How To Use Hasten In A Sentence
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With the loss of so many illusions at once I cannot remember when I have felt so vulnerable or chastened, but neither can I remember when I have felt so alive.
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HPL lived and died in genteel poverty, and some biographers have suggested that poor diet brought on by poverty may have hastened his death.
Someone Is Angry On the Internet
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It ain 'fittin' fo 'you-all to say anythin' ag'in 'Dr. Morgan, whatever he may _se_-lect to do," asserted Bud, combatively, and Pink hastened to hedge.
A Tar-Heel Baron
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Hastening across the parapet from the opposite direction was a bowman as young as the man he'd shot.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Her chasteness was somehow the outward proof, the external manifestation, of a potential for sexual abandon all the more alluring for being hidden, invisible.
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Subsequent work helped to hasten the loosening of government control over broadcasting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Supper ended Pocahuntas was lodged in the gunner's roome, but Iapazeus and his wife desired to have some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be gon.
The Story of Pocahontas
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The process is hastened by heavy inputs of chemical fertiliser and pesticides.
Times, Sunday Times
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In any event, the composer was badly shaken during this era, which probably hastened his death in 1950.
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The constant friction with his superiors probably hastened his downfall.
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People round here dress so badly - except you, Justin, " she hastened to add.
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Down the gradual slope the scout hastened; his footfall was the only sound that broke the stillness after the answers to his call had ceased.
Old Indian Days
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No doubt the school will feel suitably chastened by her absence.
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For this aged, scholarly, conservative, uncharismatic Bavarian theologian will surely hasten precisely the de-Christianisation of Europe that he aims to reverse.
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External pressure dressing was then applied to the stoma while apposing the skin edges to hasten spontaneous wound closure.
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It is at first perfect at the instant the kernel is going to send forth the acrospire, and form itself into the future blade; it is again discovered perfect when the ear is labouring at its extrication, and hastening the production of the yet unformed kernels; in this it appears, the medium of nature's chemistry, equally employed by her in her mutation of the kernel into the blade, and her formation thus of other kernels, by which she effects the completion of that circle to which the operations of the vegetable world are limited.
The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
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She saw his frown and hastened to explain.
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Pages and serving women hastened through it, each of them bearing an item of outdoor clothing.
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Since 2000 he has scoured the globe for acquisitions to hasten growth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her heart beat quick and her face changed, yet she hastened, and was shod and stood up in knightly array by then he stayed his steps some five paces from her, and gave her the sele of the day in courteous wise; and she strove to think that he had not seen her, or at least noted her otherwise dight; yet her heart misgave her.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Forced to witness the collapse of everything they had once dreamed of and worked to achieve, they have emerged unchastened and unchanged in their destructive illusions.
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Easier said than done, I hasten to add.
Times, Sunday Times
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I noticed that the others were already moving towards the staircase without me, so I hastened to catch up.
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The Bangladeshi left-handers, who had posted their country's previous best opening stand against England in the first innings, quickly demonstrated that was merely a 'sighter' as the tourists raced to 189 for two in only 43 overs off a chastened home attack.
IcCheshireOnline
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Since 2000 he has scoured the globe for acquisitions to hasten growth.
Times, Sunday Times
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And not just because it may hasten a new trade deal within the US and Britain.
The Sun
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News of the scandal certainly hastened his departure from office.
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Learn from the vocabulary the difference between _aliquís_ and _aliquí_. mátúrandum sibi, 'they ought to hasten,' more literally 'haste ought to be made by them'; mátúrandum (_esse_) is the impersonal passive, and sibi the so-called dative of the agent.
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader
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Allowing Bradford's garbage to be dumped in Skibeden will hasten the day this landfill site is full.
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The man had looked the threat, and Martin hastened to cry: — No, no; I've got it.
Chapter 31
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Matthew and I never talked about our desires, or even our chasteness, for that matter.
Promise Me
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Montbrun hastened, with a courtier's smoothness, to recommend the red wine which, though Spanish, had a certain plangency, he thought, which Major Sharpe might find pleasing.
Sharpe's Honour
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Too little may hasten the arrival of age spots.
The Sun
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Just when she was ready to dip into her savings, Greg hastened to her rescue.
