unlace

In order to be able to work together, we need to find the courage to move away from our comfort zones, to unlace the fear of taking risk and to move forward despite an uncertain future.

That was where I saw a beautiful classical dancer arriving from the other side of the curtain, and without taking the time to unlace any part of her costume, ran to the dressing room where her infant, who was four months old, was waiting, lying in a compartment of a trunk; and I can still see that beautiful girl who nursed her infant in a dancer's pose--that is, putting all her weight on one foot, with her skirts in a wheel around her--and I see the magnificent gesture that she made in pulling her beautiful breast out of her bodice to give it to her child.

Mary Boleyn reports that when Henry and Anne are alone, "she lets him unlace her bodice" (188).

The yarn may not unravel with slight tugging; if that occurs simply unlace the waste yarn from the live stitches.

Right-thinking guys and gals, after the rally, after raising a ruckus on the metro, why not go home, fold up your Czarist banners for next year, unlace the storm trooper boots, have a glass of wine (one), relax, and, you know, maybe procreate a bit.

With some embarrassment, he realized that he wanted to unlace her out of the corset.

As Roach puts it, manned space travel "forces people to unlace certain notions of what is and isn't acceptable." Just don't read the space sickness chapter while riding the subway.--Camille M.

Then he reached behind his head to unlace the mask, another task requiring both hands.

Home abounds in these "rituals of the ordinary" transfigured by familial love into "acts of faith." Thus, Glory, preparing dinner, wonders to herself: "How to announce the return of comfort and well-being except by cooking something fragrant." Or watching Jack kneel to unlace their father's shoes: "His father regarding him with such sad tenderness that she wished she could will herself out of existence, herself and every word she had ever said."

Another minute and I'd have been calling for Mammy to unlace my corsets and fetch me a mint julep.

Perhaps there are children who, when entering a facility visiting lobby, automatically begin to unlace their shoes to walk through a metal detector.

I immediately begin ripping through my pack to find more clothing, tossing my soaked jacket at the door and struggling with frozen fingers to unlace my boots.

Ideally, payers and providers will be able to carefully track medical history, patient demographics, risk factors of the patient population (to unlace patient severity), up-to-date external guidelines for clinical best practices by disease state, diagnostics and therapies used, patient compliance with various prescribed therapies such as pharmacy use, costs over time for payers and providers, and medical outcomes.

He and his dressers unbutton and unzip, unlace and re-tie in a frantic, frenzied unison.

(When corsets became easier to lace and unlace, maids were no longer indispensable; in the event of "swooning, vapours, oppression, and spasms, a helpful bystander could quickly undo the knot.) Constipation was another plausible consequence, and corsets could possibly have contributed to miscarriages and prolapsed uteruses.