June 15 (2) ED5W_2019_11_27

He has spent the past three months in Florida, ostensibly for medical treatment, but in actual fact to avoid prosecution. The e-mail requested account information, ostensibly to help clear up a "billing error"

I was scarcely able to move my arm after the accident. I could scarcely believe it when she said she wanted to marry me. /Scarcely had I sat down to eat when the phone rang./ He's only two - you can scarcely blame him for behaving badly

a venerable tradition/company/family She has worked at such venerable institutions as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York.

Dark storm clouds loomed on the horizon. Here, too, the threat of unemployment has been looming on the horizon.

He was the embodiment of the English gentleman. She was portrayed in the papers as the embodiment of evil.

They spent an immense amount of time getting the engine into perfect condition. He inherited an immense fortune.

He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed. He’s was pigeonholed early on in his career as a gospel singer

Most of his students aspired to a career in business. We aspire to become full-service providers to our clients

Times Square is the nexus of the New York subway. Professor Eric Hobsbawm suggests that Marx was right to argue that the "contradictions of a market system based on no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest