In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.
By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.
When I travel throughout the district speaking with families and educators, I frequently hear of concerns with our K-12 education system.
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.
Contrary to what the Americans frequently reiterated, al-Qaeda did not have any relationship with Saddam Hussein or his regime.
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment.
I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
We win with facts that are well expressed and frequently communicated; we lose with silence and indifference to the broader social context.
Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.
And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.
It's more difficult to achieve something with the national team because players from several clubs get together and less frequently.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.
In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.
It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.
Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.
One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.
If quarrelling be really the renewal of love, theirs had been renewed once a day at all events, and frequently much oftener.
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.
Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.
Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action.
I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.
As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.
Journalists play God when they decide for their readers when to hide information from them. Frequently, those choices are unavoidable.
I played the drums, and I was in a band called Funkasaurus Rex in Toronto. When I left for school, it became hard to play as frequently.
It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.
It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
One handy piece of equipment, which I recommend to any writer of fiction, is a set of Myriorama cards. I consult them frequently.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.
When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.
As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home.
I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.
It happens too frequently that after a couple of poor performances, athletes are dumped. That's unfair as Olympic glory is a long path.
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