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I hasten to congratulate you on the coming of your birthday.May gladness fill your every hour with joy to light your way.
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He hastened to assure us that the press would not be informed.
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Prudence dressed quickly and with Almira hurried to the girls 'rooms while Calvin hastened down the stairs to the scene of destruction.
Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
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Back, thou wretch, to meet thy brother miscreants, who are hastening hitherward.
Anne of Geierstein
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Enterprising men are hastening thither, and capital is flowing into the State from all parts of the country.
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The Earth is indisputably getting warmer overall, and human activity is definitely playing a part in hastening that warming trend.
Think Progress » Ask Obama and Daschle about global warming.
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When Zulaykha tried to captivate Joseph by her ravishing beauty, the Almighty hastened to help him.
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She handselled it, and hastening where he lay, cried in furious fashion, "You are unbound already.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
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Although he is now housed in an open prison, and he maintains a certain hearty cheerfulness, few doubt that Archer has been chastened by his prison experience.
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It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy.
The Sun
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The deathbed struggles of the enemies can only hasten their own doom.
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Not that dress, I hasten to add.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Paynim hastened to the dungeon, and brought forth the Count, bearded, unkempt and foredone.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
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Is it the turn of successful businessmen to do something similar now to catalyse and hasten progress?
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Because," Lovell hastened to say; "because she can't go across -- no, that wasn't right -- why -- ahem! why does a hen go _across_ the road, Miss
Cape Cod Folks
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Physically the Great Change did not do so very much to reinvigorate her — she had lived in that dismal underground kitchen in Clayton too long for any material rejuvenescence — she glowed out indeed as a dying spark among the ashes might glow under a draught of fresh air — and assuredly it hastened her end.
In the Days of the Comet
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Three weeks after they took it, artillery was slowly carried over to Cavite, which is connected with the mainland by a narrow isthmus, so the rebels hastened to construct
The Philippine Islands
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Bergson is a kind of chastened and spiritualized Herbert Spencer.
In the Noon of Science
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Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter.
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But his demise sparked bitter divisions, with the children of his first wife contesting his will amid allegations his death had been hastened by drugs.
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With those championing their continued existence become fewer and fewer, that can only hasten the second phase.
Times, Sunday Times
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The word used for discipline in the Bible refers to the chastening, training, or instructing of our children.
The Power of A Positive Mom
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By using opiate analgesics and sedatives to provide comfort to a dying patient, we risk depressing respirations and causing hypotension, which may hasten death.
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A tactical change may hasten the process.
Times, Sunday Times
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Michael Stuhlbarg is a suitably chastened Xerxes, and Len Cariou is properly ghostly as Darius's minatory ghost.
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The third type of intervention is administration of cathartic agents to increase gastrointestinal motility and hasten the expulsion of the toxin.
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From Whittaker's Almanac I learnt that all passports must be visaed at the Serbian Legation and thither I hastened.
Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle
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His cousin the pandour died in Vienna, and, as Trenck believed that he had left him a fortune of some millions, he tore his tender ties asunder, and hastened to Vienna to receive this rich inheritance, which, to his astonishment, he found to consist not in millions, but in law processes.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
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The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the
Burlesques
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Artificial heating hastens the growth of plants.
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Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance.
Ed and Deb Shapiro: How Does A Waitress Deal With Rude People?
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After the blackout of August 14, 2003, all of us in Ontario seemed suitably chastened in our attitudes towards electricity usage.
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The passage has an almost classical chasteness.
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So, with profuse thanks, Ryle, who was by now extremely hungry, hastened towards the lift.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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After this, the old woman presented me to Chrysis; who was very glad she had recover'd her mistress's treasure; and therefore hastening to her, she conducted me to a most pleasant retreat, deckt with all that nature cou'd produce to please the sight.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter
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Having inflicted a 15th place Kentucky Derby finisher on Out of Left Field readers, this chastened tout will perform the public service of not tipping any horse in the Preakness.
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A scream from Theresa now told, that she knew Valancourt, whom her imperfect sight, and the duskiness of the place had prevented her from immediately recollecting; but his attention was immediately called from her to the person, whom he saw, falling from a chair near the fire; and, hastening to her assistance, — he perceived, that he was supporting Emily!
