But even under siege she projects an unruffled regality.
Reading the MPs' words, what came back to me was their quirky individuality: Widdecombe's clipped, defiant accuracy; Smith's quiet solidity even under siege; King's uneasy defensiveness; Curry's warm, flirtatious insecurity; Short's earthy mix of optimism and pessimism; Williams's warm, calm long view.
Mosul and Ramadi are isolated, surrounded, even under siege, by Kurds, Baghdad and Iranian proxy forces.
No one writes like Farrell: he manages to capture the real randomness and absurdity of everyday life (and even being under siege in India has its own everday-ness) with unparalleled skill. 5. Atonement by Ian McEwan For my money, McEwan's greatest book, and something of a departure from what came before (and after).
The base, even when under siege, is very orderly, but "Hell is a realm of hostility fractured and chaotic.
It might even allow the regime to continue its own ground assaults, place even more Syrians under siege, and possibly resume its old practice of house-to-house massacres that kill hundreds of civilians in a day.
While Mr. Insua's Kafka is not exactly barbarous, he is certainly far too flattened, lugubrious and monotonal, just as his Prague seems to miss a key point: the city, which possesses a mysterious duality, is a place of aching beauty that (even when not under siege by flood) emanates a palpable anxiety.
The scientists started to feel under siege, even as they were trying to analyze every new incoming storm.
In parts of Britain, nationalist and religious identities are threatening older solidarities, while privacy and freedom sometimes feel under siege, even as we mark 800 years since Magna Carta.
Hollywood loves self-righteously to portray now-unchallenged liberal causes under siege, even though in this case the cause of free speech was vindicated when the presiding judge ruled that "Howl" was a work of "redeeming social importance" and that Ferlinghetti was innocent.
But coming on the heels of Mr. Rivera's threat, Mr. Hoffa's criticism seem to add to the sense that the Democratic party was under siege, even as Mr. Pataki appeared to be gaining ground among labor unions, a key Democratic constituency in New York.
