Word: sighing
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Then there's the course itself. Stepping up to the first tee, I could hear my father's voice: Keep your eyes on the ball, slow down your upswing, swivel your hips. I could almost hear his sigh of exasperation. Instead I swung hard, too hard, and completely missed. I tried again, and this time skulled it, sending the ball ricocheting off a few boulders before it disappeared. With admirable stoicism, Afzal dispatched two caddies to find his precious ball in the dry scrub. "Maybe you try putting," he said...
...walked out of my English midterm last Tuesday—still wondering what the name of Beowulf’s king’s brother’s landlord’s sword was, or something like that—I found myself breathing a sigh of relief. Finally, after two long weeks of writing papers, catching up on reading, analyzing literature and pondering the prospects of finding life on extra-solar planets, it was over. All of my midterms were finally behind me, and in place of frantic studying, I could resume my usual activities of napping, editorializing...
...worldly woman (Michelle Pfeiffer). But the true subject is reticence, its charms and perils -- the mannerly, orderly life that most of us try to live. Tiptoeing through the plush parlors of old Manhattan, the film finds ecstasy in the kissing of a lady's wrist, and heartbreak in a sigh. This, then, is Scorsese at his most daring: he has composed a tragic opera, sung in whispers...
...been there. Once again you’ve hit the snooze button one time too many; it’s 9:58, you live along the River Charles, and class is in Science Center—on the fourth floor. But then you breathe a sigh of relief. Thanks to the “7 Minute Rule,” even if the professor starts “on time,” you’ll only be a few minutes late. You could even hit snooze again, if you wanted to. This inane Harvard-specific tradition, whereby classes...
...that thrived on a gritty, underground image, fans often fear artistic changes could lead to the dilution of the original film’s unique charm. Fans of “Saw”—last year’s Halloween hit—can breathe a sigh of relief: “Saw II” does not fall victim to the curse of the horror movie sequel. This is another round of disturbingly gruesome imagery surpassed in horror only by the cast’s absurdly bad acting. In the movie that left adults cringing...