People began singing Amazing Grace and a man shouted at them to shut up, shrieking as if he had quite lost his mind.
The consistency would indeed have been porridge-like, an attribute it had quite lost by the time Dickens's Mrs. Cratchit produced hers looking "like a speckled cannonball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half of a quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck in the top".
"I loved Rimbaud poems when I read the Norman Cameron translations in 1942," she wrote — Cameron's translation, my favorite, too, is among the very few in English that try to reproduce Rimbaud's rhymes — but she added, "I have quite lost what it was that so thrilled me".
I walked around the modern building that had taken its place and saw other buildings, but definitely not the library that I now realized I had, quite literally, lost.
One of the most popular characters, Dana, was killed off, and other characters began acting oddly - not out of grief but because the show's writers had quite literally lost the plot.
Although the power of these new religions has increased, Catholicism hasn't quite lost its privileged status.
And last fall, even though I had not quite lost 100 pounds yet, I was able to ride many rides at a local traveling fair -- including the swings!
Her only practice had been one pilot – a "sobering experience", she laughs, during which she "crashed the pips several times in a row" by mistiming her bulletin countdowns, and accidentally whacked the microphone with an expansive hand gesture, which, the studio director had to remind her, would have been quite lost on her listeners.
Instead, the intervening years have spawned a legend that has never quite lost its grip on the popular imagination of Glasgow, or Scotland as a whole.
The business, decriminalised with such optimism in the 1980s, has never quite lost its shabby aura, and has in fact grown seedier in recent decades as the hippies have died off and the frat boys, franchise-chain coffee shops, and serious criminal dealers have taken over.
And while it hasn't quite lost the habit this year's "Absolute Power" has President Gene Hackman overseeing a cover-up after his mistress is murdered by the Secret Service it has begun to paint the president in nobler hues.In "The American President" (1995), President Michael Douglas is a single father and regular guy whose amorous interest in lobbyist Annette Bening is innocently wholesome.
