| I actually had the advantage of reading in detail his words and, in actual fact, he did not quite say that. |
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| As the bodies spread apart and crowd back together, they resemble characters continually rearranging themselves into words and sentences. |
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| As usual, nobody seems to know where the words originated, except that they both grew out of gambling, the race track and general raffishness. |
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| He's taking his time, weighing his words and squeezing them out in measured drops. |
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| Strawberry jam and lemon curd are probably clumsy words to describe the flavours in such a delicate wine. |
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| A whole language of abbreviated words and acronyms has developed with the huge popularity of the text message. |
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| El Hamdaoui has variously been described as a striker and capable of playing on both wings, in other words jack-of-all-trades, master of none. |
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| His voice was wobbly when he spoke, and he was barely able to form the words on his tongue. |
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| The architecture demands a kind of display which is at odds with the tone both of the words and of the spirit of the institution. |
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| He willed the farm to Annie before lapsing into delirium and feverishly mumbling his last words in the Maori he knew so well. |
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| But the firm makes much of its money from selling advertising space keyed to the words for which its users search. |
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| When we act with conviction and genuine concern, our words have that much more force and power. |
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| If words are comedic crutches, then mimes are the gimps jitterbugging at Lourdes. |
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| We are on a mission to have the words E Pluribus Unum in every municipal building across the country. |
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| I have chosen this transcription to remain in line with the standard Assyriological transcription for the words I am discussing. |
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| The list goes on to include a large number of words no longer actually in use, which leaves you wondering why they are there. |
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| As sacrament of the word of God, Scripture is more than the words on the page. |
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| We remember well his sermon at the pope's funeral in Rome, how his words touched our hearts and the hearts of millions. |
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| In the stimulus-drawing approach, the images take the place of words as the source for receiving and expressing ideas. |
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| She spoke no Japanese, so he spoke Ainu words first, and grew up fluent in that dying language. |
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| Viewed from a distance in dark surroundings, it looked as though the words were mysteriously floating in mid-air. |
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| Even the words attributed to the Defence Secretary in the aforesaid newspaper didn't back up the euphoric headline. |
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| One old school manager described a half-time talk that involved choice words and threats of violence. |
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| We were both ready to jump on the salesman and end up being arrested for assault but left with a few choice words from Debbie! |
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| Bulgarians in the United States have likewise incorporated many American English words into their daily speech. |
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| The only worry is being able to do enough words to meet your side of the bargain by the agreed date to keep up your half of the bargain. |
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| If these sound like the words of one who is a tad star-struck, don't be deceived. |
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| I attempted to figure out if any of her words had a hidden implication, but she spoke flat out. |
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| The white-haired woman murmured a few words and the girl sighed, then said something that made both women laugh. |
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| The fine crafting of the words and the kernels of human truth they contain come together as sympathetic wholes. |
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| Week after week I read the letters and such a strong sense of passion is evident in the words of so many people. |
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| Josh ranted, too absorbed in his words to notice the incredulous expression his companion was wearing. |
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| He spoke clearly and assuredly so that no one could twist his words and send the conversation down an entirely different route. |
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| At first, writing lectures and putting the words down on paper was quite a struggle. |
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| Each person was forced to sign an agreement not to carry placards or banners, shout slogans, or wear clothes with written words of complaint. |
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| It's as if the screenwriters have gone through the Gospels with a blue pencil, trying to recast the words so that we can accept them. |
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| He is also an accomplished composer and well-used to dispensing words of wisdom. |
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| And doctors say words like unprecedented, and amazing, only begin to describe a window washer's recovery from a 47-story fall. |
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| But both in his words and especially in his music, his language is surely prosaic. |
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| The words of the chief echoed through his head, as did the sound of the rattling door. |
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| Yet in the context of 1935, the closing words also seem strangely prophetic. |
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| There are many Khoikhoi words common in everyday Afrikaans and English speech in South Africa. |
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| It was not the profundity of his words but the silent strength of his bearing that was so powerful. |
