Word: sighingly
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...Macwonder" turned almost visibly to a kind of stupefied pity. At the end of his defense, Macmillan pleaded: "I am entitled to the sympathetic understanding and confidence of the House and of the country." But from the Tory benches, as he sat down, came a sound that was more sigh than cheer. By twos and threes, perturbed backbenchers went out to argue in the lobbies while several Tory speakers caustically condemned the Prime Minister. Macmillan rose and with bowed head left the chamber...
...feeling that Cazotte, for all his verbal prancing, is a kind of spiritual incubus who poses a real threat to the girl. When, as often happens in Dinesen stories, raw innocence confounds soft corruption, the book induces, as if by some miracle contrary to all logic, an almost palpable sigh of relief...
...when a Japanese grudgingly confesses: "Your absence is more disagreeable to me than your presence." When he falls in love with a willowy Chinese girl, she is whisked away to serve in the war effort. "Her individual suffering," Kazantzakis muses, "had assumed its true proportions, lost like a tiny sigh over the immense and dolorous face of China...
...these transitory periods that we realize how dangerously close we are to living real lives. Without these in-between times, we might undisturbed continue that remote and rotating life with which this, the Academy, is blessed. But now, in the brief gasp between the long sigh of the school year and the heady inhalation of the summer, we are shocked with the rude fact of the world about us: moving books and bricks is brutal labor; traveling is vouchsafed us or forbidden; the world beckons with one hand and slaps our cheek with the other. Tremble not: the surreal veil...
...course it's possible that the White Sox will last, possible too that the A's will turn out to be a good team, and that the Angels and the Twins will become challengers. But whether they do or not, it looks like (sigh) another Yankee year...