(On his first night, my husband had takeout Indian. On his second, he made our pork chops and burned the sauce. I know this because he sent me downhearted text messages to that effect those nights, when we were both half-drunk on the bottle of wine we had each drunk -- we were more accustomed to sharing.) When the soup ran out almost a week later, I panicked.
Radio messages to that effect are going out, too.
E-mail messages to that effect, he said, were a "poor effort to get Armstrong's attention".
"I know it's been trying," he said, noting he had received several e-mail messages to that effect.
Mahmoud Zahar, a senior Hamas official, said that Arab parties were also "emphasizing the commitment of Israel" to the truce, suggesting that Hamas had received messages to that effect.
She was beginning to believe that her games could be successful commercially, a belief supported by messages to that effect by fans of her previous works.
Finally, we make a plea for those involved in research, development and implementation of communicable disease control to acknowledge that the issue to be addressed is primarily discrimination, not stigma, and to give clear messages to that effect, rather than clouding the issue by referring to stigma when we mean discrimination.
Bill Gates sent a Twitter message to the effect that the $4,000 he spent at Sundance (the cost of a ticket that gets you to the front of the queue at any screening) was the best bargain of his life.
It could be that Selby's 1978 novel comes from a time which pre-dates modern cinema's more complex view of drugs: a straightforward message to the effect that drugs are always wicked and always lead to hell was easier to carry off.
