Gd15 Flashcards
1
Q
Their smiles were like a knowing wink: sussed and street-wise without being in the least
A
dour or po-faced
2
Q
Be there or be square
A
square
3
Q
Adored at home and abroad not only for his prowess with a ball at his feet, but for his humble and friendly demeanour, he has become an icon for mainstream, moderate Islam in a Europe still reeling
A
from a series of Islamist attacks across the continent in 2017
4
Q
This popularity has drawn unsavoury elements to his doorstep, which is why, at so young an age and the start of his journey to the sporting
A
stratosphere, he is on the verge of abandoning his country
5
Q
The careers of officers complicit in the cover-up were
A
ruined
6
Q
They were exporting as far
A
afield as Alexandria
7
Q
He is widely recognized as a courageous and humble man of
A
principle
8
Q
Retiring from a national team in protest, defying the wishes of an authoritarian government, is a far braver thing than stepping out onto a
A
football pitch
9
Q
Jordan, of all people, committed a flagrant
A
foul
10
Q
Tantalizing evocations of the transience of
A
life
11
Q
Argentina leave it late to pip
A
Nigeria
12
Q
While Lionel Messi’s memorable strike, the last of three touches, seemed to have settled Argentinian
A
nerves, Nigeria battled back in the second half to level
13
Q
A topsy-turvy section tilted again when Marcos Rojo, with the clock ticking down, volleyed home a wildly
A
celebrated winner
14
Q
This, then, is how the world ends, not with a bang but with a
A
whimper
15
Q
There should be sense of fury, of thwarted effort, of energies
A
exhausted
16
Q
Germany went out of the World Cup with barely a flicker of resistance. There is no Sturm. There is no
A
Drang
17
Q
They won with what was in effect a second
A
string
18
Q
This was as limp a
A
defense as any side had managed
19
Q
The German machine was gummed up here; there was no fluency and little
A
cohesion going forward
20
Q
He gained a cult status in South Korea, where his extravagant ginger
A
bouffant has earned him a nickname that creates a pun on De Gea
21
Q
This time they never quite did and so, inevitably, unresisted, twilight
A
fell upon the gods
22
Q
Cap centurion Frank Lampard has suggested England could go
A
all the way
23
Q
She is really the cream of the
A
crop
24
Q
Skillet =
A
frying pan
25
Thieves scaled a high
fence
26
The thick smog obnubilated most of the city’s
skyline
27
To type with
chopsticks
28
Stunt
double
29
investors seemed to have put the US-China trade war on the back
burner
30
It’s a tough pill to
swallow
31
The castle bills itself
as the oldest in England
32
He has just been potty-
trained
33
There was a collective puffing of
cheeks offered up by England’s players at the final whistle
34
Weary legs and tired minds have reduced the whole contest to a
plod, and threatened for a while to force parity
35
Yet headers at set-plays would drift
wide
36
The stubborn refusal to wilt, despite having shipping a goal with the game in its infancy, was still admirable and said so much about the spirit of this
collective
37
His shot was chipped smartly over the goalkeeper, only for Alderweireld to slide in and scramble the
effort from under the crossbar
38
England’s players massed in front of their supporters after the final whistle, serenaded to the heavens for their efforts, while Belgium prepared to mount the
stage to claim their bronze medals
39
A counter-attack crammed with back-heels and precise passing left England gasping in the
vapour trail
40
Twice the Manchester City playmaker split England’s back-line with subtle and perfectly weighted passes only for Lukaku’s heavy
touch to kibosh the chance
41
He was announced over the public address system only for his name to be
booed and jeered
42
They came to the station to see him
off
43
There is concern that young people may take up vaping as a less harmful
alternative to smoking
44
I find it difficult to talk in a situation like this - I’m out of my
depth
45
His finger reached far and
wide
46
He was known as a
philanderer
47
He is to use his street credibility to try to get the anti-vandalism message
across to schoolchildren
48