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| She was thin and willowy, two unfair words to describe what she was, and was wearing an almost-black fur coat, almost long, almost handsome. |
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| He took a deep breath and held it for a moment as he weighed his words carefully. |
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| It is full of atmosphere and un-earthly impressions, even when it is just words on a piece of paper. |
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| It is difficult to see how the actual words in the Constitution support her approach. |
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| There are certain words and phrases that are offensive, derogatory, demeaning, racist, sexually biased, and, well, just plain nasty. |
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| Stubborn and willful were among the many words that described the beautiful woman in front of him. |
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| As my gaiters filled top down with slime, I uttered a few choice words but was not unduly alarmed. |
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| The structure of Old English was more like Latin in that words had various inflectional endings to indicate their grammatical function. |
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| As a result, the Arabic food vocabulary is as saturated with Persian words as English is with French. |
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| Well, let us indeed examine the totality of the Prime Minister's words and deeds, and discover how we came by this misunderstanding. |
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| His love and his grace will move you to echo the words of John the Baptist. |
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| There were no words confining the cover to a period while actual repairs were taking place. |
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| It was as the Daily Chronicle interviewer was leaving that Khama gently wigged him with humorous but earnest words of warning. |
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| Two books written in Middle Persian from the Sassanide dynasty are left in which Parthian words are seen. |
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| It's important to express our love through words and actions, kissing and hugging our children often. |
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| His careless words mean that a prolonged battle between government and unions over public sector pay has become a racing certainty. |
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| She offers words of comfort, but only brash American Dan actually challenges the racist. |
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| It's funny how a chance encounter, a few words of enthusiasm, and the afterglow of a successful trip can give rise to unrestrained optimism. |
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| At the exact moment those words had left his lips, an agonized cry echoed down from the bell tower. |
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| Despite the stark words of the various codes regulating ministerial and MSP conduct, the MSPs of various parties will let the First Minister off. |
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| Attributed to Jesus at the Last Supper, these words are quoted in virtually every Eucharistic prayer known. |
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| In the past, this event would have been greeted by silence, so that his lapidary words could rebound off the walls and resound in our minds. |
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| When I would hear my students reciting rap lyrics, I used to ask them what the words actually meant. |
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| Exuding confidence and advocating a positive outlook, he has no harsh words for anyone. |
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| We hope to play out his vision further by sending such winged words around the world via the World Wide Web. |
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| He ad-libs and shapes the words through constant takes before the mic, getting every last line right. |
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| The man opened his mouth shaping the words that would meet the master's ear. |
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| The Celtic sources are a few burials, some numismatic evidence, infrequent inscriptions and figurines, and Celtic loan words in Latin. |
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| His lips shape the words I love you, no longer giving them voice beyond a whisper, but she can feel his breath against her skin. |
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| Her voice dripping with cynical sarcasm, she said she would have those words mounted and framed. |
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| Another remembered Jawaharlal Nehru's words and said that one should not attach too much importance to winning or losing an election. |
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| On Republic Day, the Prime Minister used warlike words to assure the nation of a coming total war against the criminal onslaught. |
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| As if our cheap words and wisdom could somehow rectify the suffering of this world! |
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| It is called sound geometry and is just a play on words really because the CD's are about sound usually and it is a very geometrical concept. |
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| He minced no words in lashing out at critics who charge the administration manipulated pre-war intelligence to justify going to war. |
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| English prides itself on being the magpie language, freely picking up foreign words to incorporate into its flexible vocabulary. |
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| Yet, exegetes can hardly ignore the unbroken consensus in the biblical witness, where the words are so clearly supported by the cross itself. |
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| The differences and origins of the six tribes are well presented, both pictorially and in words in the introduction. |
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| He wanted to break down in front of her and show her how those simple words had touched his soul. |
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| Those figures may have been dubious but, for an itinerant preacher, he had a pretty way with words that struck a raw nerve. |
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| He got so frustrated with his words that he threw his dagger across the room, nailing a Jolly Roger right in the nose. |
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| How ridiculous that magazines advised young people like myself to withhold their feelings until the words were first said to me. |
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| His words looked to have a prophetic ring as the Scots came of age in an enthralling and ebbing battle of two sporting codes. |
