This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

I think it is rather foolhardy to trust to luck ''.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

However, I confess my hope that I will be innocent again, not with a pristine, accidental innocence, but rather with an innocence achieved by the slow cutting away of the flesh to reach the bone.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

`` There was nothing else I could do '', the maid answered, satisfied with a rather vague explanation.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

Why did I choose to fill these pages in this particular issue with this mixture of rather tenuous reflections and autobiography??

I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.

`` I think that all Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President Eisenhower by Richard J. Hughes.

`` I don't know much about them '', Owen admitted, `` but I suppose they have their own religion and they probably resent outsiders coming in and telling them what to do and what not to do ''.

Many believed that Aldington's suffering in the bloodbath of Europe during World War I caused him to resent Lawrence's reputation, gained in the Middle Eastern arena.

" Wise Diomedes said, " Such a one is at hand ; he is not far to seek, if you will listen to me and not resent my speaking though I am younger than any of you ...

Mrs. Corney pretends to resent his attentions (" I Shall Scream!

Lydon said in response, " I really resent the presumption that I'm going there to play to right-wing Nazi jews.

So I can't resent him really.

( Time, 23 March 1987, " Farewell Dark Prince ") However, he has been quoted saying that ; " I really resent being depicted as some sort of dark mystic or some demonic power .... All I can do is sit down and talk to someone ...." ( The New York Times, 4 December 1977, Jackson Aide Stirs Criticism in Arms Debate, Richard L. Madden )

Wynette wrote to Clinton saying, " With all that is in me, I resent your caustic remark.

I don ’ t resent being a female painter.

He argued that " the people of this riding resent, and I personally resent mightily, the attitude of certain southerners that they know what's best for our riding.

In his 1983 introduction to Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising, Israel Regardie writes, " Once I was even so presumptuous as to warn ( Wilson ) in a letter that his humor was much too good to waste on hoi polloi who generally speaking would not understand it and might even resent it.

John Mills, Jack Mills ' son, was unforgiving: " I deeply resent those, including Biggs, who have made money from my father's death.

She just doesn't do it and I resent that.

He told Roy Kinnear: " I don't just envy the confidence that other comics seem to have, I resent it.

All of us deeply resent seeing a song that was uniquely our own used as a singing commercial for the soft-boiled type of post-Wagner Act industrial unionism that uses million-dollar slush funds to persuade their congressional office boys to do chores for them .” He added, “ I contend also that when the labor movement ceases to be a Cause and becomes a business, the end product can hardly be called progress .”

James likes the dog but Mikey doesn't because it looks like a " hot dog with ears " and the dog replies " I resent that!

I began to resent that, even though I basically felt the same way, because I still thought they weren't going about it in the right way.

`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.

Where I go, she goes -- and the kids with us.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

`` And I so want the part '', she said.

As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.

Seeming much relieved, she smiled one of those worth-waiting-for smiles, and I smiled all the way into the bedroom.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.

Why she married him I do not know.

I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.