"Without having really intended it, the privateers created opportunities for wealth and advancement".
All that Iago may have really intended to do, at the beginning, is get Cassio in trouble by claiming that he is sleeping with Othello's wife.
By January 1957 the two books - both immersed in the tropical Colombia of his childhood - were finished; and both left him with an aching sense of disappointment, as if he had really intended to write something else.
But if he had really intended The Doctor's Dilemma to be a tragedy, he would have made the doctors in the title plural and damned the whole profession.
"To take out a ruler and hit his knuckles?" Mr. Codey said Mr. Harvey has acknowledged that the subpoena was a mistake, and contended that if he had really intended to play politics, he would have waited until after his confirmation to issue the subpoena.
Reluctantly, the Israelis agreed, and when the Bush administration disbanded last month, it was still unclear whether Mr. Olmert had really intended to go ahead with the attack or was just bluffing in an effort to force the United States to deal with the problem.
Erica would rather know herself — her curious, real-world pretty, bat mitzvahed, whimsical self — than go looking for Chanel motorcycle boots at an outlet mall or compulsively check her text messages to see if some jerk had really intended to buy her a bourbon.
I wonder if he ever had the chance to observe a gang of gurning middle-class kids having the best nights of their lives on ecstasy, when in actual fact he had really intended it for people suffering the worst times of their lives.
Are we really to believe that record companies, desperate to pin down the new Strokes, or the new White Stripes, or some other new version of an idea someone else has already had, really intend to develop these bands over the next few years?
