dallied with

He’s dallied with ballet, Olympic bobsleigh, and mixed martial arts; he started a fast food restaurant and a food services company; he appeared on a season of Celebrity Apprentice, trying to win the favor of Trump, his longtime mentor; and he wrote an autobiography meant to fashion himself as a mental health advocate that I can only describe as pitiful.

And while Putin has sometimes dallied with elements on the far left, he has presented himself as a hero to the cultural right, defending the “traditions and traditional family values of millions of people making up the core population,” as he told the Financial Times in 2019.

Democrats dallied with those tactics themselves in 2018, forcing a brief shutdown over immigration policy, and then fully embraced them after winning back the House majority — holding firm against Trump’s demand for a nearly $6 billion border wall in a clash that ultimately forced Republicans to back down after a record 35-day federal shutdown.

Democrats dallied with those tactics themselves in 2018, forcing a brief shutdown over immigration policy, and then fully embraced them after winning back the House majority — holding firm against Trump’s demand for a nearly $6 billion border wall in a clash that ultimately forced Republicans to back down after a record 35-day federal shutdown.

Fatefully, she dallied with Tenney, her second cousin, known to her since childhood, an earnest young man redolent of the “odor of sanctity” who had first courted another of her older sisters, Emily.