Maliki's rivals in Baghdad began plotting to unseat him, and he occasionally made a display of strength.
Then, too, I desired to avoid all the hamlets strewed here and there on the sea-beach, for I was unwilling to make a display of my hideousness.
suddenly finds himself pressured to shore up everyone's confidence in the country's strength by making a display of "toughness" of one sort or another.
Through it all, Madonna made a display of arrogance, tossing off profanities, striking tough postures and glaring more often than she smiled.
Through the concert, Madonna made a display of arrogance, tossing off profanities, striking tough postures and glaring more often than she smiled.
The former hit man of modern music is now a bit like Brando's Don Corleone — he no longer needs to make a display of his power.Not since Wagner had a composer played the bully to such effect.
The cannier, cinematic one will instead make a display of the shoes, arranging her feet on a shabby-chic desk next to a Grolsch bottle of daisies atop a stack of French translations.
I guess that explains the attraction of Mustique at this time of year, along with Lyford Cay, Telluride, Sun Valley and the latest spot for making a display of escape, Parrot Cay in the Turks and Caicos.
The former hit man of modern music is now a bit like Brando's Don Corleone he no longer needs to make a display of his power.Not since Wagner had a composer played the bully to such effect.
He did not mean to be rude, unlike his father, also a Punch table member, who would make a display of removing his hearing aid when the conversation got boring, which it often did.
