That wasn't how she had intended it, not at all, Bacall tells me.
But in a sense, the joke ultimately worked, though not in the way Romney intended: it showed, above all, his own cluelessness.
But even if it goes through as intended, it may not deliver all it promises.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a 21-page list of guidelines for Academy Award campaigns that is intended, it says, "to allow all eligible films to be considered on as level a playing field as possible".
There is no reason they, and the rest of the country, shouldn't go all the way: the group that created the formula adopted by the Legislature, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, intended it to be used for all alimony awards.
So he coined the phrase, "one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all," intending it to express a more egalitarian vision of America, a secular patriotism to help unite a divided nation.
We stored the slate in the garden since we intend to reuse it all later, and we intend to reuse old timber for partitioning (the warped ones will be good as noggins).
I intended to try it all out, just to see if I still liked it.
And when the content we thereby assign it is fully in accord with Gricean conversational principles, this is the only way we ever do take it, the way we presume we were intended to take it all along.
While I would be undertaking something new, to the degree that I had intended to do it all along, it would be misleading to say that I underwent a change.
