The referee says, "Down!," as if he were addressing mastiffs.
Merchant is seventy-nine, asd as truculent as he ever was, but now, with Mosley, he was respectful and solicitous, as if he were addressing an esteemed elder.
The president at times acted more as if he were addressing reporters in the Rose Garden than beating back a challenger intent on taking his job.
"Can't take you anymore," he said, as if he were addressing migrants from Mexico and Central America directly, though none were in the room for the roundtable in Calexico, Calif.
And, he added, to more applause, as if he were addressing Mr. Gore directly: "These dams are important to a way of life, Mr. Vice President".
"If you're watching this, we're going to catch you," Mr. Romankow said at one point during the news conference, staring directly at a bank of television cameras as if he were addressing the escaped inmates.
With his wife at his side, he sounded as if he were addressing a political rally instead of a state struggling to start to recover — but it was a tone that matched the screaming crowd.
"I am close enough to retirement age and declining powers to be sympathetic to Lear," he said, speaking slowly and enunciating carefully, as if he were addressing an audience larger than one.
Though only a handful of people were participating in Operation Peace Camp, Doyon gave orders as if he were addressing legions of troops: PLF: ATTENTION: Everyone who supports the PLF or considers us their friend — or who cares about defeating evil and protecting the innocent: Operation Peace Camp is LIVE and an action is underway.
He has an obligation not to speak as if he were in a courtroom, where everyone would know the background of legal terms — let alone, say, as if he were addressing a jury in his native Alabama, circa 1953, or deputies serving under Bull Connor, in Birmingham.
And then again, as if he were addressing a simpleton: "We're going to be a billion dollar company".
