Honored Guests Tomorrow children can follow in the footsteps -- the very small footsteps -- of a huge literary star.
"Yet he cannot avoid the fact that his very footsteps in Washington echo these words, in the White House, in the Pentagon, in the Navy Dept., in the very offices of the independent agencies, in Lafayette Park where he once said to a squirrel which sat up before him expectantly.
From the outside it seems as if it hasn't always felt easy for Josie Rourke following in the very big footsteps of Michael Grandage at the Donmar, and it seems as if Vicky Featherstone is still in a period of renegotiation with critics and audience at the Royal Court.
I could not help marveling that the very first footsteps we had taken, and the footprints we had left on the moon's surface, would remain undisturbed for millions of years to come.
And for those eager to live like Lawrence of Arabia (minus all the conflicts, of course), one can follow his very footsteps in Jordan's Wadi Rum desert.
Now we were in Arsenyev's very footsteps.
("Jupiter's cock!" "Does it excite you to know that your very footsteps moisten my thighs?" "I will fuck your corpse AHAHAHAHA!").
Sometimes the very sound of his footsteps seemed to me tyrannical, the set of his mouth smug and mean, his hard, straight body a barrier interposed — quite consciously, even dutifully, and with a nasty pleasure in its masculine authority — between me and whatever joy or lightness I could get in life.
But even then, FDR, who had deliberately followed in TR's footsteps as the very aggressive assistant secretary of the Navy before and throughout World War I and who had campaigned for America's participation in the ill-fated League of Nations organization for peace as the 1920 Democratic vice presidential nominee, intended an internationalist approach.
To help us learn what that meant, we had to walk up and down the stairs quietly--almost noiselessly, mind you--for about an hour while he and my mom sat in the kitchen listening to our very muffled footsteps.
