Many of The Bard's most memorable lines -- "Men of few words are the best men," "Silence...persuades where speaking fails," "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast" -- suggest that in a seller's market the seller should clam up and wait for the offers to pour in.
Perhaps in present-day societies, the attraction to money is so powerful that people who, relatively speaking, fail in their quest for increased financial resources become frustrated.
Few people who heard him speak failed to remark on the contrast between the buoyancy of his written persona and his slightly depressive and weary mien.
Communist societies that purported to institute equality for women from the top down, so to speak, failed to accomplish their goal precisely by overlooking the obvious conflict between the perfect mother and the perfect worker.
I don't speak "failed pick-up artist," but I'm pretty sure I have never heard any human being in Toronto, or elsewhere, use the phrase "date up".
I don't speak "failed pick-up artist" but I'm pretty sure I have never heard any human being in Toronto, or elsewhere, use the phrase "date up" But fine, let's just presume you spoke like a normal, non-mouthbreathing human being and let's analyze your complaint that it's difficult to ask a woman out on a date in Toronto even though that's false.
The journalists see the bankers as amoral mercenaries, who, so to speak, fail to notice the pedestrians, and the too many people who fall off the tightrope that is life in Russia.Part of the trouble is that journalists concentrate on governments, and Russia's governments tend to be corrupt, chaotic, or both.
He tried to get silence, but while the Governor was speaking, but failed utterly.
Over the next four days, attending Tessa around the clock while she stared at me without speaking, I failed to contain the major spillage, the uncontrolled peritoneal contamination, the necrosis, and an infection that laughed off antibiotics in a general cascade.
"Strictly speaking he failed to meet the qualifying conditions that we set," said Guernsey Triathlon's Mark Naftel.
