This ill-advised act of grace was met with derision; the President's name was mentioned only in terms of scurrilous reproach; he was publicity reviled and calumniated; instead of thanks for an act of grace, they covered the author of it with contumely and insult.
instead of "thanks for helping with the house".
Another waiter, deeming his pourboire inadequate, will say "Thank," instead of "Thanks," and my friend, sensitive to such shades, will slowly simmer for days.
Instead of thanking God he thanks Gogol, the Russian writer who had saved his life, when the nurse enters the waiting room.
Maybe there is a good explanation or maybe the whole stadium things is just so perfect for sensationalizing a horrific situation someone just couldn't resist instead of saying thanks but no thanks, we need a place that is going to get people out of the lung, nose, throat, and skin damaging, chemical/smoke/ash polluted air and indoors!
Hopefully, consumers will soon consider it not just right, but also more fashionable to turn to our platforms and instead of commenting, "thanks, £10 H&M!" They will brag: "Thank you - ecofriendly, made to last, fair trade".
Onstage, I poured him a glass of ice water and, instead of a thanks, he said, "You know, I wrote a poem about you".
We must ensure that credible complaints are reported up the chain of command, both Afghan and international, and investigated thoroughly instead of vanishing thanks to some political or personal favor.
He has spent the last decade generating headlines instead of music, thanks to the endless cosmetic surgery that turned his face into that of a dressmaker's dummy, the laughably public marriages and mysteriously sired children, and dozens of other well-documented incidences of increasingly erratic behavior.
Finally, this model has 6GB of memory instead of 4 — thanks, Tosh! (Best Buy's version, the Z835, costs only $850. It has a slower chip and only 4GB of memory, but what a deal!) HEWLETT-PACKARD ENVY 14 SPECTRE ($1,400).
So, instead of giving "thanks that Christmas comes but once a year," indulge in the spirit of giving twice.
