Word: sighingly
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Westerners, looking at the huge bloc which China, Russia and India make on a map, contemplating with awe the swarming myriads of Asian manpower, could not deny it. Khrushchev, before returning to Moscow last week, conveyed the measure of it with an old Chinese saying: "When the whole people sigh, there is a storm; when the whole people stamp their feet, there is an earthquake...
...string section gave off an aura as warm as the old rose of the eleven cellos. The Concertgebouw made less noise than the best U.S. orchestras, and its climaxes were never ear-piercing. Rather, it seemed to inhale smoothly, reach its peaks easily, then relax with a sigh instead of an exhausted gasp...
...intimacy of detail that makes fine reading even of such simple events as pitching camp or building a fire. Author Lott spares the reader nothing-every gush of blood from a stricken buffalo's mouth, the way a carcass explodes in the sun "with a great pop and sigh," the mechanical difficulties of skinning an Indian. This is no mere western yarn, and there are no heroics about Lett's hunters: Charley kills because he finds his manhood in killing, Sandy with an uneasy distaste for the waste. Though the dialogue is occasionally as awkward as a bull...
...person's head with nonsense which may be impossible ever to get out again." When he became Prime Minister, he never made a political or religious appointment until he was obliged to, and was annoyed when death forced his hand. "Damn it! Another bishop dead!" he would sigh. "I believe they...
...fiancé. No sooner has she arrived than Grant discovers that Hepburn, a runaway adolescent, has parked herself on his premises. Sure that Tierney won't understand, he hides the girl in the attic. From there out, it is pie-in-the-eye farce, but with a gentle sigh to be heard, just offscreen, for the inexorable way of a maid with a man. Best of all is the fine satin cushion of language underneath the folderol...