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He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.
It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.
Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??
But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.
When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.
When he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer ; ;
A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.
As early as 1913 Ghoreyeb and Karsner demonstrated with perfusion studies in dogs that bronchial artery flow would remain constant at a certain low level when pressure was maintained in the pulmonary artery and vein, but that increases in bronchial artery flow would occur in response to a relative drop in pulmonary artery pressure.
There was evident delight on the part of the subject in response to her experience of the freedom of movement.
The government was most anxious that there be a respectable response.
And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive -- the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response.
Alec expected an indignant denial, but there was no response at all.
The response from London, Paris and Bonn was favorable.
Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.
A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent.
In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.
In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.
Part of this publication was the famous Five points of Calvinism in response to the five articles of Remonstrance.
Reverend James Freeman Clarke was one of Alcott's few supporters and defended him against the harsh response from Boston periodicals.
Kennedy, however, was circumspect in his response to the news, refusing to make a commitment on America's response to the Soviets.
One downside was that the new democracy was less capable of rapid response.
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Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.
`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.
He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;
And now there was some question as to his continued residence there.
In a few months the Duke was to be the center of a controversy of some significance on the touchy question of the Protestant Succession.
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
On the surface, the whole question was purely feudal.
He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.
Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.
Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state.
It was the oldest and toughest question young lovers have ever asked: How can you be sure??
Another question that arose was the nature of the dialogue itself.
I was interested in James Webb Young's Madison Avenue column in which he raised the question: `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''??
It was not a discourteous question, Lawrence decided.
He didn't, but it was not really a question, and so he left the room, walked down the hall to the front of the apartment, hesitated, and then knocked lightly on the closed door of the study.
so that the rest of the house stayed open, though there was a question as to whether it was hotter or cooler that way.
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.
It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.
He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.
An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.
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