Could you give me just a minute to finish this report?

Even as she shrugged and said there's a grain of truth in every joke, I could tell she was masking her pain.

I ran into my college roommate at a market in Tokyo — it's a small world.

If you're going to keep staring, you might as well take a picture, it will last longer.

Don't be such an a**hole when you criticize someone's work.

Her cocking of a snook during the ceremony was captured on video and sparked outrage among the attendees.

I kept checking the kettle every minute, but a watched pot never boils, so I decided to read a book instead.

After the storm, there was a good deal of debris scattered across the beach.

I enjoyed the concert a good deal more than I expected.

We hoped to restore the battered old piano for the recital, but you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear, so we rented a newer instrument instead.