| 单词 | personal |
| 例句 | “Without explaining his purpose, he began talking about my personal history,” remembered Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, she hung the bag from the showerhead and closed the curtain, desperately hoping that this wouldn’t be the moment Scott discovered personal hygiene. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Both Mark Antony and Cleopatra must have realized the strength of their combined political power as their personal feelings for each other took hold. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The plant book, the hunting jacket, my parents’ wedding photo, and the personal contents of my drawer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z At the time, he claimed it was for “personal reasons.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Through countless talks, Harold and I reached an understanding about not including personal things like “mascara,” and “shaving lotion,” “hair spray” or “Bic shavers,” “tampons,” or “athlete’s foot powder.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, every single person would insist that the Mahdi had maintained personal eye contact the entire time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I hold on to the one positive in this personal debacle: At least now I won’t have to struggle to make a decision as to whether to stay or go. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z ‘You been very reasonable. And since I think about it you’re a right decent guy—from the personal perspective, that is.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Hamilton understood the potency of Burr’s influence because he felt those same personal qualities throbbing away inside himself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Can I ask you something personal?” she asked. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “That’s the only reason? You didn’t have some sort of personal stake in this case?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They both sat stiffly, making sure not to get in my personal space at all, but I was too distracted to be distraught. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This profile gave very little personal information and no photo. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Or take out a personal advertisement in the Cold Sassy Weekly.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The exhaustion that accompanied my personal choice to wrap a piece of cloth around my hair every day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Don’t take it personal, Red. I was just doing a favor for a friend.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody knew about it yet—nobody at Bayside Press, and nobody in his personal life. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z After stepping down from that post in 2003, he started a company called B2K, with a division called Brickwork, which offers busy global executives their own personal assistant in India. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z But why shouldn’t his parents tell him their personal problems? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z When I peep over the side, there he is: Tyler Croft taking off in Boy Toy, his own personal Boston Whaler. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I will offer my services as her personal assistant. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess,” Kenny finally said slowly, “the butler, chauffeur and personal chef couldn’t make this meeting?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, his closest personal advisors were discouraging him from playing an active role in Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Another never came or wrote, perhaps because of some pressing personal problem which had intervened. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z This puzzling question of their origins was posed to me 25 years ago in a simple, personal form. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At public events, I focused on making personal connections with the people I met, in small groups and in crowds of thousands, in backstage chats and harried rope lines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You have my personal word for it that this man will be severely punished.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In no time, Seaborg became one of the Rad Lab’s reigning radiochemistry experts while also serving as Lewis’s personal research assistant. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He hoped that even if there was controversy, it wouldn’t be personal. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When an artist leaves behind no personal papers, when hundreds of years go by, who is to say that followers or forgers didn’t use his or her name to make some money? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z When a man has looked upon such massive waste of life as I have witnessed in these three battles, the presumption to consider his own little personal dreams becomes a matter of supreme egotism. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them was the test which the New York woman was in the process of giving us—not the embarrassing personal questions, but the business of circling numbers, spelling, and filling in blanks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want him to know my personal business. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “It creates a sense of place, a sense of personal history. Pleasure, even, Cadence. Have you ever heard of pleasure?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z We’d found sixty pounds of morels, it turned out—a personal best for Anthony and Ben. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Great. Now, what I was going to say before we got sidetracked”—Isa gave Oliver a pointed look—“is that we need to give the Beiderman a more personal look into who we are.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z One honor that came to me, I had prayed for: His Eminence, Prince Faisal, invited me to a personal audience with him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His personal leisure is aimed away from idle amusement or detached tampering with nature’s processes. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But unlike my parents, I have come to think that there is a place for the deeply personal in public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “How was I supposed to bring everything up? This was something in my personal life. I didn’t think I had to bring it into our team practices.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But Volpe’s stage is not a place for them to work out their personal issues. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But I don’t care if you study on something all your life, it ain’t gonna stick like if it happen to you personal. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Sex—top marks! devil Now make it more personal... a bit more fulsome, please. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I put the car in D and press it to seventy, praying, Please, Hilly, resist the temptation to rummage through my personal business “So what’s the big secret, what do you have to do today?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When Mr. Turner handed me my diploma, he stopped me for a personal word. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I had disappointed him before, but it had never been in such a personal way. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We found out two months ago and decided not to tell you; we even censored personal messages. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At that time, newspapers often launched vicious personal attacks, even going so far as to make up entire stories. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z It had been a spectacular personal success for him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She suggested that writing might be one of the best vehicles for some of my students to escape their horrific environments and personal demons. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She says birthdays are our own personal holiday. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They were taking only their personal belongings and the front-room furniture. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles the Fifth had no less than nine hundred and ten volumes, so that his personal collection was about as big as the Everyman Library is today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I had come for my own sake, my own poor personal pride. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When Naomi sits down next to you, you feel like her personal community service project, like the ones she’s always announcing in assembly. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z At a probate hearing after the death of George Bigheart, an attorney expressed bafflement at why loans ostensibly from Burt’s bank to the Osage were issued from Burt’s personal checkbook. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Abby sat with Nan at the kitchen table while a lady old enough to be personal friends with Betsy Ross, sewer of the first US flag, hobbled around the kitchen. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z There was no way that excitement would remain if it became personal, if he knew they were hunting in his house. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Not, at least, from a personal point of view.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Her own personal rod was a branch from a lilac bush, which grew in the side lawn. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I know from my own personal experience working as a team can bring a lot of pressure, especially when you are a star athlete. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I add them to my personal list of kills that began in the arena and now includes thousands. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Do you really need to hear about my personal life? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “I think Mr. Terupt handled them the way he did because he was trying to teach you guys some personal responsibility.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z It wasn’t personal: it was just the way things had always been done, they told her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z By “inclination,” he meant his personal aversion to the kind of controversy and policy debate inside the cabinet that Adams seemed to be proposing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I didn’t feel any kind of personal stake in it at all, so I didn’t understand the “You” part. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “In the course of this work, I began naturally to form bonds of personal friendship,” Fuchs later said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The congregation of his very own church interrupted the sermon to hold an election on whether or not to accept Jesus Christ as the personal Saviour of Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave her son an American name followed by a Korean personal name followed by the family name. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! She’s not my mother! I’m just here helping her. I’m her personal assistant,” she said importantly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He’d had no motive for working hard academically, and he was deeply distracted by personal and familial problems and in full-blown rebellion almost every day of his high school life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She seemed to be taking the library’s lack of useful information on the subject as a personal insult; it had never failed her before. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He put another log into the wood stove and sat down at his personal computer, which was located next to his clock-repair bench. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them he had read in books, but he would tell them as if they were from his personal ex-perience. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My personal favorite: A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The plaid, the crest, the motto, and the school colors all belong to Mr. MacLeod’s personal clan. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z If Washington was the epitome of the virtuous leader who subordinated personal interest to the public good, Burr was a kind of anti-Washington, who manipulated the public interest for his own inscrutable purposes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Adams was distinctive, however, for his tendency to regard even serious political and ideological differences as eminently negotiable once elemental bonds of personal trust and affection were established. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The political rivalry had never eroded the personal respect between them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was nothing personal about it, for he would have hated anyone who came in. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The Championship you have won is a great personal triumph for you and I am pleased to join countless of your fellow-citizens in extending my heartiest congratulations and best wishes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There was no evidence that Pelton felt any attraction to communism or had a personal desire to help the Soviet Union; he seemed to be motivated entirely by money. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Half will be buried with my body, the other half turned in to Command with my papers and personal effects. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I had never dreamed that anyone would accept me so simply, so completely, without question or the least hint of personal aggrandizement. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom always used to say, “Donnie gets a lot of personal attention at the very highest level at that school.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z “It’s warm without being personal,” Grace explained, shrugging her shoulders. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He showed them other examples, and they decided that as long as we disabled comments and didn’t have any way for people to find out personal information about me, it was okay with them. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I promised faithfully that when I returned to the United States, I would relay to Afro-Americans his personal warm regards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the Laughing Man had amassed the largest personal fortune in the world. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “Because a lot of white people don’t feel the way I do. And I’m not supposed to share my personal opinions with my students. I could get into trouble.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She did not want to bring her personal drama to rehearsals and to be around her former boyfriend every afternoon and feel that everyone was always looking at her. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Everyone else who plays has their own set in the finished basements of their personal mansions. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z This profile gave very little personal information and no photo. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Are you very deeply in love with your wife? Or am I being too personal?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The inside of the car was stuffy and full of personal smells, even with the door open. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She stays a long time with her forehead on the ground, the time we can say our personal prayers to God, so after I finish mine, I add one for her sister in Saudi Arabia. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Since he went out every afternoon at that time and Amaranta Úrsula had set aside a weekly sum for him for his personal expenses, his room looked like a branch of the wise Catalonian’s bookstore. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Peck had accumulated a personal mythology that included Indian wars, gold mining, and mercenary executions, and was known to carry a derringer pistol in a hidden shoulder holster. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us; a personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Abigail’s accusations, on the other hand, were private and personal, came from someone whom he respected as an intimate friend, and went beyond mere matters of political partisanship to questions of honor and trust. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z From my very first press conference I noticed that journalists were as eager to learn about my personal feelings and relationships as my political thoughts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You know how it feels to want to escape, only to be limited by the dimensions of your personal universe. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “The Blue Jay Extended Stay Lodge—also known, this week, as Olympia Village—is, as you may have noticed, my personal bird sanctuary. Please enjoy our feathered friends’ colorful, song-filled company and merry antics.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Reasons personal, racial, social, sexual—how can I guess why Ai must not weep? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In both instances his posture of public probity—slavery should be ended and political parties were evil agents that corrupted republican values—was at odds with his personal behavior and political interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then he would call the fence, who would come and make a personal appraisal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I made vague allusions to personal problems and went away from them cold with despair. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Jeremiah’s plight pulled Claudette’s attention away from her personal difficulties to the injustices blacks faced everywhere. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “Oh,” I said, dressed now, not sure how to respond to such personal information. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I say that it was morally wrong if any of that $18,000 went to Senator Nixon, for my personal use. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He confessed that for years he had been in personal touch with Goldstein and had been a member of an underground organization which had included almost every human being he had ever known. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I knew that this wasn’t the smartest move, but the need to do something here, anything, outweighed those personal concerns. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He skipped some years or forgot or decided according to some personal accounting of grievance that the plantation was undeserving. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Most of the King’s army having been called away to fight the war, there were only a handful of personal guards to defend him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Twig glared at him with that sleepy-cat face, as if that was a personal insult, and he didn’t comment again. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Of course he felt that God was better than Guenever or Arthur, but the point was that he was personal. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When all of my test-prep books were done, I got a personal tutor to shore me up for the exam. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The battle degenerates into butchery and a confused struggle of personal conflicts. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, right after that, one of the older sisters confided to me a personal problem that Sister Betty X was having. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They promote personal ambition by encouraging competition for the highest grades. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary they were merely casual events in a crowded summer and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Besides the official chronicle of Redwall he also kept his own personal volume, full of valuable information. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z These Americans employ about nine thousand personal chefs, up from about four hundred just ten years ago, according to the American Personal Chef Association. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She acts like it’s her personal tragedy and hers alone. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I’ve done my best to capture the language with which each person spoke and wrote: dialogue appears in native dialects; passages from diaries and other personal writings are quoted exactly as written. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Soon the struggle for control distilled to a personal conflict between Burnham and Davis, its primary battlefield a disagreement over who should control the artistic design of exhibits and interiors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After a little while, what little awkwardness as existed during the initial minutes of our meeting had dissipated completely, and our conversation took a more personal turn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “It's not enough that I’ve kept that woman active. She needs personal help.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Minister Malcolm X told me that he would not take personal responsibility. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Even their personal inconsistencies seemed like photographic negatives of each other’s. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In truth, everything in my life in 1951 that was personal and had value was white. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Morgan’s skipping school to avoid me, but it’s totally not personal. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The taxi driver, while taking me to the Hotel Aletti, described the atrocities the French had committed, and personal measures that he had taken to get even. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike George Blake, Penkovsky's grudge against the system that raised him was almost entirely personal. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A personal matter I’d just as soon keep to myself—it’s got nothing to do with this deal. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no sense to it, but the hunger made him angry, as though it were a personal attack on him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Not for weeks yet would I deal with the direct, personal application to myself, as a black man, of the truth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you realize that there’s nothing personal in the assignment?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some writers requested a personal update on his condition. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Everybody then murmured “True!” and looked at me in a particularly unpleasant and personal manner. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I decided to make it personal with one, who I felt was making a show out of ignoring me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Jones’s personal vision of the Marburg outbreak reminds me of a flashlight pointed down a dark hole. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He has, as a consequence of his crime, not only forfeited his liberty, but all his personal rights except those which the law in its humanity accords to him. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And once the advice became practical and personal, it became memorable. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But as long as no one nearby thought DNA was at the heart of everything, the potential personal difficulties with the King’s lab kept him from moving into action with DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It is the emblematic photograph of Ernest Lawrence and Robert Oppenheimer together in the full bloom of their friendship, long before their personal relations became soured by rivalry, suspicion, and politics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But perhaps some of the enslaved people had the personal pleasure of realizing that they had knowledge that the plantation owners needed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I don’t take it too personal, if that’s what you mean,” Teddy said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It turned out that he had used inferior materials, siphoning the remaining cash into his personal bank account. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The following day the SS—an organization that began as Hitler's personal bodyguard and grew to have vast authority over the "Jewish question"—continued to patrol the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z On the invitations he had sent out he wrote personal notes to the six Marines who were stationed as far away from Ravenel as El Toro and as near as Cherry Point. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z No one, not even a saint, can live without a sense of personal value. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “No,” I said, “it’s not that sort of question. It’s not intimate or personal or anything like that.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Like bringing up a divorce or a personal problem on a postcard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about one of my personal heroes, Muhammad Ali, and his circuitous path to being an agent of change. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Although you may still be a student, you can begin to develop the personal goals that you will need to succeed. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “You have his personal line and you haven’t used it until now?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The central quality in Elijah’s face is pain, and his smile is a witness to it—pain so old and deep and black that it becomes personal and particular only when he smiles. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Anxious to make the deal, Arnold insisted on a personal meeting with André—a very dangerous move, especially for the case officer. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Young man, would I be correct in assuming your, well, your interest in this business, this dreadful business, is personal?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z They, like most tissue- rights activists, are less concerned about personal profits than about making sure the knowledge scientists gain by studying tissues is available to the public, and to other researchers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Nixon wrote personal letters to the parents of the four dead protestors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the nervous strain of enduring Dad’s driving; perhaps it was simply that fourteen persons have different personal habits. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I could use my personal experiences as an athlete to train and inspire this younger generation, truly making a difference in their lives, including in the life of my sister Faizah. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He acknowledged outright that it was a personal matter, this choosing of one’s mysteries. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, Penelope had no personal experience of what a grandfatherly interest might be like, since she had no grandparents of her own, at least that she knew of. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “It’s not personal. It’s just her or us.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Out of 125 papyri recording contemporary legal cases, fully 20 percent involve personal squabbles between individual Greeks and Egyptians. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Sharia meant that all aspects of life—from property disputes to personal hygiene—would be dictated by religious judges. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If everything uploaded to the Thunderhead was stored in the backbrain, then not just public records were there, but personal as well. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In no time, my personal information—age, history, location—was broadcast to the entire Dark World, and my equipment was compromised. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Whenever he told the story, Rat had a tendency to stop now and then, interrupting the flow, inserting little clarifications or bits of analysis and personal opinion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Bell was being argued in the Supreme Court in 1927, the rhetoric of genetics and eugenics penetrated social, political, and personal discourses in the United States. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I can’t make you reveal deeply personal details about your childhood by priming you with words like “nap” and “bottle” and “teddy bear.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Now everybody knows too much about everyone, even the personal lives of our leaders. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Bedtime seems to be taking a while—it sounds like there’s some argument about which chapter their read-aloud left off on—so I load up my personal email. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z On a personal level, my relations with Chief Buthelezi were close and respectful, and I hoped to capitalize on that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We lived in constant terror of letting slip some personal or embarrassing detail. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “These theater appearances gave me a personal sense of accomplishment,” Marian recalled. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The campaign had been expanded to eliminate personal possessions. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the source of their personal misfortune was identified, they had leave to protect and love one another. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Anderson’s personal approach to her life and career was disarmingly modest and practical. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “If you win excuse me, unde, what I was going to say was this. We hoped to settle the matter without a personal combat at all.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Curly made it through Friday night, though not without personal inconvenience. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But the early letters and leaks out of Monticello indicated that he was in fact disposed to agree and consider a bipartisan political alliance grounded in the personal trust of the once-great collaboration. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But there was a difference between suppressing the publication of research findings and restricting the personal give-and-take among scientists that was indispensable for scientific progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Perry soon developed his own personal gift for spying out bottles. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z None of them spoke about Mrs. Caruthers killing her son’s first fiancée, a woman who had been her personal maid and a colored girl light enough to pass as white. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “I ain’t doing this no more. You making this too personal. I don’t care about telling white people how it feel.