Word: afterthoughts
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...home, his boss caused one around the world with his State of the Union speech describing Iraq, Iran and North Korea as an "axis of evil." Though these may end up being the most memorable three words of the Bush presidency, they were inserted into his speech as an afterthought, a means of lifting Bush's rhetorical sights beyond his true target: Saddam Hussein. It was meant to be, as Hughes puts it, "a good quotable phrase," nothing more...
...IC4As] is usually an afterthought, but luckily we came to play,” Traugott said. “It was good because we were representing the team...
After the press hordes had given Harvey his due for hitting the game-winning shot, an Associated Press writer remembered Gellert, almost as an afterthought, and asked Sullivan, “Hey, how about Drew’s play...
...work to different tasks. Some, like Collier Schorr and his revealing photos of awkward adolescents, make no distinction between creating work for its own sake and trying to vend clothes. Others, such as Banu Cennetoglu and his dimension-defying landscapes, seem to be sticking in the models as an afterthought to their previous works. So the gimmick both works and it doesn’t: we indeed get to see a very rare sight, how commisioned and non-commissioned art from the same artist differ—but it’s impossible to make any sweeping conclusions because these...
...Delhi announced it would do just that. For Washington, which still needs Pakistan's assistance in hunting down al-Qaeda's Osama bin Laden and the Taliban's Mullah Mohammed Omar, the stakes are enormous. "A war between India and Pakistan would make the conflict in Afghanistan an afterthought," says Hathaway. "You could kiss goodbye any hopes for capturing Osama bin Laden...