It's not hard to decode McClane's appeal to me back then: I, too, was a budding wiseacre who often felt overwhelmed and even victimized by the (largely benign) forces of the world arrayed against me.
OF all the exquisite, sultan-worthy delicacies that were arrayed before me during a recent trip to Istanbul, the last one I would have expected to fall in love with was a humble bulgur pilaf.
The crèches arrayed before me now come from years of collecting by my mother-in-law, and there is a place for each one.This is by way of saying that my marriage introduced me not only to Christmas, but also, in a fundamental and intimate way, to tradition.
As a beer connoisseur, I've slowly grown and improved my own massive girth with the regular ingestion of high-calorie, high-hop beer over the past few years and until now there was no source of beer information – besides word of mouth and the prettiness of the labels arrayed before me at the corner shop – to suggest which beer is far superior to its brothers and sisters.
"All I had to go on for my identity was the reactions of the people arrayed around me.
But with the family arrayed against me, and feeling increasingly isolated and uncertain, I happened to meet with Vera and her husband Morris.
Elliotts arrayed themselves around me in a living room hung with paintings by Chris and Bob (art runs in the family as well as comedy).
Prison visits always have an awkward, forced quality to them, and so it was with the mediation session, the five of us — Greg and Rick Russell, Eddie and Patricia and me — arrayed in a semicircle in a large visitation hall, two prison guards keeping watch from a respectful distance.
I just didn't expect to see these facets so neatly arrayed in front of me within the first hour of entering their world.
He also sent me the pictures arrayed throughout this post.
