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The smaller of the two, All Received Wisdom, 2007-12, features a white figure with a half-open mouth, as if caught mid-declamation while soberly extemporizing, its base pushily overlapping that of its interlocutor.

Aside from an unfortunate scene in which Ronnie is silenced by a kiss (and a pushily romantic soundtrack tune), "The Last Song," directed by TV vet Julie Anne Robinson, maintains a healthy respect for girls.

With a collaborator, David Gold, I wrote to Tapper, rather pushily arranged a meeting, and managed to convince him that I might be an interesting doctoral student to supervise.

Before that it was the Jews, fully protected from the excesses their co-religionists had suffered abroad, who were pushily trying to subvert property rights guaranteed in the Magna Carta itself by challenging property owners' liberty to sell or not to sell to whomever they wished.

Even the pushily titled Live Alone and Like It: The Classic Guide for the Single Woman, Marjorie Hillis's 1936 bestseller, still moves units for more than its kitsch value.