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He gave a long, studiedly melancholy sigh.
Suspiró largamente el anticuario, con estudiada melancolía.
He sipped his drink studiedly. “Well,”
—Se dedicó entonces a darle unos sorbos a su copa con gesto estudiado.
Kollberg yawned, much too studiedly or else from nervousness.
Kollberg bostezó, de una manera demasiado estudiada o quizá por nerviosismo.
He brings the cigarette studiedly to his mouth and blows out a shapeless cloud of uninhaled smoke.
Se lleva el cigarrillo a la boca con gesto estudiado y espira una nube informe de humo no inhalado.
These vibrant colours, a cocktail of heavy scents, the swiftness of their arrival and their arrogant gait were overpoweringly, studiedly dramatic.
Esos vivos colores, un cóctel de aromas pesados, la rapidez de su llegada y su arrogante porte eran imponentes, teatralmente estudiados.
Most of the malehustlers are dressed in their ordinary clothes—the studiedly carelessly open shirts, the casual jackets, the levis, the khaki pants.... This is their costume.
La mayoría de los chaperos visten su ropa habitual… las camisas estudiada y despreocupadamente abiertas, las chaquetas informales, los Levi’s, los pantalones de soldado… Este es su disfraz.
A sudden, shrill cry-partly an infantile whine, partly a piggish screech, partly an insectile trilling-disturbed the peace of the studiedly Colonial living room.
Un súbito y estridente chillido, que en parte era un lloriqueo infantil, en parte el chillido de un cerdo y en parte el de un insecto, alteró la paz de la estudiada sala de estar de estilo colonial.
The studiedly social air of all this, with its element of deadly danger and tension underneath, couldn't go on for long. Miles broke it. "Look here, Superintendent!" he burst out.
El aire sociable y estudiado de todo esto, bajo su atmósfera de mortal peligro y de tensión, no podía durar mucho. Miles lo cortó. —¡Vea, inspector! —prorrumpió—.
Everyone, without exception, was outlandishly dressed, in billowing capes or overcoats, offset with studiedly bizarre headgear, patterned in a riot of colours and textures which made even the surrounding architecture look a little on the restrained side.
Todos sin excepción llevaban trajes estrafalarios, con capas y abrigos ondeantes, compensados con cascos de rareza muy estudiada y decorados con un tumulto de colores y texturas que hacían que hasta la arquitectura circundante resultara algo comedida.
I liked her from the moment when shambling Toby Taggart took her by the elbow—talk about a contrast!—and steered her to where I was loitering, studiedly inspecting my fingernails, and introduced her to me, her superannuated leading man.
Me gustó desde el momento en que el desgarbado Toby Taggart la cogió por el codo —¡menudo contraste!— y la llevó hasta donde yo me encontraba, inspeccionando de manera estudiada mis uñas, y me la presentó, a mí, su partenaire jubilado.
Anneke’s uniform was smart, discreet and studiedly sexless.
El uniforme de Anneke era elegante, discreto y estudiadamente asexuado.
Her voice was flat, studiedly emotionless, but almost a whisper.
La voz de Barbara era inexpresiva, estudiadamente monótona, pero casi un susurro.
There is something about him that is not quite right, something too shiny, too studiedly plausible.
Hay algo en él que no cuadra, algo demasiado brillante, demasiado estudiadamente verosímil.
I was shaking studiedly - and twice had to go to the lavatory to have some convulsions.
Temblaba estudiadamente, y tuve que ir un par de veces al lavabo para disfrutar de algunas convulsiones.
He looked at the palace secretary, who met his gaze with a studiedly blank expression.
–Miró al secretario de palacio, que le devolvió la mirada con una expresión estudiadamente vaga.
Hermione was being too studiedly jovial, she knew, but the child had taken her off guard.
Hermione estaba siendo estudiadamente jovial, lo sabía, pero la niña la había cogido por sorpresa.
She had sharp, knowing eyes that missed nothing and a studiedly stupid look on her face.
Tenía unos ojos agudos e inteligentes que se fijaban en todo y una expresión estudiadamente estúpida en la cara.
His eyes had become lazy again, studiedly indifferent. Hearn had poise. That was undeniable.
Sus ojos habían adoptado una expresión indolente, estudiadamente indiferente. Hearn tenía aplomo.
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