"Cecil made a low disparaging murmur," another character says something "with a brave little quiver," the same character says something "with a little stricken look," someone else says something "with an air of momentary concession," and the Augustinian despond after sex is described as "the bleak little minute of irrational sadness".
Got some land for stationing Russian troops — say, something with a nice long runway?
Sometimes she says something with a show of improvised relish, as if she's just thought of it – and I've already read it in another interview.
(Caveat is Latin for "let him beware". In English, it means "warning". In Mr. Haig's lexicon, it meant to say something with a warning that it might or might not be so).
She cares about architecture; one of Mr. Douglas's suggestions, as they were trying to figure out their living arrangement, was that she put up a big billboard of whatever kind of house she wanted — say, something with a big old gambrel roof — and they live in an old galvanized shed behind it.
The winner -- which coincidentally began appearing on posters in thousands of subway cars, buses and commuter trains just a week before the war in Iraq started -- was actually the simplest and most abstract: "If You See Something, Say Something," with a police phone number beneath (either 1-888-NYC-SAFE 1-888-NYC-SAFE 1-888-NYC-SAFE 1-888-NYC-SAFE or 1-866-MTA-TIPS 1-866-MTA-TIPS 1-866-MTA-TIPS 1-866-MTA-TIPS
And because it's a political book it has a tremendous moral and didactic message, and yet it so transcends the teaching aspect of it that it seems to me the most remarkable model for what a novel should be, when you want to say something with a 'message'message
Even if people say something with a straight face and blinking eyes, this form of rational utterance often has an emotional basis.
I could say something with an American accent that wouldn't be funny but all of a sudden was witty and wry with a British one.
