1. Inside, the heart repeats itself like a sleepy gong, 2. A pine plantation is not a forest, she kept repeating like a mantra. 3. Buckley took the final phrase of the song and spontaneously repeated it like a mantra, finally fading out entirely. 4. But the man stuck to his first postulate, repeating like an existential sage that as between being and nothingness he could only do the necessary. 5. He repeated like a mantra the contention that his plan would not hurt tenants, but rarely tried to explain why apartments should be deregulated at all. 6. It is important that the Rockets embrace the challenge of repeating like nothing else in the world matters. 7. It should be repeated like a mantra in every neighborhood from Baltimore to Los Angeles and beyond. 8. It is their central defining reality, and its particulars are recited and repeated like a litany. 9. That should be repeated like a mantra. 10. The filmmakers were probably repeating like a mantra the accepted wisdom that good novels rarely make good movies, and praying the opposite was also true. |