It's good for your insides," I told my suspicious children, handing each a glass of green slime.
Perhaps it is my suspicious nature, an occupational hazard, but I see at least the possibility that she might have known about her money trouble for some time, and the hope of alleviating it may have been part of her motivation to donate a kidney, a desperate and pitiable measure.
That was odd, but the workers didn't seem to care about my arrival so I found one of the ineffectual short brooms with thistles on the end that are ubiquitous here and always make you wonder if they work at all, and after ten minutes of trying to push the sixteenth-inch layer of dust off the ramp to not much avail my suspicious that they are in fact pretty useless were confirmed.
"She's wise that way, my grandmother, suspicious of overwrought sentiments or overblown claims," Obama writes.
Mirta and her two sons look me up and down through narrowed eyes, trying to ascertain my motives, suspicious that I'm somehow an enemy agent.
Even so, my dad was suspicious of my new gig and its promise of riches (as he should have been).
Although I have every reason to believe I was cured of breast cancer six years ago, I do worry whenever I get a new symptom that I can't explain, like a pain in my ribs, a suspicious bruise, soreness in my breast.
Back at the McAllen airport the next day, a Transportation Security Administration agent searched my carry-on, evidently suspicious of my binoculars, which were swiped, peered through and run again through the X-ray machine.
It was all so suspicious, my brain hurt.
This perfect surface is utterly seductive, and so it made me suspicious (my aesthetics tend toward the puritanical), as did the immobility of the Drapers' faces and emotional lives, and the clumsy flashbacks, and the spurious premise of an altered identity, which tried to stand in for the main character's lack of depth.
Forced to purchase hastily a similar-looking vole online, at replaceyourdeadclassvole.com, we returned it only after having given it a thorough Martin Guerre-schoolingooling in the exact details of its supposed former life, should it ever be grilled by my son's suspicious headmistress about its changed shoe size.
