Freed of that encumbrance in the arias she sang in the second half, she performed with a vivid physicality like that of Cecilia Bartoli.
For the present they would proceed on false assumptions-assumptions shed in her huge fatigue, like arms and equipment discarded on the march, which whether recovered or regretted at some later stage, had become an intolerable encumbrance in extremity.
The posh ones, namely Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne, are in one sense the most old-fashioned kind of Tories: men interested above all in power, and aware that ideology can be an encumbrance in its pursuit.
Alec was five when Evelyn was born, but he later recalled that he felt like an only child throughout his youth; Evelyn was "no more than an encumbrance in a corner".
What the Americans and British now have to decide is whether formal alliances that include France as a major partner are worth anything at all, or if they are an actual encumbrance in times of danger.
When giving seminars to advocates, victims and survivors, I often state, "the biggest encumbrance in the victim freeing herself from domestic violence is that she loves the abuser more than she loves herself".