He’s pulled off the same
stunt as last time
49
When he was released last time on bail, he was off to dim sum in a
jiffy
50
Upon hearing the result, Tsang appeared solemn, in contrast with the relaxed smile he had
worn when he entered the court
51
It would serve you right if Jeff walked out
on you
52
He was correct as usual, and it basically served me
right
53
Dungarees
A
54
A roly-poly young
boy
55
It might be right up your
alley
56
Don’t wait up
for me
57
And on the heels of it, something even worse
happened
58
If his lawyer won’t play ball, there’s nothing we
can do
59
He got his revenge now in
spades
60
Luck was on my
side today
61
The emotional aspect of it all threw us for a
loop
62
The search drew a
blank
63
He was roughed up in
jail while awaiting trial
64
These comments are a bit
rich coming from a woman with no money worries
65
Who are going to blink
first in the trade war
66
Lemon-infused
water
67
He seemed as neurotic,
self-obsessed character
68
We offered to pay out half of the cost but Charles would have
none of it
69
Don’t you dare
go
70
I still felt woozy from all the
pills
71
They’ll sit on her bed playfully enlacing their
fingers
72
The luxurious office accentuated the manager’s position in the pecking
order
73
She seemed ill at ease, even a little
irritated, on the three occasions
74
On his walk home, wending through the Saturday crowds, Rabih is thrilled enough to want to stop random
strangers and share his good fortune with them
75
They raised and lowered their muskets, fixed 18-inch-long
bayonets to their weapons and demonstrated various marching maneuvers
76
When Prince George is in his element, however, he’s like any other
rambunctious little boy
77
George charged across the lawn trailed
by his 3-year-old sister
78
If you’ve been trying to lose weight, then odds are you have been diligently tracking your food, logging
hours at the gym, prioritizing sleep, and working on managing stress
79
His policy will win brownie
points with voters
80
Commando work required as much brain as
brawn
81
The patient were discharged only in a
normothermic condition
82
The territory is replete with specialized vocabulary, as well as a genus of English usage peculiar
to the Commonwealth nations
83
Spell out the full names on first
reference and use abbreviations thereafter
84
Smooth cafe au
lait skin
85
Rooney is not bothered. He’s as hard as
nails. Not quite like nancy Neymar
86
Now think of that happens to drama
queen Ronaldo
87
He’ll manage. He’s a
big boy
88
Nice to see a footballer take it like a
man for once
89
The investigations have come up with next to
nothing, inviting speculation and conspiracy to fill the vacuum
90
The minister has promised total transparency in the document, with no
redactions and obfuscations
91
I am wanted
elsewhere
92
True but these people act real
tough typing
93
A lot of tough
keyboards around here
94
The market will continue to decline until all the bad news is fully
priced into the stocks
95
After a moderate decline, there is a reaction rally that retraces
a portion of the decline
96
Anna listened, mouth
agape from the shocking development
97
His mood vacillated between hope and
despair
98
These shoes had stood him in good
stead
99
The price is set to stimulate interest among buyers that has been
soured by the uncertainties of late
100
Another dissented from the final figure, holding
out for a lower award
101
He encouraged his clients to focus on people’s characters rather than judging them purely on their
material worth
102
Anyway at the end of a long day at the chalkface, I’m more inclined towards the poor player full of sound and
fury and signifying nothing
103
It would be a weight
off my mind
104
Cops battled to save teens disemboweled with a
machete in a 30-strong gang fight
105
They are then easy
pickings for the eel
106
At his lowest, Ian stumbled across a
lifeline
107
We use caffeine in the morning to rise as early as we ever did, putting the
squeeze on sleep
108
Light throws the body’s biological clock—the circadian rhythm—out of
whack
109
You agreed it, so I set it in
motion
110
Gray is the new
green
111
Psst! Want to know a
secret?
