The engine is made of iron and is especially interesting -- fascinating, even -- if you've had a few drinks; the movement of the piston rods and the connecting rods is hypnotic and somehow steadying.
United's swift counter-attacks had Thistle reeling, but the home side somehow steadied themselves and already had a penalty claim denied before levelling, thanks in part to some poor defending.
It was so juicy, it was almost swimming in the middle, yet somehow the crust held steady.
Should the set collapse and the lights go out, you know he'd somehow keep going, a steady companion on the other side of the screen.
Eventually, unless you are Stephen King — or have somehow ensured that a steady stream of cash will flow into your publisher's coffers — you are going to have to get out there and sell your book.
It was the thing that struck me first and most forcefully when I landed on the sunny side of America, the steady and somehow enormous blue-and-gold light that the natives took for granted, but that for me suggested something of the archaic radiance of Arcady.
What he said of Mark Twain could just as well have been said about him: "He somehow managed – despite a steady underlying seriousness which few writers have matched – to step round the pit of self-importance and to keep his membership of the ordinary human race in the front of his mind and his writing".
They have a characteristic darkness, of course – the recurrent themes of death, and the passing of time, a still-lingering preoccupation with the metaphor of water – but they seem somehow poppier now, from the steady charge of the first single, Demons, to the late-night, bar-room waltz of Pink Rabbits, via the heartbreaking simplicity of I Need My Girl.
Somehow, I've maintained a steady flow of appearances, experimentation and exploration.
For an incumbent President running for reëlection in objectively unfavorable circumstances, who has somehow managed to build up a steady if narrow lead in the polls, it may have been precisely what was needed.
