It is also the straightforward statement of a good man who wants no more than what so many of us seek: to be able to be who we are; to do our work; to build families and to contribute to our communities.
That may sound like a straightforward statement of history.
And I hoped I should have the reserve to refrain from burdening him with a fan's fulsome, needless interpretation: that I could repay my debt with a straightforward statement of thanks.
And by now it's evident that straightforward statement of fact is not what really interests him: anecdotes, impressions, feelings are amplified, dramatized — automatically turned into stories meant to amuse.
"And, Sir," I might have said, "I hope I do not overreach myself, but your prose is clear and spare as anyone could wish, quite as ironical as Mark Twain....". And I hoped I should have the reserve to refrain from burdening him with a fan's fulsome, needless interpretation: that I could repay my debt with a straightforward statement of thanks.
In three of his four Theological Treatises (often known as the Opuscula sacra), I, II and V, Boethius uses his logical equipment to tackle problems of Christian doctrine; IV, however, is a straightforward statement of Christian doctrine, a sort of confession of faith; whilst III is a brief, not specifically Christian philosophical treatise.
This is a straightforward statement of fact.
Yet Geller rightly insists that the animal stories of Austrian Jews don't offer straightforward statements of political ideology.
His sentences are usually short, and he frequently makes straightforward statements of fact: 'He wanders from Louisiana to California and back again about twice a year.
Before arriving at some qualifications, then, we should have straightforward statements of naturalism and constructivism in hand.