112
Sitting is the new
smoking
113
Over the
hump
114
Her attempts to teach him to dance were
hysterical
115
I bust my
ass for her 12 hours a day
116
I was pooped and just flopped
into bed
117
Bad news ~
Lay it on me
118
Just fire
away
119
Believe me. I look better than
I feel
120
Jews sit
shiva for those who die
121
Everyone needs downtime to
unwind
122
You are all
flushed
123
You are a sensitive bowl of
mush
124
It’s just a horrible lapse of
judgement
125
The film is not just romantic
mush
126
Many artists are forced to bow out of the
profession at a relatively early age
127
I don’t see how that adds
up
128
Thanks for escorting me
back
129
The husband feels like his manhood is threatened, so he acts
out
130
Monogamish is not what I’m
after
131
Helicopters whirred
overhead
132
The whirr of an electric
motor
133
Let the genie out of the
bottle
134
We’re going to put him
up for a few days
135
Blue eyes weirded him out, and Ivan’s were especially
creepy
136
Another of her pet
projects is the arts centre
137
My pet hate is
woodwork
138
The easy gait of an
athlete
139
A rogue cop who took the law into
his own hands
140
Desperate times, desperate
measures
141
Life on tour is not as glamorous as it’s cracked
up to be
142
Corked wine has a powerful
pong
143
I set off at three-thirty
prompt
144
It goes without saying that lay appointees must be selected with
care
145
He was declared
MIA
146
The company took the high
road, announcing it would extend the benefits to all its workers
147
Force of
habits
148
The kids were making a
racket
149
She was transported with
pleasure
150
Look and learn. A dying
breed
151
I was miserable and he was having a
ball
152
Everything will be
A-OK
153
Her taste for oversharing was part of the grassroots publicity campaign that cost her and her
label nothing
154
Four grown siblings, bruised and banged
up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home
155
A roll-up-your-sleeves
attitude
156
He had the good grace to
apologize to her afterwards
157
The goalkeeper was caught
napping
158
Make sure all your carry-on
luggage is stowed under the seat in front of you
159
It is part of human nature to be attracted to that which is aesthetically
pleasing
160
His appearance was that
of someone used to sleeping on the streets
161
If you don’t mind me
saying, you need it
162
This is an absurdly heavy guilt
trip to lay on anyone
163
A pay increase will not guilt-trip them into
improvements
164
Efforts were made to interest her in a
purchase
165
She flaunts her hourglass curves in skimpy
string bikini
166
Some monthly magazines have a lead
time of six months or more
167
I appreciate the kind
gesture and all
168
Semanticists have to have at least a nodding
acquaintance with other disciplines, like philosophy and psychology, which also investigate the creation and transmission of meaning
169
She has decided to call time
on her tennis career
170
She was whispering
endearments and repeatedly kissing her
171
His endearments (playfully delivered) come in many
flavours
172
The Filipino Supreme Court even ruled the phrase was not slanderous due to its general use as an expression rather than a
targeted slight
173
She is rebelling against the anachronistic
morality of her parents
174
The title is a bit of a mouthful but don’t let that
put you off
175
Lengthy mouthfuls of Latin can be
off-putting and difficult to remember for many
176
The army’s report of its investigation was considerably watered
down
177
The manager is not entirely on board with the
call
178
U.S. punitive tariffs are based on grave
misdiagnosis of Chinese economic fundamentals
179
The fourth round of Sino-US trade negotiations held in Washington, DC ended with a
whimper, and so the largest trade war in the post-WWII economic history continues unabated while a nascent crisis in emerging markets has alarmed investors worldwide
