We were coming to an intersection, turning right, chuffing to a stop.

We were off the road, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut.

We were in a field, in a tight, screeching turn.

We were back on the road.

We were slowing.

We enjoyed a paradoxical freedom when we were still too young for school.

We were not, however, entirely unacquainted with the varying aspects of the street.

We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.

`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.

We may say of some unfortunates that they were never young.

We were at a party once and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious.

`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.

We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.

`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

We blushed and were flustered, and it turned out to be the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek.

We would have the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it were fixed or mobile.

We were in business!!

We were camping a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land of pirates, seagulls and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks.

” You say: ‘ We worship stones and walls and boards .’ But it is not so, O Emperor ; but they serve us for remembrance and encouragement, lifting our slow spirits upwards, by those whose names the pictures bear and whose representations they are.

" We modeled them after photographs of a hovering dove landing in slow motion.

After changing their name to Manfred Mann at the behest of their label's producer John Burgess, the group signed with His Master's Voice in March 1963 and began their recorded output that July with the slow, bluesy instrumental single " Why Should We Not ?".

'" Thus by the end of 1945 several versions of " I Will Overcome " were current as a gospel song, while on the South Carolina picket line, Lucille Simmons and other striking tobacco workers were singing a slow version of the song as, " We Will Overcome ".

The 2011 Broadway revival places " Beautiful City " between " We Beseech Thee " and the Last Supper, sung as a slow ballad by Jesus to his followers.

We are terrible at assessing slow, gradual changes, even when they threaten our survival.

: We may be slow on the feather

We were pals, and he would treat me as a son .” Bennett did not slow his output, creating original works for the nation ’ s bicentennial celebrations and accepting commissions from a variety of sources, including a Presbyterian church in Florida, for which he accepted only a modest fee.

We would not want to draw any general conclusion from the slow application observation, mainly because we can find counter examples about the pace and pattern of technique development.

We could go through each possible parenthesization ( brute force ), but this would require time exponential in the number of matrices, which is very slow and impractical for large n. The solution, as we will see, is to break up the problem into a set of related subproblems.

We need to understand the psychological aspects of how people are recruited and indoctrinated so we can slow down recruitment.

The sixth movement " Avalon ", another reference to the Arthurian legends, is the real slow movement ; its prefatory quotation is " We impose on one another, and it is but lost time to converse with you whose words are only Analytics ". The Finale " The New Jerusalem " is prefaced " Without Contraries is no progression "' alluding to the use by the composer of a structural device known as progressive tonality.

We recognize the natural impatience of people who feel that their hopes are slow in being realized.

Wisden was less complimentary about his bowling: " We have no great opinion of Trott's leg break bowling, and think it probably too slow to be effectual against good batsmen.

Belonging to a dead Germany, defeated by shame ... We came back to Germany in the slow trains defeated, like strangers ejected from paradise by strangers.

For another thing a lot of the tracks were just so slow ... We just hated it.

As Jim Bizzocchi says, " We believe artists will use the flat-panel displays as frames for " video paintings " -- slow moving but highly pictorial works of televisual art that explore light, shape, texture and motion.

Ma has commented that " The day we got connected to the Web, I invited friends and TV people over to my house ," and on a very slow dial-up connection, " we waited three and a half hours and got half a page .... We drank, watched TV and played cards, waiting.