There is a sudden pin-dropping silence.
Fred is overcome by a sudden desire to pin her, to own her, to hold her up against the light and study her in ravenous detail.
"All of a sudden, I was pinned to the ground and tied up like a sacrificial cow ready for slaughter.
It was the bigger bear: a nasty shaded rampart of limestone and ice, nearly six thousand vertical feet from bottom to top, bedevilled by avalanches, falling rocks, sketchy verglas (thin ice), and sudden storms that can pin a climber for days.
Even the Bart and Lisa B-plot, involving Lisa getting a sudden addiction to Olympic pin collecting, starts out kind of bland and gets better and better as Lisa's jones grows".
Analysis of a limiting deterministic case shows that sudden loss of wave-pinning is due to saddle-node bifurcations with hysteresis.
But it would be wrong to pin NBC's sudden friendliness to "Law & Order" solely on the network's problems.
"Then all of a sudden that bumper sticker or that flag pin doesn't mean anything anymore".
Another was a sudden fad of wearing fraternity pins on stockings.
The sport's sudden, sweaty reversals — its flips, pins, escapes, and submissions — are all metaphorically made for a novel that evangelizes in favor of people's potential versatility.
Like his creator, Abbott is also a wrestler and, Mallon writes, wrestling has rarely served Irving better than it does in this book: The sport's sudden, sweaty reversals — its flips, pins, escapes, and submissions — are all metaphorically made for a novel that evangelizes in favor of people's potential versatility.