180
China’s chest will be unable to prevent a collapse of the exchange rate even with draconian
capital controls fully applied
181
American prophesies that a trade war will provoke a Chinese economic meltdown are incentivizing Trump to be hawkish rather than
conciliatory
182
I’m sick of you prying
into my personal life
183
She threatened to grass me
up
184
The urgency of his voice galvanized her into
action
185
I had a dirty great chip on my shoulder—I thought everybody was
against me
186
Come on. Time is not our
friend
187
The eponymous hero of the
novel
188
Don’t flatter
yourself, it’s not for you I did this, I eat like this every weekend
189
Pig-headedness descended
on me and I refused to do as she wanted
190
We have been left humbled and tinged with
sadness after receiving a message of gratitude that underlines an often-unseen aspect of patient care: the caring
191
We have been betrayed by a government out of
touch with our values
192
Cream cakes on a Wednesday—pure
decadence
193
A strolling guitarist
serenades the diners
194
The MTR only ran underground services at reduced
intervals
195
We’re implicitly saying to another person through our unclothing that they have been placed in a tiny, intensely
policed category of people: that we have granted them an extraordinary privilege
196
At the risk of sounding entitled, I have to
vent today
197
I realize this is a hacky workaround but I don’t have time to investigate a more
solid fix
198
It has lit the touch
paper
199
Stuck-up
snob
200
She hitched up her
skirt and ran
201
The noisome
odor of garbage nauseated Audrey
202
She began to speak, but stopped
short at the look on the other woman’s face
203
I was about to reply with a sarcastic
remark when a thought stopped me short
204
The measures stopped
short of establishing direct trade links
205
My sounding board was still these three women, the first people I thought to
tell anything
206
He was light-years
ahead of us in terms of worldliness
207
I lay next to Davis on the edge of a dock, our legs dangling over, our backs against the rough-hewn
planks of wood, staring together up at a cloudless summer sky
208
At a canter they bore down
on the mass of men ahead
209
The letter from Shanghai was thirty pages long and written in a spidery
hand
210
The room is bedecked with tinsel and
fairy lights
211
I would like to return the
gesture
212
The foundry business was on its last
legs
213
‘They might be the worst people of their generation,’ I told her, gliding the
pity lily
214
If they want me to do the same job for less money, they can
shove it
215
The manager revelled in the jeers of the Turin crowd at the final whistle, but pointed out that he was given a rough
reception throughout the match
216
The hikers stood agape, in awe
of the natural wonders of the forest
217
It is out of my realm of
comprehension
218
They are at the bottom
rung of the social ladder
219
There was a crinkle of
suspicion on her forehead
220
A hardy
breed of cattle
221
The bath water lapped over me. Embarrassed by the waste, I wrenched the
tap closed
222
Some piece of the pen snapped
off and ran along the floor
223
Tumbling notes cascaded down and
infinitely up
224
Footage of the incident surfaced online showing the true
extent on the crash
225
The shape of the parcel was a dead
giveaway
226
Just before the police are called, a Good
Samaritan, posing as a police officer, steps in to save him
227
Her choice not to enter into an agreement with him evinced her
maturity
228
Tinder-dry conditions sparked fears of a
conflagration in many drought-devastated communities
229
Modest dress means that hemlines must be
below the knee
230
I’ve got left on
read
231
The driver gave chase and tried in
vain to stop the vehicle
232
Now bugger
off (vulgar)
233
Why are some athletes able to perform in the
clutch while others choke?