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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She saw his quick frown and hastened to explain.
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He has been described as a 'charmless bore'-not by me, I hasten to add.
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Argentina's swift defeat hastened the fall of the military dictatorship and the restoration of democracy.
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Little Malcolm won the Silver Bear at Berlin in 1974 Cooper's next movie, the sombre and chastening Overlord, won another Silver Bear in 1975, and the post-ceremonial bacchanals were memorable indeed.
Eunarchy in the UK: George Harrison's first movie
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I hope and pray that the chastenings of our blessed Lord, in depriving us of our worldly possessions, may be sanctified to us, and lead us, more earnestly and undoubtingly, to seek for possessions in that Kingdom where all is joy, and peace, and love.
A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
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Royalists believed that it would smooth the way towards a restoration, and to hasten the moment, they favoured a conciliatory approach to both Austria and Great Britain.
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I squeezed his neck and beat on his chest to hasten the process.
The Sun
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Other studies have shown antioxidants hasten lung cancer progress.
The Sun
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The World Cup may just have hastened his move to the dugout.
Times, Sunday Times
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And when once on the downward slope, chronic innutrition is an important factor in sapping vitality and hastening the descent.
THOSE ON THE EDGE
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I was grateful for his letter which hastened the course of the enquiry.
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The Queen immediately hastened to Mon-Bijou; and what de - solation was there visible I never beheld any thing like it: indeed, I think Jerusalem, after its siege and capture, could not have presented such another scene.
Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina : princess royal of Prussia, margravine of Bareith, sister of Frederick the Great
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Projected fuel cost increases and savings from water conservation will probably hasten the break-even point.
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This is one of the better establishments, I hasten to add.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Angus Calder has suggested, ‘the effect of the war was not to sweep society on to a new course, but to hasten its progress along the old grooves.’
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Bands of angels and archangels follow the divine leader, while troops of demons and archfiends hasten after the evil lord.
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Mrs. Peterkin hastened forward to shake hands with the lady from Philadelphia, saying: –
The Peterkin Papers
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Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter.
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The chastened man set off into York, where his tanner bought him cow's liver, half a pound of onions, two penny ‘ducks’ and a packet of Woodbines, providing enough food for two days' dinner.
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The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire.
Burlesques
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Ruti Nkuna and her irresistible clan of children and adult kin guided, taught, buoyed, rescued, relaxed, chastened, and reassured me every step of the way in Magude.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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But he'll probably be well chastened, I suppose.
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Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father's regime, illegal fortunes, I hasten to add.
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Spring began very early: even at the end of February the fields were green, parks hastened to bedeck themselves in their leafy wings, the blossoms hastened to bloom and fall; the opening days of May saw fruit on the apple-trees; and prematurely ripe cherries were "hawked" in the streets, beside bouquets of late blooming violets.
Debts of Honor
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Age has chastened his violent temper.
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This was a most chastening time for him, as he began to think about his future and what he was hoping to do with his life.
A Channel of Peace
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Their rule of chastening is what may seem fit to their own often erring judgment, temper, or caprice.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Some of them, and I hasten to emphasise ‘some’ are a disgrace to what ought to be a noble profession.
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WORD CORRECT PRONUNCIATION alma mater _alma mater_ apparatus _apparatus_ apricot _apricot_ attaché _attasha'_ audacious _audashus_ ballet _bal'la_ blasé _blaza'_ blatant _blatant_ chasten _chasen_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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But by "pureness" here, he means either chasteness again, or general purity, or incorruptness, or even his preaching the Gospel freely.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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I hasten to congratulate you on the coming of your birthday.May gladness fill your every hour with joy to light your way.
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She bade farewell to her mother at Nyköping, then hastened to Halmstad, where she dismissed her retinue, and went to Brussels by way of Hamburg and Antwerp.
Kristina Wasa, Queen of Sweden
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But what do their faces tell us, as they hasten to their posts?
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Pao-yü, on one hand, hastened to direct a servant to go and decoct them, and, on the other, he heaved a sigh.
