Word: sighingly
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...that the Irish problem began, and like the play it has become, through differences of temperament, recrimination, abuse of power; muddy thinking, stubbornness and sentimentalism more and more complex, increasingly confused. "At length, on December 4, 1922," says the chronicler, "Parliament passed the Irish Constitution Bill, and with a sigh of relief men closed that volume to look forward hopefully, if with some misgivings, to a more cheerful history." He may add, sadly or cynically, that men were mistaken, but we can read no further. We cannot judge...
...Freshmen who have not reported at Wadsworth 6 to sigh up for some organized sport must report today for physical training at the Freshman Athletic Building. Lists have been posted arranging men in four sections, which meet respectively...
...Sunday evening. It is enough to disturbe the calm of the night on week days--Polar's Recess is out of order on Sunday night, and we hope that undergraduates will observe the custom to the extent of limiting their Sunday demonstration to the heaving of a gentle sigh and the turning of another page at 9 o'clock. --The Daily Princetonian
...people we dislike and people we don't know, asserting that too many of our prejudices against those about us are due to ignorance of their character. "It is normal to like people", he said, "and if we conceive an instinctive prejudice against every stranger it is a sure sigh of an abnormal or diseased mentality...
...distrust poetry with an avowed message. Experience has taught us that all too often it forgets to be poetry at all, while the deepest, truest, clearest message comes from the poetry which pretends to be nothing more. So, if someone gives you the book, you will read it through, sigh. "Thank God for Robert Browning", and make a place on the bottom shelf or your bookcase, reflecting that here are those "songs of modern speech" which Andrew Lang weant when he wrote of the Odyssey...