" Asked whether if he wants to see Leanne and Nick to get back together, Price said: " There'd have to be a big journey to get to that point, but yeah, I would.

There'd be enjoyment no Sultan could outdo.

for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others ''.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.

Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.

He had been pretty scared himself, wondering what the hell was coming off.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

True, there had been raids on Naples -- but Naples was pretty far north on the opposite coast.

More and more, these days, she'd been driving that pretty little mare that looked like her, over to Tillie's and Nick's -- his own old square frame box on posts, chickens and cats and pups under the house, everybody friendly inside, making a to-do over the babies dressed like dollies.

There had been supper parties and teas, fetes and little balls, Mama small and pretty and gay and Papa enormously jocular, enormously possessive, the sun around which the Blackwell planets revolved.

Although Hole's sound changed over the course of the band's career, the pretty / ugly dynamic has often been noted as a consistent theme in Love's music, most prominently in Hole's first two studio albums.

That the founder of genre science fiction who gave his name to the field's most prestigious award and who was the Guest of Honor at the 1952 Worldcon was pretty much a crook ( and a contemptuous crook who stiffed his writers but paid himself $ 100K a year as President of Gernsback Publications ) has been clearly established.

At the time of her wedding, Isabella was said to have been pretty, slim, graceful and well-dressed.

Idle himself was said to have been uncomfortable with the character ; " It's essentially a pretty savage attack on rabid Zionism, suggesting it's rather akin to Nazism, which is a bit strong to take, but certainly a point of view ".

Julia explains she wants more than a man who is interested in a pretty face, and that's why she's been deceptive-substituting a plain-looking woman in place of her own picture.

However, in a later ( 2006 ) interview, the director remarked that he had been unhappy about Alien: The Director's Cut, feeling that the original was " pretty flawless " and that the additions were merely a marketing tool.

No subsequent Super Bowl has ever been blacked out under this rule, as all have been sold out ( owing to its status as the marquee event on the NFL schedule, meaning that tickets sell out pretty quickly ).

It sounded corny and hillbilly, but it's been good to me, and I'm pretty well at peace with it right now.

She admits that Eva's behaviour had been blameless and that the firing was motivated solely by Sheila's jealousy and spite towards a pretty working-class woman.

Hortense was described as having been an amusing and pretty child with long, pale golden-blonde hair and blue eyes.

A portrait of Marie as a young girl shows her to have been pretty with regular features and a high forehead.

Purebred dog breeders of today " have inherited a breeding paradigm that is, at the very least, a bit anachronistic in light of modern genetic knowledge, and that first arose out of a pretty blatant misinterpretation of Darwin and an enthusiasm for social theories that have long been discredited as scientifically insupportable and morally questionable.

Well, there's been pretty clear evidence now that there was a unit that was called the Brigada Olympica, or the Olympic Brigade, that was made up of special forces of the presidential guard, who opened fire from the buildings that surrounded the square, and that that was the thing that provoked the massacre.

The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.

The defensiveness has been exaggerated by another bad habit, our tendency to rate the `` goodness '' or `` badness '' of other nations by the extent to which they applaud the slogans we circulate about ourselves.

Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.

Indeed, we should say, on the contrary, that the accident of our later discovery made no difference whatever to the badness of the animal's pain, that it would have been every whit as bad whether a chance passer-by happened later to discover the body and feel repugnance or not.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

This latter failure is more than merely bad reportage and it is distinctly more important than it would have been had the author drawn Clerfayt as, say, a tournament golfer.

If the situation had been bad, it now got worse.

Since then commercial interest in mouthwashes has been intense and several newer products claim effectiveness in reducing the build-up in dental plaque and the associated severity of gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ), in addition to fighting bad breath.

Unfortunately, Paramount Records ' studio techniques and quality were bad, and the resulting recordings sound no better than if they had been recorded in a hotel room.

Although prior to the catastrophic collapse of the towers, the phrase " a good day to bury bad news " ( not actually used by Moore ) has since been used to refer to other instances of attempting to hide one item of news behind a more publicised issue.

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

Christians teach that human beings inherit a corrupted or damaged human nature in which the tendency to do bad is greater than it would have been otherwise, so much so that human nature would not be capable now of participating in the afterlife with God.

" Stating that he had originally been strong and healthy, he continued, " life on a destroyer in winter, with bad food, no comforts, would sap the powers of the strongest men in the long run.

It's been described as " incredibly, undeniably, mind-numbingly bad " and one of the " poorer moments " in the history of kaiju films.

Coolidge had been reluctant to choose Hoover as his successor ; on one occasion he remarked that " for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice — all of it bad.

Lee Ohanian, from UCLA takes a controversial stance, arguing that Hoover adopted pro-labor policies after the 1929 stock market crash that " accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, causing what might otherwise have been a bad recession to slip into the Great Depression ".

Later as president, Madison was told by some of his former constituents that, had it not been for unusually bad weather on election day, Monroe likely would have won.

Loki tells Beyla to be silent, that she is " much imbued with malice ," that no worse female has ever been among the " Æsir's children ," and calling her a bad " serving-wench.

When there is a bad harvest, as has been persistently the case over recent years, the population faces actual famine: a situation never before seen in a peacetime industrial economy.

Molly then explains to Case that Riviera is doomed anyway, as he has been fatally poisoned by a bad batch of drugs.

Kevin N. Laforest of the Montreal Film Journal commented in his September 2002 review that Cruz " has been getting some really bad reviews for her recent American work, but I personally think that she's a more than decent actress, especially here, where she's charming, moving and always believable.