But it works just as well – possibly better – if you read it as a series of separate witty polemics on women's place in society (basically, Daily Main-sthee, in the wrong).
There appeared to be seventeen such scratches, made by a sharp blade, through the eyes, the nose, and the mouth, as if someone — possibly a Catholic partisan — had tried to obliterate the face.
And with America's economy softening (retail sales were unexpectedly weak in December, falling by 0.4% from the previous month) it looks as if new, possibly bigger, problems are on the way.
We define Y am as the potential outcome Y if, possibly contrary to fact, A were set to a and M were set to m. Similarly we may define M a as the potential mediator M if, possibly contrary to fact, A were set to a.
Cyclists aren't required to have insurance, and those who don't will have to pay for others' injuries or damage, as well as possibly their own, if they cause a crash.
He'd auction off his manuscripts and letters, and so forth--his effects--as if he were famous and possibly dead.
As if we could possibly do otherwise.
As if I'd possibly fail to listen.
It was dense, heavy, and generally unremarkable; it didn't look as if it could possibly be porous enough to contain oil.
"What am I supposed to say?" Louise sniffed, as if she might possibly cry a little, or at least try to cry.
