"No, no, no," she said, and suppressed a chuckle.
Let a stylish young matron come tripping into the store chirping away to some friends about how much they would love meeting this really wonderful old curmudgeon character, and Doc Disch would become elaborately polite, even managing a thin smile as he suppressed a chuckle over what he would be saying about his condescending visitors once they left.
The Daily Mail's Geoffrey Lean had also been unable "to suppress a chuckle".
Kevin Sheridan, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, could not suppress a chuckle as he offered another reason for Mr. McAuliffe's seeming candor.
But when she introduced him as "the next president of the United States," the four hundred gathered in the Hood College hall could not suppress a chuckle.
I certainly found it hard to suppress a chuckle hearing Andy and Hazel, the king of targets and the hyperactive legislator, dissing the approach of the last 10 years when they were among its most on-message advocates.
As a super-hunky (check out those forearms) Mr. Springsteen vogues down the ribbon of highway in his sister's photos, it is difficult for those of a Newmanian frame of mind to suppress a chuckle.
"We couldn't see anything," said Ms. Jackson, 41, barely suppressing a chuckle, "because the lights were out!" Ms. Jackson's response says much about how many tourists in New York City have reacted to the blackout of 2003.
ALTHOUGH I'm as open to gay marriage as the next liberal, I have trouble suppressing a chuckle at the newly ecumenical wedding pages, in which the entry of "alternative lifestyle" unions into Emily Post territory seems to tweak the whole enterprise and turn the nuptial announcements into a parody of the institution itself.
I don't want to belittle the importance of all this (once you start noticing these things, you see the Pantone influence in everything from TV soap operas to car interiors), but it is hard to suppress a chuckle at the words that accompany the annual announcement of the "colour of the year".
