On his way he put his glove up to his face and appeared to make some kind of muffled declaration.
So he's earned the right to make that kind of declaration.
A ringing – or any other kind of – declaration of modern liberties it most definitely is not.
It is the kind of declaration that leaves his state Democratic colleagues biting their fists.
Iceland's street protests were a demand for political accountability and reform, but also a kind of declaration of demotion.
"This will be perceived as a kind of declaration of war on Turkey," said Cengiz Candar, a columnist for Radikal, a Turkish daily.
The kind of declaration, one presumes, that might just have easily made by an abandoned orphan searching for words in praise of an absent parent.
"In a way, the play was a kind of declaration to my own friends, first of all, and then to my class," he told the Paris Review.
It was the kind of declaration I've learned to trust because it stems from neither fear nor a desire to curry favor.
Two hundred and thirty feet of couched stitches and terse Latin phrases, it is a beloved record of conquest in a country that prides itself on not having been conquered, a kind of declaration of subjugation.
