First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ('the exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there.
First it marked out a racecourse, in a sort of circle, ("the exact shape doesn't matter," it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there.
Only near the end of the volume, as if a "minor devil" of his own were inspiring him, does he allow his mostly resigned, put-upon characters to exact a sort of revenge, however Midwestern-mild and temporary.
The state is just eaten up with trout water, more than 9,000 miles of it to be (sort of) exact.
Just like the cancer example, the ultimate origin of the unfortunate women's HIV viruses is not dependent on some sort of exact match with the original sample.
But we always assumed that females, with their yearning for a sort of cozy monogamous domesticity, were the exact opposite.
At the back of a small boutique a sort of fairy godfather conjured up the exact dress I was after in two weeks – at a cost of £200.
They all wear the same cufflinks, a sort of gold shark's tooth, and the exact same denier of tights.
Then the crowd sound turned from a baying into a sort of keening — I had never heard that exact tone at a show before.
So Ibn Rushd was a sort of anti-Scheherazade, Dunia told him, the exact opposite of the storyteller of the "Thousand Nights and One Night": her stories saved her life, while his put his life in danger.
Instead Mr. Eckert has deliberately placed his man of God in a sort of spiritual laboratory: a seminary, to be exact, where Poole has taught for 25 years and from which he is being forced to depart for ominous but unspecified reasons.
