How To Use Kingly In A Sentence

  • Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times
  • He admired Machiavelli for recognizing that sometimes our ends are mutually exclusive and for facing that fact unblinkingly.
  • He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The period detail has been painstakingly recreated and it is shot in a sombre palette of olive greens and sepia tones.
  • Elected officials, he lectured, should not speak unthinkingly, but rather, when doubts exist, keep silent.
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  • Our brave front withstood unshrinkingly the heavy fire of rifles and cannon concentrated upon it.
  • Now, I'm not saying that wow is the devil or anything knee-jerkingly reactionist like that (although I * do* have some serious issues with some elements of it: the grind, only having one somewhat flawed model of guild leadership, etc, etc). Becoming Gamer; or "My last ever log out."
  • Such winkingly ostentatious nastiness and Mr. Pollock's habit of telegraphing violence rather than lingering over it make this violent book surprisingly easy to read and digest. The Comic-Grotesque Goes North
  • The rest of the disc isn't as sonically edgy, but the sounds and settings that Bowie & Ronson worked up for each are strikingly appropriate.
  • The idea grew from a remark made unthinkingly by chairman.
  • The result is a rockingly loud recording of spontaneous studio sessions. W♥M
  • The province takes a laissez faire approach in administering the hunting and trapping of wolves in BC, which is based simply on the reproductive potential of the species, and shockingly, without knowledge of wolf numbers. Chris Genovali: The Death Cults Among Us
  • Later in that same decade, he began developing the concept of sound on sound recording, first painstakingly overdubbing part after part on a 78 rpm record cutting machine, and then later on magnetic tape.
  • They are shockingly gracile and incredibly long-bodied, with a shape that (when seen in dorsal view) has been likened to that of a champagne flute. A 6 ton model, and a baby that puts on 90 kg a day: rorquals part I
  • While pictures often portray the man sneering down his nose at the camera, in person he is strikingly soft-spoken, almost courtly.
  • Debut novelists will make up nearly half of the Orange prize for fiction longlist, which this year tackles strikingly difficult subjects: incest, sadistic cruelty, polygamy, child bereavement, hermaphroditism and mental illness. Orange prize longlist tackles difficult subjects – and alligators
  • Even the eighteenth century British art is looking strikingly exotic.
  • Divided into sections (the Americas, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Europe), it provides natural history images painstakingly rendered by artists over centuries, which depict new forms of flora and fauna that the European world was just discovering - from the banded krait (a snake) to the white-tailed gnu. 3 books for giving
  • The building has been painstakingly restored to all its former elegance.
  • Apparently facultatively bipedal, with a toothless bird-like skull sporting large orbits, dinosaur-like cervical vertebrae possessing true pneumatic foramina, and reduced gracile forelimbs and a theropod-like pelvis, Effigia is strikingly like ornithomimosaurs (ostrich dinosaurs) in several details, mostly those concerning the skull and cervical vertebrae. Archive 2006-01-01
  • He has a sturdy build with strikingly muscular hands and chiseled features.
  • Concerned the President does not view gay men and women as "human beings whose lives, loves, and families are equal" to his own, Solomnese mockingly offered to "reintroduce" the LGBT community to their capricious ally in the White House. RedState
  • Strikingly, Podhorzer said that his union's internal polls -- which push voters hard on the question of whether people are really firmly committed to their pick -- show that as many as "15 to 20 percent" of battleground state voters remain "persuadable," as he put it, despite what public polls say about the level of undecided voters. Top Obama Labor Supporter Warns Race Remains Volatile, Says Voters Lack Clear Sense Of Obama
  • This opens strikingly with the high voices singing unaccompanied in unison.
  • Well, the inquisitor in our party was curious about the specifics of the policy, and jokingly needled the ranger about the prohibition.
  • Vietnamese have jokingly dubbed the shipbuilder "Vinasink. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • So much for the truce, painstakingly pieced together by Bill Clinton and his unique brand of insomnia diplomacy.
