Mighty stands the Howie, with eyes that widen like hungry mouths, as he stalks the back streets of Dublin in pursuit of revenge.
That petulance could now widen like a crack in a windshield.
"I'm always surprised by what they're playing!" he shouts at the audience, genuinely stunned, his face widening like a cartoon character.
"Ordinarily, you would expect something that deep to widen like a funnel" — resulting in an hourglass-shaped declivity, more like that of the Church Sink, which probably would have swallowed the entire structure.
Every day, with dreadful ticket sales and blatant holes in the roster, the gap between the Mets and the Yankees seems to be widening like a fault in the earth.
"Ordinarily, you would expect something that deep to widen like a funnel"—resulting in an hourglass-shaped declivity, more like that of the Church Sink, which probably would have swallowed the entire structure.
The picture was the one every child drew a hundred times — the house, the leafy tree, the sun in one corner, the birds overhead, the walkway widening like a river as it flows out from the front door, the family standing on the green grass, a brother, a sister, a mother with her triangle dress, the father twice as big as everybody, the stick fingers overlapping — and that no one ever saved.
Better Blend: Blended Scotch is the most popular style of Scotland's famous whisky, but chances are good that none of the big names like Johnnie Walker, Chivas or Dewar's will make Dad's eyes widen like a "famous flagon" of Usquaebach.
