"It's an early Christmas present instead of a lump of coal for loft tenants".
"Therapy was the key to breaking myself out of that, living in the present instead of thinking about the fear of the future".
Maybe she'd still receive a sense of love and community from more meaningful social calls when you're able to be genuinely present instead of busy with chores.
Not being able to borrow forced me to deal with issues in the present, instead of pushing them into the future.
We think there might be as many as four species of amphibian present, instead of just Prionosuchus plummeri as was known previously.
At age 25 and after a lot of conditioning work in the past six months, Capriati is in her prime and enjoying the present instead of shying away from the past.
Buddhists believe it alleviates suffering by making you less caught up in everyday stresses – helping you to appreciate the present instead of continually worrying about the past or planning for the future.
I don't know what spurred me into the kitchen, but baking tray after tray of biscuits let me focus on the present instead of my mind wandering into all sorts of places I wasn't ready for it to go.
Some also said they were angry about a proposed new rule that would allow the Parliament to approve legislation with just a majority of those present instead of a majority of the total body.
His 1997 book, "The Whole Shebang," was an attempt to take it all in; but "Seeing in the Dark," on the same subject, is even more delightful and successful because Ferris has so artfully pinned its organization to the human experiences of observers, past and present, instead of to the problems and subdivisions of the astronomical discipline.
While Julien's actors are reciting Marx in the Arena space to an audience of practically no one, Hall is one of the few artists here to respond to the real and urgent political present instead of simply rehearsing the usual art-scene rhetoric.
