A shootout, once your character is visibly near death, becomes more tense.
Al-Muwaffaq, suffering from gout, was already visibly nearing his end; the vizier Isma'il ibn Bulbul and the city commander of Baghdad, Abu'l-Saqr, called al-Mu'tamid and his sons, including the heir-apparent al-Mufawwad, into the city, hoping to exploit al-Muwaffaq's imminent death for their own purposes.
Looking visibly deflated, near tears, he talked about his impending death, how he wasn't actually corrupt, and, oh, about his fifty years of service, his heroism in Korea, his civil rights efforts and how he was a victim of hounding by the press.
"It's totally impossible," he said as he stood, deeply tanned and visibly perspiring, near Campo de' Fiori late this afternoon.
Hyperspectral images of coral-CCA interactions showed that corals and CCA were in close association, yet there were no areas of cleared coral skeleton and coral tissue was not disrupted or visibly stressed near the interface (Table 1).
Printed copies of this contact information were also visibly placed near the kiosk and available with clinic staff.
The most common snow particles are visibly irregular, although near-perfect snowflakes may be more common in pictures because they are more visually appealing.
When was the last time you heard the word Web and thought of a spider?" Mary Szybist, who won for her poetry collection "Incarnadine," was visibly shaking and near tears, but she spoke steadily about the idea that culture is not altered by arguing well, but by "speaking differently" — that by rearranging language we can rearrange perception.
Four of his senior players had returned ill from the club's Champions League game in Turkey the previous week, and some were visibly running on near-empty Wednesday night.
Ever since the dawn of the space age, when astronomers glimpsed the first photographs of the far side of the moon, they've wondered why it differed visibly from the near side, particularly in its absence of the dark flat plains called maria, from the Latin for seas.
It's the latest incident of gun-rights advocates visibly displaying firearms near the president.
