But as Ms. Dowd confessed, in wanting to be liked instead of attacked, she must realize that her sarcastic style invites reciprocity, and may turn off even admiring readers who weary of diatribes against "Rummy" and "W". A. Robert Smith Virginia Beach, March 13 , 2005
It's like, instead of going to the strip club and liking the dancers, you like the waitress.
Silly as they were, they were happy fantasies, what he wished his own youth had been like, instead of what it was: a grim existence with an alcoholic and abusive mother after his parents' divorce.
"I was like, 'Instead of depositing this check, I'm gonna go and cash out part of it.' I wanted to use a lot of the money on Ca$hcats," she recalled.
Well it's like instead of say being you know, the old fashioned head of the household, it's like I'm just a well not quite a nothing, but just don't have a lot of status.
That's why I want them to interview me so people know what really happened and can know what he was really like instead of just assuming things... my dad is not a bad person.
I was really unhappy and thought that this just must be what lawyering was actually like instead of my fantasy view of what the field was about.
BE like Him instead of trying to DO what He did.
Just, go on NPR and be like "No" instead of "Sorry".
For example, if someone is very mean, think, "Wow, something bad must have happened to them for them to be like this," instead of "I hate them.
