On the solstice and for several days surrounding it, the sun stands sentinel at dawn, hovering, as it were, before beginning its descent into dark.
The point is that both books take their "issues" on the wing, as it were, before labelling.
He is a rabid Flaubertian, and can scarcely believe that his treasured book is being staged anew, as it were, before his eyes.
A number of his supporters have warned him to be more careful -- to count to 10, as it were, before he speaks.
This is the real literary advantage possessed by American writers: non-American readers are very interested in their subject, in their content, and are willing to advance American writers a line of credit, as it were, before they have inspected their aesthetic credentials.
With his gruff, gravelly voice, which sounds as if it emanated from deep inside his body, then rolled around inside gathering force, Jacques still sounds like the taxi driver he once was (a man of the streets, as it were) before good luck and fortune intervened.
