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second and felt
Jack felt a wave of complete elation, but in a second it had vanished without a trace.
As he passed where I was standing, he raised his head for a second, and to this day I can remember what I felt as our eyes met.
The form was felt by the ancients to contrast the rising action of the first verse with a falling quality in the second.
According to Jacques Barzun: Voltaire, who had felt annoyed by the first essay the Arts and Sciences, was outraged by the second, on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, declaring that Rousseau wanted us to “ walk on all fours ” like animals and behave like savages, believing them creatures of perfection.
Landry eventually settled on Morton for most of the second half of the season, because he felt less confident that Staubach would follow his game plan ( Landry called all of Morton's plays ).
After the first album, the band felt that demos for the second album ( on which Corner provided the guide vocals ) better suited his voice, especially in regard to the more raw, personal quality of the lyrics.
By riding behind the ' lead out ' rider, the second rider reduces the aerodynamic drag felt.
Laurents felt that the building tension needed to be alleviated in order to increase the impact of the play's tragic outcome, so comic relief in the form of Officer Krupke was added to the second act.
In the second decade of the century, the influences of operetta and the English followers of Sullivan such as Lionel Monckton made themselves felt, in works such as Molinos de viento and El asombro de Damasco ( both by Pablo Luna ), before the Spanish tradition was reasserted in Vives's Doña Francisquita ( 1923 ).
In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), H. W. Fowler states that applying the word nigger to " others than full or partial negroes " is " felt as an insult by the person described, & betrays in the speaker, if not deliberate insolence, at least a very arrogant inhumanity "; but the second edition ( 1965 ) states: " N. has been described as ' the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks.
By Newton's second law of motion, we can replace the forces F with the mass m of the object multiplied by the acceleration felt by the object due to that force:
He said in an interview that he felt he had done his bit for science after 25 years, and that his best mathematical work was probably behind him ; Christianity had always been central to his life, so ordination offered an attractive second career.
" Also included on the record is a version of " Memphis ," a Marcy Playground b-side that Wozniak's wife felt deserved a second breath of life.
Because the rumors emerged as Ventura was travelling down to his second home in Mexico, Ventura felt that the story was released at that point so he would be unable to properly fight the allegations.
The hit was ruled a double, though most observers felt it should have been ruled a single, as only the throw home allowed Walker to advance to second base.
Raelene Boyle, who had finished second to Stecher in both the 100 and 200 metres at the Olympics, stated that she felt cheated, but that Stecher may still have bested her over the 100 m without the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Many Heat fans felt that Johnson, knowing the Knicks had already won Game 4, deliberately provoked Mourning with only a second left on the clock so that he would be suspended for the series-deciding game, in an attempt to not only give the Knicks extra leverage, but to avenge the suspensions from the previous year.
After their disappointing defeat at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks, the Spurs entered the 2006 – 07 season refreshed with renewed determination, as they felt fatigue played a large role as they failed to win a second straight NBA Title.
Controversy erupted during the midst of the second season when series developer and executive producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe announced he had been released from the show's production, although his influence was felt until the completion of the second season ; at that point, Bob Engels was brought on to be an executive producer of the series.
President Kennedy felt that US policy towards China was nonsensical and he planned to restore relations in his second term.
In the novel, Lora May ( not Lora Mae ) is less a gold digger than a woman who has always been dominated by her wealthy husband ; Rita is trying to succeed in a second marriage with a man she has never felt passionate about ; and Deborah is a plain and quiet ex-spinster whose " catch " of a husband has been disappointed in her lack of success in society.
In the second edition of his book, Improvisation ..., Bailey indicated that he felt that free improvisation was no longer " non-idiomatic " in his sense of the word, as it had become a recognizable genre and musical style itself.
Prior to its abolition, the Cup Winners ' Cup was regarded as the second most prestigious European club competition out of the three major tournaments, behind the UEFA Champions League and ahead of the UEFA Cup, although many commentators felt the Cup Winners ' Cup was the easiest of the three competitions to win.

second and brief
Following the trio, the second occurrence of the scherzo, unlike the first, plays through without any repetition, after which there is a brief reprise of the trio, and the movement ends with an abrupt coda.
The highest speed is attained in industrial and scientific high speed cameras that are capable of filming 1024x1024 video at up to 1 million frames per second for brief periods of recording.
Ethan met his second wife, a young widow by the name of Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan, early in 1784, and married her after a brief courtship on February 16, 1784.
Three other synods on the subject were held, at the second of which the followers of Barlaam gained a brief victory.
Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".
By 1555 he had completed his work on the New Testament, finishing with the Acts and the Gospels ( he omitted only the brief second and third Epistles of John and the Book of Revelation ).
Afterwards, they played one brief set with Tyler and Perry, with Jason Bonham on drums, and then a second with Neil Young, this time with Michael Lee taking the drumsticks.
* 1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
The following year ( October 830 ), after a brief rebellion and reconciliation between Louis and his sons, Gregory declared that Louis ’ second wife Judith was to be released from the convent where she had been forced to take the veil, and to be returned to Louis.
After a brief period of disintegration ( second Taifa period ), the rising power in North Africa, the Almohads, took over most of Al-Andalus.
For a brief while it was also implied that Skuld had a crush on Keiichi ; the second special episode of the first TV series ( where she's grown up for a day ) explored this angle by placing Skuld and Keiichi in situations where they appear as a couple.
The firing is often very brief, a few thousandths of a second, and-if operated in air-would sound like a pebble thrown against a metal trash can ; if on for long, it would make a piercing hiss.
Gardner's second marriage was brief and to jazz musician and band leader Artie Shaw, from 1945 to 1946.
As Prime Minister Peel issued the Tamworth Manifesto ( 1834 ) during his brief first stint in office, leading to the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party ; in his second stint he repealed the Corn Laws.
She intervened in the quarrels between her eldest son Henry and her second son Geoffrey, Count of Nantes, but peace between the brothers was brief.
After a brief period of eclecticism, the classical style reigned again from the late 19th century until the second world war, though it continues to inform many architects to this day.
Like the first, this second marriage was also brief.
Poppet ( 1912 – 1997 ), John's daughter by his second wife, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol ( 1905 – 1988 ) whose daughter Talitha ( 1940 – 1971 ), a fashion icon of 1960s London, married John Paul Getty, was famously photographed in Marrakesh by Patrick Lichfield, and, after a brief hedonistic life, died of a drug overdose.
Meanwhile, both Sting's and Summers ' marriages failed ( Sting settled down with new partner Trudie Styler, whom he later married, while Summers, after a brief relationship which produced a son, Andrew Jr., re-married his second wife Kate ).
The second and third manifestos, respectively An Open Letter to Sir Nicholas Serota and Remodernism, were sent to Nicholas Serota which received a brief reply: " Thank you for your open letter dated 6 March.
The original theme song had two verses ; the second theme song had a new ( and different-sounding ) first verse ; and the third and final theme song restored the original first verse, inserted a new verse between the first and original second verses ( three verses in all ) and featured brief lead-ins for the first and final verses.
Sometimes a movie, book, or season of a television show will end with the defeat of the main villain before a second, evidently more powerful villain makes a brief appearance ( becoming the villain of the next film ).
The character had intended to be a brief villain, with Whedon originally adamant to not have another major " romantic vampire " character like Angel-Marsters says " Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, and then dead "-but the character ended up staying for the second season, and then returning in the fourth to replace Cordelia as " the character who told Buffy she was stupid and about to die ".

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