Sentence examples for returned as though from inspiring English sources

Haneke is fluent and diverse in conversation we spoke in a mixed Euro-salad of French, English, and German and this was the only anecdote to which he returned, as though unable to shake off a persistent ache.

When Lowell's mother makes a three-month visit to him and Elizabeth Hardwick, his second wife, in Europe, Lowell writes only after they've returned, as though newly consecrating the page: "Now it's over; we have emerged triumphantly" from three months of "behaving very badly, then being very self-sacrificing," all the while "fuming inside like the burning stuffings of an overstuffed Dutch chair".

At Signature, they just staged Open House, which offered a clever conceit (the actors in a family all left the stage one by one and returned as different characters), though again it had more intellect than heat.

He returns as often as he can, though he is hesitant to say whether he would ever return fully.

Even with such manic preparation, my heart is in my mouth each time I return, as though the house might simply have dematerialized while I was gone.

At certain subway stops, the odor of rotting flesh returns, as though from a winter in Arizona, and all over town you can enjoy the blossoming of that chief attribute of New York: the smell of urine.

And though he returned as mayor in 1995, wearing African kente cloth for that situation, the white Republican Congress soon stripped him of most of his powers and took the city over again, as in the bad old days.Crack and snowSome things floored him out of nowhere: the crack plague of the 1980s and the giant snowstorm of 1987, which even the federal government couldn't deal with.

For a few hours, though, the intrigue returned as a captivating pitchers' duel played out in front of an announced capacity crowd of 42,662.

Jones' last day as a political appointee was Jan . 16 but she recently returned as a temporary civil service employee though Sept. 30, Melnyk said.

As soon as he returned to Washington, though, Biden hit the phones.

There is speculation that Kidman may return as Grace, though not if Bryce Dallas Howard can help it: "I would amputate my toes to work with Lars von Trier again".