Could they appreciate Helen, who is to my mind a very
special sort of person?
On these occasions they used to take on a white dish tied up in a table napkin a
special sort of rice pudding with raisins stuck in it in the shape of a cross.
As it is a three-hours' drive, the Man of Wrath is loud in his lamentations when the
special sort of weather comes which means, as experience has taught him, this particular excursion.
Exulting indeed he was but it was a
special sort of exultation which seemed to take him by the throat like an enemy.
I shared this ambition with my parents and, the poor dears, they invested in a piano on which I learnt to play Hang down your head, Tom Dooley with what I thought was elan and a certain
special sort of flair.
"It takes a
special sort of something to invoke both God and Marxism as reasons not to buy something," joked a fourth.
'But the Chinese people do reserve a
special sort of respect and admiration for their ancestors.
It is difficult not to think of a
special sort of sans-culottes, devoid of a soul, drunk on themselves and cruelty.
It takes a
special sort of manager to work within those constraints under the constant FFP microscope.