This, too, came unexpectedly; he himself had "never thought of such a thing, such a solution through violence," and he described his reaction in almost the same words: "I lost everything, all joy in my work, all initiative, all interest; I was, so to speak, blown out".
He is not just smoking but also, rhetorically speaking, blowing smoke.
What happened in the past and what will happen again in 2012 is that the media (broadly speaking) blow through their pre-primary budgets quickly, overspend on early caucus and primary coverage, and then cut back sharply to conserve funds for convention and general election coverage.
Before Ross could even speak, Coach Lawrence blew up at him.
Recently, the LifeSafer device was upgraded to require users to hum or speak while blowing into it, making it difficult for anyone to thwart the system with a can of compressed air or an air-filled balloon.
What these guys are doing, as we speak, will blow your tech savvy minds.
A few hours after he spoke, Bobby Parnell blew a save in the ninth inning and Tim Byrdak did the same in the 10th.
"He got there because people said, 'When this guy speaks, he blows you away".' He has also demonstrated an ability to make fun of himself -- a time-honored way of deflecting criticism.
During his first term as governor he slashed taxes by more than $1 billion, introduced America's first statewide school-voucher programme, appointed a pro-life Catholic to the state's Supreme Court, spoke of "blowing up" state agencies and took on just about every Democratic interest group imaginable, from the teachers' unions to minority lobbies.
After the first one, unfortunately, the club had their agm and the chairman spoke and blew out of the water everything Peter and I had agreed.
As Megan Bruck Syal, a planetary defense researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory tweeted after we previously spoke about blowing up sizeable asteroids, it's these "city-killers" that her colleagues worry about.