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| It is inherent in their task which involves applying rules stated in words that are often ambiguous. |
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| Mahd might have a witty sense of humour but he always has words of wisdom to say to me. |
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| The result of giving the words their ordinary meaning is not absurd or unreasonable, nor is there ambiguity or obscurity. |
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| She listened to the removal van start up and accelerate away, and two words looped in her mind like a stuck record. |
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| These weasel words about how they have the best interests of people in flood areas at heart just won't wash. |
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| The majority occur in the prophetic genre where often these words have a symbolic meaning of blessing or judgment. |
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| I have often read these words from my book at public readings, but now I am no longer the author reading them. |
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| He answered slowly and cautiously, as if weighing his words before he said them. |
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| I find it curious that if I am overwhelmed by emotion, I stumble over words in English. |
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| I swallowed the lump that had gathered in my throat and whispered the words back. |
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| After two months of training, Smyth was keyboarding at 14 words a minute and beginning to write her life's story. |
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| He was a U.S. version of Gandhi, advancing the theory of pacifist resistance through his words and deeds. |
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| Whether you consider this too cool for words or the height of kitsch is up to you. |
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| But during his brief tenure, Thomson has had choice words for both the government and the opposition. |
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| Now he is taking a leave of absence, and had a few choice words for the newspaper. |
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| Grumbling, Lacey finally emerged from the undergrowth with a few choice words for Alaindar. |
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| Her voice was barely a whisper but the words echoed in her head like a jackhammer. |
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| Simple actions and words are put at a premium when they aren't used to buoy a Message of Personal and Social Importance. |
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| This key amendment was defeated, leaving words in the Act that must be given meaning. |
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| She could feel the words inside of her, leaping to get out like wolfhounds tug at their leashes when they smell prey. |
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| As he proprietorially slaps her buttocks he is saying words she can't make out. |
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| For a medium that thrives on ad-lib banter, trying to find appropriate words when there are none can easily sound banal. |
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| It doesn't have separate words for articles, prepositions, or pronouns, which are indicated by altered word endings. |
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| Those aren't the words of somebody who was serious about fighting the Cold War. |
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| At each point in the argument he assembles the examples with great care, attending to the nuances of words and acts. |
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| The sound of what is being said is just as important as the words themselves in what is, in a sense, a dialogue between reason and emotions. |
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| The family was forced to move, and Yeats sent Lady Gregory a few choice words about his idolized beloved. |
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| At least the Brazilian is admitting it and has this week, in typical Elber fashion, offered a few choice words on the Bayern predicament. |
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| There are many borrowed words from Arabic, Persian, and Russian, especially for technical and scientific terms. |
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| After months of nitpicking of this kind some movement towards translating words into deeds has at last taken place. |
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| Visitors to this blog will be surprised to find it actually contains some words and not just a series of random pictures. |
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| She gasped in astonishment, frozen in place by the shock of his words and his actions. |
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| Her words were admonitory, but there was a smile in her voice and a laugh in her eyes. |
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| In other words, a text about high standing in the Kingdom of God is contradicted by words of lowliness and humility. |
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| It's usually the last words you hear before the punch lands, your head hits the floor and you wet yourself with fear. |
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| When you run out of paper or the words you write are jumbled up, think of the hourglass passing sand from the top to the bottom. |
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| I just wanted to extend my thanks to you for all of the wonderful books you've written, your words have touched both my mind and heart. |
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| But her words fell upon deaf ears, Tane was moving, spinning, whirling around with tears in his eyes. |
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| Perversely, such words of steel were meant to calm the American people, not whip them into a vengeful fervour. |
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| On his next run, after a circuit or so of Exeter, my words were confirmed as cruelly prophetic. |
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| Jem's words are cut off by the buzz of Olivia's telephone, and Olivia presses the speaker button. |
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| Picking up a sword from the wall and retrieving a pair of spurs from the saddlebag he mounted and whispered a few words into the horse's ear. |
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| An avid reader, she used to carry around a list of tricky words to help her to remember their spellings. |
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| Her speech was not frivolous nor her words presumptuous but in every way she behaved with utmost propriety. |
