Mr. Fletcher reached into the vat and slowly turned the curds by hand, surveying the bounty before it was pressed into rounds and cured in a cooler.
I liked the rhythm of his riff and the flow of images in his invitation to approach his "trivia buffet" with "eyes wide, plate in hand, surveying our selection of salads".
He passes the evening hours on a sagging couch, a pack of Newport cigarettes on the coffee table, and the television remote in hand, surveying a world mired in distress.
If you're standing with your plastic dish in hand, surveying the offerings — the Caesar salad, a mayonnaise-laced tub of tuna — you may be unable to avoid Blago.
If the Cub Room was a watering hole for bankers and bad first dates, the Dutch has taken up the mantle (but with better food): on a late-summer Monday when the Dow Jones had dropped more than six hundred points, one diner, whiskey sour in hand, surveying the buoyant mood, observed, "It doesn't look like Black Monday in here".
On the other hand, surveys regularly report that clinicians still continue to use CVP for predicting fluid responsiveness.
Like the handyman surrounded by a garage full of tools accumulated for past purposes, the moral philosopher takes stock of the problem at hand, surveys her shelves for available conceptual resources, and then attempts to solve the problem by taking things apart, reordering, culling out, weighing, specifying, splicing in, and putting them all back together.
So our evening began, tinnies in hand, surveying the dripping walls of the studio spaces we had submitted the next twelve hours to.
As I stood overlooking the crowd, a beer in my hand, surveying my first non-European sunset I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
The studios on the other hand, survey the horizon and see only burning piles of rubble, the smoke rising from all of the money they spent positioning their big movies for love that never came.
