"You did what?" I instantly knew mentioning the elf to Dave was a bad idea.
Now, whenever Newlan's name is mentioned, his computer instantly sends him a transcript of the last half-minute, waits 15 seconds, then plays a recording of him saying, "Sorry, I didn't realise my microphone was on mute".
A daughter's kind words can be warm and fuzzy, not to mention instantly humanizing, in a way that a wife's or a chief of staff's cannot.
Every now and then, Bullough offers up an indelible and vivid flash of Russia — the furious, swearing drunk, wriggling on the sidewalk "like a turtle on a jar" as policemen and teenagers stand around mocking him; the stone-faced official, "swelling like a thundercloud," who thaws instantly when Bullough mentions the name of a mutual acquaintance.
When I tweeted on Friday about how the wedding episode of "Outlander" had broken my brain in a good way, my mentions instantly filled up with dozens of excited replies.
When Hank Aaron's name was mentioned to Varitek, he instantly associated pitcher Al Downing with him.
But when the turmoil gripping Libya was mentioned, Jaffar's mood instantly changed, and he denounced "all Americans as terrorists".
As soon as he mentioned it she extended ki instantly and stayed that way throughout the class.
I was quoted a rate of almost $100, but that instantly dropped to $57 as soon as I mentioned the word "descuento".
It was green light all the way, until she mentioned her age─43─and he dumped her instantly.