  • In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect... Strange Bedfellows
  • Others were tories, and adherents to the old kingly rule; some of whom took refuge within the British lines, joined the royal bands of refugees, a name odious to the American ear, and occasionally returned to harass their ancient neighbors. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
  • I do it to get shriekingly frightened because that makes me very excited and produces all sorts of fun chemicals.
  • The young woman had acquired (right after receiving her fourth -- mandatory -- anthrax shot) a shockingly precipitous mystery disease, eventually diagnosed as a bizarrely speeded-up form of ametropic lateral sclerosis -- she lost in three months the amount of muscle function a middle aged ALS sufferer would lose in four years. Sheila Weller: In This Case, A Soldier Was Treated Beautifully at Walter Reed
  • Viewers are jokingly referred to as pasty shut-ins, lampooning assumptions about the audience for online video. BikiniZero Takes Net News to ‘Natural’ End
  • If she was doing it "winkingly" how can we ever know when she's not "winking"? New Hillary Ad: "A Nation At War"
  • Mother Clap's Molly House is a camp spectacle reminiscent of music hall and it has some shockingly funny one liners.
  • The general effect of the second photograph is strikingly polychromatic.
  • Deuteronomy has a strikingly sad ending. Christianity Today
  • Note that progressives here are unthinkingly using the standard Republican framing of taxation issues -- a bicycle fee would "penalize" the "worthy" among us -- as well as fulminating in faux populist us vs. them terms. BlueOregon
  • All the women at present were busy knitting woollen garments; some were learners and did their work slowly and painstakingly. Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
  • With this in mind, he painstakingly replanted currajongs taken from the bush to shade his driveway.
  • There is a scene in which he must pierce her ears to wear the borrowed earring, and it is shockingly erotic.
  • She began assembling a gray, plastic castlelike house that looked shockingly like her own. Strangers at the Feast
  • The piano and the billiards table have been painstakingly restored. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although Somerhalder doesn't believe that Damon will continue down his heartbreakingly vulnerable path too long, he does reveal it will become problematic. Vampire Diaries' Ian Somerhalder: Andie Is Damon's "Hot Beard"
  • As an oldies act, his nasal whine, shockingly similar to his father's distinctive voice, grates on the nerves in stereo.
  • We have a HEAVY pine kingsize bed that pretty much fills the room, a backbreakingly heavy mattress and a three-door wardrobe that is just not going to be funny to move even an inch. Sheepdip Diary Entry
  • He is scornful of modern gurus, or gu-RUS as he mockingly inflects the word, and tells tour pros, ‘If they can't beat you, they've got nothing to teach you.’
  • ‘Now, I get very panicky at the sound of a loud explosion caused by a tire blowout or the sound of a car backfiring in the parking lot,’ he said jokingly.
  • A casual viewer might think that the artist has painstakingly built up these colorful topographies with paint alone.
  • A striking, graphic array of evidence in the two books strongly suggests that it was Hodel who, on January 15, 1947, killed actress Elizabeth Short, then surgically cut her in two and transported the halved, nude, exsanguinated corpse — the internal organs kept painstakingly intact — to a vacant lot, where he laid the pieces out as if in imitation of certain Surrealist artworks by Man Ray. California Dreamgirl
  • Strikingly, reaction centers appear to use that same solution not only for electrons but also for proton transfer toward their secondary ubiquinone acceptor site.
  • Where Brubeck does fall down is in his overly ornate arrangements, all painstakingly constructed to seemingly draw as many parallels with classical music as possible.
  • This debut album is breathtakingly anodyne stuff.
  • When Christian does not protest and only peers back unblinkingly, Lucas allows his hand to lightly graze the downy skin of Christian's cheek before gingerly laying it upon the blonde's hand.
