Sentence examples for of such affairs from inspiring English sources

They have somehow got to the sadness of such affairs without experiencing the ecstasy that is supposed to come first.

By the perverse logic of such affairs, some of the most disastrous introductions were made in an effort to control previous disastrous introductions.

For one thing, the swap has happened extremely swiftly by the standards of such affairs, barely weeks after the Russian spy ring was rounded up.

To which the public response was also pretty much par for the course, as weary followers of such affairs muttered under a cynical breath, "Yeah, right".

While Suarez is in line to play his first el clásico, Andrés Iniesta is a veteran of such affairs and the Barça midfielder will make his 30th appearance in the fixture.

Photograph: Ratib Al Safadi/Anadolu Agency/Getty The suicide bombing of the Iranian Embassy in Beirut on Tuesday morning offered up the sort of grim tableau that is typical of such affairs: blackened bodies, wailing survivors, and, in seeming defiance of physical laws, the visible remains of one of the bombers, stuck to a nearby wall.

Cambridge, Mass., where the writer learned about politics, by watching the City Council, has an election every second year, with all of the campaigning common to such affairs.

Of course such affairs do not unfold in quite the same way in one of the world's oldest democracies and in the world's oldest autocracy.

The New Yorker, April 30 , 1960P. 39 After a recent chamber-music concert, a friend of ours who attends such affairs for relaxation picked up a crumpled program with the following communication scribbled on it: Donald: Please don't hum!

"The Dying Animal" is the story, told in harried, discursive retrospect, of one such affair, with an impossibly gorgeous young Cuban-American woman named Consuela Castillo.

Her father is responsible for this". The public airing of such unseemly affairs has been one of the most disturbing aspects of this trial for Selena's legions of fans.