Where's the grandeur in that?" Has age, inquired the interviewer, not brought wisdom McCain's way? "Senility is the word you're looking for," uttered Vidal.
He empurples his prose at other points, too: "Carlos was on the story," he writes of a colleague killed in Pakistan, "looking for the utter evil and the supreme good".
Among many others, they hacked the Skype account of the indie game developer I was working for at the time, presumably reading our conversations about the game we were making looking for the moment when we uttered "now to further the secret SJW agenda".
If the action is language production, e.g. uttering "I am looking for a spoon", the speaker knows full well whether the intended reference mechanism is "Nonlanguage action using de dicto reference" or "Nonlanguage action using de re reference".
Or how about the IRC in Holland, whose work on long-term finance is needed to solve the global water crisis, or those who are shining an uncomfortable light on the "$25 saves a life" lie that still is uttered by agencies looking for a quick buck instead of a real solution.
When someone approached him looking for a free cup of coffee, the teenager uttered the phrase that cast him among the victims of the war's growing depravity.
Once a trailblazer, our new-look Lara Croft is now following the lead of muscle-bound meathead super-soldiers while uttering pompous clichés like, "I went looking for adventure, but instead adventure found me".
He utters but one phrase: "What you're looking for is over there".
I can't tell you how many times back then that Americans -- looking for a silver lining in the cloud of Watergate -- uttered this phrase: "The system worked".
A recent favorite was uttered by Hazrat Inayat Khan, the Sufi teacher: "Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful".