  • Those mitigating circumstances, however, That doesn't mean, however, that Microsoft hasn't produced some corkingly bad adverts in its history. Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • The whole game took about an hour to play, and was all painstakingly illustrated in the Potter style - all pastels and anthropomorphic woodland creatures, which is fine if you like that sort of thing.
  • What becomes shriekingly clear after you publish a book is this: Nobody cares as much as you do. Holly Robinson: A Writer's First Year: "Do Not Snort on NPR" and Other Tips for Flogging Your Book
  • Most strikingly, in the belief that the wider dissemination of the Kabbalah would speed up the effectuation of the messianic project, the Sabbateans were systematically teaching it to their women, especially the esoteric Zohar, in which only a small, exclusively male elite would traditionally have been initiated. Sabbateanism.
  • The use of combination therapy for HIV infection has strikingly reduced transmission rates.
  • But the bulls say that conventional measures are daft in this era of breathtakingly low bond yields. Times, Sunday Times
  • What seems a random pattern of painstakingly rendered cuts in the paper is in fact a nine-times repeating pattern made from a rubber matrix print containing the Pollock-like marks.
  • Designed to be strikingly contemporary, and yet timeless, this collection of shirts is crafted from fine 100 per cent two-ply mercerised cotton, with multiple textures to create an enchanting mosaic effect.
  • Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels. A Passion for Life « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Yet this fascination with emotion trapped in pigment is pursued most powerfully and strikingly in British art of the modern and early modern era. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead, Jackson used the term jokingly to describe a false report that EPA planned to add some 230,000 new regulators. USATODAY.com News
  • But at the same time, it is NOT “pointless” to be enthusiastically, tear-jerkingly, unwaveringly “proud” of the “land of your birth” — to the point where people are actually STILL SURPRISED — or even scandalized — when yet another of “our” scandals come to light. US in Police State Top 10
  • He jokingly refuted suggestions his horse won the race because of rumours the nag had been given steroids.
  • He was right: the drums were beat perfect, the ululations from women's groups were in tune and the range of outfits had clearly been painstakingly constructed over some time.
  • When America's Founders revolted against "taxation without representation," this is precisely the kind of kingly diktat they had in mind. Reckless 'Endangerment'
  • The king looked at her in a very kingly and grand fashion.
  • He painstakingly annotates and takes notes from the books and gets information downloaded from the Internet.
  • Your belief to the contrary is also shockingly false. Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
  • It's like he was slowly coming to the realization that the grand finale of the magnificent journey had come to this shockingly humbling ending.
  • Senior sources say the prince will adopt a more kingly style, representing the Queen on more foreign assignments.
  • He is, in other words, breathtakingly unspun. Times, Sunday Times
  • I stare unblinkingly at the woman as I say it.
  • And if we've become unthinkingly certain of these unpleasantries, we can be doubly certain that the combination of the two is unthinkably unpleasant, right?
  • ‘I am one-hundred-percent male, my dearest,’ he said mockingly.
  • Although Transparente was recorded in Brazil, its 14 gem-like songs remain true to the deepest traditions of fado, the breathtakingly lyrical and melancholic music of Portugal.
  • At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space. A Monumental Moment
  • This speech does not report the movement of the betrothal message, from kingly words recounted, to messenger, to scroll, to herald's voice.
  • The earl is the vera soul of honour, and cares nae mair for warld's gear than a noble hound for the quest of a foulmart; but as for his son, he was like to brazen us all out -- ourselves, Steenie, Baby Charles, and our Council, till he heard of the tocher, and then by my kingly crown he lap like a cock at a grossart! Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)
  • Strikingly tall and model-thin, her hair is scraped back from her face and hangs down her back in a thick, dark, waist-length plait.
  • If your computer dies, your painstakingly assembled music collection dies with it. Times, Sunday Times
  • I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again.
  • I always put a pinch of baking soda in brittles or I find them tooth-breakingly unpleasant. Peanut butter crispy bars | smitten kitchen
  • The only significant feature left on the premises is a strikingly tall, narrow metal grid, twisted and contorted as it faces skyward.
