Sentence examples for long greeting from inspiring English sources

He probably lasted longer than others because of his willingness to play Uriah Heep for so long, greeting his new chairman with an enthusiasm most of his fellow executives found distasteful.

Last week, he beamed like a child when he saw familiar fans in the crowd, and he spent so long greeting people individually that it was sometimes a challenge to traverse the sidewalk.

While some who had staked out positions since dawn were frustrated that he sped past so quickly, Francis took so long greeting well-wishers that he canceled a meeting with Sri Lanka's bishops in the afternoon after falling more than an hour behind schedule.

He was clearly drunk, which became more apparent when he slur-screamed a long greeting riddled with profanities.

Not everyone is impressed with the book version, though -- at the Washington Post, Ron Charles criticized the book for being padded with needless illustrations, writing, "The result feels like a long, bland greeting card.

DRESSED in a pale blue, floor-length chuba, Paige Wilson silently mouthed a paragraph-long greeting, in Tibetan, that she was about to deliver to the Dalai Lama.

Slowly at first, removing school prayer and lately the harassment of the life-long greetings of "Merry Christmas", and nativity scenes in general.

His chief pleasure, besides scarfing down the lavish offerings in the many food baskets he received, was greeting a long, long parade of visitors, a train worthy of a modern Voltaire (Buchwald called the hospice reception room his "salon").

Mexicans have a long history of greeting returnees with skepticism — for abandoning Mexico, or because they resent the United States, or view those who moved there as materialistic, culturally out of touch and arrogant.

If it is touching the hand this is Mork's "Na-Nu Na-Nu" greeting and not the Vulcan's Live Long and Prosper greeting.

Abe and Xi's handshake is just the latest in the long historical greeting line of difficult hand-shaking.