Word: sighingly
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...earlier in the day you could get a sense of the edginess that also surrounds this campaign, as Obama's plane headed toward this battleground state and his chief strategist, David Axelrod, checked his watch. "These hours could not go by fast enough for me," he said with a sigh...
...matter where I wipe.” And his juxtapositions are equally nauseating. Passages about homemade chorizo are interrupted with descriptions of bovine flatulence and sloughed foot calluses. And because his journey is so ill-defined, we can’t even breathe a sigh of relief as he crunches on pig ear. He might very well eat it all again, arbitrarily deciding that it “doesn’t count.” There’s no sense of satisfaction and no end in sight. His dedication to the grotesque would have been commendable...
...Obama is unlikely to sigh irritably as Al Gore did in 2000, or get tongue-tied like George W. Bush in 2004, or seem peevish as Bob Dole did in 1996, or gaze impatiently at his watch, as George H.W. Bush did in 1992. Indeed, judging from past debates, it is McCain who has more flashes of churlishness or over-aggressiveness when attempting to corner or humble his opponent...
Robbie's response this time was almost a sigh of resignation. "Think I don't know that?" he said softly...
...Sadly, in our age ruled by liability concerns and the Americans with Disabilities Act, the once-mandated swim test is no longer a graduation requirement. No doubt the more sedentary of Harvard students can breathe a sigh of relief that they will never have to endure the indignity of forced exercise...