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In her essay "The End of the Novel of Love," Vivian Gornick describes turning the last page of Jane Smiley's novella "The Age of Grief" and realizing "that love as a metaphor was over".
Suzan Abrams of Dublin welcomed this "novel idea," little realizing that, with a phone call or an email to a publicist, she was already in the position of obtaining a book like any dutiful journalist.
Donna Gowan, the Stones' current client, said she had heard that "they work well together," not realizing that "the 'they' was a family" until they came over to make a bid.
Having forever harbored an addiction for the beauty of a well-crafted shoe, and realizing that shops like Sam's were rare indeed, I couldn't resist the lure and began spending more and more time with Dr. Shoes.
With each practice, with each game, the Jets seem to be more fully realizing that trading Johnson may well be one of those moves that haunts the franchise for decades to come.
And it's funny because in "Fatal Attraction," I say shit as well, so reading the script for "Christmas Vacation" and realizing that I was going to be able to say shit a couple times, I was like, "Oh yeah!
It all builds toward a melodrama of modest ambitions, too proud to be shameless -- perhaps not realizing that soap opera and good taste may be one of the least appealing of contrasts.
I'm just now realizing that school is really about to be over and then college will be real.
Berning gradually became complicit in the fraud without ever quite realizing that he had strayed across the line.
