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Immigration, Islam, and The West, "his excellent book on the larger European subject, author Christopher Caldwell pauses to recall pregnantly how it all began.

chicagotribune.com - 2009

Pacific (the existence of which he had just learned), he pregnantly remarked that he had faith in the Mackenzie watershed, and that he was going back after he had taken in the World's Fair and got a whiff or two of civilization.

The Gold Hunters of the North 2010

When I hear a hushed stagey voice on NPR, carefully enunciating each word and pausing pregnantly at each punctuation mark, I realize that I am listening to an author read from his work—and I dive for the radio knob to change the station as quickly as possible.

On literary institutions 2009

When I hear a hushed stagey voice on NPR, carefully enunciating each word and pausing pregnantly at each punctuation mark, I realize that I am listening to an author read from his work—and I dive for the radio knob to change the station as quickly as possible.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Among the choices for citizen opposition to endless war and a pregnantly repressive government, the notion of massive passive and stubborn presence upon the steps of power was rejected as inconvenient, uncomfortable, risky, too much to expect.

Is it Later than We Think for President Obama to Do the Right Thing? 2009

For example, he writes, "I believe that one can formulate the emergence of the classical ˜path™ of a particle pregnantly as follows: the ˜path™ comes into being only because we observe it" (Heisenberg, 1927, p. 185).

The Uncertainty Principle Hilgevoord, Jan 2006

From the thronged and tram-lined thoroughfare so pregnantly scented with fried fish, petrol and old clothes, who would turn into this small back water for sweetness or for profit?

The Silver Spoon 2004

An hour before, marching elated in the knowledge of a few days 'freedom from the haunting knowledge of Life's uncertainty -- now they were in for something they all pregnantly felt would involve them in a slaughter that might place Finis to the Battalion.

Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq

Then the little road began to talk, politely, pleasantly, but in no wise pregnantly.

The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

"Yep -- tariff on linen," he commented pregnantly.

The Bent Twig Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918