He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.

Professionally a lawyer, that is to say associated with dignity, reserve, discipline, with much that is essentially middle-class, he is compelled by an impossible love to exhibit himself dressed up, disguised -- that is, paradoxically, revealed -- as a child, and, worse, as a whore masquerading as a child.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

On the eve of Solek's bar mitzvah, Kristallnacht occurs, and his sister is killed by Nazis.

Solek's pretense is nearly exposed when the Gestapo investigates " Jupp "' s supposed parentage.

Solek's relief is tempered by Gerd's death in the bombing.

This agreement causes consternation among the Bene Gesserit, but Odrade realizes that Taraza's plan is to destroy Rakis.

In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age.

A sub-plot concerns Claudio's friend Lucio, who frequently slanders the duke to the friar, and in the last act slanders the friar to the duke, providing opportunities for comic consternation on Vincentio's part and landing Lucio in trouble when it is revealed that the duke and the friar are one and the same.

The bluebells combine and cause a " consternation " but the hero is the holly, tinted with green.

The discrepancy in CAP funding is a cause of some consternation in the UK.

The younger of Dr Stanhope's two daughters causes consternation in the Palace and threatens the plans of Mr Slope: Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni is a crippled serial flirt with a young daughter and a mysterious Italian husband whom she has left.

Squire Western immediately jumps to the conclusion that Tom is the father of the bastard, much to Sophia's consternation.

His main defence, that it was in the public interest that this information be made available, was rejected on the grounds that " the public interest is what the government of the day says it is ", but the jury nevertheless acquitted him, much to the consternation of the Government.

It is known that Æthelberht married twice as Eadbald married his step-mother after his father's death, to the consternation of the church.

In 793 a Viking raid on Christian monastery at Lindisfarne in north-east England caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the age of Viking raids.

Thayer's treatment of sex and sexual politics is more explicit than typical English translations of the original, occasionally leading to consternation when this book found its way to library children's sections and school libraries.

: It is impossible for me to give you an idea of the surprise and consternation experienced by all on the receipt of the order to sail.

There is much consternation among the citizens of California regarding Davis's handling of the crisis ; see that article for more.

This is the source of some consternation to local residents, many of whom believe that the town's nightlife brings with it an unsavoury reputation as well as disruption and anti-social behaviour.

It features Jethri Gobelyn, a young Terran trader who is adopted by a Liaden Master Trader to the consternation of virtually everyone.

While most include the traditional name in some form ( e. g. Discover Orange Bowl, The Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio ), there have been bowl games that have totally eliminated their traditional name in favor of solely using a corporate sponsor's name in an effort to dissuade fans from using a generic name ( for instance, the former Citrus Bowl is now known as the Capital One Bowl and the former Peach Bowl is known as the Chick-Fil-A Bowl ), a move that generally is treated with consternation from fans.

These plans caused considerable consternation, because the village is already something of a dormitory and a survey of villagers at the time rejected these proposals overwhelmingly.

It has come to my attention that some in the community do not understand why Pan Asian is producing a play with the controversial title CHING CHONG CHINAMAN and how much emotional upset and consternation it is creating.

Age disparity in relationships: In a four-part episode during the third season entitled " The Older Man ," Julie is dating a man more than twice her age, much to Ann's consternation.

To Shelly's consternation, during the flight he notices they are flying over the Atlantic Ocean ( Scranton is inland ).

Part of it is, of course.

The answer is, of course, yes.

What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.

Of course, there must be clarity: a single distinct impression is more valuable than many fuzzy ones.

Such a response, of course, misses the point that in crisis order is going out of existence.

That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.

In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;

What is the probable course of future developments??

I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.

Whether or not Danchin is correct in suggesting that Thompson's resumption of the opium habit also dates from this period is, of course, a matter of conjecture.

This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.

There is, of course, the doctrine of original sin, which asserts that each of us as individuals partakes of the guilt of our first ancestor.

Each will decide on his own course somewhere between these two extreme cases according to the sense of responsibility which is determined for him by the particular circumstances of his own life.

True reality, of course, is the ideal, and the poet knows nothing of this ; ;

One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

And this, of course, is exactly what Madison Avenue has been accused of doing albeit in a primitive way, with its `` hidden persuaders '' and what the space merchants accomplish with much greater sophistication and precision.

Of course it is.

Now Richards, of course, is known as a deep thinker as baseball managers go.

`` I try to treat Daniel as if he were normal, though of course I realize he is far from that at present.