I spent the morning of Valentines Day 2012 wallowing on my living room couch lamenting the end of an almost-engagement and string of dating disasters I had endured the year before.
These are heavily capitalized businesses where there's an almost physical engagement.
Trump has offered to talk to Kim, offering the possibility of breaking through the diplomatic impasse that has cut off almost all engagement with the regime.
These works suggest a desire to strip objects and gestures down to the vanishing point, an almost exclusive engagement with ideas.
"What sets the film apart, and makes it one of the more remarkable American directing debuts in recent years, is Mr. Montiel's passionate, almost reckless engagement with the possibilities of the medium," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
Julia Blackburn's Thin Paths, hailed by the judges for its "engrossing, almost obsessive engagement with the history of an Italian mountain village", and Tim Robinson's Connemara make up the rest of this year's Ondaatje shortlist, but the recent novel that summons up the "spirit of a place" for me is The Shipping News.
Indiana was the first western state to mobilize for the war, and its soldiers participated in almost every engagement during the war.
And I think it's been wonderful and even quite a stretch across totally different methods, totally different backgrounds, so that kind of friendship almost based engagement.
And this is where Pope Francis comes in, because so much of the excitement around his pontificate is a response to his obvious desire to reject these alternatives — self-segregation or surrender — in favor of an almost-frantic engagement with the lapsed-Catholic, post-Catholic and non-Catholic world.
Almost every client engagement features a bit of scope creep.
His are about a life of literary engagement: almost all of them include some musing on the state or the nature of writing, both Hughes's own or other people's.