Hung Lou Meng
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'polonaise' of plain cloth, a little toque on her head trimmed with a pheasant's wing, a bunch of violets in her bosom, hastening along the
Swann's Way
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We can hasten its collapse, but only if we are prepared to turn our intermittent campaigns into a sustained revolt.
THE AGE OF CONSENT
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The death that is in the curse is put into his hand to manage it, to the dread and terror of sinners; and by it he bath always kept many, and to this day doth keep innumerable souls in unexpressible bondage, putting them upon barbarous inhumanities to make atonement for their sins, and forcing some to inflict revenge and destruction upon themselves, thinking to prevent, but really hastening, that which they fear.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Crowds of the _élite_ of the neighbourhood were hastening into Islamabad, where the "tamasha," which we came upon at Bejbehara, is to be continued to-morrow.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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But for the senior Saints these are chastening times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Subsequent work helped to hasten the loosening of government control over broadcasting.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was now obvious that he was hastening to restore the keys to their owner.
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But after three chastening years, the city is rediscovering its old swagger.
Times, Sunday Times
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Right from the outset, even if you ignored his Irish brogue, when you hear that he was born in Limerick, you would know he is Irish - and that's the Republic of Ireland he hastened to tell me.
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This decision not to opt for the stock market route probably hastened the departure of Quinn.
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It was now obvious that he was hastening to restore the keys to their owner.
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There a servant hastened to them with water in a golden ewer which she poured over their fingers into a silver bowl.
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I wish that I had accepted your suggestion to substitute in my script an explanatory phrase for the neologism "preprepared," and if it had crossed your minds or had dawned on mine that the word could be thought of as implying that I had reflected even remotely on the character of Bernard Knox, I should have written instead what I now hasten to send to you.
Crusty Christopher
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His servant hastened to make all ready, build fires and heat water for the baths and prepare food.
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Last season, it was an MTV adaptation of a British show, the racy, teen sex-laden "Skins," that drew the ire of protestors, though "The Playboy Club," with its public airwave chasteness and age of consent actors, shares little in common with that show.
'The Playboy Club' Anti-Porn Groups Boycott: Pink Cross, Morality In Media Protest NBC Show
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A number of times in Scripture when addressing the Jews, God chastened them for not obeying His Word.
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The President now seems a more chastened and less confident politician than when he set out a week ago.
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Pakistan suffered a chastening time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
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Or dost thou, the habitant of some bright star, where frailty such as ours is yet unknown, lend to lovers a rapture unalloyed by passion's grosser sense; as, symphonious with the tremulous zephyr, chastened vows of constancy are there exchanged?
A Love Story
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He was a devoted follower of the teachings of Epicurus—“that pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily”—although I hasten to add that he was an Epicurean not in the commonly misunderstood sense, as a seeker after luxury, but in the true meaning, as a pursuer of what the Greeks call ataraxia, or freedom from disturbance.
Imperium
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More fixed-rate mortgages will also help to bring Britain into line with other countries in the European Union and hasten entry into the single monetary system - the euro.
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The objection that chastening is grievous is here anticipated and answered.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In the shadow of the Great Depression and chastened by the horror of war, Western societies sought to redefine social provision and the notion of public good.
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Not, I hasten to add, through fraud but through an error in part of the model.
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As she made good her escape - on foot we hasten to add - the purple dye pack cunningly hidden with the cash blew up and she disappeared in a puff of smoke, albeit minus the wonga and her hat.
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Germans are not the rod predestined for the chastening of these degeneracies, who knows whether we may not again, like our fathers in dim antiquity, have to gird on our swords and go forth to seek dwelling-places for our increase?
Gems (?) of German Thought
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The more remote and antitypical event, however, namely, Messiah's coming, is that to which he always hastens, and which he describes with far more minuteness than he does the nearer type; for example, Cyrus (compare Isa 45: 1 with Isa 53: 1-12).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The third type of intervention is administration of cathartic agents to increase gastrointestinal motility and hasten the expulsion of the toxin.
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The most chastening passage in the book concerns a woman called Lisl Auman.
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Is he in any way chastened by this experience do you think?
