Coward could declare, "To me, the essence of good comedy writing is that perfectly ordinary phrases such as 'Just fancy!' should, by virtue of their context, achieve greater laughs than the most literate epigrams".
When Luo looks at Aunty Wild Mule, his father's mistress, he feels "like a boy of 7 or 8," and yet "the pounding of my heart and the stirrings of that thing between my legs declare to me that I am that child no longer".
Declare to me that "Hidetaka Miyazaki is a video gaming genius," and I would have simply shrugged my shoulders.
When Obama first came to office, a high-ranking Israeli official declared to me that Obama "has no special feeling for us".
A friend of mine working in India declared to me that after recent events, he had no ambitions to return home permanently.
YOU can't forgive her for this," a fellow Madonna fan declared to me recently as her reworking of "American Pie," from the soundtrack to "The Next Best Thing," wafted through the microbrewery where we sat.
The motivation for writing the story came from the fact that I had an alcoholic character in my novel "Family Life," and many Indians have since declared to me that there are no Indian alcoholics.
The US News rankings is not one of them.BRIAN KELLY Editor and chief content officer US News and World Report Washington, DCIn 1971 Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan declared to me that the 1965 law establishing federally guaranteed loans was "a national disaster" that would cause university tuitions "to go out the roof".
(Conservatives haven't failed America Americaca has failed conservatives!) Thus John Hinderaker of Bush is a genius fame declares, To me, the most telling incident of the campaign season was a poll that found that among young Americans, socialism enjoys a higher favorability rating than free enterprise.
Our founding chairman, Arnold Goodman, a exemplary former chair of the Arts Council, declared to me over 25 years ago that "wherever the money comes from – it can be rolled by the mafia – if it goes to the arts it becomes good money".
Later, he said, "As we meet here, bombs are falling," and he spoke of the defenseless victims of our raids, his voice rising as he declared, "To me, that is a moral outrage that should stir the conscience of every American".