  • On ‘Stronger Than Me’ she berates her passive boyfriend, calls him a ladyboy and mockingly inquires: ‘Are you gay?’
  • They're so spankingly, gleamingly clever, though, that it's clear they have been designed with adults in mind. Times, Sunday Times
  • In a shockingly inaccurate critique of QuAM for focusing on "revelry" as opposed to "awareness", the Editorial Board not only passes judgment on an arbitrary conception of education, but participates in the stigmatization of LGBT sexuality. Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.
  • For his closest friends and family his demise was shockingly adventitious.
  • His winsome hangers-on leant credence to his kingly claims.
  • Over the years we have become fast friends, and my wife jokingly calls her my girlfriend.
  • Og" at its Breathtakingly Mesmerizing Pinnacle ... Recent posts - blip.tv (beta)
  • Not every car there had been painstakingly prepared to concours condition. Times, Sunday Times
  • These strikingly similar findings provide additional support for the claim that the total number of spermatozoa in eggs not only reflects the abundance of spermatozoa in the infundibulum, but also that within the entire oviduct.
  • She said chokingly, `It's too bad you've had to put up with me so long. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
  • A doctor painstakingly threads a thin tube deep into his sedated patient's heart.
  • But the film is strikingly bereft of tangible anger, its mood more poignant than incendiary.
  • I have cracked marrow-bones on the sites of kingly cities that had perished centuries before my time or that were destined to be builded centuries after my passing. Chapter 21
  • Then with a jerk, she turned the whole upper part of her body toward her husband, the attorney; her hands resting in her lap, she stared clinchingly and suckingly into his face, while she herself became visibly whiter. Loulou
  • This one-off single sees the band present a genuinely beautiful take on Punjabi folk, backdropped by a loping funk beat and breathtakingly lovely guitar.
  • Each unit has little wrinkles at its lip from the paper painstakingly pasted over the cardboard structure.
  • Charles H. Baker Jr., in his indispensable treatise on dispensables, "The Gentleman's Companion," describes the effects of regular absinthe-bibbing: "It does nibble the keen edge off the brain until a man becomes a sorry sort of thing; aimless, listless, and generally -- shockingly -- lacking. Sampling Absinthe's Dubious Charms
  • The hair she painstakingly had dyed blonde was up in a chignon.
  • A wad of linen is painstakingly molded into the precise shape of a feline nose.
  • A short , shaven - headed youngster said jokingly into the silence.
  • Moviemaking was colossally complex, backbreakingly difficult, obscenely expensive — and it almost always failed. Toiling in the Dream Factory
  • That makes for a heartbreakingly sexy hero and tough as nails heroine. NZ/Aus Authors: Anna Campbell - Captive of Sin
  • Shockingly, the medical establishment is responding.
  • Nor are you likely to care, since (A) the plot generated by this premise is wince-makingly artificial and (B) Mr. Marshall can't decide whether to make fun of its patness or play it straight. Improper Strangers
  • We know, heartbreakingly so, that even very dedicated and inspired artists fail to claim and hold attention for their work. Agnes Gund: Helping Artists Become Artists
  • But the methodology is painstakingly punctilious due to the heavy editing involved.
  • The first episode of the passion account is that of a nameless woman who anoints Jesus for burial, correctly recognizing his kingly identity and his approaching death.
  • All evidence points to ecological technology being cost effective, if not shockingly profitable.
  • Much of the main building was covered by one of the collapsed walls, making a comprehensive search of the site a painstakingly slow process.
  • I imagined the kingly roller skates I would wear.
  • Here's a short drum passage and a time-reversed version of the same file, making the same point even more strikingly.
  • She jokingly replied," I'm here to meet a rich husband,get married,have a couple of children,and then retire and travel.
