Perhaps there is some irony in asking this, but in what context did you see this phrase?

Che sees these as the words of a desperate man... " I mean no one has managed to wield a hoe to the rhythm of the sun And no one has yet reaped grain with love and grace..." These sentences both contrast the hard truths

"to make sense" means to be logical, intelligible or reasonable. Your example should be "People sometimes make sense". As a complete sentence, this is a slightly unusual thing to say because experience shows that most people

Hi, Anon, thanks for the additional context. As far as I can see, it confirms my position. (Perhaps you're not familiar with the 7-year locust cycle. The critters go into some kind of world-wide hibernation for seven years, and then all come

Dear Friends, I just wonder, whether the possessive can be used in the sentence bellow (my intuition says "yes" but I'd need some natve feedback): My final point of criticism of the classical approaches to verbal irony concerns their

³I¹m not saying he¹s dishonest, but in terms of judgment, ... I¹ve read a couple different stories. I think it¹s relevant.² What is Palin's first language? It clearly isn't English. I have yet to hear her say a sentence longer than ... to

I wonder if anyone is going to make a pro-Iraq war film to counter this... "Redacted" stuns Venice Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:03 AM ET By Silvia Aloisi VENICE (Reuters) - A new film about the real-life rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi

"Life is the art of dreaming sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." in the sentence above ,wot does the "dream.. from "mean? means conclude?imagine?get? or .. Butler was dreaming his conclusion that life is simply

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