He even has a ready, if somewhat mystical, explanation for how he managed to communicate with Alaïa, since they don't share a common language: "He understands what I say".
It also anticipates some of the elements in Congreve's own drama, not least in the narrator's own ready and somewhat cynical wit, and foreshadows his invocation of "Providence" in the most delicate and refined social situations.
Like Greenspan, everyone had a ready answer; somewhat to my surprise, many people offered precise percentages, as he would later do.
Richard M. Nixon identified hugely with the audacious, rough-and-ready (and somewhat nuts) World War II general who is the title character in "Patton".
We learned early on to be ready with fun, somewhat self-deprecating error messages when we get a response we didn't plan for.
I feel like I am somewhat ready, but I don't want to jeopardize my future, so that's what I am holding off for now.
All you needed to make your way in the 70s was an open shirt, an elemental sense of rhythm, and a friend who had a somewhat ready supply of Quaaludes.
"Don't get scared - get prepared," says Los Angeles-based disaster preparedness teacher, Deidra Dwyer, who adds that despite Southern California being "eighteen months pregnant" for a major earthquake, only two in every ten Angelenos are even somewhat ready, and that's an optimistic number.
Our findings showed that 62 (39.5%) of all157 women (5 out of 10 interviewed women) were completely or somewhat ready for some kind of medical interventions; and only 12 out of the 157 disagreed with the medical intervention they received.
