Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts today sharply criticized one of the other leading Democrats running for president, Howard Dean, asserting that some of his recent pronouncements show that his "bubble's bursting a bit".
Well, maybe the bubble is bursting a bit.
Gamma-ray bursts were a bit more complicated — "we don't really understand where they come from," Sloan said — but not impossible to calculate.
Thomas rarely talks about his players' weaknesses, which made his sudden burst of candor a bit surprising.
They are bursting with energy, a bit rowdy, and they want to win.
I burst into the studio a bit later covered in blood.
The book, despite its small size, eventually bursts at the seams a bit with occasional essays and drive-by editorials, though for the most part McEwan curbs the inevitable aging-novelist's need to register opinions on contemporary absurdities, or what seem so.
From a hotel room, Miller documented the gunfire in her own inimitable style: "The rooms had innerspring mattresses which made a rather bouncy perch for picture-taking, especially as the artillery bursts made me jump a bit each time".
Some bursting with confidence, others a bit timid, and still others who described their pictures as if they were art professors themselves.
After 17 days of installation, finally completed on Sunday night, there had been a burst of elation, followed by "a bit of a slump", she said, as she sat down for dinner, and suddenly realised there was nothing more to do.
