"If you're faced with an awkward silence at a dinner party, the only thing that always gets everyone murmuring and talking again is to give the host a compliment," Hagy says. "He or she is the person who is feeling the weight of that awkwardness the most. Just quickly turn around and...
A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies. While she stood looking eagerly at the strange and beautiful sights, she noticed coming toward ...
Among the actors, terrified looks, worried murmuring, and anguished sighs are common. Open weeping and throwing up are not unheard of. Also, tech week means extended hours, so everyone in the production is exhausted. From the actor’s perspective, the show does not look or feel good, and ...
Which brings me back to that bit about the sample chapter’s needing to be written impeccably and polished to within an inch of its life. It never fails to astonish Millicent and Maury how often a good writer with a compelling book concept simply throws away the opportunity the sample chapte...
But for the most part, I believe it has to do with how infrequently writers read their own work in hard copy. Hear that Gregorian-like chanting floating through the ether? That’s every writer for whom I’ve ever edited so much as a paragraph automatically murmuring, “Before submission,...
(Audience murmuring) (观众低声细语) When it comes to big animals, they tend to eat a lot of low-energy food like leaves. But tapirs are different. Up to 36 percent of their diet is based on fruit, and they have a very long digestive system. And they love to go for a walk. So ...
How do you know when you’re setting sketch is done? Again (the nail is in, stop hammering!), that depends on your own unique process. You’re done when you think you can squeeze any more juice out of the setting you’re working on. ...
When bored, they start murmuring to their neighbours or checking their phones. To avoid monotony, the audience must be involved. Ice breakers and introductions, for instance, re-energise attendees so they can concentrate. Some of the effective ways to engage the audience are as follows. Telling...
Yardley, this is going to hurt." Portia whimpered. Brooke kept stroking her hair, murmuring, "Be brave, darling. Scream all you like. Break every bone in my hand, if you must. I won't leave your side." Cecily moved toward Luke. "How can I help?" "You can't." "I can," she...
Besides the high amount of XP that you get from these orange events, there are unique rewards at the end, so if you are brave enough to finish local events, you will claim a treasure that contains stunning loot and a special currency called Murmuring Obols. You can use this currency to...