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z "It's extremely long," he said, "and extremely personal." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I had figured that out days ago thinking that it wasn’t a part of my personal history I should hesitate over if someone asked. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He took little personal interest in his students, knowing only the more uninhibited by name. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Beyond questions of appearance or language or personal style, the larger problem was imbedded within the political culture of postrevolutionary America itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “As a matter of fact, I’ve been known to take a perfectly normal rainy day as a personal insult. So this is absolute manna to me.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He saw young Porter Alexander, his chief of artillery, in personal supervision. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His message of personal responsibility, particularly as it relates to fatherhood, was anything but new; it had been delivered countless times by black ministers in churches across America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z However, where personal space is at a premium, tensions are apt to spike much more quickly than in a place where one’s battle cry reaches maybe ten neighbors instead of a hundred. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I was also criticized at the conference for engaging in “personal diplomacy” and not keeping the rank-and-file of the organization informed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A man who had his inner, personal dignity was free—no matter how a boss tried to bully him. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Because of the large volume of mail I receive, I am unable to write personal responses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I'm screaming that I didn't mean anything, and that it was a reflex and not personal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Someone should tell her personal copilot that His landings suck,” Miss Michigan muttered. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Even if Hal was given his own personal bodyguard, it wouldn’t have protected him from himself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z From this, it would be fair to say that one month before his death, Malcolm had revised his views on intermarriage to the point where he regarded it as simply a personal matter. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus direct denial, lying and the revelation of personal affairs are avoided. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z My creative expression also extended to my own personal fashion, often color-coordinating my hijab and sneakers. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z To do so meant going down to the basement and turning on one of the two personal computers, hers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They resented the loss of individual rights and personal freedoms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I took Lieutenant Carroll’s personal stuff from Sergeant Simpson and started looking through it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seems to me we can’t discuss anything any more but you take it as a personal insult.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Will you stop texting my ex-girlfriend information about my personal life?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The meetings were wedged in among constant banquets and receptions, at which Ernest considered his attendance essential to forging a personal connection with his Russian counterparts. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But he bristled at subordinating his personal quest for the truth to the priorities of the group, which included, tediously, the maintenance of the machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After being pressed up tight to life and death, it’s what I believe in—a distilled hum that I plan to follow through this life and maybe the next, like my own personal anthem. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I am in my own personal happy jet—in a wide seat and with the perfect mix of cool and warm air and the little pillow positioned perfectly in my lumbar region. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Her personal servants tiptoed in and out with meals she refused to touch. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “What do you want me to do? Nana told me to be careful on the Internet. I try not to ask personal questions.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z For Katherine, the report commemorated the beginning of a new phase not just at Langley but in her personal life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z With each copy, he wrote a personal letter, geared to the recipient and to the fears Charles had about the recipients reaction. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t wax on about my worship. It’s personal. And honestly, poppy seed soup, bah.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The more I read, the more I found out about my peers’ personal problems. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It was no stray mugging or personal settling of scores. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was also symbolic in a personal sense for Jefferson and Madison. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Of course, in his personal lore he would have said that he started with $200 in his pocket and a wife and baby and just a few words of English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re right—I don’t want you here. But it ain’t personal—it’s just that I got business to take care of. So stop making a nuisance of yourself and do as you’re told.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “We hope to take her personal things away.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “I was referring to the delicacy of our personal relationship.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to cry for Edward—at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or loved one. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He was also given access to the Church’s personal trainer, Harry Sneider, a former weight-lifting champion who took a special interest in Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Later I receive a box of his personal effects—his wristwatch, letters I wrote to him, some clothes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The police have already taken your personal belongings and put them in a bag with your name on it. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z If there was no personal connection to the place, how could we ever expect to win? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “But I’m not trying to get myself any treasure, I’m not trying to take anything for personal gain. Can you believe that?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The point was that the dolls and blocks needed me to give them life, and I dutifully gave it to them, imposing one personal crisis after another. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For the despairing moments in between, I was left in my personal darkness. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But it’s kind of bizarre to have people I don’t even know telling me these personal stories. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z You wouldn't seek him out for advice on a personal problem, but he'd be the first one you'd call when the dishwasher broke or someone flushed a hairpiece down your toilet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Finally, he could no longer stand the personal demonstrations against him. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I wanted to take her back to the street where I had found her, but Fd already disturbed her rest and had taken on her soul as my own personal responsibility. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” he said, crowding into their personal space, “but could you please explain how it is that you’re alive?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He particularly didn't like it when the candidate was only interested in his own personal advancement or just wanted to get out of Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z If January 1975 was the dawn of the personal computer age, then who would be in the best position to take advantage of it? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z My parents had a bedroom on the first floor, their own bathroom, and a big window that looked into the backyard—probably more personal space than anyone in their families had ever known. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Just something personal and private, for our friends. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On election night, before Blaine kissed her, his face wet with tears, he held her tightly as though Obama s victory was also their personal victory. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "I owe them a personal explanation before it breaks on the news." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If some celebrity endorses a brand of dog food, or some cabdriver disapproves of the mayor’s handling of a dilemma, there’s obviously no reason to accord statistical significance to these personal expressions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I plucked it up — it might have some of her personal possessions inside, and I wanted to keep some memory of her in case I found her family. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Those are my personal belongings. They will not be inspected by anyone. I do not permit it.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The count decorated it according to his personal taste, with a decadent, ambiguous refinement that startled Blanca, accustomed as she was to country life and her father’s classical sobriety. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I could sober up, get my personal life in order, and reevaluate my priorities. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z We’d form a deep personal bond, and slowly, without realizing it, I’d become a character in her story, and she in mine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And that personal despair could never be desperate enough. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Boyfriend, huh? That guy I saw you getting up close and personal with at the dance?