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Daryl and Carol share a different bond, something more than family but not quite amorous.

From Salon

The tongue-in-cheek, amorous advertisement, which has the energy of a typically seductive, enigmatic fragrance commercial mixed with a 90s late-night-tv-infomercial, says it's "surprisingly captivating, mysteriously alluring, the enchanting aroma of hot and handmade pretzels dripping with butter, it tantalizes every sense — and then some."

From Salon

"He takes her across St James's Park and it's spring and there's bluebells and birdsong and American GIs making out with the English girls, and he pulls from his pocket these silk stockings like an amorous magician and flirts with her," explains Mulley.

From BBC

Jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong gave their own sentimentalized retelling of their nomadic existence from the 1930s onward, portraying the jaunts as being as amorous as they were glamorous, a veritable luxury cruise along bucolic byways jammed with adulatory fans and a femme fatale or two.

If they achieve their amorous quest, there will be fewer baby mosquitoes than there would be if nature ran its course.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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