People mattered, and especially that one extra special person on which his world hinged. |
|
Big Seamus and his charges pulled out all the stops when it really mattered, and they will worthily grace the 2004 senior championship. |
|
As a young materialist it mattered to me that we too have our ancient texts, our saints and sages, wise men and good news. |
|
Still, even for the rich, chair backs were straight and clothes were tight because politeness mattered more than comfort. |
|
O'Neal had been fouled hard, but that hardly mattered after he was tossed and Portland center Arvydas Sabonis went on a tear to seal the victory. |
|
For so long tennis was a sport that only mattered for a couple of weeks every year. |
|
Out of all the fights, all the scuffles and tussles, this was the only one that mattered. |
|
One thing after another crowded in upon me, demanding attention and pushing further down the list the things that really mattered. |
|
My habits don't make a lot of sense, but it has never much mattered because they weren't being shared with another person. |
|
I don't think it mattered to him and I suspect it didn't matter to most of the audience. |
|
That the let's-put-on-a-show plot was age-old mattered not among lively performances, inventive comedy and barnstorming dance routines. |
|
He was funny, self-deprecating, human and, when it mattered, sincere and passionate. |
|
With this owner, time mattered, but the regular checks were methodic and orderly. |
|
In Vancouver, it has never mattered much which song you sang, so long as you belted it out loud. |
|
Tyrone came racing out of the traps like well-trained greyhounds hungry for the only prize that mattered. |
|
One manifestation was that people got shorter, but it was not the population's shortness that mattered. |
|
I had always been a fan of the M1911 pistol, but after Cooper's training, the 1911.45 was the only sidearm that mattered to me. |
|
But if it had been tedious and unappealing then that will not have mattered one jot to City, more a glowing endorsement of a job well done. |
|
All was talk except for what mattered most, which were unspoken understandings. |
|
Many toxicological studies have been based on the unwritten and unquestioned assumption that all that mattered was the elemental concentration. |
|
|
All that mattered to them was my unstylish hair and my old-fashioned dresses and skirts. |
|
In this case I wouldn't say age really mattered because he's a sound guy and you can't help liking him. |
|
It wasn't surprising then, that the opinion of people mattered a lot when it came to selection of video jockeys to host particular shows. |
|
But for nearly all the cases we considered, it wouldn't have mattered if we were all hooded hangmen. |
|
But in the end, the only bell that mattered was the noontime carillon that brought workers in for their one hearty meal at home. |
|
If all that mattered from a contrarian standpoint was the bullish reading, that would be a huge heads-up signal to buy with both hands. |
|
It felt as if I could run forever and nothing mattered except the heavy sky above me. |
|
But it mattered not, because wherever the heck we were, the place contained a charity shop! |
|
This is the film that has mattered most to him since he wrote and directed The Apostle, yet there is nothing here that rises above the ordinary. |
|
For Lefschetz, independent thinking and originality were what mattered in mathematical research. |
|
And so the only colours that mattered to those taking their seats at Elland Road yesterday were white and red, the teams' strips. |
|
Facing four switch-hitters in a row, it wouldn't have mattered much, as he worked through the tenth allowing only a Sierra single. |
|
The comparatively lower salaries mattered less because doctors enjoyed autonomy and esteem. |
|
It wouldn't really have mattered if there hadn't been the odd pillock dancing against the flow. |
|
What mattered about 1066 was that it brought both Norman kingship and French feudalism into England. |
|
The board was unwilling to take on the powerful teacher union in many instances when it most mattered. |
|
The traffic snarls and congested roads near schools hardly mattered for motorists, as they welcomed them with warm smiles and long grins. |
|
The port and claret were laid down in happier times, when cash was flush and planning for the future mattered. |
|
That mattered in 1976, when Georgian Jimmy Carter beat Arizona Congressman Morris Udall and went on to win. |
|
In fact, they mattered more than her wretchedness, even more than my loved, lost and delinquent father who had put us in this situation. |
|
|
What mattered was what was inscribed upon the golden rim of the inside of the crown. |
|
Some were looking for work that mattered, but as the Gold Rush escalated into Gold Fever, more and more were looking for their big score. |
|
Only the state of the sanity of the defendant's mind mattered, and that was the purview of men with education and experience. |
|
He decided to drop the subject of Rocky, seeing as how it barely mattered to either of them whether he had a job or not. |
|
Des Murphy's goal in the eleventh minute was the score that mattered in the end. |
|
I felt his arms encircle my waist, and suddenly, we were five years old again, nothing mattered except our childish games, there was no war. |
|
And Rousseau's thought certainly led to divergent opinions as to what really mattered. |
|
All that mattered was that they were okay and that everything was going to be okay. |
|
The Dutchwoman rode an aggressive race and made the right moves when it mattered. |
|
Even if espionage had taken place at Los Alamos, they argued, it had not mattered. |
|
Kerry's convictions, whatever they may have been, mattered far less than his ability to beat Bush. |
|
I was getting ready for that important meeting that was weighing on my mind but it no longer mattered. |
|
He lifted her up carefully, realizing that he had picked her up so many times that it hardly even mattered to either him or her anymore. |
|
Wexford got two goal chances and put them away and at the end they were the scores that mattered. |
|
Both were incapable of disengaging from political wheeling and dealing when it mattered. |
|
That might not have mattered, except that they kept me waiting for about 20 minutes. |
|
It was clear to me that I would soon lose touch with reality unless I did something that mattered. |
|
