Just seeing it empty, as we know it will be again at the end of the play, sets a mood of sad inevitability.
Giving corporations and unions full free speech rights when it comes to elections may destroy American democracy as we know it, and then again it may not.
He signed a Republican welfare reform bill -- he had promised an end to welfare "as we know it" -- but came back, again and again, until Congress excised what he considered to be its cruel provisions.
The Labour party as we know it, now revealed once again as a walking ghost, whose writ no longer reaches its supposed heartlands.
But then again, as we know by experience, he whose desires are strong in one direction will have them weaker in others; they will be like a stream which has been drawn off into another channel.
Updike's reputation as a racy author never peaked in this way again, as we know, although he continued to plot the confusions of desire and their ensuing sexual calamities and abrasions among middle-class white folk on the Eastern Seaboard and in Pennsylvania.
In another generation the universe as we know it will have changed again.
In another generation, the universe as we know it will have changed again.
"We've had ups and downs and this is a down period and hopefully we change the cycle and go forward again as we know the league position is not good enough for the standard we have set".
This Skylight still manages to suggest how right these two are for each other and how wrong, how much we want them to be together again even as we know they can't.
The two enemies share a moment of unexpected tenderness, one that suggests that Achilles' capacity for recognizable human emotions has been enlarged: moved by the sight of the courageous old man, he weeps, thinking of his own father back home — the father and the home he'll never see again, because, as we know, he has chosen a short, glorious life.
