During a four-day visit to the city, artillery and small-arms fire erupted sporadically and echoed through the ruins as the population waited in a kind of hopeless squalor for Mr. Putin to make good on promises that aid and reconstruction are coming.
Wait in a strategic location.
Only one man was openly smoking a joint on the sidewalk — now legal in Montreal — but he said that was his normal procedure when waiting in any kind of line.
Women dressed like that hop out of driver-navigated Escalades to wait in only one kind of line: the kind that leads to a killer sample sale.
Furthermore, we do not use any kind of object models in order to distinguish, for instance, persons waiting in a bank from other kind of static objects.
"Ironically, very kind and was very patient with me," as Lennon's wife Yoko Ono waited in a nearby limousine.
This was supposed to be the promised land, and now we have people waiting in some kind of hellish purgatory.
When Tiepolo was summoned to Madrid in 1762, the new style of Neo-Classicism was waiting in the wings, a kind of call to order that echoed the political imperatives of the French Revolution.
There are some cold, hard facts that this part of the book has to establish too: how Judd and Ruth had assignations at the Waldorf-Astoria (and at least once left Lorraine to wait in the lobby, which was the kind of thing witnesses would remember later); how they got to talking about Albert's meager life insurance; how the double-indemnity insurance scheme was born.
I had his complete attention, and everyone in line behind me just accepted the fact; indeed, I have seen that, although I and everyone else often have to wait in lines to get service of any kind, once I (or anyone else) reach the head of the line I do get undivided attention from the salesperson, making the wait worthwhile.
