The scale is enormous, bombastic, as if Napoleon himself had ordered it.
The President himself had ordered a study of what should be done with funds released by the war's ending.
Another customer was told by the company that Stanford himself had ordered a two-month ban on redemptions.
Welles himself had ordered cuts and editing changes before the preview -- including an almost explicit Oedipal relationship in the movie.
Two officials said Mr. Rumsfeld himself had ordered the center not to play host to the scholar.
It took an hour for Jackson to learn the truth, when Marshall told him, at 4.15pm, that Duckenfield himself had ordered the gate opened.
He told the machine that the writer shouldn't be eating hamburgers, even though DiCaprio himself had ordered one, because cows release methane gas; but you can't have tuna either, he said, because the nets capture innocent little dolphins.
And yesterday, confronted with a report that Mr. Bush himself had ordered up, the White House grudgingly and belatedly acknowledged the existence of "sound science" on which to base a global-warming policy.
The government's minister of interior, Gaetan Kakudji, one of Mr. Kabila's closest allies, went on state television to say that the president himself had ordered the curfew, suggesting that he was still alive.
Last week snow was falling – as if Aslan himself had ordered it – as The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third in the Chronicles of Narnia series, was premiered as the royal film performance.