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| When guests visit you, it is polite to welcome them with kind words and serve them what you have. |
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| With these words Paul really snatches the sword from the Judaizers and turns it against them. |
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| Then I wrote in my journal for a little bit, using entire pages to write angry ramblings and cuss words in huge, bold print. |
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| Big Boi's raps are, as always, inventive, the words tumbling out with speed and bite. |
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| Instead, the words conjure up unpleasant memories of mom's experimental eggplant lasagna and certain rubber-like meat substitutes. |
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| Whatever he found he brought to the slate of language, lovingly, deliberately shaping the words to describe what he had found. |
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| Violet, however, was genuinely deep in thought, her lips shaping the words as she puzzled out the riddle. |
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| Her mouth moved, shaping the words she will say to him once her spell is lifted. |
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| But he admitted they were words that could not be repeated in a family newspaper. |
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| It contains many words that are similar to those in other Bantu languages such as Bemba, Chichewa, and Luyana. |
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| In modern English all the disyllabic and trisyllabic words have only recessive stress, e.g. colour, marriage. |
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| He cried, his mouth barely able to shape the words to her name, much less find the words that he needed to bring her away from the edge. |
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| I waited eagerly for words of wisdom from a man at the very pinnacle of his career, I thought he'd be sure to know what to put right. |
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| The spread of mobile telephones and even the use of secret words or codes show that secrecy is essential to close deals or pass on information. |
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| No words can be more forthright or more remindful of the basic aims of humanistic inquiry than these. |
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| Learning words is not learning language, but it is a necessary step, possibly a first step. |
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| The phonological similarity between Ulster and Lowland Scots is reinforced by vocabulary, although many traditional words are in decline. |
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| You know how to pronounce numerous Yiddish words and use them correctly in context. |
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| And if you have any words of wisdom, or advice about how to make the coming ordeal any less painful, feel free to let me know. |
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| Subjects were instructed that they should remember as many words as possible for purposes of subsequent recall. |
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| She whispered the words she had been taught so long ago and felt the heat increase, filling her body with a warm glow. |
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| She was pretty sure that she was the one who gave him the words of wisdom that kept him going. |
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| He thought you might have some pertinent words of wisdom that you could impart upon me to help me deal with my troubles. |
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| She still has powerful words of wisdom about the need to find peaceful means to resolve conflict. |
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| David agreed to be interviewed by Ron and was delighted to listen to the wise words of someone with so much experience in the game. |
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| Total words for a specific item were determined by counting each word in the problem statement and all answer choices. |
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| Remembering the Legendary Master's words after David had fallen, Viridian cannot stop the smile from touching her lips. |
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| By his own admission, the self-congratulatory title is actually a play on words based on the legendary Studio One in Kingston. |
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| One of them, named Song, was deeply touched by the words that described his miserable life counter to his warm heart, bringing tears to her eyes. |
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| Different terms and words have different affectivity depending on the market. |
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| Then there is Maltese, a form of Arabic with some words taken from Italian. |
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| The hallmark of agglutinative languages is multisyllabic words composed of linear sequences of morphemes. |
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| Her words had touched something deep within him, something bizarre and strange that frightened him. |
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| Teach your teachers and leaders to pray before class starts, asking God to guide their words and touch the hearts of their students. |
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| As you can see, all those people will go on to have happy, successful lives if they just follow my words of wisdom and sagacity. |
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| Kim took all of what Levi had said in slowly, the words touching her heart. |
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| I was one of two writers invited by the commission on culture and sport to help an ad hoc committee put into words a new code of practice. |
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| Chatty, charming and a highly entertaining gossip off the record, she picks her words carefully when the tape recorder is switched on. |
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| As I always do when I travel, I kept a record of what we saw and did, but putting Iceland into words is not easy. |
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| His voice was low-pitched, but the wind carried his words back to the patio. |
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| The beauty lies not only in the paper and strokes, it is also in the meaning of the words written. |
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| He ran his fingers across it wondering what it was supposed to mean, but at the touch of his hand words suddenly appeared. |
