"Without comparing myself to Hawthorne, I'd have to say that 'The Scarlet Letter' is not a historical novel even though it described a period one hundred and fifty years before Hawthorne lived".
After a hearing on a state-court challenge to his conviction on that ground, the trial judge, without telling the defense, asked prosecutors to prepare a written decision and then adopted it without changes, even though it described statements from a witness who had not testified.
Yesterday Morning followed, and now there is her book about age, which is suffused by a striking contentment, even though it describes Reckord sinking further and further into illness, and her spending much time nursing.
"We're all in terrible shape because of the presence of racism and sexism in our lives.... Sexism is still not a word that gets used much in the black community, even though it describes a form of oppression that affects the majority population of the community — women!
"Why" often ends up in the second half of the sentence, even though it describes the subject.
So it seems no-one knows quite what do with this event, even though it was described this week by PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem as one of golf's "substantial properties".
It's not a novel, even though it's described as such on the cover, and Eaves has written novels before, most recently This Is Paradise, about the highs and lows of family life.
For somewhat different reasons, I avoided Kate Atkinson's "One Good Turn," because even though it was described as an "astonishing thriller" in an ad in The New Yorker, this assessment came from one Linda Grana of the Lafayette Bookstore in Lafayette, Calif.
The MoD abandoned the original plan to build carriers with catapults and arrester gear – cats and traps – on grounds of cost even though it originally described that version as the advantage over the STOVL (short takeoff and vertical landing) version, notably a "longer range and greater payload … the critical requirement for precision-strike operations in the future".
Binny later discovered that only one of the nursing staff at the unit had training in brain injuries, even though it was described as a specialist unit.
KCNT1 had not previously been implicated in OS and would not therefore have been tested for this specific phenotype, even though it was described for other severe epilepsy phenotypes after we started this project (29, 31).
