I thought '"What have I unearthed?" and then "Yes, this is going to be massive".
The sentiment of this song is quite bubblegum, but I felt I had unearthed some vital part that made me want to cover it as soon as I heard it.
I expected to get some high-fives from this crowd, the way I would in book circles if I had unearthed an unjustly neglected writer, another Dawn Powell.
As he wrote in True Hallucinations (1993): "I succeeded finally in 1974 in achieving a completely formal, mathematical quantification of the fractal structure that I had unearthed inside the structure of the I Ching".
When I was gathering the ingredients for my pesto, I had unearthed a prehistoric jar of pine nuts from the nether regions of my cabinet.
My luck changed some six months later, when a friend at the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton offered to help me make sense of some trial briefs I had unearthed.
"You're not going to talk about clothes, are you?" She sounds genuinely panic-stricken, as if I had unearthed an incriminating detail from her deep past that no one has confronted her with until now.
I had just one, which I unearthed in a frantic search of my apartment.
Voltaire's satire, I realised, was pallid compared to the almost universal hyper-Panglossianism I had unearthed.
"What's the song where the man is standing, holding his head?" she asked, frowning, and before long I had unearthed my old "Help!" album, and the two of us were singing, "Here I stand, head in hand".