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| She stroked the surface of the shell, crooning nonsense words to the tiny baby inside, encouraging it to come into the world. |
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| I waited for her to embrace me, but there were no hugs, no gentle strokes, no soothing words of love. |
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| British ambassador to Ireland Stewart Eldon is not averse to speaking a few words of Irish. |
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| The experimenters pronounced the affixes and bases in the blending part and the complex words in the segmentation part. |
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| Those two million words were lapped up by the young and restless, the old and tired, and the middle-aged and lagging. |
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| I'm not sure that most of these words and expressions are weasel words, though. |
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| The parakeet flew up and landed on her shoulder with another peep, his little sounds were words that Nichol alone understood. |
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| Finally his words were drowned out by the crowd, and they whistled, yelled, whooped, hollered and applauded in a frenzy. |
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| The power of the written word is certainly mighty, even when the words are wholly inaccurate. |
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| What will not work is to try to resolve the matter by using weasel words and sophistry to escape from a moral obligation. |
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| The public interest, for whose benefit it was enacted, would not be served by construing the words in a narrow or technical way. |
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| Do the words have a unitary value which is extended in different ways in different contexts? |
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| The disclaimer that all auditors use contains so many weasel words that you really have to ask what the value of their function is. |
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| The nun's words were punctuated silently by her sisters' nods of affirmation. |
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| The emphasis is on learning simple words and expressions while building vocabulary rather than grammar. |
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| See what you miss when you don't actually listen closely to the words of songs, folks? |
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| When I do a public reading I often swap words around from how they appear on the page. |
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| Final ow with its non-standard value in low occurs in nearly four times as many words as the standard value in how. |
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| Song thus contains both words and music, but speech performance is also more than just a neutral deliverance of verbal semantics. |
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| Today Continental European languages are borrowing words from American English. |
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| Like so many of the other selections, this unfamiliar arrangement allows us to hear the timeless words and their meaning afresh. |
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| His words that morning had placed him in her mind, and she prayed for his safety as the wall began to crumble. |
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| He waved the Mistletoe three time widdershins around his head, said the sacred words and did the dance that only Witches and Druids know. |
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| I am in awe of the atemporal feel that her essays have, and I find her words strangely comforting. |
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| Freebie junketeers sometimes scribble down words of praise and pass them to publicists right there at the junket. |
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| Thus while the words had a race element within them, this did not fall strictly within the statutory definition of racial aggravation. |
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| Mally's violet eyes widened and she opened her mouth, trying to speak, but no words came out. |
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| Sometimes she added her own witty mime to the words or pulled a funny face to make us laugh, and we did laugh. |
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| It devotes nearly a chapter to Walsh and his crusade, and Lance chips in a few choice words about the man too. |
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| And he has a few choice words for the endless number of academies and centres of excellence. |
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| He now seems more than ever convinced of his own rectitude, more certain that his words and actions are necessarily benevolent. |
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| Japanese words are composed of many syllables, and endings are attached to change tense, form a negative, or otherwise modify meaning. |
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| She has a good ear for dialogue and represents the sound of Filipino speech well with a judicious use of phrases and words in Tagalog and Spanish. |
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| New futures are easier to talk about than achieve but, driving back to my home in Swellendam, I remember the words of another Khoi song I read in the museum. |
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| Carmel always brought intelligence and a sense of reality to her contributions at local authority level, weighing her words with care and consideration. |
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| She stared intently at Jude, weighing his words in her mind. |
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| Federico whips around and delivers a few choice words in Spanish. |
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| His words prove prophetic, as the kid are left disappointed. |
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| I put my ear to the door, expecting some foreign language from another planet, but to my surprise, my brain translated the words to me even though I had never heard them. |
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| Those are fighting words in a nearly half-Latino city where Tex-Mex restaurants outnumber all others. |
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| On sensitive subjects my words have to be weighed carefully. |
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| Cruz, who certainly considers himself Hispanic, had fighting words in response. |
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| There is something quiet and assured about her, and when she talks it seems as if she is carefully weighing each of her words before letting them go. |
