Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Like almost everybody else, he confused the heart, both as organ and as symbol, with the disturbed psyche, the deranged glands, and the jumpy central nervous system.

Like its predecessor, Modern Times employed sound effects but almost no speaking.

Like the term " tyrant " ( which was originally a respectable Ancient Greek title ), and to a lesser degree " autocrat ", " dictator " came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive, even abusive rule, yet had rare modern titular uses.

Like the LG cloches, they were almost completely covered by concrete.

Like the Kurzweil Reading Machine of almost 30 years before, the K-NFB Reader is designed to aid blind people by reading written text aloud.

Like Vulcans, Romulans are almost always depicted as having dark or black hair, though brown-haired examples have also been seen in various media.

Like horses and other ungulates, zebra can turn their ears in almost any direction.

Like almost any herbivore, they will consume many other plants if presented with them, but their diet in nature consists almost entirely of grass, with only minimal consumption of aquatic plants.

Like almost every other automaker, Dodge sold lightly facelifted revisions of its 1942 design through the 1948 season.

Like almost all sponges, the hexactinellids draw water in through a series of small pores by the whip like beating of a series of hairs or flagella in chambers which in this group line the sponge wall.

" According to Eagleton, " Like almost all diatribes against universalism, Fish's critique of universalism has its own rigid universals: the priority at all times and places of sectoral interests, the permanence of conflict, the a priori status of belief systems, the rhetorical character of truth, the fact that all apparent openness is secretly closure, and the like.

Like the Mediterranean Sea, it has almost no tides due to its nearly complete enclosure from the Pacific Ocean.

Like several other Kent constituencies, Chatham has proven to be a marginal seat, swinging backwards and forwards on the political tide and almost always following the national trend.

Like almost all Coraciiformes the bee-eaters are cavity nesters.

Like almost all other spiders, Argiope are harmless to humans.

Like almost any theist, I reject unguided evolution ; but the contemporary scientific theory of evolution just as such — apart from philosophical or theological add-ons — doesn't say that evolution is unguided.

Like other pure starches, however, arrowroot is almost pure carbohydrate and devoid of protein, thus it does not provide a complete substitute for wheat flour.

Like Young, she has overseen a large number of notable projects during her ( almost -) exclusive time working with Vertigo since April 1993.

Like the random walk, the Wiener process is recurrent in one or two dimensions ( meaning that it returns almost surely to any fixed neighborhood of the origin infinitely often ) whereas it is not recurrent in dimensions three and higher.

Like Blue, the film's cinematography makes heavy use of the title colour: the sky is almost always white, and a scene in Poland is filmed in a white snowscape.

Roger Ebert wrote that " Like almost all my favorite films, The Great Santini is about people more than it's about a story.

Like Woody, Winnie received a redesign that made her look almost exactly like Woody did from 1947 until 1972, with the obvious differences being that she was a female woodpecker and had blue eyes.

Like any clarified butter, ghee is composed almost entirely of fat ; the nutrition facts label found on bottled cow's ghee produced in the USA indicates 8 mg of cholesterol per teaspoon.

`` Like enough we'll all be up on top by sundown ''.

Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.

Like Herbert, they were all in communications: radio, television, magazines, and advertising.

Like Mattie and the mayor up there gripping the microphone and Toonker Burkette back in his office yanking out teeth, like they all knew he would.

Like most primitive, but unlike all previously recognized hominins, it had a grasping or big toe adapted for locomotion in the trees.

Like all traits, there is variability in the intensity of fears of spiders, and those with more intense fears are classified as phobic.

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

Like all subarctic regions, the months from May to July in the summer have no night, only a twilight during the night hours.

Like all actinides, berkelium dissolves in various aqueous inorganic acids, liberating gaseous hydrogen and converting into the berkelium ( III ) state.

Like Pompey he was protected by the river on his left allowing him to position all his cavalry to the right as a counter.

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

Like other members of the genus, all three are aerobes capable of producing endospores.

Like all other horns of antelopes, the core of a bongo's horn is hollow and the outer layer of the horn is made of keratin, the same material that makes up human fingernails, toenails and hair.

Like all Unix shells, it supports filename wildcarding, piping, here documents, command substitution, variables and control structures for condition-testing and iteration .< ref >

Like all international auxiliary languages ( or IALs ), Basic English may be criticised as unavoidably based on personal preferences, and thus, paradoxically, inherently divisive.

Like all other lemurs, cheirogaleids live exclusively on the island of Madagascar.

Like all strepsirrhines they have fine claws at the second toe of the hind legs.

Like all Central American countries, Costa Rica is considered part of a biodiversity hotspot.

Like all state routes outside major cities, they are only two-lane arterials and do not support heavy traffic.

Like Shangdi, Heaven ( tian ) ruled over all the other gods, and it decided who would rule China.

Like all metal cations, Cs < sup >+</ sup > forms complexes with Lewis bases in solution.

Like all stable distributions, the location-scale family to which the Cauchy distribution belongs is closed under linear transformations with real coefficients.

Like all armoured insects, beetles ' exoskeletons comprise numerous plates called sclerites, some fused, some separated by thin sutures.

Like the trumpet and all other modern brass wind instruments, the cornet makes a sound when the player vibrates (" buzzes ") the lips in the mouthpiece, creating a vibrating column of air in the tubing.