Beneath this book's dazzling veneer of commune life its true thoughts about freedom, love, fear and envy lie ready to be exposed.
Esteban Cambiasso is set to leave Inter Milan after a decade of service as Chelsea and Manchester United lie ready to capitalise on the financial disagreements which have led to stalemate with the club's hierarchy over the midfielder's contract extension.
It seems to us, her grown-up children and her pretty grown-up grandchildren, that she is always either packing or unpacking the little blue suitcase that lies ready for action on the sofa in her bedroom.
In a debate with the University of Pittsburgh philosopher John McDowell, published in the journal Inquiry, Dreyfus tells us that whenever Homer describes his heroes at a feast, instead of having them deliberately reach for bread in baskets or bowls brimful to drink, "their arms shot out to the food lying ready before them".
When I went in, he was sitting in the same quiet pose he always assumed during "personal time" in the Oval Office: glossy head tilted forward, jacket sleeves half on his desk, white cuffs protruding exactly one inch, his black Parker lying ready on its own polished leather reflection.
Grigorescu stopped again, climbed up a ladder out of the pit, cleaned the spade of the earth clinging to it with a hoe lying ready for that purpose, wiped his sweaty forehead with a handkerchief, and then came towards them; with a slow, broad movement of his arm, he indicated the entire landscape.
We will therefore pursue the pure concepts into their first seeds and predispositions in the human understanding, where they lie ready, until with the opportunity of experience they are finally developed and exhibited in their clarity by the very same understanding, liberated from the empirical conditions attaching to them.
According to Kant's arguments, certain cognitive forms lie ready in the human mind – prominent examples are the pure concepts of substance and cause and the forms of intuition, space and time; given sensible representations must conform themselves to these forms in order for human experience (as empirical knowledge of nature) to be possible at all.
