That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.
I hope that my work ethic has been a model for those who do not believe in themselves or have lingering doubts about their own abilities.
It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.
The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.
It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.
Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.
The tomb in Palestine
Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.
He was making a brave attempt, but Jason could see the sadness lingering in his eyes. Something had happened to him... something to do with Calypso.
More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.
Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
I still harbor lingering doubts about most people. I guess I always will.
You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?
Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.
Sadness has a horrible way of lingering in your subconscious.
Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn.
There's this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn't do TV.
You know, if the filmmakers were satisfied with the film they just made, they could jump right in and make another one, instead of lingering on the last one.
In my 20s and early 30s, I was drawn to scripts that had memorable dialogues and some kind of lingering message.
The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.
Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.
Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
Lingering, and deepening at the hour of dews.
I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
For a long time, there has been lingering doubt among many Americans about integrity and fairness of elections. And it's not a new issue at all. If you look at polling data, it goes back decades.
All-devouring time, envious age,
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.
Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?
I think we have an awful lot to be proud of. No one is questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the 2016 election. There are some lingering questions about how elections have been conducted, who was able to vote legally or not.
Whatever had happened to him [Newt] out there — maybe even related to his lingering ankle injury — had been truly awful.
No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,
But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.
Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.
Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.
I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.
As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Lingering labors come to naught.
I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but they have seen something, and they come down with the glory lingering on them.
That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the end, that's all a director can hope to do.
No matter what you eventually become - free, empowered - the lingering feeling of 'once an outsider, always an outsider' is very vivid for me.
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