By thisness I mean the moment when Emma Bovary fondles the satin slippers she danced in weeks before at the great ball at La Vaubyessard, "the soles of which were yellowed with wax from the dance floor".
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukJAMES WOOD, a British critic, fell in love with Gustave Flaubert's Emma Bovary when he imagined her fondling the satin slippers she wore at a great ball, "the soles of which were yellowed with wax from the dance floor".
Pesticides are on a short list of manmade creations the sole use of which is to kill.
On Monday, the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee held an eight-hour hearing, the sole purpose of which was to decry "excessive speculation".
He attacked business as a corrupt discipline, the sole purpose of which was to instill in people a desire to buy.
"This is a personal initiative of Abu Mazen's," Mr. Lieberman said of the United Nations bid, "the sole goal of which is to save himself".
Lens, in anatomy, a nearly transparent biconvex structure suspended behind the iris of the eye, the sole function of which is to focus light rays onto the retina.
At the Hague convention in 1899, projectiles "the sole object of which is the diffusion of asphyxiating or deleterious gasses" were prohibited from international use.
But what that verdict on the sole charge of which Karadžić was acquitted means is that what happened in the camps and around Dautović's town – burned into the dust of its own stone – was not genocide.
Or was it perhaps a vast poly-wing conspiracy, the sole purpose of which was to make me and other devotees of the size 12 Adams feel awkward and blind?
