As I play, I imagine myself like Frank Underwood and suddenly my stint as a virtual congressman includes some seedy and sleazy subtext.
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"I had completely mixed emotions because by the time I had crossed the line, I was still the champion, and then suddenly my engineer was telling me everything on the radio, " said the 27-year-old, who was racing in his hometown of Sao Paulo.
One Sunday I woke up at noon, and I suddenly noticed how silent my house and my life was.
My father died suddenly and within months so did my mother, both at a young age.
When, in mid-afternoon, the sun dips behind the mountain and my skis suddenly criss-cross ice-blue shadows, I am reminded of the more sinister snippets of local folklore my hosts have passed on: the wizard Fida, who lived in a cave above the valley and sold his soul to the devil, and the evil little spirits, parkeljni, who rattle their chains as they lie in wait for naughty children.
And this also explains why, suddenly, my wife has been encouraging me to eat more fatty foods and exercise less.
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You're sitting in an opera house with a lot of other people and you suddenly think, Oh my God, I'm actually alive, I am here, this is happening, and now it's over and if I don't remember it, it's gone.
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Suddenly she reached out and took my face in her palms, leaned toward me, and kissed me.
From there, tournament organizers needed commentators, and like my brother, I suddenly found myself traveling all over the world to cover tournaments and watch the best of the best duke it out.
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Oasis' set ended with The Who's My Generation, and then suddenly they were gone, leaving with a tongue-in-cheek remark that they'd be in Cardiff's Whispers nightclub later "if you want to join us".
When my mom suddenly took gravely ill in August, Will hopped on a plane and stayed with my wife, Liz, and me until she died a few weeks later disrupting his life, but honoring hers.
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"Suddenly my ability to support my wife and two children depended on the security of the company, " recalls Bayne.
What makes them think today is the day I will suddenly throw my preferences out the window and opt for something new?
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I'm sitting on the couch in a darkened apartment in my underwears eating my spaghetti when suddenly the events and the emotions of the day come tumbling down on me.
Yes, I suddenly wanted to go up to my room and see Luisa, asleep not dead wrapped in her sheet, with one shoulder perhaps uncovered.
Mr. FERRER: (Through translator) My mother was very pregnant and, in the jumping and dancing and all this great stuff happening at the party, suddenly my mom starts to feel the contractions.
Suddenly, that night in Philadelphia, my personal and professional lives converged.
And while the father is listening, the son suddenly says, Oh, my God, several times.
"I was home having breakfast when I suddenly heard the sound of a loud explosion, and all the windows in my house broke, " said Muhammad Hussain, a local resident.
When the dream left my head and became the adventure that it is today, we were suddenly faced with a number of major hurdles.
The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed 42 years of my life for.
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To my surprise Google returned several results, which I clicked, and was suddenly looking at an interface that allowed the attackers to fully control a network of compromised computer system.
Suddenly all those strangers were beaming at me, and by the time I retook my seat I realized that my sincere attempt to give away my success had just come back to me many times over.
My hope, and it is already being validated in the form of suddenly busier casino card rooms, is that the internet ban will spark of second renaissance of live play. 20 years ago when I started playing seriously, few Vegas casinos even had poker rooms, and many were closing, considered a waste of valuable gaming floor real estate in the industry.
Walking along the trailside, annoyed at my cold, wet mission, I suddenly noticed a profusion of orange and yellow bell-shaped blooms growing on dwarf rhododendron bushes.
While riding the bus, my cell phone signal suddenly went out, which is not normal, and continued to search for a signal for 15 minutes.
It was a surprise to suddenly hear from my gold guru that he had decided to go back in and replace the 50% of his holdings he sold some two years ago.
If you're asking me do I anticipate that the Republican leadership in the House or the Senate suddenly decide that I was right all along and they will adopt a hundred percent of my proposals, the answer is, no, I don't expect that.
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