Carlos's older brother, Andy Anderson Ramon Carelala – was a drug dealer, and the neighborhood guys more or less assumed that Carlos would follow in his brother's footsteps.
Compared with the hustle and bustle of Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island is the less assuming little sister with mainly single-family homes on half-acre lots.
Charles Scicolone, a wine consultant who was on our tasting panel, kept whetting our appetites by suggesting "fish from Lago di Garda" with the brighter, less assuming Valpolicellas.
Up until the middle of the last century, it was more or less assumed that the underlying consensus in America was some form of Protestant Christianity.
Even longtime admirers of Richter's work, including me, have more or less assumed that it speaks to arcane, insider concerns and tastes.
Under Medicare, patients can qualify for hospice care only if their doctors certify that they are expected to live for six months or less, assuming their illnesses run the normal course.
For the most part Ditmas Park is an area of comfortable but much less assuming bungalows, although there are some big houses listed nearby in the low millions of dollars, and some brave souls are carefully restoring the elegant Georgian-style house a block away at 940 Ocean Avenue.
I also more or less assumed that the thunder and the lightning that day were Creation tipping its hat to him, as if to say, Glad to see you here in the stands, Reverend — or maybe, Why, Reverend, what in this grieving world are you doing here at a sporting event?
When a woman says she is single by choice, it's more or less assumed that she is not respectable.
