But at least on Sullivan Street, where the most irksome of civic duties has become a cornerstone of social life over the years -- a sort of twice-a-week, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. block party -- the return of the street sweeper was not without its compensations.
I thought of him as a sort of shaman: once or twice, I saw strange things in his face - other faces than his own.
Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.
The problem of the laundry left him slightly distraught, and as soon as the maid departed, he turned around once or twice, in a sort of dance, then motioned us to a chair and lighted on the edge of a couch.
In "Offering," there are astonishing, deeply moving moments in which Coltrane uses his voice — he cries out during a solo by Sanders, and twice sings in a sort of vocalise, pounding his chest to make his voice warble.
In this week's City Kitchen column, I'm making twice-cooked duck, a sort of Western cook's variation on a theme.
An entire wall of the exhibition is devoted to a play called "The Twice-Visited Netherworld," a sort of Dante's Inferno in which a scholar receives a special tour of the torturous "Yellow Springs" described in Chinese folk religion.
A sort of, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
After repeating the required course twice he was finally passed through a sort of miracle and was able to graduate.
Apprentices live a spartan existence, training, sleeping and eating twice daily a fattening broth in a sort of monastic collective that has few parallels in professional sport.
