Then, surveying the room, he declared rather elliptically: "This is all good".
One of the delegates sitting next to me declared, rather loudly, that Huhne was talking rubbish.
But it would have been classier to wait until dividends are actually declared, rather than merely intended.
The opening credits of "Vietnam in HD" declare, rather nonsensically, "It's not the war you know — it's the war they fought".
The sharp fragment, "The Waste Land" declared, rather than the sonnet or the dreamy ode, would be the twentieth century's form.
Visitors reached, pointed and exchanged glances that declared, rather than suggested: "Steal this idea!" The reaction would gratify Wright, who hoped that his design principles would be observed, admired and adopted in every American home.
When Monroe arrived, she was "almost ludicrously provocative," he wrote, squeezed into a dress that was "blatantly tight, declaring rather than insinuating that she had brought her body along and that it was the best one in the room".
"Political parties are finished; the Liberal Democrats are intellectually dead," he declared, rather to the disappointment of those who had come to the meeting in search of something other than to be reminded of their existential futility.
The Sunday Telegraph, alluding to Conrad (32 in this series), declared rather loftily that "the journey to a heart of narrative darkness has become a safe literary destination, almost a cliché".
"WE FIGHT ON," the Xanadu website declares, sounding rather beleaguered, not least since the declaration is made on a website.
