Eventually you start to confuse the anxiety, the obsession, and those ever-so-short bursts of affection with love.
Unfortunately, life is indeed short; and ever so much shorter for our fur babies.
He seemed ever so slightly short of breath and restless in his seat, something I'd never seen even in the throes of his worst anxious depressions.
It may be doubted whether so small a number of men ever employed so short a space of time with greater and more lasting effects upon the history of the world.
Jovovich lounges on one of the wicker sofas, her legs bunched up beneath her, wearing one of the shortest skirt I have ever seen – so short that, for fear of being thought to ogle, I am forced to maintain non-stop eye contact, chin perpendicular to my chest, as if I'm waiting for a medal.
A century later, British historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan would write in a study of the American Revolution, when talking about the impact of the victories at Trenton and Princeton, that "It may be doubted whether so small a number of men ever employed so short a space of time with greater and more lasting effects upon the history of the world".
Earlier this year, Germans were in love with Ms Merkel: no chancellor was ever so popular after so short a time in office.
In less than a year, that pandemic killed more than 500,000 Americans and some 20 million people worldwide the greatest number ever kilted in so short a period by any natural or man‐made catastrophe.
The tests, according to biographer Fred Howard, "were the most crucial and fruitful aeronautical experiments ever conducted in so short a time with so few materials and at so little expense".
