The next morning I strolled two blocks into downtown to pick up the makings of our picnic.
If you lack the jacket (obligatory) and tie (recommended) for the absurdly opulent Louis XV restaurant at the Hotel de Paris, not to mention the €140 for the set lunch, pick up the makings of a picnic, and sniff your way to the nearest boulangerie for a fresh baguette – price, €1.
By contrast, our current sense of creativity is almost entirely bound up with the making of stuff.
the HOW came from all of the years and days leading up to the making of the decisions.
A clam is a bad note that comes up during the making of a record, which usually necessitates a retake.
At seven years old, she turned up to the making of a Federico Fellini film, City of Women.
"How Kate learnt to wave" ran one recent headline, summing up, supposedly, the making of a future queen.
He followed that up with the making of "The Wedding Banquet," released in 1993, which gave him his first Academy Award nomination for best foreign language film.
To be fair, radical architects of the 20th century have rarely enjoyed the kind of budgets burned up in the making of Metropolis, 2001 and Blade Runner - and certainly not until the ascendancy of, for example, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers.
"It was tough when it went through Essex," said Dowsett of his Tour disappointment, before going on to explain how that blow ended up being the making of this victory.
