Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burma! She was talking now with an air of finality and I began to move towards the door. "Yes, I've a sister there whom I visited in 1936 for a year." I asked the obvious question. "I was most impressed with the way the natives held themselves." The way they what? "Held themselves. It's my theory that the English don't hold themselves up so well because of their climate, constantly walking into the wind and so forth, whereas the Burmese grow up towards the sun. You know, Memorial Church reminds me somehow of Burma." I suggested...
...stark truth," Fisher said in his letter of resignation, "is that not many undergraduates trust the Young Republican Club any more. We have been too obvious in our attempts to be subtle. We have not been honest with our fellow students; we have not been honest with ourselves...
...their feet at the proper times or hunched forward in their cane-bottomed seats to pray. But when the week-long mission closed on Sunday night, Bryan Green's audiences had totaled approximately 42,000-an average of about 6,000 a night. Such crowds carried an obvious inference: modern congregations might be ready for some good old-fashioned preaching from the pulpit...
...with embarrassment at having written poetry." This caused some laughter. She spoke for about ten minutes on things that had no connection but which she wove together so smoothly with a transitional cough that every one began to enjoy just being with her from the beginning. It was soon obvious that she was only in for a chat...
...drives one almost to despair," snapped Shaw, "when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression that when I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free, and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with . . . vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche . . . Really, the English do not deserve to have great...