The sky can be a clue to the deeper story, too. Dark clouds take up fully half of the scene, dwarfing the homestead. Storms threaten the peace and prosperity of this farm, and barren trees flourish. It’s 1858 and the country is divided politically and ideologically, and the threat of ...
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In many cases, you want to go beyond informing. You want to persuade people to do something, such as subscribe, buy or pick up the phone and call you. Or you might want them to leave your company alone, rule in your company’s favor or give you a better price on supplies. in eith...
That the "fixed" versions of rude emails (largely) improve on the un-fixed doesn't say much; the revised versions are better in that they are less strident, but they are also indirect, stilted and over-diffident. And it's not just the passive-aggressive tone. Especially when it comes ...
A really awful passive-aggressive phrase that leaves the recipient little room to do anyting but comply. Britt April 3, 2012 at 7:03 am Very useful! In Dutch (I’m from the Netherlands) it is very common and even polite to thank someone in advance (Bij voorbaat dank/Alvast bedankt), ...
It adds to the notion that (3) bloggers are insular, passive-aggressive lightweights lacking in people skills. So develop some habits about all thank-yous for everything--and make handwritten the default position. If you don't, bad things will happen: ...
So, here is the passive aggressive bit – for many reasons I try to stay pretty calm about these things, but be aware they are a scam. I have always refused to pay any of these sorts of charges. These are mercenary companies who do no work themselves beyond automated very basic web ...
. As she approached the final checkpoint, a stocky sentry with two attack dogs and a machine gun glanced down at her license plate and waved her through. She followed Caine Road for another 250 yards and pulled into Employee Lot C. ...
Mar. 17. I will ring you up as soon as I come back to arrange for another appointment. • With many apologies, • Hao Zhiqi • Happiness Tour Group • Day 1 14:30 Arrival at Beijing Airport • 15:10 Transfer to Yanjing Hotel ...
Everything else is up to you. One imagines the poet locked up in solitary talking to himself about the personal and communal pain that won’t go away. There is a war going on, there is a war coming; Eze’s poems make his point plaintively, “I saw war, war is hell, never again....