To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
Quotes about unusually (16 Quotes)
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
I didn't really pay much attention to it. I liked him. I thought he was a nice kid he was unusually nice. But we weren't tight.
Although advertising is communication unusually candid about its motivation, Americans love to loathe it. As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of experts become more annoying, more people are tempted to think that some they is manipulating us, using, among other dark arts, advertising.
Ed's unique abilities and formidable track record, along with his deep understanding of and appreciation for the things that make FAO Schwarz so different and so wonderful, make him an unusually good fit for this role.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.
Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either 'late' or 'unusually cold,' 'abnormally dry' or 'fantastically wet,' for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.
Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on the rise of Christianity.... Although they do not inquire into the future, and either forget or do not know the past, yet defame present times as most unusually beset, as it were, by evils because there is belief in Christ and worship of God, and increasingly less worship of idols.
Volumes are still unusually thin at the moment, with half the Far East still on holiday.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Anybody who sees Chantal perform, whether with a sports team or in performing arts, will see her for what she is unusually talented. From a performing standpoint, she's got it. She understands how to talk to an audience, how to move, the inflection.
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
About Hypatia Mueller In an era in which the domain of intellect and politics were almost exclusively male, Theon her father was an unusually liberated person who taught an unusually gifted daughter and encouraged her to achieve things that, as far as we know, no woman before her did or perhaps even dreamed of doing.