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z He kept it on a personal computer, and he would type in a few words each day. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple sat beside him, her arms and legs stiff, as if she were afraid of encroaching on his personal space, of touching him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Frear and Wood hurried away as quickly as possible, weaving around the piles of personal property abandoned in the road. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He was angry at what he interpreted as “slanted” press treatment recently; he felt especially that the newspapers had not taken seriously his statements of the personal danger he was in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, in a sense. However, the mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Explain to your colleague you were called in here today so we could return these and give you a lecture about taking greater care with your personal papers.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When Daliwonga finished, I replied that while I understood his personal position as a chief quite well, I believed that his own in-terests were in conflict with those of the community. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Downtown San Francisco became alien and cold, and the streets I had loved in a personal familiarity were unknown lanes that twisted with malicious intent. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “On the contrary,” said he, “I thank you, for though we are strictly in our private and personal capacity, still it may be mentioned that there are Newgate cobwebs about, and it brushes them away.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z In a renewed offensive, the army advanced under the Inka’s personal command. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That can be done through the influence of special kinds of people, people of extraordinary personal connection. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You could tell he cared, but you could also tell it wasn’t a personal thing for him. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And personal astrology is with us still: consider two different newspaper astrology columns published in the same city on the same day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I never want to ride another bus again, or see Anthony, or accept Jesus Christ as my personal anything. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Having refused what I considered an impertinent request, I could see that my personal safety was in jeopardy.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Well, find out and definitely get that in. It’ll add something personal to all this.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And my dad didn’t get too personal with them. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He must have gotten out of his personal enclosure, during the attack or once the power went out, and hid out in the surrounding jungle until he saw us leave. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The previous June, Hitler had awarded Goebbels a sumptuous personal residence on the recently renamed Hermann-Goring-Strasse, just a block south of the Brandenburg Gate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “It’s a personal truth that is wrong and bad.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Mostly, it was a personal matter that no one spoke about. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If only he lived in New York so that I could make a personal appeal! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s my personal opinion that the “Hate . . . Hate ...” title was primarily responsible for the reaction. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never seen an actual world globe this big up close and personal, much less had one of my own. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But it became a personal game of mine. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He knew nothing about my personal life as a father and husband and seemed utterly uninterested in my background as a former newspaper reporter and editor, TV producer, and professor turned media critic and author. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the personal histories of the Soviet women who flew and worked on aircraft during the war, there are many stories of gender discrimination, but there’s practically no mention of sexual aggression or assault. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I have always been an activist, and my personal chemistry perhaps made me reach more quickly than most ministers in the Nation of Islam that stage of dedication. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Tali had been his personal guard since he was a boy, and he was trusted by both the Chancellor and the King. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Its cutoff valve was located in Holmes’s personal apartment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Among the personal effects that authorities will later find are a broken comb, tobacco, embroidered slippers, and one very telling scrap of paper. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Mamá was more than paranoid about giving out personal information. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z You have to understand the personal dynamics of the group, juggle different personalities, keep people happy, manage the demands on your own time and attention, and so on. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Orson Welles, the Mercury, and CBS faced thousands of dollars worth of lawsuits for personal injury, mental anguish, and damages. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z On the wall hung a little cupboard which held Brother Luke’s few personal belongings and his breviary. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I do not speak here only from my personal reaction, but from seeing it happen to others, and from seeing their reactions. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew from personal experience that the Object had a crocus of her own. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “This is different. This is personal. It’s about me. They knew they could do that to me. They knew I wouldn’t do anything back.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know Tremaine better than any of us. So keep your personal grievances out of it and help our wild card out, yeah?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But a great number of educators spoke of “personal responsibility” in a country authored and sustained by a criminal irresponsibility. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Just what Kaira wanted—her personal letter read by millions of people over the Internet. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Though Abigail was with him all the way, for Adams himself it was the supreme collaboration with his own private demons and doubts, his personal declaration of independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His hatred for the King was not a reality like Mordred’s—indeed, he had little personal feeling against anybody except Lancelot His attitude was more of malice at random. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, it’s a terrific letter, very personal and touching. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I shuttled between meetings with various department heads, worked with the staffs of city commissioners, and was dispatched sometimes to different neighborhoods around Chicago to follow up on personal complaints received by the mayor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I wanted the club to continue at all hazards; my feelings were intensely personal. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “If that breaks, my parents will make me pay for it. They’re big on personal responsibility.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z While I was weaving the veterans’ personal stories into the complex, divisive web of politics and protests in America, more than a million refugees poured into Europe from Middle Eastern and African countries. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I nod, feeling like a lout for asking such a personal question. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They deliberately sought young kids who were slipping through the cracks and had been written off as their personal crusade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But in those days I had my own personal reasons. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Later.—At the very outset of our meeting a great personal relief was experienced by both Van Helsing and myself. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It was his personal message to inmates and, actually, a pretty good summary of the booklet itself. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When we finished saying Hail Mary about three hundred times, we said our personal prayers silently, which was kept to a minimum, since our knees would be killing us by then. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank watched as Percy plowed through a line of legionnaires, scattering their shields with his personal cyclone. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It seemed I had misread the situation between Sohrab and Ali-Reza, who had acted like friends, but were clearly engaged in some sort of personal vendetta that could only be settled through soccer/non-American football. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z She asked her students to think about what they might have done if the thief had written them a personal letter before the theft took place, a letter delivered to their home. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Ignoring the personal jab, I jotted down her response. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Pitezel’s almost hallucinatory description must have tantalized Holmes, for he wrote to Cigrand and offered her a job as his personal secretary, at twice the salary she was making in Keeley. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He used to take gymnastic classes until they got to be too expensive, and I think he secretly wanted to be a personal trainer. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to answer any more personal questions.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Good manners can mean keeping out of others’ personal business. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As Franklin and many others noted, Indian life—not only among the Haudenosaunee, but throughout the Northeast—was characterized by a level of personal autonomy unknown in Europe. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mom gave me the stink eye for blurting out my personal desires to someone we hardly knew. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z President Dwight Eisenhower installed him as his personal advisor on atomic energy in March and appointed him to the AEC chairmanship three months later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I did not feel like discussing Charles’s personal business with Henry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “But seriously, it makes no sense. I don’t understand why Logan would do that! Like, just because of a class discussion, he had to make it personal? Like totally mean. I didn’t deserve that!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z What I have to do is make a personal appearance and exhibit my sunny, self-confident self. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ladd Devine stapled the two notes and the two envelopes they had come in together, slipped them into a manila folder, and filed them under E for “El” in his personal correspondence file. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But at the age of twenty-three, personal mortality—the idea of my own death—was still largely outside my conceptual grasp. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "You see all of them? They're undercover police. I worry that the Governor himself will come out with his personal guards. I don't know what he'll do. I'm afraid of him." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Quite apart from his great scientific talents,” he told Neylan, “I have always regarded him as a man of fine personal qualities of character, loyalty, and integrity.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This issue of the common good versus personal liberty was hardly new when Prohibition was enacted, and one hundred years later, it is still very much with us today. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z If you have any knowledge of where she might be, please send me a personal correspondence. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He looked vaguely troubled, as if he were pondering something deeply personal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It came in the form of a personal telegram, a frightening event. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Telling him which poem somehow feels too personal to share even after the admission that I converse with dead relatives. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Its place in the canons of poetics and rhetoric, moreover, has largely survived the personal debunking of its author. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I accepted the Lord as my personal Saviour, for He finally brought me a Maytag washer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Barack and I both relied on our personal faith as well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z You want personal attention to you and your loved one in a time of great loss. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z "Make of it what you will, so long as you release your prisoner. The Grand Maester is a staunch friend to the Queen Regent, and under her personal protection." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z However, it’s Haymitch who welcomes everyone, and by his words I understand that they have come at his personal invitation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z My personal dread derived from the obvious fact that it’s not only the software writers and computer geeks who get empowered to collaborate on work in a flat world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Navid was thrilled—but only because he had a personal stake in my progress. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z In Mind the Stop Carey defines punctuation as being governed “two-thirds by rule and one- third by personal taste”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z New tasks—small and large, medical and personal—and their bwats were added throughout the day. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z At the end of the video, Halliday included a link to his personal website, which had changed drastically on the morning of his death. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The painting is a personal statement, an allegory, and it is also a glimpse into the future. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but that was just a battle. Milez only wanted to get under your skin. Nothing personal.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Abra had long ago given up having any private thing in her room, even any personal thing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Of course this magic depends on one’s personal history of learning. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Because of the large volume of mail I receive, I am unable to write personal responses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Of course, Joe understood immediately that this dynamite had not just fallen from heaven in order to increase the personal wealth and power of Joe Mondragon, all-around handyman and bean farmer par extraordinaire. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Willoughby was rare—his preference to remain behind the scenes implied the absence of vast personal conceit, a trait essential for two-penny despots. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Adams responded with uncharacteristic calmness to this personal vendetta. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Bateson made it his personal mission to ensure that Mendel, once forgotten, would never again be ignored. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z These were members of the Royal Family’s personal guard: ruthless, lightning-swift soldiers trained from birth to protect and kill. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The fear had gone too deep, the losses were all too real and personal. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But beyond that single personal concern, I couldn’t have asked Allah to bless my efforts any more than he had. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z At Berkeley, Oppenheimer displayed the peculiar combination of personal charm and intellectual magnetism that would make him so effective a leader of the atomic bomb program at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The one I have in mind not only is wordy and earnest beyond my wildest dreams but is, to boot, rather excruciatingly personal. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Some of Cobbett’s personal possessions were sold, and Rush donated the money to charity. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She told him that she did not believe in a personal God. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But these personal upheavals were minor compared with the hornets’ nest soon to be stirred by Galileo’s new scientific discoveries. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “To Weldon I owe the chief awakening of my life,” he recalled, “but this is the personal, private obligation of my own soul.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He wasn’t a coach, but I still wanted him to be on my personal team of advisors. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I shouldn’t have gotten in the water at all because it was Fred. It’s personal. But I never would have stayed out of the quarry. I thought I could bring him back.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “It was a private journey as much as a public one. He was searching for his personal essence as much as he was making a political statement.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I loved to know other people’s personal business. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As we got toward the end there were some personal questions. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z My instincts tell me Haymitch isn't just looking for physical affection, he wants something more personal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It was my second month of French class, and the teacher was leading us in an exercise designed to promote the use of one, our latest personal pronoun. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Except: His hatred of Erudite was so vehement it must have been personal. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z There was so much jostling and searching for homework papers and mittens that no one paid any attention to anything except personal possessions until they were well up the walk to school. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the blow landed, devastating on both personal and professional levels. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Two years earlier, in fact, Burr had claimed to have confronted Hamilton with a personal complaint about incessant vilifications of his character, and Hamilton had acknowledged his indiscretion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Wart was so much impressed by the kindness of the old man, and particularly by the lovely things which he possessed, that he hardly liked to ask him personal questions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A direct or personal question is out of bounds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And just as personal hygiene routinely purged debris and excrement from the body, racial hygiene eliminated genetic detritus, thereby resulting in the creation of a healthier and purer race.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “You think you are making personal connections with these people?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Wemmick replied, “I don’t know her story,—that is, I don’t know all of it. But what I do know I’ll tell you. We are in our private and personal capacities, of course.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Coach is always saying we shouldn’t chase personal records, but we all know there will be a huge celebration when Terrell scores his one-thousandth point. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m now Mr. Crouch’s personal assistant, and I’m here representing him.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Senghor was greatly concerned by Oliver’s condition and insisted that he be attended to by his personal physician. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Min Soo agonized over the choice of the personal name, what Americans called the first name. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I never discussed my personal life with him. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z It seemed too secret and personal to admit to a virtual stranger, but I told her, “Yeah, totally.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “It sounded like you spoke from personal experience.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He would be fuming as he turned around, for he recognized my voice—his personal gnat—and the club would already be swinging and I would be ducking out of the way. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I had never really had any personal contact with this kind of Jew before. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And she really did have something very personal to say. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as our e-mails grew longer and more personal, we started writing each other at least once a day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z While the Rad Lab quickly moved back into basic nuclear research, Ernest Lawrence maintained his personal interest in military projects. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Such was the vehemence with which he made the threat that the president of the republic canceled his trip at the last moment and sent the decoration with a personal representative. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Their personal opinions ruled us—there seemed to be no authority in charge to direct them as to what was fair. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There were also indications that both Halliday and Morrow had invested most of their own personal fortunes in the company’s new endeavor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Malcolm X’s growing respect for individual whites seemed to be reserved for those who ignored on a personal basis the things he said about whites and who jousted with him as a man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His reputation then fell victim to two nearly calamitous setbacks, one beyond his control and the other the product of his personal flair for perversity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z One quality of such places as I am trying to define is that a very large part of them is personal and subjective. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Failure to follow these instructions may lead to serious personal injury and possibly property damage.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z One woman, Ruth, whose younger brother is incarcerated, says she would never discuss her brother with her co-workers or supervisor, though they have long shared information about their personal lives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "All the personal e-mails are dispatched to your laptops. Also there's a telemetry update for Vogel and a system update for me. Huh . . . there's a voice message addressed to the whole crew." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was something else, something more personal, that explained why I was its target. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There are remarkable children who very early are able to write publicly about their personal lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Individually, no member of the Party owns anything, except petty personal belongings. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “But, yes—Gale was once a disagreeable human witch. She had terrible personal hygiene, plus extreme—ah, digestive issues.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The emotion and high anxiety would likely express itself in the form of a racially charged debate about values, morals, and personal responsibility rather than a debate about the prison economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And when elected President of the Royal Society, in 1680, he expressed his regrets that he could not take up the post because his personal religious beliefs prevented him from swearing the necessary oaths. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “That is talking about me. I don't want Jamie knowing my personal business.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Dewey said, “One of those, maybe that’s our deal. A personal thing—a grudge that got out of hand.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ere many days,” I said, as I terminated my musings, “I will know something of him whose voice seemed last night to summon me. Letters have proved of no avail—personal inquiry shall replace them.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Don’t you dare—!” squealed Aunt Petunia, but again, Vernon waved her down: Slights on his personal appearance were, it seemed, as nothing to the danger he had spotted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z My family might worry about my divulging something so personal. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A lot of the time, though, they stay home figuring things out, telling each other those little personal stories they like to hear again and again, or fussing with the bird Violet bought. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wished to — ah — deposit certain — um — personal items in the room...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I wonder if you would perhaps permit me to ask you something of a rather personal order. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Go get me three avocados,” she says, like I’m her personal servant. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z However, she did not immediately leave, for the room was pleasingly uncluttered by personal possessions—in fact, apart from Briony’s, it was the only tidy bedroom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the theory of relativity there is no unique absolute time, but instead each individual has his own personal measure of time that depends on where he is and how he is moving. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In a time in America when it was of arch importance for a militant black voice to reach mass audiences, Life magazine wanted to do a personal story of me, and I refused. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As those conversations took place, the one thing that stood out for my parents and me was the personal connection I felt with the agent I ultimately chose, Janey Miller from Octagon. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But my experience in this world has been that the people who believe themselves to be white are obsessed with the politics of personal exoneration. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “It seems so hard to be thinking of anything personal, when Mother’s life hangs in the balance,” she wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We have powerful defense mechanisms—personal prejudice, shame, societal messages, and, yes, technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In 1630, Harvey received an even more prestigious appointment as personal physician to James’s son Charles I, who came to the throne in 1625. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Franklin D. Roosevelt was hanging the Congressional Medal of Honor around my neck, saying, “Without regard for her personal safety, she entered the very stronghold of the foe.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, first let’s look at your personal gross income from lawn cutting, shall we? It’s really the only figure that counts for this aspect of your operation.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Horatio Alger’s books have made his name synonymous with rags-to-riches success, but that was not his personal story. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Now I had seen it as up close and personal as you can get. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I can’t believe I’m getting up in front of people and talking about personal stuff, and liking it. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s only going out with you because he feels sorry for you,” she whispers as she invades my personal space on a classroom ramp. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Increasingly, the nation’s richest are spending their money on personal services or exclusive experiences and isolating themselves from the masses in ways that go beyond building gated walls. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She waved us inside and cheerfully resumed shaving her legs at the kitchen sink, a procedure I’d never witnessed so up close and personal. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The method of loci isn’t a museum piece on the personal level either. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Some of them were more personal than others. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At Duke and Harvard, he saw that most students chased money, power, or a sense of personal advancement, but Farmer’s motives for becoming a doctor were different. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Yet they kept a few words of their own, as well as their own names of months and days, and a great store of personal names out of the past. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “If you will forgive me for being personal—I do not like your face, M. Ratchett,” he said. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite her personal misgivings, Penelope thanked both of the young servants profusely for their willingness to spend their time furthering the children’s education. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z My parental unit who is at this moment violating my personal space and reading my text over my shoulder wants me to finish homework so I GTG. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z After this ten-minute conversation, Bobby said he was going to play “no matter what,” and that the interests of the United States were greater than his personal interests. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There was a personal journal that could provide a ton of interesting information if it had been updated recently. