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What looked like a huge building from a distance was actually only a canvas facade backed by scaffolding.
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What this boat looked like is open to conjecture but from various references it can be inferred to have been a flat bottomed boat.
What most homeowners looked for in a house was comfort, serviceability, and an acceptable level of appeal conforming with their community's taste.
But when McCabe mentioned to Castellano that his late cousin, Carlo Gambino had been a " real gentleman ", Castellano looked hurt and then responded, " What?
What is known is that he argued that each of the phenomena had a natural rather than divine explanation in a manner reminiscent of Anaximander's theories and that there was only one god, the world as a whole, and that he ridiculed the anthropomorphism of the Greek religion by claiming that cattle would claim that the gods looked like cattle, horses like horses, and lions like lions, just as the Ethiopians claimed that the gods were snubnosed and black and the Thracians claimed they were pale and red-haired.
What first set his mind towards literary criticism was the gift of a copy of Jonathan Toup's Longinus by the head master of Eton ; but it was Richard Bentley and Richard Dawes to whom he looked as his immediate masters.
According to the Cold War scholar John Lewis Gaddis in his book " The Cold War: A New History " ( 2005 ), " Leonid Brezhnev had looked forward, Anatoly Dobrynin recalls, to the ' publicity he would gain ... when the Soviet public learned of the final settlement of the postwar boundaries for which they had sacrificed so much '... ' the Helsinki Accords gradually became a manifesto of the dissident and liberal movement '... What this meant was that the people who lived under these systems — at least the more courageous — could claim official permission to say what they thought.
" He looked me straight in the eyes and said, " What would you think of an order to shoot down pilots who were bailing out?
I said, ‘ Are you okay ?’ He said ‘ Yeah .’ I said, ‘ What ’ s wrong ?’ He said, ‘ I have never met a man before who looked me in the eye like that.
The forefathers of the Americans did not leave their native country, and subject themselves to every danger and distress, to be reduced to a state of slavery: they did not give up their rights ; they looked for protection, and not for chains, from their mother country ; by her they expected to be defended in the possession of their property, and not to be deprived of it: for, should the present power continue, there is nothing which they can call their own ; or, to use the words of Mr. Locke, ‘ What property have they in that, which another may, by right, take, when he pleases, to himself ?’”
What had once looked Dada-ishly brilliant now looked like stoned improv from a show-off's drama school.
What we have done is very systematically sell those off, shut down offices and concentrate on the two businesses that looked like we had a competitive advantage.
The Saga of Olaf Haraldson relates that St. Olaf commented as he first looked down on Lom, “ What a pity to have to lay waste to such a beautiful valley .” In the face of such a clear motivation, the residents of the valley converted ( it has since been a recurring discussion whether he looked to Lom or the neighbouring municipality Skjåk, at the time a part of Lom.
What allowed her to stay on the show for as long as she did, besides her natural TV talents ( even more remarkable given the fact that she had no acting experience beforehand ), was the fact that she looked much younger than she actually was, and could believably play 14 or 15 when she was 21.
What looked like a formality turned into very unpredictable and increasingly vicious contest when Stjepan Mesić joined the fray.
He looked at Dora Brethour and asked, " What about you Dora ?” Whether or not this is actually true is unknown, but it is what is rumored.
What at first looked like a crisis point for the Germans under Fretter-Pico had now been turned into a possible disaster for the Soviets under Malinovsky.
What and like
With this enlarged role in mind, I should like to make a few suggestions: What we in the United States do or do not do will make a very large difference in what happens in the rest of the world.
What had been an unmanageably powerful introject was now, despite its continuing charge of energy disconcerting to me, sufficiently within control of her ego that she could use it to show me what this introjected mother was like.
Personally, I prefer straight hair like yours, but as they say on the Continent, ' What can one do ' ''??
Another question of the same character: " Why the boastful claim: ' What nation on earth is like Thy people Israel ' ( II Sam.
People [...] were visibly uncomfortable and appeared to be confused, saying things like " What the fuck, man?
For instance, therapists have used sentences like, “ Who is the boy helping ?” and “ What is the boy fixing ?” because both verbs are transitive-they require two arguments in the form of a subject and a direct object, but not necessarily an indirect object.
What constitutes " context neutral " text varies, but often includes things like company information or boilerplate.
" What I do like about him is he seems to be a guy who's interested in the truth ," Connick Jr. says of Haden.
What if instead the warehoused planks, masts, and other materials were used to build something completely different from a ship, like a house.
In the essay What is it like to be a bat ?, Thomas Nagel famously argued that explaining subjective experience — the " what it is like " to be something — is currently beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, because scientific understanding by definition requires an objective perspective, which, according to Nagel, is diametrically opposed to the subjective first-person point of view.
What is now Mauritania was a dry savanna area during classical antiquity, where independent tribes like the Pharusii and the Perorsi ( and the Nigritae near the Niger river ) did a seminomadic life facing a growing desertification.
What was so nice was that even though he was much older, he just talked to me like a fellow professional.
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