Picking up glasses, she would push through groups of her own guests, guests who were laughing and passing mobile phones to each other, guests who were, for Christ's sake, trying to relax and enjoy the evening.
Big buildings, tradition for its own sake, trying to be hip with rock and roll sermons, promises of salvation do not impress those who have somehow found and tasted God's light within.
Send your replies to and, for God's sake, try to be original.
Do not keep opening and closing your hands, and, for goodness' sake, try not to stare at your shoes!
I'm torn between thinking, 'poor bloke, all he wants is a quiet night in' and 'for God's sake, try a bit harder!' However, his wife is warmer about him in person than she is in print.
It was at these moments that I would both inwardly roll my eyes, and nudge my daughter in the ribs to sit up and for God's sake try to look interested.
When the executive producers of a television pilot, "For Goodness' Sake!," tried to persuade an agent that his client should appear because the client's charity would receive a donation even if the pilot never ran, the agent passed.
The night before mother left me, (as I was to be kept in hand by the old Mistress for especial use) she, Mother, came up to my little room I Slept in the "white people's house" and laid down on my bed by me and begged me for her own Sake, try and be a good boy, Say my prayers every night, remember all she had tried to teach me, and always think of her.
Look around and make needed or wanted changes to your life but for God's sake, try to enjoy what you do have!
Next time you're confronted with a sake menu, start by ordering a ginjo or daiginjo, and if you like that style of sake, try a more expensive one the next time.
