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

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

That she impressed me instantly was obvious ; ;

The obvious natural fact to ancient thinkers was the diurnal rotation of the heavens.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

Mr. Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr. Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

The logic of creating a strong, balanced, competitive two-system railroad service in the East is so obvious that B. & O. was publicly committed to the approach outlined here.

After the first few weeks, it was obvious that rules had to be made, laid down and obeyed -- even if our popularity ratings became subnormal as a result.

The rf power level was maintained small enough at all times to prevent obvious line shape distortions by saturation effects.

First, and most obvious, was the growing nationalism and the tendency to regard the state, and the individual's identification with the state, as transcending other ties of social solidarity.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

It was obvious that to match Brumidi, white must be mixed with all but the darkest tones.

Here I do not speak of military power where our advantage is obvious and overwhelming but of political power -- of influence, if you will -- about which the relevant questions are: Is Soviet influence throughout the world greater or less than it was ten years ago??

This was a broth of a boy, our Felix, and nothing was more obvious than the joy he took in demonstrating how agile he was and how full of juice and spirit.

He flew about the place making these adjustments and it was obvious that what he was doing was the fruit of long experience.

The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.

They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

Someone evidently was on duty there.

there was no doubt he was dying.

The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.

And there was a house ; ;

But there was water.

Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.

Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

But his only hat was something else again.

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.

That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

Yet he did drop his badinage with the ordinary country girl as much in deference to the Grafin as acknowledgement that here, indeed, was something special.

There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;

Karipo was something of a politician as well as a militarist.

He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.

There was something about his face that disturbed me and it took several seconds to realize what.

`` A miracle, a revelation, it was like a curtain suddenly torn away to reveal something nude ''.

Neither the vibrant enthusiasm which bespeaks a people's intuitive sense of the fitness of things at climactic moments nor the vital argumentation betraying its sense that something significant has transpired was in evidence.

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.

There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.