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| Now Hunter wanted to confer an honorary doctorate on me, and I needed to find the words to properly convey how honored I felt. |
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| If prioritizing guns over dead kids makes you angry, stand up and drown his words out with action. |
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| I've said before that actions speak louder than words and I'm prepared for people to come back next year and ask me exactly what the department has achieved. |
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| The words were like poison, sinking beneath my skin and tainting me. |
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| A wise man should learn good behaviour, good words and good acts from every side, as a gleaner collects grains of corn from the field abandoned by the reapers. |
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| You can imagine the way I felt and a few choice words were said. |
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| A shadow crossed her face at his words and Dmitri became serious again. |
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| The attitude criticized in the words by the author quoted above also explains the importance of pigs, yams and taro for men and that of tapa and mats for women. |
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| From the early 10th cent. there was considerable Norse settlement, from Ireland and the Isle of Man, leaving evidence in words like fell, ghyll, tarn, and how. |
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| I had no words of wisdom to dispel his gloom, no comfort to offer him. |
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| I realized, a bit too late, that certain words I had always known were now loaded, and therefore off limits. |
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| I've reduced this heavy string of words to its acronym because it has a pleasing Latin sound and neatly wraps the whole shebang in one small package. |
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| The process of accumulating sounds of words and elements of sexual passion as if they were notes of a recurring tune informs the sequential movement of the whole poem. |
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| We hear about pre-Christian religion, pagan beliefs, shamanistic rituals and healing drums, and the story is narrated in ambiguous and multivocal words and concepts. |
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| But the rush to replace words with images may be preparing us for servitude. |
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| These words revived her moribund career, underscoring the truth that politics is mostly about locution, locution, locution. |
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| Under section 4 of the Defamation Act 1952 the defendant can establish a valid defence if he proves that he published the words innocently and has made an offer of amends. |
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| But this was the year when criticism of said women finally got the harsh words it deserved. |
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| Along the flat of the sword more patterns and words were inscribed. |
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| Those are the first words that slip out of my mouth when I greet Andrew Garfield at a hotel suite in Downtown Toronto. |
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| An obvious annoyance is the way English is seeping into Japanese, often taking the place of perfectly good native words as users try to be fashionable. |
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| The only words in the book spelt with an aitch are his name Haigh, and the town Huddersfield, which of course are pronounced Aigh and Uddersfleld. |
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| These are indeed the all too familiar weasel words of appeasement. |
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| All I heard were some anonymous weasel words written by a bunch of corporate hacks who realize they can no longer defend or obscure one of their more egregious lies. |
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| His dialogue is positively literary in the creativeness with which he invents new ways to use and morph curse words into insults. |
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| On this there can be no room for equivocation, weasel words or fudge. |
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| You just have to find that yin of decency and locate the gestures and words that smother the yang of fear. |
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| So weasel words about tolerance and maturity count for nothing. |
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| Those weasel words betrayed the First Minister's true agenda. |
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| Certain letters and words may look as though they are bunched together. |
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| She took a deep breath, weighing her words carefully before she spoke. |
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| Asked to describe the novel in 70 words or less, he failed woefully, speaking for several minutes before being informed that he had exceeded his word limit. |
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| His words touched Callie, who didn't miss the tremor in his voice. |
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| Obviously, a federal judge so inclined could very easily find that the offensive name constitutes fighting words or slander. |
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| His weasel words of peaceful intent would be pronounced worthless and he would be condemned as having had secret designs on the destruction of the country all along. |
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| And anyone reading the weasel words of doubt that are insinuated throughout this text can only have profound concern about the basis for which the country is to go to war. |
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| Conversely, in some cultures, when a person dies, his or her name and similar sounding words may be tabooed, so new words have to be coined or borrowed. |
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| The numbers which accompany the letters in your code represent the actual amount of allowance you have, in other words tax free income, before you have to pay tax. |
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| He built a structure out of words on the graph paper just as he would a mini-house with his toys. |
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| Jesus' words touched her heart and set her on the way of transformation. |
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| His words touched my heart, as though he were speaking to me personally. |
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| Her words touched my heart and the whole world seemed to crush me then. |