  • With workers from both parties rushing to register as many voters as possible while there is still time, the race remains nerve-rackingly close, close enough that the votes controlled by Ezzie Thomas and the firefighters might just make the crucial difference. Archive 2004-09-01
  • the murder of his kingly guest
  • More strikingly, it demonstrated that a toroidal discharge in a toroidal magnetic field established its own stable configuration.
  • Except, perhaps, for the inclusion of the dance's peat-covered stage, strikingly filmed here as it's being put in place, there seems little about this Sturm und Drang battle of the sexes for barefoot women in thin slips and bare-chested, barefoot men in black slacks that trendy French modernist Maurice Béjart or any number of earnest modern-dance practitioners might not have done. A Posthumous Spotlight on a Force of Nature
  • The new species is even more of a surprise because the animal-named Caecilita iworkramae is strikingly different from the other known lung-less caecilian, according to the study authors, Stabroek News
  • On the album, the guitar picking is so precise that it demands that every painstakingly plucked note be closely listened to.
  • What be is is mystical force incentive people fought so painstakingly?
  • Very strikingly the 'murmurings' of the children of Israel are four times referred to in this context, and on each occasion are stated as the reason for the gift of the manna. Expositions of Holy Scripture
  • Most strikingly, kinesic resonances are not only activated by immediate perception: they can also be mediated by language. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Soprano Emily Albrink's pert, pearl-toned Susanna may have been the liveliest, most affectionately detailed performance of the evening, but the coltish Cherubino of mezzo Brandy Lynn Hawkins, the amusingly frowzy Marcellina of mezzo Cynthia Hanna and the winkingly flamboyant turn by tenor Jesús Daniel Hernandez as Basilio all made fine impressions. In performance: WNO's young artists in "Nozze"
  • Being a wine merchant, I often thought, was not a gentle artistic occupation, but thoroughly backbreakingly physical. PROOF
  • how to hold your own texas holden tournament coated jokingly ease crusading autocorrelate The Volokh Conspiracy » What are the odds of that?
  • 'An anoother book coes it a "Hammer-dry-ad,"' said David, mockingly, 'soa theer yo are.' The History of David Grieve
  • It is engaging without being oversimplified, exciting without being overdramatic and strikingly truthful. Times, Sunday Times
  • What a breathtakingly practical way of helping a downtrodden group get going after decades of oppression.
  • He's proven himself too shriekingly partisan to be trusted again.
  • El Alamo, Uruguay 1175, Recoleta, edges HRC out in two areas - a bottle of really good Brazilian hot sauce on the side for those who want to add more heat, and, more importantly, a rockingly good blue cheese dressing, filled with chunks of cheese. SaltShaker
  • The Crucifixion was delivered, and therefore reckoned to be finished, but it is also strikingly economical and bold in its details.
  • A fire burning low in the grate was the sole light of the apartment; its beams flashed mockingly on the somewhat showy Versaillese furniture and gilding here, in style as unlike that of the structural parts of the building as it was possible to be, and probably introduced by The Woodlanders
  • The main source of his claim appears to be an article which is a fairly transparent, shriekingly anti-left, smear campaign.
  • If you look at how the distr cts and the circuits rule on FA and then how the Court rules, especially as the delicate right-left balance on the Court shifts, you see that his statements such as “no sensible” or “shockingly broad” are euphemisms for, “no sensible person would or should disagree with me-EV” or “this shocks me-EV”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawsuit Alleging that AIG’s Use of Sharia-Compliant Financing Violates the Establishment Clause Survives a Motion To Dismiss:
  • Then there are the white flesh and the glutin, the best of all fattening foods; and having eaten to repletion for a couple of days, the diet palls, and they begin to speak in shockingly disrespectful terms of turtle. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • the convicted killer listened unblinkingly to the reading of his sentence
  • Spankingly fresh 'fish'n'chips', plus 'home-made sauces'. Times, Sunday Times
  • Art historians will remember that these precocious painters aren't an exclusively 21st century phenomenon: Pablo Picasso showed unusual promise at the age of 8 with his bullfighter painting "Picador," while Dürer crafted a strikingly precise silverpoint self-portrait at 13. ARTINFO: From the Palettes of Babes: 5 Prodigious Child Artists to Watch
  • And anyway, as realclimate. org has painstakingly shown, the real problem with the book is not 'contrarianism' - it's that the factual underpinnings of its 'contrary argument' are easily proven to be wrong. Discover Blogs
  • Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wow, either lawnmower/toe accidents are shockingly common somebody call OSHA, or an amazingly large number of people know the guy with the foot cake. The Groom's Revenge
  • Although he prepared and executed his works painstakingly like the old masters, he wanted his works of art look like machine made.
