She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

She was quick.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

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.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

She was bewildered.

She was standing in a thick grove.

She already knew this unwholesome, chilling atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive.

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

She was wearing nothing beneath the coat.

She was standing with her back to the glass door.

She was just not able to break the spell.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

She confessed she was unhappy, he asked was it her husband??

She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.

She steered clear of the controversial Eakins, though she much admired his work.

She pioneered a controversial technique for eliciting intimate details from young children and inspired passage of a law allowing them to testify by closed-circuit television, out of the possibly intimidating presence of their suspected molesters.

She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.

She subsequently appeared in a controversial television commercial for Burger King, in which her character criticized McDonald's and claimed to eat only at Burger King.

She included an analytical section where she applied the new mathematics of calculus to Newton's most controversial theories.

She was one of the most powerful figures in China during Mao's last years and became a controversial figure.

She soon drew attention to herself and was frequently invited by her friend Gérard Pelletier as a panellist on the controversial show Les Idées en Marche, there revealing her left-wing political ideologies.

She has a record of 13-9-4 with 3 knockout wins, although several of her losses have been controversial.

She filmed the most controversial music video in her career, " Pena De Amor Y Muerte ".

She also pulled her " American Life " video because of its controversial military imagery that seemed inappropriate once the War in Iraq began ; subsequently, a new video was made for the song.

She also ceded land and castles to Philip Hurepel, son of Philip II and his controversial wife Agnes of Merania.

She soon followed the role by appearing in Prince's controversial " Cinnamon Girl " music video and with a shoot in Vanity Fair magazine.

She was elected to a full six-year presidential term in the controversial May 2004 Philippine elections, and was sworn in on June 30, 2004.

She later temporarily resigned from the Academy, following the broadcast of a BBC Omnibus television documentary about the preparations for the controversial Sensation exhibition hosted by the Academy in 1997 show-casing the Young British Artists.

She was a controversial choice and a strong backer of the Clinton health care plan, so she was not confirmed until September 7, 1993.

She appeared on Question Time in Grimsby where she was heckled for calling this claim " an error " and also for her refusal to repay £ 72, 000 of her controversial second home allowance.

She is one of the most controversial ministers of the cabinet.

She won her first Emmy for portraying the woman who gently coaxes rigid militarywoman Glenn Close out of the closet in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, with subsequent nominations for her repressed Australian outback mother in The Echo of Thunder ( 1998 ), her portrayal of Lillian Hellman in Dash and Lilly ( 1999 ), her frigid society matron in A Cooler Climate ( 1999 ) and her interpretation of Nancy Reagan in the controversial biopic The Reagans ( 2003 ).

She defeated the defending champion, Serena Williams, in a controversial semifinal 6 – 2, 4 – 6, 7 – 5 which saw Henin failing to acknowledge her raised hand during Williams service motion, a breach in tennis etiquette.

She is also known for her controversial private life, high profile relationships, party lifestyle, and drug use.

She spent four years in this post and was seen as a fairly effective Trade and Industry Secretary despite controversial policies effecting her own constituency.

She accepted the Video of the Year award for " Bad Romance " wearing a controversial dress made from cuts of meat.

She is somewhat controversial, both for her sons ’ political policies and for having developed ( and frequently making use of ) such strong rhetorical abilities, despite being a woman.

She is noted for her racy and controversial style of comedy, which frequently includes subjects such as race and homosexuality.