I confess, although I conquered "2666," I abandoned "The Savage Detectives" halfway through.
Although I didn't feel abandoned, it was the loneliest I'd ever felt, and it's only in hindsight that I can understand why everyone kept telling me that I was "brave" to move to Rome on my own.
GizChina, above, found some potential mock-ups that included an iPhone 4-esque bezel and casing although I doubt Apple will abandon the current metal back simply because two huge sheets of glass – even Gorilla Glass – on a 9.7-inch device is probably a bad idea.
Although I do not recommend abandoning the term 'floral isolation', I urge that we always explain in what sense we are using it.
Although Tchaikovsky abandoned those early sketches, it was the beginning of plans for his forlorn Pathétique symphony.
"And although we abandoned flogging as a tradition in the British Navy we would reinstate flogging, and he would be tied to the yardarm and flogged".
But Hill, although virtually abandoned by the senators who had forced on her the task of bringing down a Supreme Court nominee, stood her ground.
Although he abandoned the technology almost immediately for a different system designed by a British engineer, Mr. Sagall had found his calling.
He was born into a family of teachers just over 50 years ago, and, although he abandoned his own teaching career after only three years, he is instinctively didactic.
Although Egyptians abandoned Demotic more than 1,500 years ago, taking up Coptic and eventually Arabic, Dr. Johnson said the dictionary showed that the old language was not entirely dead.
