It seems to me to be stark-staringly obvious that when some people own a lot and others own a little, there is NOT equality of opportunity. ❋ Alix Mortimer (2009)
But it seems staringly obvious that is Islam fundamentalist or not did not provide some value to the life of its adherents it would not be embraced. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In this reply, down to the word “wager” inclusive, mademoiselle has been ironically polite and tender, then as suddenly dashed into the bitterest and most defiant scorn, with her black eyes in one and the same moment very nearly shut and staringly wide open. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The universe, in relation to what any man can say of it, is plain, patent and staringly comprehensible. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Force of police arriving, he recognized in them the conspirators, and laid about him hoarsely, fiercely, staringly, convulsively, foamingly. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Over the mantelpiece, the features staringly like, but so ridiculously exaggerated that they scarcely resembled those of a human being, daubed evidently by the hand of the commonest sign-artist, hung a half-length portrait of him of round of beef celebrity — my sturdy host of the town. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was a solemn and stately lumbering of incredibly and bizarrely modified coiffure and unrecognisably tattered clothing, an otherworldly and Stygian celebrazione of lurching bodies, and staringly virgin eyes anomalously inserted into nigger-minstrel faces. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
The base of the mound protruded into a low hollow, a tributary path of brown needles leading up to the main trail on the opposite side from where he stood, with trees huddling protectively around the entire are a. They had arrived there in darkness, and he had half-expected morning to reveal that their improvised refuge was on the edge of a main road or some other such staringly conspicuous site. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (1997)
Yet no one took less trouble to conceal his aversions than he; it is staringly obvious that, once among Persians, he simply found he liked them. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)
When addressing a person, look in his or her face, not staringly, but frankly, never fixing your eyes on the carpet or your boots. ❋ Sarah Annie Frost (N/A)
Intellect is to a woman's nature what her watch-spring skirt is to her dress; it ought to underlie her silks and embroideries, but not to show itself too staringly on the outside. ❋ Various (N/A)
"I tell you I saw him struck by a ball in the breast, the blood running from the wound, looking staringly around, and smiling in the agonies of death." ❋ Various (N/A)
Do what he will, his romance remains staringly false in its contrast with his reality; there is an open gap between the wonderful pictures of the town in Illusions Perdues and the theatrical drama of the old convict which they introduce. ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)
During the whole time of my stay, the plague was so master of the city, and showed himself so staringly in every street and alley, that I can't now affect to dissociate the two ideas. ❋ Various (1909)
Maison poured himself a generous drink of whisky from a bottle on a sideboard before he got into bed, but the story told him by Dale and the others of the terrible scene at Devil's Hole -- remained so staringly vivid in his thoughts that whisky could not dim it. ❋ Charles Alden Seltzer (1908)
Against the blackness of the pines the windows of the old loft above the express office stood out staringly bright; and through their curtainless panes the loungers below could see the forms of those who were even then deciding the fate of Tennessee. ❋ Unknown (1907)
They stared at her helplessly, though not kindly; for in their expressions the conflict between desire and policy was almost staringly vivid. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
His staringly new Sam Browne irritated him, but he forgot it as the train swung round the curve to the landing-stage. ❋ Robert Keable (1907)
The tenements are built with the same end in view, and all are staringly new, though vines may render some of the houses more pleasing, and ❋ Unknown (1906)
For two hours together, she would sit in awful silence, with eyes strained staringly before her. ❋ Unknown (1906)
