These were the Azzurri, the blues who will represent Italy at the World Baseball Classic, drawing scattered words of Italian encouragement from Piazza, their hitting coach.
John Hersey, who acted as Lewis's secretary for a summer, was horrified, as he "endlessly" retyped drafts, "to see thousands upon thousands of words — not scattered words and phrases but long passages, whole scenes — ruthlessly slashed out".
It is part of Alderman's schtick to pepper her novel with Hebrew terms, but she scatters words many Jews, let alone non-Jews, won't recognise, and mostly for no good narrative reason, so rendering the language lifeless.
The man was everywhere, nattering on in his homely way, scattering words like so much grass seed and gazing off mist-eyed into the middle distance whenever he came up with a particularly tasty truism... Attenborough's hushed, professorial whisper always gives the impression that he's happy to be dispenseing precious knowledge,... Titchmarsh is more insistent.
The word of god has become scattered words, now lacking a divine unity and mission.
if you're searching through an online search engine such as Google, enclose the phrase with quotation marks ("get in the ring" and not get in the ring), so that the engine would search for the phrase as it is, and not as scattered words that just happen to be on the same page.
I get one more chance to laugh at silly stories, share some marvelous meals, plan a few retreats, hug my darling grandkids, donate time and resources to worthy projects, scatter some words onto a screen to write a blog and a book and chase Studley around the house.
Mr. Lopez scattered Spanish words and phrases through his monologues.
"Lovely, Still" is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested) for widely scattered salty words.
Appreciators tend to speak of the 72-year-old actor in hushed, reverential tones, scattering the words "daring visionary" before his name like rose petals the way that the name Manuel Noriega was preceded by the descriptive "Panamanian strongman".