  • Thousands of acres are painstakingly planted in tidy orchards, trellises and rows.
  • Even by the double-dealing standards of international diplomacy this is a breathtakingly cynical bargain.
  • She looks like many of the other fashionistas wafting around the building and is strikingly pretty. Times, Sunday Times
  • By conceiving a gradually increasing amount of yolk in the hypoblastic cells in the ventral side of the archenteron, the substantial identity of the gastrula stage in the three types, which at first appear so strikingly different, will be perceived. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • His first-time-out direction is imaginative and breathtakingly supple, the work of a greenhorn unsaddled by convention or limitation and able to tell a story in the precise terms forged by hundreds of live performances.
  • One day, she lost her temper, completely, suddenly and, even to herself, shockingly
  • The line his old enemy had e-mailed him returned, mockingly: Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Then, in a kind of mockingly Hegelian negation of negation, the very dimension of otherness is cancelled: one does it with oneself. The new feminists: lipstick and pageants
  • Her gaze fixed on his and held it unblinkingly.
  • Shockingly she used her umbrella as a shield and said snowball simply trampolined off the umbrella and broke on the ground.
  • But the bulls say that conventional measures are daft in this era of breathtakingly low bond yields. Times, Sunday Times
  • Viewed from afar, the works seem strikingly cold and mannered, even when evoking the distinctly human creases of flesh.
  • One strikingly beautiful gown is made of bubble wrap and organza, and another pairs paua shells and feathers.
  • The Church's autonomy from political power was asserted gradually and painstakingly, but irreversibly, despite the recurring waves of caesaropapism, fundamentalism, and anticlericalism, becoming one of the main pillars of modern Western civilization. Tea at Trianon
  • Months later, after Nixon had resigned in disgrace, humor columnist Art Buchwald jokingly give Graham a small bronze wringer .
  • I held out a hand jokingly but to my surprise he actually gave the ten-dollar bill to me.
  • They jokingly called it the battle of the bananas. Times, Sunday Times
  • The continent approached the cataclysm of 1914 with a formal apparatus for the conduct of international relations which now seems strikingly small.
  • That gap, that human gap between ethics and the law is something you explore very powerfully in this book and, heartbreakingly I think for us and yourself, come away with no answers, as you've just said.
  • Discussion of the best or most accessible vein is strikingly similar to embalmers' discussions about arterial accessibility.
  • Moreover, she looked ghastly, looked frail and thin and colourless, had aged shockingly in these months of widowhood. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Parts of all three vases were mingled together and the position of each piece had to be painstakingly documented to aid the reconstruction. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a breathtakingly infrequent occasion when I top a leaderboard of any kind.
  • Then the king kept silence and looked at the ground, and at length said to him in kingly fashion: "Behold, oh bishop, the poor people of this land are brought to shame, and I would rather fall in battle so that my people can continued to possess their land. Time To Ditch St. George
  • It seemed to look back at her mockingly, and eventually, she realized that she didn't have enough malice to withstand such devilry and took her defeat gracefully.
