Inside that Canadian woman, smiling nicely as she fends off drunken confidences and heads off one more obvious American social faux pas at the pass, is the soul of a Canadian defenseman, imagining knocking you senseless in retaliation.
Imagine knocking out an entire math assignment the day it was assigned and not even having to bring your book home.
He has acknowledged that, for him, "The Birthday Party" echoes with the sound of an imagined knock at the door and the thud of Gestapo boots on the stairs.
I imagined them knocking at the family's door, armed with name-change papers.
Like Charles de Gaulle, he cannot imagine death knocking on his door.
They're suggestive of the Weimar Republic era from which his music emerged — drinks I could imagine Sally Bowles knocking back (one is called, fittingly, the Cabaret Cocktail).
Argeiphantes does not feature much in the works of Benjamin Black, and you can imagine Black knocking back his fourth whiskey of the day, having already churned out a couple of thousand words, leaning back in his chair, and saying, "Banville, you swot".
You can imagine Rem Koolhaas knocked this off.
"I can't imagine the Supreme Court knocking the legs out from under that industry".
Now imagine a knock on the door, with some founding mothers trying to barge in.
