Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

He was tall and dark-skinned, a half-breed, Wilson thought.

It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

Perhaps it was insane, Pamela thought.

It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

Historically, while the conjecture in dimension three seemed plausible, the generalized conjecture was thought to be false.

I did apprehend this in a vague sort of way but since I thought that all religious beliefs were without foundation, I used the word the way I myself thought about it, not as most of the world does, and simply applied it to a grand hypothesis that, however plausible, had little direct experimental support.

In multicellular eukaryotic organisms, sympatric speciation is thought to be an uncommon but plausible process by which genetic divergence ( through reproductive isolation ) of various populations from a single parent species and inhabiting the same geographic region leads to the creation of new species.

Though Simon admitted this hypothesis did not explain every aspect of the experience, he thought it was the most plausible and consistent explanation.

This manuscript was once thought to have formed part of the Book of Uí Maine, but this is no longer considered plausible.

Using empirical data drawn from linguistics and cognitive science to describe mental representation from a philosophical vantage-point, the hypothesis states that thinking takes place in a language of thought ( LOT ): cognition and cognitive processes are only ' remotely plausible ' when expressed as a system of representations that is " tokened " by a linguistic or semantic structure and operated upon by means of a combinatorial syntax.

The only plausible psychological models represent higher cognitive processes as representational and computational thought needs a representational system as an object upon which to compute.

The nature of Rawls ' use of Kant has engendered serious controversy but has demonstrated the vitality of Kantian considerations across a wider range of questions than was once thought plausible.

The proletariat's succession to the throne of universal class provides a plausible candidate, at least within the terms of Marxist thought.

" Both thought experiments are supposed to show us that human consciousness is plausible even though there might be no world in which consciousness exists ," but Rockwell argues " that even in a vat the brain would have to be stimulated by some world, if only a world of electronic gizmos, and that such a world would have to produce a continuous experience.

William then proceeded to blackmail his employers – not realizing that it was dangerous to do such a thing to Alec – and they thought to use the recent burglary scare as a plausible way of getting rid of him.

It is exactly this sort of sloppy, irresponsible, ' plausible ' style of thought that Wittgenstein's philosophy, by its careful attention to the particular and to not saying more or less than is warranted, is directed against.

In 2267, it is thought that the Romulans entered a treaty with the Klingon Empire: in exchange for cloaking technology, the Romulans received D7-class battlecruisers, which were upgraded into extremely deadly war machines.

As the Excalabians were reading Kirk and Spock ’ s thought patterns, Kahless ’ s depiction here was generally assumed by fans to be based solely on Kirk ’ s limited and heavily biased knowledge of Klingon culture.

He later suggested a Klingon marine as a recurring character, and while avoiding Roddenberry's thoughts of a re-tread crew, he thought that the android character could fill in the " Spock " gap in the new crew.

The leader Montgomery envisages will need to discipline himself, lead a carefully regulated and orderly life, allow time for quiet thought and reflection, adapt decisions and plans to changing situations, be ruthless, particularly with inefficiency, and be honest and morally proper.

At first the president of the local church ( bishop ) or the leader of the choir chose a particular psalm as he thought appropriate.

By contrast, Rabbinic Judaism subsequently took the opposite view, espoused by Hillel, the leader of the other major Pharisee school of thought at the time ; in Hillel's view, men were allowed to divorce their wives for any reason.

The Dalai Lama is often thought to be the leader of the Gelug School, but this position belongs officially to the Ganden Tripa, which is a temporary position appointed by the Dalai Lama who, in practice, exerts much influence.

" Thomas Johnson, the Labour leader thought there was, " no sign of sympathy for the rebels, but general admiration for their courage and strategy "

" Writing in Collier's more than 20 years earlier, Dorais ' Notre Dame teammate Knute Rockne acknowledged Cochems as the early leader in the use of the pass, observing, " One would have thought that so effective a play would have been instantly copied and become the vogue.

In nation states the head of state is often thought of as the official " leader " of the nation.

One school of thought, citing entries in the Historia Brittonum ( History of the Britons ) and Annales Cambriae ( Welsh Annals ), sees Arthur as a genuine historical figure, a Romano-British leader who fought against the invading Anglo-Saxons sometime in the late 5th to early 6th century.

She thought she was being asked her legal advice about the type of policy programme party leader Dick Spring was proposing.

** In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot and killed at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolaev ( it is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder ).

Hellequin is the leader of la Mesnée d ' Hellequin, thought to be related to the Old English Herla, a character often identified with Woden.

In politics, a de facto leader of a country or region is one who has assumed authority, regardless of whether by lawful, constitutional, or legitimate means ; very frequently, the term is reserved for those whose power is thought by some faction to be held by unlawful, unconstitutional, or otherwise illegitimate means, often because it had deposed a previous leader or undermined the rule of a current one.

Since hotel records are sparse during some of that time, it is thought that they may have spent considerable time in and around safe houses related to the al-Qaeda leader in Spain, Imad Yarkas.

He thought that Mountbatten, as a Royal and a former Chief of the Defence Staff, would command public support as leader of a non-democratic " emergency " government.

Although founded by several leftist tendencies, it still expresses much of the Trotskyist thought upheld and developed by its current leader, Francisco Louçã.

Virgil Earp thought that some of the Cowboys had met at Charleston, Arizona and taken " an oath over blood drawn from the arm of Johnny Ringo, the leader, that they would kill us.

" Khrushchev also thought that the Chinese were too soft on the Dalai Lama ( Tibet's spiritual leader ) and failed to support them in a border dispute with India, saying that the territory in question was " just a frozen waste where nobody lives.

Hacker ( it must be argued, reasonably ) thought the Church of England to be a Christian institution, but Sir Humphrey informed him that most of the Anglican bishops do not believe in God and that a theologian's job is partly to explain why an agnostic or atheist can be a Church leader.

* David Gilmore, management thought leader and writer

This is an ironical re-reading of the passage which suggests Lady Bracknell agreed with the Marxist Social Democratic Federation and their leader Henry Hyndman who thought the same about the two main British parties then.

Fox thought the coup d ' état of 1799 that brought Napoleon to power " a very bad beginning ... the manner of the thing quite odious ", But he was convinced that the French leader sincerely desired peace in order to consolidate his rule and rebuild his shattered country.

Prior to going to Saviours ' Day, due to then-Minister Malcolm X's popularity in the media, Wolcott had never heard of Elijah Muhammad, and like many outside of the Nation of Islam, Wolcott thought that Malcolm X was the leader of the Nation of Islam.

The Nation was to be balanced between various local nationalities ( he spoke of the " Lorraine nationality " as much as of the " French nationality ") through decentralisation and the call for a leader, giving a Bonapartist aspect to his thought which explained his attraction for the General Boulanger and his opposition to liberal democracy.

As a leader of the Country Life Movement, he strived to preserve the American rural civilization, which he thought was a vital and wholesome alternative to the impersonal and corrupting city life.