234
He punched Connolly in the ear, sending him
reeling
235
He reeled back
against the van
236
Buy-to-let could drop like a
stone in 2019
237
There’s a tonne of regulation that’s hitting the buy-to-let sector, such as landlord licensing and minimum energy rating requirements, which makes the whole process much more of a
hassle
238
He gets his players to dance to his
juke
239
Scrubby tufts of grass were visible on the
patch
240
They were pegged back by an
equaliser from Jameson
241
Paltrow may earn brickbats for
tone-deafness on occasion
242
The dark mist swallowed her
up
243
Hong Kong’s infatuation with multimillion-dollar shoebox
homes is over as quickly as it began
244
The high-water mark for this segment of the market was
set in May
245
Food has now become more of a matter of
sustenance
246
The umpires had been unsighted and had not
seen the ball
247
When I reached for the suitcase, my hand accidentally touched hers, but she didn’t
draw back
248
The brown sofa with its three camel-coloured stripes had seen better
days, but I had spruced it up with all the flowery pillows and stuffed animals from my bed
249
I had also turned on the television in order to give this room the appearance of
liveliness
250
Her hair, pinned back on one side, fell loosely on the other, so that she seemed forever in
profile
251
Pinpoints of rain
glimmered on her scarf
252
I found the table’s surface deceitfully
bare
253
He had to use subterfuge and
bluff on many occasions
254
Maybe there are knife-edged
words waiting to draw blood
255
The sudden tears in her eyes stilled
everything inside me
256
She would emerge from Ma’s bedroom with
jumbled hair
257
She would wind her hair up and tick the
bundle inside the neck of her sweater
258
The cold swish of the
scissors, as well as their giggling, made it impossible to concentrate
259
Hong Kong toppled New York from its
perch as No 1 IPO market
260
His head was impaled on a
pike and exhibited for all to see
261
You had us worried
sick
262
There could be no better moment to jolt Kissinger off his Delphic
perch
263
A Christmas
cracker
264
The weather delivered a one-two
punch to farmers with unseasonal freezing temperatures and strong winds
265
He leaps and plunges like a wounded stag through agonizing death
throes
266
The peace pact seems to be in its death
throes
267
Hong Kong will only drain itself over internal
debates
268
How to plug a
shortfall of 1,200 hectares of land
269
He took it upon
himself to complete the report
270
A large government majority can encourage backbenchers to
assert themselves
271
Swallow your pride and be a bigger
person
272
No biggie, I’m not in a
hurry
273
I can see all the fear he has been staving off overtake him. A teat appears on the rim of his eye, where it
balances for a second before it spills out and runs down his cheek
274
I froze horror. For a moment, I was so
petrified that I could not move
275
Staff were beginning to feel the
pinch as the dispute entered its third weeks
276
The tennis player committed twenty
unforced errors
277
How can you stick it
to a pregnant woman
278
Anything can change—nothing is
written/engraved/set in stone
279
The detail gives the novel some
verisimilitude
280
It was jolly
sporting of you to let me have first go
281
Now don’t go off the deep
end—I’ve got an idea
282
I knew that somewhere down the
line there would be an inquest
283
The Italians wanted a North African territory of their own and Libya, being both far from Turkey and lightly
garrisoned, seemed a ripe target
284
Not all of us have the body of an
Adonis
285
The pardon was a quid pro
quo for their help in releasing hostages
286
The result was a sweaty medley, harsh and brittle on the surface, but cheesy and
rotten underneath
287
Conditions between the two countries had deteriorated to very poisonous, a state due in
no small part to Trump’s pronouncements on Twitter
288
Britain never dispatched the full
might of the British Army to America
289
The evanescent beauty of cherry blossoms may have inspired the
respect for short-lived pleasures evident in the Japanese psyche
290
He ended the discussion with a peremptory
wave of his hand
291
When women were finally enfranchised, spontaneous
celebrations occurred throughout the country
292
I began to form the opinion that this year’s cohort were perhaps less
able compared with previous years
293
I reviewed the scripts to check for my systemic bias or harsher
marking, but found no indication of such
294
She won the prize for the fourth year
running
295
One student subsequently admitted in an unsolicited
letter that it had been deliberate
296
With a comfortable lead, the team was content to run out the
clock and seal the win
297
There is no better time to declutter your
home
298
What
gives?
299
I’m gonna take a
leak
300
The power plant of the lifeboat had been
rigged to explore
301
The cops are just creating a
perimeter
302
Eye-watering rents are among the reasons Hong Kong has slipped down global
liveability rankings
303
The cost of renting a flat is a constant
gripe among the residents
304
On a winter morning when most people were dressed in heavy
layers, they were in short-sleeve T-shirts
305
The people at the church have been over the
top kind to us
306
In common academic parlance, a removal from the classroom, even if with full
pay, is a suspension
307
Freudian language has seeped into common
parlance like that of no other writer since Shakespeare
308
The job is no
cakewalk
309
Why can’t you all just leave me
be?
