Even the calendar, the rhythm of the months, had become a mere convention; the moon went forward in fits and starts, as though it were about to collapse.
Then he turned and quickly said, as though it were about to escape his mind, "Diego, if you want any bread, my wife has brought some.
The three modes are very close to each other in spirit, staining each other: one often hears a barely suppressed note of desperation in the praise, as if it were about to collapse back into plea or plaint.
We'd all be in smart cars or on two wheels if it were about transportation.
If that's all it were about, I'd never have been interested.
His face had a pale-greenish tint and his strong body looked as if it were about to collapse.
The IRFA is not just about the rates paid to artists -- if that's all it were about, then there would be no need for the court-packing and chilling effects in the bill.
I also liked Yonka, because the company was French but not in your face, as it were, about its Frenchness.
The eyebrows are aggressive and mean, and make the car seem as it were about to pounce on its next victim.
I looked at the dilapidated house leaning out over the hill as if it were about to fall flat on its face.
This circa 1578 work depicts a fierce-looking cat that looks as if it were about to leap out of its frame.
