In Electric Hotel we are put in a similar position, sitting in the dark with headphones on in the middle of an urban park and staring into a specially constructed Modernist hotel in which people are behaving rather oddly.
But with Corboy coming third, a neat preference swap would put the sitting MP in danger of losing her seat.
I don't think my back has ever forgiven me for the hours I put in sitting on uncomfortable bleachers watching the Little League games so many years ago.
(An American writer of the time quoted in the book, Hester Donaldson Jenkins, described despairingly how women in the Ottoman empire spent most of their time in listless passivity, or as she put it: "sitting").
"When we went to Paris to sign the Dayton peace accords, we had a lunch at the Élysée Palace, and Holbrooke put me sitting across the table from Slobodan Milosevic," the Serbian president, former President Bill Clinton recalled, standing with one arm around Mr. Holbrooke's widow, Kati Marton.
The story of Jobs visiting Xerox's Palo Alto research center in 1979 and realizing that the company was, as he put it, "sitting on a gold mine," is an oft-repeated foundational tale, partly because he appropriated some of Xerox's ideas.
As Hollywood Rifkin put it sitting in a San Francisco hotel room with Valley Rifkin, "Before it was merely big brother, now it's little brother too".
Maybe to some of you hardcore gamblers I'm talking about chump change here, but as Thomas put it, sitting in his car in a somber line of traffic, "It's not even all the hundreds of dollars I lost that gets to me; it's the gratification of it.
When acquiring the surface EMG (sEMG) signal, patients were put in sitting position.
To make a dog lie down, simply put into sitting position and use a treat to lure the dog down.