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Howsoever the best way is to contemn it, which [6214] Henry II. king of France advised a courtier of his, jealous of his wife, and complaining of her unchasteness, to reject it, and comfort himself; for he that suspects his wife's incontinency, and fears the Pope's curse, shall never live a merry hour, or sleep a quiet night: no remedy but patience.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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And so we entered the thrilling, horrifying, chastening period of the past two weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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This, I hasten to add, is not to cast any aspersion over the good intentions of either company, rather, it reflects what tends to happen generally in a market concentrated on a small number of suppliers.
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And he hastened to secure a glass coach for her in which she could drive to Miss Jean, and "see all the London ferlies," as he said, on the way.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and _scourgeth every son_ whom he receiveth.
God's Plan with Men
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Harvard University economist Jeffrey Frankel said that "this hastens a multicurrency world, but this is just one of 100 steps along the way.
Tokyo and Beijing Agree on Currency Pact
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Her hastened kiss sustains my pallid lips, her now strong arms embolden mine; her laughter lifts my body high, we swoop as one above the greening fields, the wheatstraw hills, the overflowing streams, the bountied oceans
A Visit
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This is one of the better establishments, I hasten to add.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its move led others to follow suit and the withdrawal of the supply chain hastened the collapse of the independent carmaker.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sponge-grafts are often used to hasten cicatrization of integumental wounds.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Mothers-in-law hasten sons-in-law to buy houses, thus they may assure before their daughters getting married.
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First, I'm constantly impressed by the email I receive, and I'm chastened to be reminded of the things I forget to think about.
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Time is precious, and we are concerned to be good husbands of it, because eternity depends upon it, and it is hastening apace into eternity, but abundance of it is wasted in unprofitable converse.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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After ballasting his ship with silver from the rich Potosi mines, and rifling even the churches, he hastened onward in pursuit of a richly laden galleon nicknamed _Cacafuego_ -- a name discreetly translated _Spitfire_, but which, to repeat a joke that greatly amused Drake's men at the time, it was proposed to change to _Spitsilver_, for when overtaken and captured the vessel yielded 26 tons of silver, 13 chests of pieces of eight, and gold and jewels sufficient to swell the booty to half a million pounds sterling.
A History of Sea Power
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Now here it must be related that when the Caliph went upstairs with the plate of fish he ordered the vizir to hasten to the palace and bring back four slaves bearing a change of raiment, who should wait outside the pavilion till the Caliph should clap his hands.
Still Separate & Unequal
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In December 1889, Parnell became involved in a divorce that was to end his political influence and the trauma of this divorce probably hastened his early death.
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The process is hastened by heavy inputs of chemical fertiliser and pesticides.
Times, Sunday Times
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A couple of undistinguished losses hastened the end of his career.
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Resolution, his acquisition vehicle, is domiciled in the island tax haven and is out of step with these more chastened times.
Times, Sunday Times
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I mean to destroy the Phaeton, and in this act of atonement to hasten the removal of the anti-ice curse from Earth.
ANTI-ICE
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A chastened Agassi flew home for a period of deep contemplation.
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As duke, Theseus might easily hasten on the day of marriage if he wished, and indeed he chafes at the waning 'old moon 'that' lingers my desires/Like to a stepdame or a dowager/Long withering out a young man's revenue ', and yet he chooses to abide by the self-imposed delay.
Shakespeare
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By scrambling over the wall, visitors may further hasten its demise.
Times, Sunday Times
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By their guerrilla activities they hoped to generate a revolt against Rome, thereby hastening the coming of the Kingdom.
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It was a chastening time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her heart beat quick and her face changed, yet she hastened, and was shod and stood up in knightly array by then he stayed his steps some five paces from her, and gave her the sele of the day in courteous wise; and she strove to think that he had not seen her, or at least noted her otherwise dight; yet her heart misgave her.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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The president combatively showed himself unchastened by the Senate's embarrassing rejection of his first choice.
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Many neighbors remained, but Mr. Peterkin hastened into the house to attend to Mrs. Peterkin.
The Peterkin Papers
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Hopefully that message will widen the cracks within its political establishment and hasten its demise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Raised a Jehovah's Witness, he never had a reputation for drinking or taking drugs, and his only public "romance" was with Brooke Shields, another former child star who wears her chasteness like a badge.
Michael's World
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Yet he appears to have been unchastened, continuing to enjoy long and lubricous lunches.
