Perhaps the ordeal was taking its toll, for she suddenly gift-wrapped a service break for Williams in the third game of the second set, and her opponent never let her back in thereafter.
After all is said and done, I can only say: We get to live through this, a time when people continue to make art that isn't missed until it arrives, an unbidden and suddenly essential gift.
This holiday season, some of the richest Americans parted with more than $10,000 for a timepiece, joined by plenty of the only slightly more downtrodden, for whom a $1,000 watch was suddenly the gift to give.
Did Marx suddenly lose the gift of plain speaking?
A family home was badly damaged when a so-called 'hoverboard' bought as a gift suddenly exploded.
And standing there with the rest, I suddenly see the gift my mother gave my brother when she stayed home from his games.
An absence that might have seemed a cyclical change in migration patterns or a presence that felt like a miraculous gift suddenly feels sinister, as if all of nature were being manipulated behind the scenes.
An unexpected gift suddenly appears; the admissions office has a banner year; faculty members are recognized with major national awards; or the development office breaks a fundraising record.
As if I didn't have enough angels in my life right now in the form of friends and community, helping us in every way possible, suddenly there are gift cards appearing at my home.
It argues: "Britain has not suddenly lost its ancestral gift for improvisation.
Knowing Spanish suddenly felt like a gift I'd missed out on.
