In a brief confrontation, Mr. Pride fired his gun once into Officer Figoski's face.
By Roger Angell October 8, 2010 Reading news that the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa had just won the Nobel Prize for Literature occasioned a brief burst of pride in this correspondent's breast, because I was sure that The New Yorker had published some stories of his, back in the seventies or eighties.
But with his passion for literature, devotion to education and pride in the brief period spent teaching undergraduates at Oxford, Burton would have felt honoured to be published by Yale and to have had his book edited and annotated in a scholarly manner by Chris Williams, professor of Welsh history at Swansea University and former director of the Richard Burton Centre for the Study of Wales.
Curt Gowdy, the Red Sox radio and television announcer, who sounds like everybody's brother-in-law, delivered a brief sermon, taking the two words "pride" and "champion" as his text.
All these themes intermingle at the Copa: the individuals in the shop window, the national pride at stake, the brief glimpse that fans get of homebred but long-gone stars, and the undercurrent of exasperation that fuels violence.
"I pride myself on having a brief biography," Ryan said with a laugh.
Hillary Clinton made an unannounced, but brief appearance during New York's annual Pride parade Sunday.
Perhaps Musical chairs Soaring In brief Smoke signals ReprintsDundee's council prides itself on having a good environmental record.
Still, this back door approach to national pride propelled the English into a brief and unprecedented stint of joyous positivity — lasting for the exact duration of the Games.
I was upset, but took great pride in fact that for a brief time I worked for the best officer I ever met.
On Thursday, Campus Pride will hold a U.S. Congressional briefing at the Capitol to further discuss findings.