When it mattered, when it counted, you were there, and that's what should count. |
|
The British Empire was the world power that mattered in most of Asia, in Africa, and on the high seas. |
|
But it never seemed to matter too much, because the films were so undeniably zany and the fraternal team was so outrageously screwy that none of that other stuff mattered. |
|
|
And none of that really mattered anyway, because he was just forgettable at debates and on the stump. |
|
He was roundly defeated not only where the Treasury could exert its influence, but also in the larger, more open constituencies where public opinion mattered. |
|
Except in cases with the highest body count, or the most grotesque cruelty, white victims were the only ones that mattered. |
|
The woman listened attentively, as if nothing else mattered at the moment. |
|
This is the way public meetings used to be when oratory mattered and they're surely not just there because they like the idea of not having to pay tuition fees. |
|
Instead he brushed a bit of dust off his dirty sleeve, as if this tiny bit of dust really mattered, compared to all the soot and blood staining his clothing. |
|
He created an atmosphere in which research was the only thing that mattered, so that his research group was outstanding in size, productivity, and endurability. |
|
It hardly mattered if they had participated in the Boxer uprising. |
|
What mattered to Essex girls was the kind of vehicle you drove. |
|
If this is what he did to a paragraph in a forgettable speech, what pray tell did he do to something that really mattered? |
|
For many, Nirvana was the last big band that mattered, a highly critical and credible force in an industry that thrives more and more on homogeny. |
|
Over the years as bandwidth got cheaper, extra features were piled on until it no longer mattered how small a file was, it only mattered that it could be viewed correctly. |
|
Douglas had one more special save to make as Spencer refused to capitulate, bustling his way into the box but it would not really have mattered as time ran out. |
|
So yeah, I had to work out but, you know, it's such a ridiculous character, the guy's so silly that I don't think it would have mattered if he'd got a pot belly. |
|
But when it really mattered, and with an air of anticipation filling the ground, Benn calmly slotted the ball straight between the sticks from the left touchline. |
|
In all the years that Sam has known Julien, which were many by the way, she knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the only thing that mattered to him was his video games. |
|
But at home, where it mattered most, the ANC was a genuine, multiracial movement for democracy. |
|
In an effort to gain early attention, he focused his attention on the Iowa precinct caucuses, which had never mattered much. |
|
So Graham, Scott, and Sanford could have found a way to make it to Charleston if it really mattered to them. |
|
It was a just a simple watch of course, intended for the wrist of a young child, but it had a quartz crystal and it kept good time and that was what mattered most. |
|
|
The book combines historical analysis of documents with literary reading of censored texts and exposes the kinds of tensions that really mattered in Jacobean culture. |
|
Television in general might not have mattered in what happened that night, but one in particular brought the case to a close. |
|
Cameroon had Roger Milla, who was an old man and ran only when it mattered. |
|
The image of Atta joylessly spooning cold mashed potato into his mouth, taken with everything else we know, strongly suggested a man for whom this world mattered little. |
|
He was just over a minute behind the stage winner, who slipped a baby's dummy into his mouth as a tribute to his wife and daughter, but that mattered little. |
|
The shovel's blade carved a little trail in the snow and he tried to step only in that trail, not sure why it mattered but anxious not to stray outside the parallel lines. |
|
I travelled widely and my photos appeared everywhere, as if it mattered. |
|
His conscious mind rebelled against this notion, but it mattered not. |
|
The sleeves would ride up your arms when you swung, the shoulders were too tight, and we wound up taking the blasted things off when we had a shot that really mattered. |
|
They all appeared to be relatively new bands that suffered from a lack of tightness at times, but for the crowd, Pinoy pride mattered more than perfect performance. |
|
To a young artist in the 1980s, the SoHo galleries that mattered seemed an unreachable territory, a no-go land. |
|
The rural setting mattered, I think, for my father in each case because it limned that transition more evocatively than might have been otherwise possible. |
|
Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time. |
|
Maybe there was a time when you could make films that mattered, but now? |
|
Due to the sum of these differences, many simply paid tribute to avoid trouble, and it mattered little to whom the tribute was paid. |
|
I can only assume that they, too, were in a band that once mattered. |
|
The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him. |
|
It wouldn't have mattered if their names were Schnitzel, Perogi or Parmigiana. |
|
Whether they owned the original or merely possessed a Wedgwood copy mattered little to Wedgwood's customers. |
|
George Jessel... is still shooting his mouth off as though nothing mattered except his own gift for wise-cracks. |
|
|
Even if more symbolic than actual, the benefits of the alliance mattered greatly to Scotland. |
|
It was a very disappointing round for Giri, who won six straight games in the tournament, but failed to soak the pressure of a high-profile tournament when it mattered most. |
|
Such rule led some thinkers to take the position that what mattered was not the design of governmental institutions and operations, as much as the character of the rulers. |
|
When physical capital mattered most, savings and investments were key. |
|
Allegations of 'incompetence' flew easily in the circles that mattered. |
|
The German team liked each other, ate, drank, sightsaw, sunbathed and worked their horses together. All were firmly rooting for Ludwig. A German victory was all that mattered. |
|
Ideas and programs may have mattered more than the rigidities of class. |
|
It mattered not as Bath dominated possession and territory in the first quarter, and deservedly took the lead on 15 minutes with an Olly Barkley penalty. |
|