Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Winston Churchill (novelist)" ¶ 9
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

two and are
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
( There are two receivers in case one should be dropped and damaged.
It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.
The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.
These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.
Here are the two Preambles: Federal Constitution, 1789
Whatever pole of this contrast one emphasizes and whatever the tension between these two approaches to understanding the artistic imagination, it will be readily seen that they are not mutually exclusive, that they belong together.
But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.
Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.
In the mystery story, as in The Wealth of Nations, individualism and the social good are two sides of the same benevolent coin.
So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.
These ways are absolutely irreconcilable because they offer two different recipes for man's redemption from chaos.
Within this context of spontaneous and unanalyzed responses to the experience of civilizational crisis, two basic organizations of response are observable: reaction and ideological progressivism.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
Here, in two nations alone, are almost five hundred million people, all working, and working hard, to raise their standards, and in doing so, to make of themselves a strong bulwark against the spread of an ideology that would destroy liberty.
`` the matters to be considered are obviously of a grave character, and I therefore respectfully request that the hearing be postponed for two weeks in order that I might make adequate preparation ''.
Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.
But there are at least two reasons for contemplating one's mind in even a cracked mirror.
There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.
Regardless of the decision two facts are clear.
Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.
The speed is controlled by pressing on the two brake buttons located where the index finger and thumb are placed when holding the motor.
The biggest nuclear device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, although our B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs apiece.

two and still
The two horses broke from the yard, from the circle of light cast by the lamp still burning in the house, into the darkness.
His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.
While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.
I bent and kissed the still pink neck and suddenly she jumped up, and her two arms encircled me in a bear-like crush.
`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.
They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.
But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
President Kennedy, already two quiet demands down, still refused Thursday to be drawn into delivering a public ultimatum to Moscow.
Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.
We also worked out logistics for Sunday afternoon swimmers who arrive two hours early with their weekend guests while we are still enjoying an alfresco lunch en famille.
He had written out the license number of his car but had transposed the last two figures, an old dodge which is still good.
( page 33 ) On the other hand, a little later on he says: `` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes.
Last season, the Comedie's two principal experiments came to grief, and, in consequence, we can expect fairly soon to see still newer productions of Racine's `` Phedre '' and Moliere's `` School For Wives ''.
But the two weeks dragged into three, and they were still with us.
At two that morning, he was still walking -- up and down Peony, up and down the veranda, up and down the silent, moonlit beach.
The next two reactions do not involve the formation of ions but are still proton transfer reactions.
The two countries are still technically at war.
His father's civil service commission was still active, and during Turing's childhood years his parents travelled between Hastings in England and India, leaving their two sons to stay with a retired Army couple.
" Alaric had made no provision for a successor, and although he had two sons, one was of age but illegitimate and the other the offspring of a legal marriage but still a child.
* Take two: Aspirin, New uses and new dangers are still being discovered as aspirin enters its 2nd century.
This reconciled the political parties but did not reconcile the army which, already dissatisfied with the king's marriage, became still more so at the rumors that one of the two unpopular brothers of Queen Draga, Lieutenant Nikodije, was to be proclaimed heir-presumptive to the throne.
But though disgraced, they still retained great influence, and two years later, seizing the person of the king, they compelled their rivals to consent to the erection of a regency representative of both parties.
When King Constantine's eldest son Constans is murdered at Vortigern's instigation, the two remaining sons, Ambrosius and Uther, still very young, are quickly hustled into exile in Brittany.
In his ninth year he executed two small shrines of Carrara marble, which are still extant.

0.244 seconds.