Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "news" ¶ 1413
from Brown Corpus
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

is and like
The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.
And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.
`` I'd like to know just which it is that those guys don't understand, the liquor or automobiles ''.
The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.
Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.
Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.
For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.
It is therefore not surprising that they resist the lure of marriage and the trap of domesticity, for like cats they are determined not to tame their sexual energy.
Jazz, like sex, is a mystique.
Hieronymus, like Piepsam, makes his protest quite in vain, and his rejection, though not fatal, is ridiculous and humiliating ; ;
He is, like Phillip Marlowe, too alienated to be reliable.
A point like p gets information directly from n, but all information beyond n is indirectly relayed through n.
Furthermore, the network in Figure 3 is only the basic net through which other networks pertaining to logistics and the like are interlaced.
But is that not like going to a chemistry laboratory and blindly pouring out liquids and powders from an array of bottles and then, after stirring, expecting a new wonder drug inevitably to result??
The making of distinctions, like the perception of the great distinctions made, is an inordinately difficult business.
Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.
But I insist upon believing that even when it is lost, it may, like paradise, be regained.
`` What I'd like you to comment on is the criticism leveled at your Committee ''.
I would like to straighten out a misconception about the dress Mrs. Coolidge is wearing in this painting.
Now an abiding difficulty of paragraphs like the foregoing is that they appear to preach ; ;
Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.
Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.
In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

is and handing
The TTL is set by the administrator of the DNS server handing out the authoritative response.
In the theatrical trailer, included in laserdisc and DVD editions, the scene in which Fuller hands over her angora sweater, is a different take than the one in the release version — in the trailer, she tosses it to Wood in a huff, while the release version shows her handing it over more acceptingly.
A ' patsy ' may be initially asked to hand over inconsequential information and once compromised by committing a crime, bribed into handing over material which is more sensitive.
The principle is best exemplified by the story of Johnson handing a team of design engineers a handful of tools, with the challenge that the jet aircraft they were designing must be repairable by an average mechanic in the field under combat conditions with only these tools.
One can physically hand over the object ( e. g. handing over a newspaper bought at the newsstand ) but it is not always necessary for the party to literally grab the object for possession to be considered transferred.
Sometimes it is enough for a symbol of the object which enables factual control to be handed over ( e. g. handing over the keys to a car or a house ).
After the president is elected, he goes through a solemn investiture ceremony called a " passation des pouvoirs " (" handing over of powers ").
The madison is a conventional race but, since the innovation in New York, with riders in each team riding part of the distance, handing over to the other member, resting, and then returning to the race.
Indeed, the etymology of the word traitor originates with Judas ' handing over of Jesus to the Roman authorities: the word is derived from the Latin traditor which means " one who delivers.
But after yet another failed attempt to win her love, Frollo betrays Esmeralda by handing her to the troops and watches while she is being hanged.
It is also well known for its annual tradition of handing out Vaporware Awards which recognize " products, videogames and other nerdy tidbits pitched, promised and hyped, but never delivered ".
Sullivan decides to thank the homeless by handing out $ 5 bills, but one man decides he wants more than his share and ambushes Sullivan when he is alone.
Some authors claim that the argument relating to Seleucus handing over more of what is now southern Afghanistan is an exaggeration originating in a statement by Pliny the Elder referring not specifically to the lands received by Chandragupta, but rather to the various opinions of geographers regarding the definition of the word " India ":
George served as a pre-game analyst for the 2007 BCS Championship Game on FOX, and is well known for handing out OSU hats and apparel to fellow analysts during the Buckeyes ' 41 – 14 loss to the University of Florida.
By rule, it is any act other than passing, kicking or successful handing that results in loss of player possession.
Its grounds feature a statue honoring area veterans of the Civil War and a gazebo, and is the site of " A Day in the Village ," a festival held in mid-June which features attractions like face painting, sand art, a DooDah parade, and various groups handing out free candy and religious tracts.
It is notorious for handing out speeding tickets to students traveling to Ithaca College and Cornell University.
In accordance with Freud, the Pleasure principle may be responsible for procrastination ; humans do not prefer negative emotions, and handing off a stressful task until a further date is enjoyable.
" He is a judge and used to enjoy handing out death sentences to defendants he knew to be innocent.
Gregory of Tours in his Libri Historiarum VII, 33, states that in 585 the Merovingian king Guntram designated his nephew Childebert II his heir by handing him his lance, it is possible that a royal lance was a symbol of kingship among the Merovingian kings and that a nail from Calvary was in the 7th century incorporated into this royal lance and thus eventually would have come into the German imperial regalia.
A typical feature of Swedish elections is the handing out of party ballot papers by activists of the different parties outside polling stations on election day.
He assists the bishop during hierarchical services, ( services at which a hierarch / bishop is present and presiding ) by vesting him, by looking after and presenting the trikiridikiri, placing the orletzi, operating the veil and Royal Doors, and handing the bishop and relieving him of all that he needs so as to enable him to perform his role of prayer undistracted.
The RSL also ensures that those who have served the country are commemorated for their service by providing funeral information to those who have served with the deceased and handing out individual red poppy flowers at the funeral to ensure that the deceased service to their country is acknowledged ( see In Flanders Fields ).

0.120 seconds.