310
I’m quite a fast writer, but I’ve got nothing
on her
311
The documentary took the lid
off the world of organized crime
312
Significantly others have reacted with ambivalence: That exercise on support really took the lid
off things in our school
313
She toted a raspberry
clutch by Prada, which matched the belt on her rosy dress, and silver sparkly heels by Oscar da la Renta
314
She bobbed a
curtsy to him
315
Joe’s completely sold
on the concept
316
Peter came to pick them up, and they all
piled in
317
You’ve really caught the
sun
318
It’s spitting outside. It’s going to start
raining
319
Thanks, dinner is
on me
320
The restaurant is booked
up
321
Fine. I’m on
it
322
The man tried to roofie the
girl
323
He means
well
324
The post-holder is required to deputize for the manager in their
absence
325
She fended off his
groping
326
I’ll catch you
later
327
The animal eyes are bigger than her
belly, quite literally
328
I met her once on one of my off-duty bookshop
prowls
329
It proves that once and for all function wins out over
form
330
It seems that Mother Nature has played a cruel
plank on them
331
The president has made it clear that the environment is low on the totem
pole for his administration
332
In the last resort what really moves us is our personal
convictions
333
The increasingly pugnacious
demeanour of right-wing politicians
334
How could I wish him
ill?
335
Her heart went out
to the pitiful figure
336
The higher you have climbed up the greasy pole, by fair means or
foul, the further you have to fall
337
Spanish double-
barreled surnames
338
In an age that prided itself on its newly discovered scepticism, when even the Holy Scripture’s authority and authorship were beginning to yield to the
scalpel of German textual criticism, Gladstone was marching to the beat of a different drum
339
A mishmash of outmoded
ideas
340
The press will stop picking
nits once the next president is in office
341
A hoax 999
call
342
They raised prices in lockstep
with those of foreign competitors
343
Others struggle with bags and briefcases, looking hot and
bothered
344
The article simplifies the vast world of tea into digestible
nuggets of knowledge
345
Boldly stated rules tend to fall apart when held up to
closer scrutiny
346
Traditional wisdom says black teas must be brewed with near-boiling water while delicate, prissy green and white teas need, nay,
demand cooler water
347
A hedonistic existence of booze,
drugs and parties
348
His head is clouded, too—but with worry, not
weed. He frets about his student loans and the difficulty of finding a job, even fearing that he might end up homeless
349
Don’t let people walk all
over you
350
People always walked over him and didn’t treat him with
respect
351
It may look like a minor planet in the
constellation of love
352
I intuited his real
identity
353
Our fears and our frailties play themselves out in a thousand ways, they can make us defensive or aggressive, grandiose or hesitant, clingy or avoidant – but we can be sure that they will make everyone much less than
perfect and at moments, extremely hard to live with
354
This is a truth chiselled indelibly into the
script of life
355
We pretend we don’t much care if we never cross their
paths again while privately pining and longing
356
James didn’t seem disposed to take the
hints
357
The media couldn’t lavish enough
praise on the film
358
Surgery may be the only
recourse
359
All three countries had recourse to the IMF for
standby loans
360
What poetic justice it is that Brady has to go to court to plead to be allowed to die, just like his innocent victims pleaded to
be allowed to live
361
The nine, dressed mostly black and grey, struck a stark contrast to the sea of yellow umbrellas, the symbol of the movement,
unfurled behind them by their supporters
362
My father, a fresh-faced young man, newly employed by a paper company, looks very
proper and gentlemanly
363
Sing sappy
love songs
364
As an apprentice, you start out doing a lot of the
grunt work
365
They could use their combat skills to foment a
violent revolution
366
You can’t just wait on the sidelines and hope
things will improve
367
As she waved her mother goodbye, she found herself
tearing up
368
That triggered a bandwagon
effect among the rich
369
White-faced, puny
children
370
He can be a cantankerous old
fossil at times
371
Propriety required that he face these people and make
