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really and would
But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.
Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.
I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??
If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.
Gouge, burn, blast, insult it as they would, could anyone really take Papa-san??
Now Eileen really would have to settle down to love honor and obey, and she'd have to quit drinking.
He was not sure what effect it would have, but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it.
I really loved that boy, and, in a feverish attempt to preserve our marriage and to try to revive the wonderful, wonderful person Letch had once been, I took my troubles to Momma, hoping that her earthy advice would help me.
) Starting from this, and accepting his estimate of the iniquities of modern society, it would follow that the really disturbing evidence of alienation would be that of a work-satisfaction survey which reported widespread, stated worker satisfaction, rather than widespread, stated worker dissatisfaction.
An interested sitter may think the sensitive has made a `` hit '', describing something accurately for him, but can he really be sure that another sitter, hearing the same statement, would not apply it subjectively to his own circumstances??
Conversely, experimenters would consider as impressive such statements as the following, which, if they turned out to be hits, are so unusual as to be really significant:
But still Mel Chandler was not completely convinced that men would really die for a four-syllable word, `` Garryowen ''.
It would doubtless be greatly surprised to be told that in failing to be ecumenical it is really failing to be the Church of Christ.
She'd be smart about it, get him to give it to her in little bills so's nobody would suspect -- maybe couldn't get it until Monday account of that, the banks -- But that wasn't really long to wait.
There was, of course, no hope it really would be that simple.
He would say, of course, that he had not really had any such wish ; ;
Should these giants really flex their competitive muscles, they would become the only survivors in the industry.
Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.
Or you could wish your daddy would really do it -- kill Gratt Shafer like he said when you all the time, all along, could feel the nerve draining out of him like air out of a punctured tire when you are on a muddy road alone and it is raining and at night.
Of course, it wasn't Anne and George's fault that one family crisis seemed to follow another, and weren't they always emphasizing that they really didn't know what they would do without Theresa??
The moderate senators and representatives ( who constituted a majority of the Union party ) asked him for only a slight compromise ; their action was really an entreaty that he would unite with them to preserve Congress and the country from the policy of the radicals.
Similarly, all output was scrutinized for a Control-D character ( ASCII 4 ), which BASIC programs would send before seemingly PRINTing a disk command to get DOS's attention ( the disk commands would not really get PRINTed but were intercepted by DOS and prevented from making it to the screen output ).

really and be
And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.
It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.
It could not really be fulfilled.
But if anything can bring home to Mr. Khrushchev the idea that he will not really get much enjoyment from watching this Braddock-against-the-Indians contest, it will probably be the fact that SEATO forces are ready to attempt it -- plus the fact that Moscow has something to lose from closing off disarmament and other bigger negotiations with Washington.
It really ought to be rebuilt, and he determined to go up and talk to the city banks about this.
He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.
But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.
No one really knows how many boats there actually are or what their aggregate value may be.
To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.
If the dance teachers of America make it their business to prepare their young charges for the gymnastics that must come some day if our schools are really responsible, we will be that much ahead.
They could be done or left undone and nobody really gave a damn.
Occasionally, you may come across one or two bumblebees in the cold season, when you are turning over sods in your garden, but you have to be a really keen observer to see them at all.
But the really controversial aspect of customer-cost imputation arises because of the cost analyst's frequent practice of including, not just those costs that can be definitely earmarked as incurred for the benefit of specific customers but also a substantial fraction of the annual maintenance and capital costs of the secondary ( low-voltage ) distribution system -- a fraction equal to the estimated annual costs of a hypothetical system of minimum capacity.
Will it be short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry, children's stories, or even a book if you are really ambitious??

really and funny
" While Marge is her most famous character, Kavner's favorite characters to voice are Patty and Selma because " they're really funny and sad at the same time.
There ain't nothin ' funny about a drunk [...] I was really starting to believe that there was something amusing and wonderfully American about being a drunk.
" Later in a letter he said, the play, though " extremely funny " was Wilde's " first really heartless ".
Sampras cited a leg injury as the reason Rafter won, an attitude that upset the generally mild-mannered Aussie: " He really does say some funny things at the wrong time ", said Rafter, " We are out there busting our guts and he doesn't show a lot of respect at the end of the day.
Sinatra later said of this concert " I have a funny feeling that those two nights could have been my finest hour, really.
Although Marge is her most famous character, Kavner's favorite characters to voice are her sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier because " they're really funny and sad at the same time.
: Rota: " That ’ s really funny.
Fans were rather blunt about his singing, with comments like " you can't sing for sour owl " and " your singing is so delightfully awful that it is really funny ".
" At one point when I heard it I thought it was kind of a funny statement and then I heard it another time and I was really touched by it.
Even though most people thought it was really funny!
I wasn't intending to look funny – I was really trying to look dignified and courtly ; but I suppose I couldn't help myself.
That ’ s really funny .’
:‘ That ’ s really funny ,’ Chief White Halfoat repeated.
There ain't nothin ' funny about a drunk [...] I was really starting to believe that there was something amusing and wonderfully American about being a drunk.
Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert called it " one of the best films of the year — a film that is really about something, that cares deeply about the issues it contains — and yet it also works wonderfully as a funny, warmhearted romantic comedy.
The funny thing was that I really meant it.
Bob Ellis wrote in Overland, ‘ What I think absorbs the reader in the deeply revelatory un-memoir Wild Amazement is ... Michael ’ s clear, almost hyper-real remembrance, as if experienced on a guided tour of a radiant, countercultural Disneyland, of a way of life, and a gravely joyous bohemia now gone, of how it was, and what a time it was, it really was, in Sydney in the sixties and seventies, in the Newcastle and the Journos ’ Club and the Push parties and the plans for a literary life .’ And in, Quadrant, Peter Corris wrote, ‘ Anyone interested in how contemporary Australian writing came to be the way it is, with its strengths and follies, its cliques and patrons, and the challenges it faces, will benefit from reading Wilding ’ s sensitive, sometimes bitchy, often funny and always intelligent tracing of his life ’ s trajectory .’ The Italian translation of Wild Amazement appeared in 2009.
He's a great host, he's relatively funny and he has great friends and he's a good friend to them ... the gay issue just wasn't really a big thing.
I want to do it because it's going to be really funny or better than the first one.
" The British film magazine Empire gave it ( three stars out of five ), calling it " watchable " and noting " Miller is a winning heroine " but characterizing the film as " too busy to be really funny.
* " Do I really want to approach General Electric's army of lawyers with hat in hand and say, ' Would you mind if we put out your in-house propaganda as a kind of funny little project?
A list of 100 ( actually 46 ) Dralasite " facts " composed spontaneously composed by the participants in a Star Frontiers chat group includes items such as "# Drals in a blender is messy, in the dryer it really really funny looking " and What do Drals and Jell-O Pudding Pops have in common?
Everyone's attitude going to see Charles's plays was that they were going to see a really funny, irreverent, slapstick drag show.

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