  • The stone meteorite, which was later determined to weigh 12.37 kilograms upon impact, was a fragment of a fiery meteor, described as flaring brighter than a full moon and strikingly visible in the night sky from West Virginia to New York. Oct. 9, 1992: My Insurance Agent Will Never Believe This
  • Substitute "tens of thousands" and the statement is perfectly, nerve-rackingly accurate. For a Lucky Few, Room at the Top
  • As theses go, this was shockingly boilerplate stuff - almost like he'd cribbed it off the internet, or a junior researcher. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the deal came together, therefore, a colleague of Jean Monnet suggested, only half-jokingly, that a statue should be erected to the man who had triggered the crisis, Gamel Abdel Nasser, "the federator of Europe". Saddam "the federator of Europe"
  • His technique was mezzotint, the hybrid drypoint technique in which a texture is applied to a prepared etching plate, and the image is painstakingly burnished in.
  • In 1979 came a short but strikingly original life of Gladstone in which Stansky used as his core material the texts of some of Gladstone's most important parliamentary speeches.
  • I jokingly call it'the palace '. Times, Sunday Times
  • This piece was followed by a post by Jerry Saltz on his Facebook page in which he exalted Thornton's criticism and jokingly suggested that the White Collar Crimes division of the FBI conduct an investigation of the auction houses - a call that is perhaps a bit sensationalist and overemotional when, in the same breath, Saltz states that he is in favor of an unregulated market. Stephanie Adamowicz: Recap of "Carte Blanche" at Phillips de Pury
  • Silk and pleats are often happy bedfellows, although pleats can also look strikingly modern on stiffer, gauzier fabric. Times, Sunday Times
  • This ability, called bioluminescence, is strikingly common, shared by as many as 90 percent of the creatures in the open ocean. NYT > Home Page
  • In fact, after I'd had the stroke I wished I'd lived a more debauched life, then I might have deserved it,’ she says, jokingly.
  • Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them. Billy Budd
  • She was strikingly good-looking, with long, wavy, fair hair, a cute face and bulbous lips.
  • Kingly accompany says: " We did not see.
  • When he jokingly referred to the story that he was descended from the Devil he meant no disrespect to his ancestor Woden.
  • Travis had made her initiation into the mystery of sensuality at once incredibly tender and shockingly passionate.
  • It is engaging without being oversimplified, exciting without being overdramatic and strikingly truthful. Times, Sunday Times
  • It builds to a shriekingly funny (and scary) revelation and a dénouement so brilliant it's almost demonic. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Eugene Levy and Christopher Guest.
  • The old saying of what's good for the goose is good for the gander comes strikingly to mind.
  • Mostly, it's the heartbreakingly honest performances by the film's four main actresses – and that Daniels dared to give Mariah Carey a mustache. Women of 'Precious' undertake transformational roles
  • Thou didst cheat her shockingly, Frank, time o 'the famine, on those nine sacks of maslin meal. The Saint's Tragedy
  • Dumb though half the kids may be, they're just plodding meat fodder for a shockingly arrogant TV experiment, which exists for no apparent reason other than to demoralise any genuine teachers watching, potentially to the point of suicide, which really would cause a crisis in our educational system. Charlie Brooker: Jamie's Dream School – a youth club with David Starkey instead of a pool table
  • I dissected preserved larvae into their component appendages and painstakingly traced each detail.
  • The leasers said they would discount the rent but shockingly enough it didn't happen.
  • And, again anecdotally, my own sense is that the academics on the right tend to be about as qualified, but not * strikingly* better than, the median. Conservatives for Affirmative Action
  • In January this year steeplejacks climbed 100 ft above the minister floor and painstakingly removed sections, to assess what needed to be done and how much it might cost.
  • Those of you who have been paying any sort of attention (as opposed to knee-jerkingly jumping to Obama's defence without question) will know that to have a muslim father is to be deemed a Muslim in the Islamic tradition. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • And he jokingly touched a model octopus as he toured the park 's aquarium. The Sun

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