(A beautiful phrase!) For Fidelma, Ireland is now becoming a memory, "such a small memory, young grass with the morning sun on it and the night's dew, so that light and water interplayed as in a prism and the top leaves of an ash tree had a halo of diamond from the rain, the surrounding green so safe, so ample, so all-encompassing".
Liquidity also has been ample — so much so, in fact, that some analysts have warned that the resulting buildup of debt carried substantial risks, including asset price bubbles and potentially destabilizing defaults.
"The grazing pastures were so green... the houses were so comfortable, the barns so ample, the fences so well kept, that I did not wonder, when I was told that this region was called the England of Pennsylvania," Mr. Holmes wrote at the time.
We realized this with our first bite of the risotto of the day, an entree-size appetizer that combined tiny, spicy rock shrimp with roasted garlic, tomato and an expertly made, creamy risotto, so ample and so rich we could have, should have stopped right there.
All five of this year's Documentary Short Subjects run at least twenty-nine minutwo; two run forty, and they aren't really shorts but featurettes that are both so ample in their subjects and so detailed in their presentation that they seem almost like conventional-length features that have been virtually fast-forwarded for short-subject consideration.
This is a doorstop of a biography, so ample that Madame Chiang often disappears.
Although a little extra heft is no big deal, many Americans are so ample that it ruins their health.
Having all this love so near is not lost on Knight, now 61, whose hair, once salt and pepper, is now the color of burnt white charcoal, whose once-ample paunch is not so ample anymore.
Because the baby boomers' self-absorption is so ample, there already has been no shortage of brooding about those years.
But the kitchen and bathroom are small, and still look dreary; the bedroom has ample closets -- so ample it would be tempting to rip them out and enlarge the room by about five feet.
So, ample time rests between now and when the company will appoint its new leader.
