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They ought to take note of the refreshingly candid remarks made to a group of women journalists by the Chinese ambassador in New Delhi.

They were friendly but refreshingly reserved toward her; a beautiful face didn't place very high on the scale of austere New England values.

To his supporters, this reflects a refreshingly open debate in a new ruling party after decades of cloistered deal making.

Sometimes, refreshingly, he throws up his hands.

In an ageing society where many pensioners are refreshingly sprightly, the ruling party looks utterly clapped-out.

The approach is refreshingly direct in a country where many women see the surest path to wealth as being down the wedding aisle.

I see nothing wrong with it, but when I see it on my form it no longer looks refreshingly true.

Refreshingly, Banks offers a well-researched and probing discussion of why marriage rates are so low among black Americans.

Prices are refreshingly reasonable; shipping options and rental periods are flexible; and return shipping is free.

The effect is refreshingly humane, and entirely unlike the dwarfing, take-your-medicine feel of many galleries.

Mr Clark, however, has produced a well written and thought-provoking thesis, refreshingly light on jargon and equations.

For Estelle a naked wedding seems like a refreshingly simple option.

Well, he could be funny and charming and refreshingly original.

In conversation, Mr Aimard is refreshingly frank about the position of contemporary "classical" music.

The result is a refreshingly open-ended view of contemporary music-making that puts many of his predecessors, Burney among them, to shame.

Flip it to the left, and you'll hear your music in a refreshingly random way.

India's companies are refreshingly red-blooded, but more than other firms in the world they carry a giant responsibility.

Yet the Chinese have always had a refreshingly unsentimental attitude when it comes to animals.

To make fine fizz it is essential that the grapes are not too ripe and the acidity remains refreshingly high.

And in a myriad of subtle ways Mr Kan's top team represents a refreshingly bold choice.

To stand out and be refreshingly different at whatever cost - that's the message we're getting from today's logos.

Right now, though, the horizon remains refreshingly bump-free.

In one easy step, both face and eyes are refreshingly clean and free of pore-clogging residue.

But many will regard it as refreshingly realistic.

Refreshingly, it does sometimes happen, as in Somaliland earlier this month and in Ghana in the past decade.

Experience the city's grungier side by exploring this region which is refreshingly down to earth.

Indeed, Dr Kochi himself has been refreshingly frank about the WHO's poor record in fighting the disease.

He is refreshingly honest about how wrong he could be.

Refreshingly smooth Bud Light. Always worth it.

Refreshingly bittersweet, this is a smart film that will mean something different to everyone who sees it.

Refreshingly enough, the myth-busting didn't always come from scientists.

Their approach to life is refreshingly naive.

Refreshingly free of late night phone calls etc.

It is a refreshingly simple, yet powerful approach.

The plant is refreshingly lively, natural feeling;