small talk
372
He was a popular and
gregarious man
373
People are not as likely to be typecast by their
accents as they once were
374
A reassuring presence can stave
off a panic attack
375
Home
wrecker
376
It is never easy to be rejected but it’s arguably a great deal worse to have to reject; the pains of unrequited love are as nothing next to the
agonies of a dismissal
377
Such ambiguity merely prolongs the torture. You have the agency,
maturity and responsibility to bring this to an end
378
Be unembarrassed, for embarrassment is
catching; if you’re not ashamed, they’ll have a chance not to be so either
379
You didn’t will your lack of desire, no more than you willed your
sexual orientation
380
Frame the decision as somehow mutual. It isn’t simply they who want it and you who
conclusively shudders
381
Friendship isn’t some kind of consolation prize, it’s the truly valuable state besides which the average relationship looks like the
squalid alternative
382
Might you be free this Monday to see a show and maybe
pick up some sushi
383
Deep into the night in sessions of silent thoughts, I still think
passionately of you
384
Dave swigged the
drink in five gulps
385
One glass of wine, and all my good intentions went
out the window
386
He braced himself to entertain pleasantries as he knew a certain
loquacious guest would also be at the party
387
I think he’s a pompous old
windbag
388
High school
poppycock
389
Fun times will get ever fewer and
further between
390
An average-sized locust swarm devours in the
region of 20,000 tons of vegetation every day
391
Dark clouds are gathering above Old Trafford once again — and a club that is so concerned with the bottom line will be feeling little
cheer after the failure to qualify for the Champion League
392
By conservative
estimate another year away from the league could cost United in the region of £40m
393
He at least deserves chance to stamp his footprint on the squad that was
thrust upon him in December
394
The goodwill that accompanied his
appointment will only last for so long
395
Limping off in the second half, his fitness was brought into sharp
focus once again after an injury-plagued season
396
Betty’s strawberry cheesecake is simply
to-die-for
397
Such decisions are outside the
remit of this committee
398
Staff recruitment will fall within the
remit of the division manager
399
A surefire
recipe for success
400
Children soon learn that bad behaviour is a
surefire way of getting attention
401
Feel-good bromides create the
illusion of problem-solving
402
They are the succulent morsels of the otherwise ineluctably thin
harvest we must subsist on
403
Far from being a recipe for gloom, heeding to it will guarantee that we will not so regularly collide into one of the sharp
edges of reality
404
Behind our fierce way of arguing may lie a frustrated
plea for affection
405
Diplomats therefore put extraordinary effort into securing the health of the overall relationship so that smaller points can be conceded along the way without attracting feelings of
untenable humiliation
406
They are careful to trade generously in emotional currency, so as not always to have to pay excessively in other, more
practical denominations
407
It helps greatly to know that those recommending change are not speaking from a position of impregnable
perfection but are themselves wrestling with comparable demons in other areas
408
For a diagnosis not to sound like mere criticism, it helps for it to be delivered by someone with no
compunctions to owning up to their own shortcomings
409
They appreciate the legitimate place that minor lies can occupy in the
service of greater truths
410
They appreciate their own resistance to the unvarnished facts – and privately hope that others may on occasion, over certain
matters, also take the trouble to lie to them, and that they will never know
411
They know themselves well enough to understand that abandonments of perspective are both hugely normal and usually indicative of nothing much beyond
exhaustion or passing despair
412
Their good humoured way of greeting problems is a symptom of having swallowed a healthy
measure of sadness from the outset
413
I don’t earn a huge salary, but we
get by
414
The diplomat may be polite, but they are not for that matter averse to delivering bits of bad news with
uncommon frankness
415
