He wrote to a friend: "What labor, what perplexity, what vexation, I have endured in arranging a prodigious multiplexity of materials, in supplying omissions, in searching for papers, buried in different masses -- and all this besides the exertion of composing and polishing.
His motivation for doing all this, besides the fact that partying for a living is a lot more fun than selling shares?
Now, I read one Washington based columnist say that Californians are too politically catatonic to give a damn about all this and, besides, he pointed out, voters in Northern California have different concerns from voters in Southern California and they both have different concerns from voters in Central California.
You can't get over someone that's slobby if you're really meant to be for each other and you can't love him besides all this if he isn't the one... so take time to realize.
I was still pretty new to all of this; besides Kosovo, I had spent all my life since high school photographing in the Caucasus, not running around chasing news.
But what have they contributed to all of this, besides criticizing anyone who takes a bold stand?
"A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word ["accomplished"]; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions".
Victoria Borisova-Ollas's commission, based on a novel by Salman Rushdie, is suitably difficult to classify: it's a film by Mike Figgis; it's a reading by Alan Rickman; it's an undemanding evening's work for the Hallé orchestra - all this and somewhat less besides.
Not only was there a field audit; it being state money which means a particular way of keeping the tax records, − it also means government attorney inspections, having to deal with the ministry of science, communicate with the universities and, besides all this, there's a monitor, who also checks all the papers'o.
There was nothing about getting a contract to enhance his fortune, and besides all this the meeting never happened.
Takes in the green and even greener of his graceful lawns and gardens, lushing hedges, winding vines along the rows of cloistered columns, glorious bursting tropical flora hymn their grateful praise, and then, besides all this, the curling white-capped rolling ocean salaams to his most eminence without ceasing.
