Linguistic hedging might soften the restrictive word "every" into a more inclusive word, such as "eligible". Similarly, the value-laden word "good" might morph into the less judgmental word "grateful". By continuing that trend, we might arrive at something like "eligible grateful boys derive fun". While preserving the utility of EGBDF, we have completely lost the thrust of its meaning.
I'm grateful the boys were able to say their goodbyes and spend precious time with their wonderful mother".
Sorry, and shamefully grateful, with her boy penned there in the yard.
Dr. Needleman said he planned to use details of the Staunton case to teach those points to medical students and was grateful that the boy's parents had disclosed the painful details.
To bring home its message, it also has the de rigueur (and by now cliched) scene of a confused German prisoner being dragged into the trench where (surprise!) he is revealed to be just another scared, quivering-in-his-boots teenage boy grateful for a puff on a cigarette.
While I occasionally miss those little boys I once had dashing through the house, I am truly grateful that those boys have grown into fine men who make me proud in so many ways.
I was sitting quietly in my chair, relaxing, grateful that our boys were quiet….
Sewell is the star of the Tom Stoppard play "Rock 'n' Roll," at the Jacobs Theatre, on Broadway, in which the music-life playlist, very distinctly Stoppard's, goes more like "Bob Dylan, Stones, Plastic People of the Universe, Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Beach Boys, U2, the Cure, Stones again".