By administering a sharp, clean blow, the diplomatic person kills off the torture of
hope, accepting the frustration that’s likely to come their way
416
I’m taking it one day at
a time
417
If the weather
holds, we’ve a chance of taking a trip to the park, to see the daffodils
418
As life as a whole grows more complicated, we can remember to unclench and smile a little along the way, rather than jealously husbanding our
reserves of joy for a finale somewhere in the nebulous distance
419
A thumbnail
sketch
420
He never tried to convince me — never tried to pull
rank
421
The tot is keeping us on our
toes
422
His cheek brushed hers with a cathartic
effect on her senses
423
Others include the cathartic process of making
mends to the people you have hurt through your addiction
424
I’ve cried a lot while lying on that couch and find that the act of crying is a
cathartic release
425
If someone secretly photographed us on our way to the station or back from the shops, we might wince
at our appearance: how stern our resting face is, how guarded we look, how misanthropic we seem
426
The stranger, despite their impassive
appearance, craves love and fellowship
427
They take an attitude of basic goodwill out into unknown spaces. They assume that the stranger will be open to a smile, a reflection on the season, a supportive
glance or an unobtrusive greeting
428
His ex-wife has upped the
ante in her alimony suit against him
429
Manchester United fans were treated to a feast of
nostalgia after David Beckham put in a spectacular performance in a legends match at Old Trafford
430
She smiled shyly, blushing a
little
431
Yet, even as the crisis came to a head, the bishops remained
unrepentant
432
Almost as dramatic as the financial scale of the mess is the growing political
fallout
433
I think you should come clean
about where you were last night
434
Teenager Anna Chan Wah fought through a sea of demonstrators, undeterred by searing heat, the crawling
pace of the protest — and even a gnawing fear of failure
435
The procession on Sunday began in the early afternoon and continued as day gave
way to dusk
436
The Nazis destroyed the independence of the press by a series of
draconian laws
437
Chan stopped at one, bowing his head before a photograph of the man,
flanked by Chinese scrolls praising his passion and his sense of justice
438
If he doesn’t step down our anger cannot
die down
439
Echoes of protest songs, hymns and chants bounced
off the surrounding high rises as darkness fell
440
Although she promised a humble acceptance of criticism, Lam’s statement was
couched in the vaguest terms, and met with derision on the streets
441
These few words hastily scrawled on a piece of A4 paper and tacked on to the concrete
strut of a walkway aptly encapsulate the political crisis roiling Hong Kong
442
She was trying to get her thoughts back into some
semblance of order
443
After the war, life returned to a
semblance of normality
444
The protesters were railing
against a bill tabled at Legco in March and previously due to resume a second reading on June 12
445
The top echelons of the civil service have generally abjured
responsibility for policy decisions
446
The government’s refusal to budge, after a big demonstration on June 9, had
forced the escalation
447
He repudiated all
offers of friendship
448
The words from those willing to speak off the record was that the camp was still
reeling from the shock of witnessing the city’s biggest protest march
449
They spoke openly about the war without a trace of
rancour
450
Hackers and online vigilantes routinely
dox both public and private figures
451
He has to put on an act to
impress
452
They lacked the wherewithal to
pay
453
The team were all feeling seasick but they
soldiered on valiantly
454
The mob lost the
run of themselves, and their behaviour was horrendous
455
Their diligence has only been
greeted with accusations
456
As cliche as it
sounds, this has always been our intention
457
We live in a world where the shelves are still
bare of the real ingredients we crave
458
It looks as if everything we could want should be
to hand
459
His laughter was cathartic, an animal yelp that brought
tears to his eyes
460
All hell breaks
loose
461
Officers scrambled to hold on to their shields, many falling to the ground as protestors maintained
their offensive
462
He fell from the escalator and was
jumped by the crowd