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| Insofar as each one of the three words underlined above has more than one meaning, the sentence is an amphibology, and one difficult to translate literally. |
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| Her words were warmly received by the Speaker of the Knesset, a politician from Shas, the sephardic ultra-Orthodox party. |
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| Small digital prints with religious images, words and textual extracts rendered in lush textures and rich hues address a broad range of clearly spelt out themes. |
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| I would strongly recommend readers not to take his words too seriously! |
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| The words that are recognizable are not strung together in a coherent way. |
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| I have frequently heard that disputes as to the right pronunciation of words have been settled by reference to the manner in which they have been spoken on the wireless. |
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| His voice was a whisper, the words forced out in one breath. |
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| He now feels angry beyond words at ConAgra, misused, betrayed. |
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| Words peel off from the text and whirl round the reader, who can also hit the words so that they bounce back to the walls, sometimes taking up different positions from before. |
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| In other words they have managed to engineer a win-win situation for themselves, at the expense of their bitter rivals to the north of the island. |
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| The article discusses the use of Yiddish words in judicial opinions. |
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| Those words were rather extreme, sadly uneducated and overly zealous. |
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| In describing warblers, as I do so lovingly, one can draw upon words like avifauna, avians, birds, songbirds, beautiful birds, and, of course, warblers. |
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| It's a film with a few biblical themes in it, either from the quick glances of Jesus, Joseph and Mary, or from the words that Ben-Hur repeats to Arrius or other figures. |
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| Though the burial rites she provides for her mother are unconventional, there is finally an important silence, and then the living praise God in the words of the Kaddish. |
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| Write a poem using key words in the story and read it out to others. |
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| He was speaking in a curious accent and so fast that the words were winging over my head like a flock of supersonic pheasants above a drunken shooter. |
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| The series of 15-minute films, in which the actors' words in Hebrew and Aramaic are muted under a voiceover narration in English, were designed for educational purposes. |
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| In the interview, Ponomarev reserved some of his harshest words for Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of The Nation. |
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| In the days ahead we shall make clear, in words and in actions, our commitment to ensuring that intercommunity relations in our city do not become another victim of this war. |
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| Later on, after the invading French army has been repelled, Lear and Cordelia have been taken captive and Edmund gives these chilling words to his captain. |
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| In a lyrically crafted homily, he displayed his mastery of words to criticize the world's major nations for presiding over the destruction of the environment. |
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| When it is said that this bay colt, recently bought by the businessman Michael Tabor, is the apple of his trainer's eye, the words are much more than the usual conjecture. |
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| I listen to Elaine Paige on Radio 2, I watch the pink-haired squawker from Fame Academy slaughter songs on BBC1's The Sound of Musicals, I know all the words to Annie. |
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| I stopped my words there, realizing the error in my judgment. |
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| We took the government to task for its weasel words and false promises. |
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| This rebuke flew in the face of Hamilton's express words in his Report. |
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| Though reportage, Hamlet's words are hard upon the action's heels. |
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| Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun. |
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| Your gamecard has six shopping lists each containing goods or words from the Heart of England Co-op. |
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| Send him a belfie with the words 'kiss' and 'my' on each cheek, and good riddance to him. |
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| Other barriers that contribute to miscommunication would be the type of words chosen in conversation. |
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| I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. |
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| A hypothetical history of how words become part of the colloquial lexicon. |
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| Some words used in the Geordie dialect are used elsewhere in the Northern United Kingdom. |
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| Thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. |
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| And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away. |
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| Jon and Tyrion greet each other with the words that have been used against them as weapons, sharing a knowing smile. |
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| An acrostic of seven key words introduces readers to aspects of Inuit culture, language and traditions. |
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| I was tempted to make a midclass bathroom trip, but Logan's words cautioning me to stay in public places echoed in my ears. |
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| Romance languages have both indefinite and definite articles, but none of the above words form the basis for either of these. |
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| In modern times the words Scot and Scottish are applied mainly to inhabitants of Scotland. |
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| The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup. |
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