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So when the echo of the gunshots had lingered, it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing.
Looking at these photographs today brings back the smell of smoke that lingered on my clothes when I went home to my family at night.
I asked Jesus to fix me, and when he did not answer I befriended silence in the hopes that my sin would burn and salve my mouth would dissolve like sugar on tongue, but shame lingered as an aftertaste.
But if Death lingered at the foot of the bed, he’d already claimed the patient as his own— and the doctor could do nothing for them.
But the question that lingered in my mind was, what causes people to destroy fire trucks headed to their own homes?
The cinematography lingered on the uninspired.
These actors portrayed characters so intensely human that they lingered the remainder of the night with me, and I had trouble shaking this war drama.
So, I watched this and after the very first opening shot which lingered and lingered I thought "Oh, no, its going to be creative sinny mah" But I gave it a chance and watched it and then when it ended I tossed the DVD in the trash.
My son was 7 years old when he saw this movie, he is now on a Russian Fishing vessel and said that the movie he was most impressed with and that has lingered in his mind all of these 39 years is the movie of The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle.
This film lingered and lingered at a small movie theater in town, and the word-of-mouth buzz got me to see it.
Yet, neither particularly admired for its quality nor beloved for its unintentionally humorous mediocrity, the show has lingered in our consciousness, even as many that were far better and more original have faded into oblivion.
A handsome and lonely gym teacher Eddie Collins can't perform sexually due to his constant watching of his mother undress while he hid in her closet as a child.His only recourse is to kill the women he tries to sleep with and stash them in a pigeon hutch on his roof.He hires a prostitute to dress as his dead mother,the only way he is able to achieve sexual gratification..."The Arousers" is the first film of director Curtis Hanson.Originally shot in 1971 under the title "Sweet Kill",this film lingered on the shelf until 1973 when executive producer Roger Corman had Hanson shoot two days of nudity inserts to spice-up the film.Angus Scrimm of "Phanatsm" fame has a small cameo here.Overall,this is a good piece of sleaze from the early 70's that should satisfy the exploitation fans out there looking for plenty of nudity,sex and violence.7 out of 10.
It lingered around for a while and didn't smell too good.
Even after communism’s collapse the dispute lingered.
The next act in America’s political drama, following the 2018 congressional midterm election, could be marked by a kind of reckoning, with the 2020 presidential campaign accompanied by civic breakdown and the escalation of violent confrontation that has lingered beneath the surface for years.
The dispute was hushed up, but the resentment lingered.
Yet the question lingered.
Questions about the mosque lingered for months afterward, with small demonstrations at the proposed site organized by people who had no connection to the neighborhood.
In the Arab world, the trauma of that betrayal and the defeat of the national movement has lingered.
And within the US, Bretton Woods was sugar coating on the bitter pill of internationalism, for which distaste lingered from the interwar period of “America first” isolationism.
After 2008, tensions between some of Clinton’s and Obama’s strongest supporters lingered for years.
The Kashmir question has lingered since 1947, the Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus since 1974, and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank from 1967.
But, in the last decade, a series of scandals and crises – involving public safety, adulterated food and drugs, and environmental pollution – has thoroughly destroyed what little credibility lingered.
Old-fashioned infrastructure bottlenecks lingered, cramping private sector expansion.
So I remember my shock when I learned about the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August, and the trauma that lingered long after.
The disease then lingered for a few more centuries, killing many more.
But the question of how adjustments would be made if part of the eurozone were hit by a strong adverse shock lingered.
While Hayek’s defense of the market system against the gross inefficiency of central planning won increasing assent, Keynes’s view that market systems require continuous stabilization lingered on in finance ministries and central banks.
This war lingered and flared well into the early Soviet era and, in 1944, the entire Chechen population was forcibly deported to Central Asia.
Despite the severe losses suffered by the heaviest borrowers, particularly in Latin America, this idea has lingered on.
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