The pictures, influenced by German Expressionism, were dark and melodramatic, as though taken directly from an early film noir storyboard.
Just before midnight, as though yielding directly to the force of Erdoğan's fury, Turkey became one of only two countries in the world to block Twitter entirely.
Bialik wrote on her Facebook page, where she also apologized for making it seem as though Sarsour directly said that Zionism and feminism are incompatible, "[The] conversation surrounding Zionism finally went too far for me to keep my big mouth shut".
Gibson delivered the line looking into the camera, as though addressing us directly.
Sometimes it might be her husband, at other times it feels as though she's directly addressing us, the reader, as she jumps from one thought to another.
Similarly, cost benefit analysis is justified not as though it were directly utilitarian but, rather, as a device that ex ante allows us to improve on the status quo.
Trump has tempered these comments by occasionally inserting some praise of the intelligence community, and he has left enough wiggle room in the things he has said so that it doesn't seem as though he's directly accusing them of working against him — only suggesting as much.
They want to live in a world where their work matters — where they can feel as though they are directly contributing to a better reality for them and their neighbors.
However, blasting away at the president as though he is directly responsible for the words of embassy staff thousands of miles away struck some as a reach.
It seemed as though Day were speaking directly to him.
