Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there.
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.
Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.
It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
Years ago, I used to skip breakfast altogether, wrongly thinking that if I didn't eat it, I might lose weight or something.
A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.
In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.
I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.
There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.
I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders.
2020 is getting worse every day. We have lost so many people altogether throughout the world.
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
When you go for a vacation, you hit the usual spots, but staying in a country for over a month is a different experience altogether.
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.
The 'inability to have a dialogue' is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished altogether.
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.
[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.
But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
Before I was cast on 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,' I had secretly quit Erika Jayne altogether.
I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.
Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely.
The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.
It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
Unlike Conrad or Nabokov, I didn't have circumstances which would have coerced me out of my native tongue altogether.
Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.
Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.
All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.
Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.
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