21.   The unfinished business lent an air of anticipation to downtown Saturday.

22.   The white gloves might make typing on a laptop a tad awkward, but it would lend an air of daintiness to the hurly-burly of the campaign.

23.   Together, the combat and the defections lent an air of chaos to the scene on the front lines.

24.   Would lend exotic air to room.

25.   English lends an air of sophistication and worldliness, even if the words make little sense to a native speaker.

26.   More than its rivals, CBS lent an air of certainty to its calls and should make clear that they are just projections, Jamieson said.

27.   Talking sausage-making with butchers or fielding grievances from pig farmers lent an air of pathos to his arduous grassroots campaign.

28.   The verdict in Katowice lent an air of disillusionment to the community already slumping under market reforms that have nearly decimated the once-thriving mining and steel industries.

29.   But Leghari and Khan are considered rank outsiders who will do little more than lend an air of authenticity to the election process.

30.   The presence of a number of shaven-headed, muscular black youths among the ranks of the DPS also lent an air of incongruity to the occasion.