Not the least of these was that he possessed such an immediate, arresting presence — he lived in quest of what he called "perfect moments" — that it was possible to forget that his meandering delivery depended upon words he had committed to the page with obsessive precision.
In court, Michael Mineo told the story of his troubled young life, reciting the wrongs he had committed against others, and those he said had been visited upon him.
The ambivalence he felt upon taking power and realizing more fully what he had committed to is painful to read about.
Upon his return, Orobaze paid with his head for the lèse-majesté he had committed by accepting a seat lower than Sulla's at their meeting.
Municipalities had committed to participation in September 2011.
One example: On Oct. 14, 1893, the weekly Sporting Life expressed dismay that a female cyclist had committed "an outrage upon decency and good morals".
Earlier that year, Tillman had coupled a statement opposing lynching with a declaration that he would "willingly lead a mob in lynching a Negro who had committed an assault upon a white woman".
Camp Bucca's base commander, however, made an administrative finding that Glenn and Adeeb had "committed serious frauds upon the US government".
I myself had had a patient in whom damage to the frontal lobes of the brain "released" some of the most deeply repressed memories — memories of a murder he had committed — and forced them upon his terror-stricken consciousness.
Not until a few years ago, when he chanced upon a website that said his father had committed suicide out of guilt.
He had committed suicide".
