The enunciation of the words, rather than their manifest meaning, is all important here - a repeated fragment such as "dry your eye", repeated half a dozen times, may look meaningless on the page but is infused with longing and deep regret on Madame George, as he worries the words into new meanings while the music falls away.
"I'm lost, I just kept telling people I was lost," Mr. Vang repeated half a dozen times in the witness box.
Many of my questions - even what he wants for lunch - are met by a sort of appalled silence; occasionally they elicit a few words, which are repeated half a dozen times until they peter out.
But in combination with repeated half-shrugs and numerous movements at the corner of the lip - sometimes within seconds of one another - his suspicions are stronger.
It was only with difficulty, and repeated, half-disbelieved assurances that the gentleman on my right arm was an eminent publisher of children's magazines, whose recent appearance on a well-known talk show they were now going to be able to enjoy, that I was able to wrest control of the remote from Betty.
There's so much noise from the media, and people are so exhausted from the mayor's repeated, half-comical failings, that the public doesn't seem quite outraged enough about this mess.
As a public spectacle, this repeated half-day occurrence is concentrated in the space of the checkpoint.
For short-term studies (1 2 h), animals were first anesthesized with i.p. ketamine (50 mg/kg), xylazine (10 mg/kg), and acepromazine (1.7 mg/kg), and repeated half-doses were administered when needed over the course of the experiments.
The classic TRE, on the other hand, is a DR4 with the two tandem repeated half-sites separated by a 4 bp spacer [ 44], although IR0, ER6 and other TREs have also been characterized.
I mentioned some of these statistics in my last column, but they bear repeating; half a million women and girls die each year in childbirth and childbirth is the leading cause of death for women in the developing world.
Walking down a London alley, he had to touch every post with his cane, and, if he missed one, would go back and start over; he constantly spoke to himself, repeating half-audible incantations under his breath, and would sit in a reverie for hours, muttering and whistling; when he peeled an orange, he always had to keep the peel in his pocket.
