Printers filled their blank space with poems, jokes, prophecies, and proverbs, which were, alas, almost never beautiful, funny, true, or wise.
For another, US Airways will have to survive past the 365th day, which is, alas, not a foregone conclusion.
Frustrated, angry, exhausted, even simply defeated — any of these would have been preferable to how Kobe Bryant left New Orleans Arena on Sunday night, which was, alas, on crutches.
Mrs. Trollope, aghast at the filth and the fever-bearing mosquitoes, fled with her children to Cincinnati, which was, alas, an "uninteresting mass of buildings," where hogs rooted in the streets.
The circumstances of the death are fraught with perverse hilarity, and so, at its best, is this play, which is, alas, more often concerned with proving a self-evident dictum: life is not a carnival (2 20).
The circumstances of the death are fraught with perverse hilarity, and so, at its best, is this play, which is, alas, more often concerned with proving a self-evident dictum: life is not a carnival.
For hours we bounced around back-street bars like Casa Enrique, where writers and artists gathered in the 40's and 50's (and which is, alas, closing in July so go now).
Happily, the grippy low-profile tires and the suspension, derived from Nissan's Skyline GT-R supercar -- which is, alas, not sold here -- are more than up to the challenges posed by the remarkable engine.
In the last few years, the corporation has subtly, gradually pulled its head out of the sand on this issue, not admitting earlier errors but simply stressing that the world's economies still demand huge amounts of oil and gas — which is, alas, true.
The book also provides an analysis of America's obsession with security, from death row in a Nevada or Louisiana prison to the massive complex of Guantánamo, which I had the opportunity to visit and which is, alas, the pure product of the American penitentiary system.
Despite which, they were, alas, never heard from again.
