I say "presents himself", but I'm not saying he isn't one.
Is not the weather full of delight?" "You're my translator," he said, "yes?" "Yes," I said presenting him my hand.
(I am not, as they say, present in the moment).
I'd have to say presenting the original "Gears of War" at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2006 to a crowd that was incredibly impressed is right at the top of the list.
When I say "the present moment," I don't mean we all have to be writing about iPhones and the latest designer drugs; I mean the reach of a lifetime — now, and one's youth, and one's childhood.
When I say "being present" I mean, literally, being engaged in and awake to my life.
"If somebody asked" — Carofiglio pronounced the word with two syllables — "me some years ago what is my most absurd dream, I would have said presenting a book, my book, in translation, in New York City".
"If somebody asked"—Carofiglio pronounced the word with two syllables—"me some years ago what is my most absurd dream, I would have said presenting a book, my book, in translation, in New York City".
And I say that notwithstanding the present difficulties with ExtraVertical".
"No, it's not – but it was a rubbish present," I say.
"Tango" is ostensibly framed in the present (I say ostensibly because it isn't effectively or persuasively framed there), as Bond is moved, by two events, to recall his childhood.
