He ponders his responses carefully, mostly replying with one- or two-sentence answers before tailing off.
"I see," he mostly replies, as he hears the details of each unhappy story.
"It was mostly willpower," he replied.
"Do you feel like you know more than me?" Louis asked; "Mostly, yes," Hugh replied.
Asked about his methods, he replied, "Mostly it's been with pills".
Cibber replied mostly with good humour to Pope's aspersions ("some of which are in conspicuously bad taste", as Lowe points out ), until 1742 when he responded in kind in "A Letter from Mr. Cibber, to Mr. Pope, inquiring into the motives that might induce him in his Satyrical Works, to be so frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's name".
On Monday, the Christie administration, which has replied mostly apologetically to a controversy that began with the uproar over September's closure of lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge, swung back hard against Zimmer's account, starting with an indignant statement from Guadagno.
And though American military and diplomatic officials have mostly refrained from replying publicly to Mr. Karzai's criticism, in private they have expressed concerns that relations between the allies had reached a worrisome low point right at a critical point in the war against the Taliban.
When I asked a Western diplomat later how the funding of Egypt's Islamic underground worked, he replied, "It's mostly legitimate, but it's all managed behind the scenes: through banks, insurance companies, foundations, front organizations, and mosques".
