!!!" ❋ TheTimeGypsy (2014)

My boss keeps implying that I might get a promotion, but won't say for sure one way or the other. I wish he'd stop being such a tease! Did you see the latest QuestionableContent comic? [Jeph Jacques] is drawing out this thing with Claire & [Marten] just to be a tease! Don't be a tease, just tell me! Did you buy the latest Mario Kart or not? If you did, I'm coming over to play it right now! The Supernatural writers are just [being a tease]. Dean and Cas will never get together. ❋ RenRen (2014)

[Damn straight] she's [a tease]... & good [at it] too. ❋ Not Jen (2003)

God that bitch was [a tease], now [I'm stuck] with [blue balls] ❋ EnvyDreamz (2011)

[Shit yo], that girl was mad down with me, shes ready for something, oh shit, [nm], shes got a man, fuck, what a tease. [Stephanie] K ❋ Snax (2004)

Dude! [That girl's] such a [tease]. You'll never get anywhere [chasing] after her! ❋ Cdbva (2018)