For Richard Holbrooke the remote, the forbidden and the barbarous were as likely to be found at negotiating tables, in cold hotel rooms, or in windowless government offices where men and women struggled to sort out the world, while he banged heads.He liked Matthew Arnold, too, and again recognised that "thirst to spend our fire and restless force/In tracking out our true, original course".
A cashmere blanket is great for long plane rides and cold hotel rooms.
Last fall, I found myself sitting in a cold hotel conference room outside Chicago, drifting in and out of consciousness during a lecture on neurologic music therapy.
Given that you are less likely to use it, don't try to use it in a freezing cold hotel room; wait until the room and the computer warms up first before switching it on.
Last February, Mr. MacDonald invited Ms. Bogert to Vancouver Island, where in the colder months hotels advertise storm-watching vacations.
Gosling looks very sad and tired as he talks about love, but that's probably because he's been discussing it all day, sat in a rather cold, dark hotel room.
The novel struck such a chord with his own existence that he took it to a cold seaside hotel in France, and there is a corresponding bleak beauty to songs such as Spanish Coast and I Want to Go to the Beach, Iggy's low vocals gritty against the smooth guitar and synth melodies.
A newly unemployed sentry insists that they're last century's hard-currency girls, waiting out the cold in hotel lobbies, wearing black leather miniskirts.
At night he gazes out from his high-rise, cold-water hotel and sees only a single car moving in the vast, impoverished capital Pyongyang.
And, after they moved to a hotel in Vancouver during a cold winter, the hotel showed up in the draft.
