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 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 every Southerner I can't escape the romantic tradition of brave defeats, forlorn lost causes.

Like association football ( soccer ), it features a promotion and relegation system in every level.

Like every partially ordered set, Open ( X ) forms a small category by adding a single arrow U → V if and only if.

Like most other intravesical bladder treatments, this treatment may require the patient to lie for 20 – 40 minutes, turning over every ten minutes, to allow the chemical to ' soak in ' and give a good coating, before it is passed out with the urine.

Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another, but most contain a similar collection of texts, prayers and psalms, often with appropriate decorations, for Christian devotion.

Like all animal cells, every neuron is surrounded by a plasma membrane, a bilayer of lipid molecules with many types of protein structures embedded in it.

Like other biological macromolecules such as polysaccharides and nucleic acids, proteins are essential parts of organisms and participate in virtually every process within cells.

Like other mainline denominations, the PC ( USA ) has also seen a great deal of demographic aging, with fewer and fewer new members and a steadily declining membership total in every consecutive year since 1967.

Like the Siad Barre regime and every Somali administration before it, the Islamic Courts Union and its successor Islamist groups are also proponents of Greater Somalia.

Like all other local councils in Romania, the Bucharest sectoral councils, the city's General Council and the mayors are elected every four years by the population.

Like many other large mammals, hippos are described as K-strategists, in this case typically producing just one large, well-developed infant every couple of years ( rather than large numbers of small, poorly developed young several times per year as is common among small mammals such as rodents ).

In the early 2000s, a blogger wrote: " Like every other publisher, Baen set up a website.

Like his father before him, Tomar-Tu recently took the position of archivist superior, filing every tale as it comes in.

Like every world-protector, Kubera has seven seers of the North in residence.

Like many of the constituent colleges of Oxford University, Mansfield holds a ball once every three years.

Like every economic activity, it has changed over time.

Like every science, geology is a continuously evolving system of theories, and the terms used to describe various pre-historic formations have fluctuated as more accurate theories have emerged.

Like most girls, Sharon sometimes does get into trouble and messes up like every other teen, but she always learns from her mistakes and sets things right in the end, no matter what the situation.

These birds come to Cuba every year from North America in the north hemisphere winter season. Arctic Terns breed in the arctic and subarctic and winter in Antarctica. Like many birds, seabirds often migrate after the breeding season.

" Like Grace and her mother, Peters was quickly intercepted as he came out of the wheelchair section ( there is one at every crusade, situated at the back of the audience, far away from the stage, and never filmed for Hinn's TV show ) in an attempt to join the line of those waiting to go onstage, and was told to take a seat.

Like every drug, there are several side effects caused by GH, some common, some rare.

Like every public university in Switzerland, ETH is obliged to grant admission to every Swiss citizen who took the Matura.

Like many animated television series, Inspector Gadget contains a few running gags – events that occur in almost every episode.