Word: exclaiming
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...making him unbearably obnoxious. His face is frozen into an expression of supreme smugness, broken occasionally by a smile of self-satisfaction. He delivers his lines stiffly and in such patronizing tones that one wonders why Billie doesn't slap him instead of kissing him--or at least exclaim, as Brock does at one point, "Don't give me them Harvard College expressions on your face...
Last week the archbishop was rearrested on suspicion of smuggling weapons to terrorists. A search of his villa revealed additional caches of weapons and ammunition, leading an Israeli officer to exclaim: "Capucci is the biggest supplier of arms and ammunition to terrorist organizations on the West Bank since the 1967 war." He is suspected of having been linked directly to several recent terrorist activities, including the aiming of North Korean-made Katyusha rockets at the area of the city where U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stayed during his May visit to Israel; the rockets were discovered before a timing...
...Norman Andersen, a motel owner, reports that when his overnight guests pick up the morning paper they exclaim: "Oh, no, not Watergate again...
...critic foolish enough to exclaim "Aha!" over gross parallels between Nabokov's experience and his literary creations is viewed by the author with scorn. Yet the soft, pervasive breath of Paradise Lost that whispers through Ada is more than an echo of Everyman's lost ardor. It is a transmogrified version of Nabokov's own lost private Eden in the Russia of his childhood. With his wealthy and gifted family, he lived in a town house in prerevolutionary St. Petersburg, and at Vyra, an idyllic, rambling country estate. For Nabokov, his two brothers and two sisters and their parents, life...
...long as the Russian's unproved theories remained merely that. Now, after years of unbudging loyalty to the party line, it suddenly occurred to Haldane that the official Soviet position on the vexed matter of genetics was nonsense. "I am a Mendelist-Morganist," he was later to exclaim plaintively. He had accepted the stifling grip of dictatorship on the spirit of a people who had given birth to Tolstoy, Pushkin and Dostoevsky. But Haldane finally choked on what was essentially a split hair-a technical scientific point...