The character of Casaubon surely strikes a chord, whether of fear or sympathy, in many writers and academics.
Her complete lack of humility about accepting the job offer, I think, must surely strike some average people are strange, too.
England's World Cup metatarsal curse had surely struck again and after all his well‑publicised recent difficulties, Terry might have considered two words.
The normalization of prison rape — like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows — will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized.
One thing that will surely strike readers discovering his books is how deceptively simple they are, how straightforward, and at the same time how deeply they can resonate," said the translator.
But now a decision by the County Commission to dismantle and forever silence the sirens on Jan . 1has opened up a fault line of its own, as questions of hard science and geology — about the big quake that scientists say will surely strike here one day — mix with emotion and angst about how human beings and emergency managers prepare for, or deny, that eventuality.
God advocates herem not just for Canaanite foes but for Israelite cities that have backslid into pagan practices: "You shall surely strike down the inhabitants of that town by the edge of the sword, putting it under the ban, it and everything in it, and its beasts, by the edge of the sword".
But in "Diamonds" the ballerina's entrance from the far left corner of the stage — in which she addresses her partner in its opposite corner — should surely strike us as if we are viewing her from an immense distance, not a few yards away.
One of the things that will surely strike future historians about our era is the odd placidity of American cultural life at the time of a wildly unpopular war — the unexcited alternation of American death and "American Idol," so different from the eruptions that attended Vietnam — that is a result of our not having to go there if we don't have to.
We also saw the creation of giant banks that were too big to fail, something that must surely strike everyone as a problem, with the attendant combination of profits that accrue to the private sector in the good times and losses that accrue to taxpayers in the bad times.But if the point of QE is to lower yields, the sharpest fall has been in the last few months, after the policy stopped!
