Observers sometimes considered him odd, even mad, and almost everyone remarked upon his amazing vitality, penetrating gaze and enormous personal force, but Dickens prevented his contemporaries from filling in the narrative and accounting for his unusual qualities.
Speaking in the presidential ballroom of his new luxury hotel in Washington, Trump boasted about his new establishment, trotted out over a half-dozen generals to fawn over him and then almost casually remarked that he now thinks the president was born in the US, before walking swiftly away in what bore more resemblance to a dog and pony show than a campaign event.
At that time, events were still on strike, and he remarked almost wistfully: "I did this critique of technology, but I would not do that any more.
Almost everybody remarked the next day that many remarkable things occurred on what most people thought would be the dullest Saturday of the season.
"This is your new branding of Nancy Pelosi, kind of like a giant slayer almost," Stahl remarked.
Almost everyone remarked on it -- the depth of hearing that piece in such a large acoustic.
"Fitzgerald was right, and almost for that remark alone he must surely have been received in Balzac's bosom in the heaven of novelists".
We fall into reminiscences and almost her first remark is "I remember when you started smoking: you must have been about 17!" She had been the escorting teacher on a sixth-formers' trip by coach to Holland, and away from home for the first time, many of us took to wicked ways.
He turns to his young sidekick, and almost to the camera remarks, "Iced that guy…to cone a phrase".
Whilst that didn't happen, more than 150,000 papers were judged to have been marked illegitimately and were sent for remark, and almost 50,000 grades were changed.
Take Corbyn's speech to the TUC annual congress in Brighton, his first major address since being appointed and almost his first public remarks as leader in any context, having spent no little effort in his first 72 hours rebuffing the determined attentions of the nation's press.
