Quotes About Gaping

The gaping wound in America's national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.

The lifting up of themselves for which he gives them freedom is not a movement which is formless, or to which they themselves have to give the necessary form. It takes place in a definite form and direction. Similarly, their looking to Jesus as their Lord is not an idle gaping. It is a vision that stimulates those to whom it is given to a definite action.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

It did not occur to these tourists that Washington felt burdened by uninvited visitors gaping at him, particularly since he wasn't a backslapping soul who feigned friendship with total strangers. His modesty disappointed those who expected him to narrate the wartime drama especially for them.

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

a great big hole

I was very dreamy. Insular. I'm always amazed I survived adolescence at all and wasn't squashed flat by a juggernaut. Gaping, I think was my main skill. Staring out of the window.

stared dumbly.

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

The exhibition gobsmacked me. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Here was quite a small building, not many people about, getting little attention. And inside they'd pulled together a staggering display of Regency furniture. I've seen most of the stuff that matters. I simply stood there, gaping.

Of course we've got to deliver Brexit; but then we've got to win a majority by appealing to aspirational people in the centre ground of British politics, where there's a gaping hole.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Look, Madeline, Lady Gertrude said, everyone's gaping at you! I know. The future duchess stared straight ahead, her shoulders stiff, her back straight. Never had Remington seen a woman less comfortable with her own distinction. Never had he enjoyed the success of his own plan quite so much. The ton adored only one thing more than a romance, and that was a scandal. He had- and would- give them both. Maybe it's because of your hair, he murmured. Madeline shot him a glare.

to plunge so deep takes more than any sword: such gaping wounds belong to civic hands.