"It contained many things that are difficult: merchants, God, lots of detail.
"I understood then that this relationship was very personal to Julian, that the text as written contained many things that his own father had told him," explained von Sydow as a slice of chocolate cake arrived at the table.
Although the final bill contained many things that he supported, the last-minute weakening of the Volcker rule had confirmed some of his fears about the political process and the power of lobbyists.
In a newspaper interview in São Paulo, Brazil, he remarked that Solidarity was "a bag containing many things, including oppositions Marxists, Trotskyites and later on careerists and party members".
Liberal meliorists like to think that human life contains many things that are bad, some of which may never be entirely eliminated; but there is nothing that is intrinsically destructive or malevolent in human beings themselves – nothing, in other words, that corresponds to a traditional idea of evil.
And thus we should read the argument as follows: if you suppose that the world contains many things, then you are faced with a contradiction, for the collection must be both finite and infinite finite because it contains a definite number of things, and infinite because they are dense.
Elizabeth Pisani: To be honest, although the publishers like to say that this is a bomb-throwing, controversial book, it actually contains many things that people have been saying for quite a long time inside the AIDS industry.
Her show contained many beautiful things, especially skirts in airy oyster-gray linen worn with pared-down cutaways or vests, and a slim suit in pale blue stretch linen that defined modern comfort.
Surprisingly, the one room aimed at her tender age seemed to hold the least interest, maybe because it contained many of the things Amelia sees on a daily basis, like toy phones, plastic animals, blocks and books.
He nevertheless thought that it contained many indicators of "greater things", remarking that Hergé's sympathy for the Natives was "a revolutionary attitude" for 1931.
The book contains many insensitive things".
