They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.

she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.

Perhaps things were even worse then.

but true memory does not count nor add: it holds fast to things that were and they are outside of time.

He did not, however, settle back into acquiescence with things as they were.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

But whereas the postwar American abstractionists seem to Helion to be determined to `` escape '' from the real world, or simply to rebel against it, the ordered abstractions which he and his associates of the 1930's were painting embodied the hope of `` improving '' things.

The discoid shapes of sun and moon were also felt to indicate the shape of celestial things.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

And then there were other things.

The things that happened in police station basements were dirty, grubby, and most often anonymous.

His pictures were roundly denounced as `` the most disgusting things one has ever seen in Vienna ''.

His eyes blinked hard, snapping on and squashing some bad things that were trying to push their way into him.

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

Soon we were deep in a conversation that was interrupted many times by little things like Jennie's holding her breath and pretending to black out, Miranda's dumping the contents of the sugar bowl on the table, and various screeches, thuds, and giggles.

Francesca and Herbert considered themselves violently nonconformist and showed the world they were by filling their Colonial house with contemporary furniture and paintings and other art objects ( expensive, but not necessarily valuable, contemporary things ).

It wasn't his fault that these things were so.

But after all, can anyone imagine a market wherein the reverse of these things were true??

Low seems to have supported Eden at first and then relented because things worked out differently, so there is no fire in his eye.

Had Alexander, who was a strong monarch, lived, things might have worked out differently.

Callimachus tells how Artemis spent her girlhood seeking out the things that she would need to be a huntress, how she obtained her bow and arrows from the isle of Lipara, where Hephaestus and the Cyclops worked.

Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that " in his time ... Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top of the moment — things that were facing us all.

I was always afraid of things that worked the first time.

Afterward, he returned to the co-op, then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland, Archie Brennan.

These two things are related but can be independent, because it is possible to research health and sickness without curing specific patients, and it is possible to cure a patient without knowing how the cure worked.

He worked all his life to change public opinion about his role in the battle, going so far as to beg Grant to " set things right " in his memoir.

" His older brother also taught him to take things apart and before long he was taking " everything in his house apart to see how it worked ".

When it became clear Iverson was staying in Philadelphia, he and Brown worked to patch things up, and the team would reap the benefits in 2000 – 01.

" I got well enough to do what you see in the parade there, but I couldn't do most of Kenny Ortega's knee spins and things like that that we had worked on.

In the next issue, the team worked together on a common case, but each story from there on still featured the members individually on a mission involving part of the case, and then banding together in the end to wrap things up.

When The Company broke up at the end of that tour, Stills moved to the West Coast, where he worked as a studio musician and auditioned unsuccessfully for, among other things, The Monkees.

At university he worked more intensively as a journalist, among other things working for the social democratic party organ Vorwärts (" onwards ").

According to Pasternak's mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, Whenever Leonidovich was provided with literal versions of things which echoed his own thoughts or feelings, it made all the difference and he worked feverishly, turning them into masterpieces.

We worked with someone we had not worked with before after being so successful with Michael and we were used to the way he did things.

In practise, things worked completely differently.

After several months of mulling things over and working with other musicians ( Larry joined Jerry Marotta in the backing band for Garland Jeffreys while Kelly worked with the Beach Boys ), the Hoppen brothers and Kelly decided to continue on in late 1977, bringing in new members R. A. Martin ( vocals, sax, horns, keyboards ) and Connecticut musician Bob Leinbach ( vocals, keyboards, trombone ), who'd played with Larry Hoppen during the Ithaca years and had completed a stint with the group The Fabulous Rhinestones.

After less than a month seeing firsthand how the movie production system worked at Universal, Laemmle decided to return to New York and let Thalberg remain to " keep an eye on things for me.

David Doak commented in 2004, " Looking back, there are things I'd be wary of attempting now, but as none of the people working on the code, graphics, and game design had worked on a game before, there was this joyful naïveté.

The club's members, who shared a passion to find out how things worked and then to master them, were among the first hackers.

The family must have worked feverishly to prepare for emigration to the United States, for this entailed among other things packing their entire household for shipment.

After 5 years Daichi changed jobs and worked for a video production company making karaoke videos among other things, but he later returned to the anime industry and focused on direction.