It helps convince the world that their look -- a strategic pile-up of fabrics, furs, jewels, wigs and makeup -- can be designated a choice instead of a lapse of style.
She's some sort of lapsed something.
Instead, they lapsed back into a multitude of messages that spoke largely to the uninsured minority– the same mistake that has doomed Democratic reform efforts for the past generation.
Instead of hyperkinetic time-lapse vistas of human activity, Benning opts for stationary camera shots, 35 in each film, each lasting two and a half minutes, meticulously capturing the landscape of California's Central Valley.
The response in Pakistan to the UN report was muted on Friday, with television commentators sticking mostly to general points about security lapses, instead of delving into the most pointed criticism of Pakistan's powerful intelligence agencies.
Instead of fixing the time-lapse, we assume that the colony size is a measurable quantity, which is the case in many in-vivo oncological and other applications.
He speaks so many languages that sometimes, when he is trying to order his pasta al dente, he will lapse into Spanish instead of Italian.
What if, instead of showing resolve, they have merely lapsed into a state of shock so deep that assaults on their national existence cannot stir them?
She toyed with writing an instructive book about grammar for children, but, instead of attempting to redress the educational lapses inflicted upon today's kids, she decided to rectify a significant omission in her own education: she would learn Latin.
Soon a woman and her two children who lived on the fifth floor tried to escape through the same stairwell, instead of by the fire escape, a lapse in judgment that proved fatal, the chief said.
