"I don't know what the technical term is; we sent money to the Independence Party, and $1.1 million was going to be spent to provide ballot security," the mayor said, slicing the air with his hands as though trying to explain something to a slow listener.
It is as though scientists were to explain the behavior of the mosquito by showing it to have a gene for being annoying... Now we explain things by reference to an abbreviated SLC6A4 gene on chromosome 17q12, and feel much superior for it.
This is why I love Amy Poehler's saying, "Good for her, not for me". I actually thought a lot about whether or not to even write this article because I don't like feeling as though I need to explain myself for people to accept and share in my happiness.
The shimmery white blooms are some of the first to flower after winter, as though, explains Dan, "to start the whole year off".
"Mmm," I said as though he was beginning to explain the periodic tables to me, when, really, I was more interested in end tables.
In Monologion c. 25, Anselm distinguishes those accidents which require a change in their subject from those that do not, and suggests that even God may have accidents of the latter sort (though as he goes on to explain, 'accidents' of this latter sort are accidents only according to an improper way of speaking).
She looked at me as though I had asked her to explain Einstein's theory of relativity.
And there's the weird idea that science necessarily destroys the beauty it seeks to explain (as though a learned astronomer really could dull the star shine).
So is the ability to explain, as though to a simpleton, exactly why such-and-such a movie was a box-office bomb or why some superstar's latest movie failed to open at the levels anticipated.
Mo had asked, "Who's Nancy Dell'Olio?," but the woman holding forth only knit her brow, as though she couldn't condescend to explain.