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Then hastened all the race of Phrygia to the gates, to make the goddess a present of an Argive band ambushed in the polished mountain-pine, Dardania's ruin, a welcome gift to be to her, the virgin queen of deathless steeds; and with nooses of cord they dragged it, as it had been a ship's dark hull, to the stone-built fane of the goddess
The Trojan Women
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Harvard Business School Professor John Quelch has called the chastened former indiscretionary spenders "simplifiers".
Peggy Drexler: The End of Normal: The New Simplicity -- Real or Reaction?
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After the nasal tampon has been inserted, wetting it with a small amount of topical vasoconstrictor may hasten effectiveness.
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The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the
Burlesques
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When he saw me, he misdoubted of me with exceeding doubt, and said to his suite, ‘Hasten and bring me yonder handmaiden who is faring forth.’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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First, we emend and perfect as soon as possible to mend actual resource tax measure gist and collection means, and we hasten saving mineral resource exploration.
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Her homecoming is somewhat earlier than expected, hastened by the recent stormy weather in the North Atlantic.
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From stage and pulpit, from press and platform, they hastened to promulgate it, until every silly girl or woman who gets herself into a scrape uses it as a defense measure; and not infrequently is it employed as a weapon of blackmail and revenge.
Madeleine: An Autobiography
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How often you have to give your peas a once-over depends on the weather, with warmer weather hastening ripening and thus calling for more frequent picking.
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But after three chastening years, the city is rediscovering its old swagger.
Times, Sunday Times
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The vision -- which i hasten to point out, is neither "religious" nor "otherworldly" -- feels like a"startling recognition.
Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought"
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I hasten to assure you that this law no longer is in vigour, so I can safely continue.
Dario Fo - Nobel Lecture
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Not that we do that any more, we hasten to add.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion.
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She hastened her steps, for the wind was a breath of chilling air and she was anxious to get home and off of her tired feet.
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Segal is suitably chastened after last week's events.
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Like Heaven's Gate, Where the Wild Things Are was a movie whose budget was totally out of whack with the financial realities of what was on-screen, and it has been widely described as a chastening flop.
Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people
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What I’m not loving so much, right this minute – though I hasten to add that this unlove is not directed at him – is the fact that my manly man decided to rip apart our bathroom this weekend and not put it back together again.
Did Iron John Do Plumbing? | Her Bad Mother
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Perhaps chastened by the experience, and certainly restricted by a hung council, Labour have subsequently become more conciliatory.
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She saw his frown and hastened to explain.
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The emergent right to receive medical assistance in hastening one's death [is an] inevitable consequence of changes in the causes of death, advances in medical science, and the development of new technologies.
Whose Right to Die?
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If -- The oldest manuscripts read, "With a view to chastening (that is, since God's chastisement is with a view to your chastening, that is, disciplinary amelioration) endure patiently"; so Vulgate.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The succah expresses chastening grace.
Times, Sunday Times
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What more could be done that I have not done, both in mercies and chastenings
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Inverlochie, and desir'd the Col.nel to minister to him the oath of allegiance, that he might have the King's indemnity: But Col. Hill, in his deposition, doth further depone, that he hasten'd him away all he could, and gave him a letter to Ardkinlas to receive him as a lost sheep; ...
The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)
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But the amount of work and stress he has is likely to hasten his demise.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her row with the MD probably hastened her departure.
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The next morning Yussuf awoke, and finding it late, hastened to dress himself in his best clothes, saying to himself, "I am a beeldar, and I will die a beeldar.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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But to the unchastened White House, apparent opposition to contraceptives, abortion and science was the opposite of disqualifying.
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I am a bankrupt both in fortune and in heart, and can only pray you will hasten to forget – that you may forbear to execrate me! '
Camilla
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These terrible warnings were sure to have the desired effect; for, with their eyes open wider than ever, they were not long in hastening their steps.
At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle: A True Narrative
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The Roman air did not agree with me, and I hastened, therefore, as soon as I had seen the illumination of the dome and the girandola, immediately after the Easter festival, through Terracina to Naples.
The True Story of My Life
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Chastened, I file right behind Ed into the auditorium.