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z At its heart lies a theory Wagner drew from Schopenhauer, from Buddhism and from Christianity, that self-enlightenment, or personal redemption, is achieved by denying oneself gratification, resisting temptation and seeking an understanding of fellow-suffering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Mr Charles remembered marvelling at how my father showed not one hint of discomfort or anger, but continued to drive with an expression balanced perfectly between personal dignity and readiness to oblige. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t have a good understanding of personal space. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z By now the reader will not be surprised to learn that an apparently arcane debate about the distant past could become vehemently personal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Apart from all the German, their personal libraries are similar. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I discovered that to achieve perfect personal silence all I had to do was to attach myself leechlike to sound. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Television, after all, has plots that, while interesting, are not personal. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His personal life was impeccable—of a puritanism unattainable for the mass. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe she has a work phone and a personal cell phone, and all the other messages were on that other phone. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Totalitarian systems depend on a monopoly of information and force, and too much information started to slip through the Iron Curtain, thanks to the spread of fax machines, telephones, and, eventually, the personal computer. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Without my backpack, I had to use one of Dad’s messenger bags from work as my carry-on, or “personal item.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Instead of acknowledging that he was choosing loyalty to party over loyalty to Adams—for Jefferson, ideology was trumping intimacy—he preferred to cast his decision in personal terms. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A short time later, when his personal physician finished removing his sores, he asked him, without showing any particular interest, where the exact location of his heart was. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The destruction of the temple of philosophy was not, for him, an historical event; it was a personal experience, the moment when he had awakened from a nightmare. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely–make that miraculously–fortunate in your personal ancestry. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They'd say things like "Who died and made you king?" or "It must be nice to have your own personal slave." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t personal. I wasn’t prepared for you to come back as hard as you did though.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Since some of the other students chose to grow beards and mustaches, his own beard was sometimes interpreted as a personal choice instead of a mandate of faith. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He found that 56 percent of those he talked to found their job through a personal connection. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even so, plenty of personal pictures and videos of gleanings are uploaded to the Thunderhead, providing a guerilla record—which is so much more exciting and enticing than anything official. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She created tinctures and studied the practical use of deadly poisons in Scythe Curie’s personal apothecary and toxic herb garden. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Has it occurred to you that I have gone to great effort and expense, as well as personal sacrifice, to reach this point,” the man in black replied. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z For the first time at Duke, I prioritized my personal happiness. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Few other Muslims became aware of Mr. Muhammad’s condition until there were last-minute cancellations of long-adveitised personal appearances at some big Muslim rallies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they ran back and forth with buckets of water, all the while giving what Grandmother called their personal best. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If I indulge in personal political history, it is because I think my experience may not be unique. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The victim gave notice but was persuaded to stay after Ernest assembled the entire staff to witness his personal apology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And there it was again: the spangled ring, his personal aurora. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Asher’s voice comes on in my ears, fed into our personal team loop. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Booth’s dentist and his personal physician were both brought in to testify that the body was Booth’s. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z What she found most difficult was talking about a personal experience for five minutes. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Even those employed as waiters and janitors might be enticed to leave personal service for the higher wages of the stockyards. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But there was more to Ogorodnik than a desire for quick cash or a need to untangle his complicated personal life. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “One compartment in which I allowed myself to make friendships, to have personal relations, to help people, and to be in all personal ways the kind of man I wanted to be.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "Summon her personal guard. Tell him there's been a small accident. That poor Camille must be taken to the Palace Infirmary at once. Alert the royal doctor." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Clancy, who apparently had never been taught about respecting someone’s personal space, took a step forward, and I took a step back, off the porch, my feet sinking into the sticky mud. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In the end the only way he found to deal with his personal disaster was to push it behind him and pretend it hadn’t happened. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z This can be seen in personal relationships, in commercial transactions, and of course in politics. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She had slept for two days and two nights straight after the ordeal—a personal best. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The distinction was important to officers, who wanted no personal responsibility for the harmful effects of the system. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll make it my personal business to see that he gets the best there is. Don’t worry about the money.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Almanac was over a thousand pages long, but it contained few details about Halliday’s personal life or his day-to-day activities. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We had seen how the Nazis made the warehouse their own personal shopping center before shipping trainloads of gold and silver back to Berlin. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Some insects of bolder inventiveness have devised personal refrigeration systems. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He has a family name and a personal name given to him at birth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Peeta had his personal comments written on a card, but he doesn’t pull it out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Her personal travel kit's still in the back. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Rat Kiley went through the kid’s pockets, placed his personal effects in a plastic bag, taped the bag to Kiowa’s wrist, then used the radio to call in a dustoff. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did his insider knowledge of interest rates ever tempt him to take personal advantage: “But you remember the saying with regard to Caesar’s Wife,” he wrote to Henry Lee. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure the idea of somehow upsetting Twig was his personal nightmare. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She borrowed nearly every book on magical objects from the library and even brought a few from Director Fokus’s personal collection, but hardly any of them mention the Black Book. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Services in black churches frequently contain a strong mixture of concern for the less fortunate and a call to personal responsibility. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This was both a matter of personal pride and a crucial political precedent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He had made up fifty yards in the last lap and beaten his personal best time by more than eight seconds. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The previous evening he had drafted a personal statement, which he enclosed with his last will and testament, declaring that he had sincerely hoped to avoid the interview. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Yes. And you have filed a destruction of personal property report, which I have right here.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I wanted to sit by my window, my small dog on my lap, and write this intensely personal poetry. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I nod, knowing there is no point in trying to convince him of my own personal belief that Daffy Duck goes with everything. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z "But while ignoring my personal education for a second I'd like you to remember that the people have little patience with us these days. We could use this time more profitably." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He sought fana, union with God, and his relationship with God was personal and loving. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Lowe— arguably the world’s pre-eminent all-around climber—was hired to be Sandy’s personal guide, a job for which he was paid a substantial sum. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But the Pilgrims, who regarded personal adornment as a species of idolatry, were dismayed by what they saw as the indigenous penchant for foppery. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Others so that God would not take the disdain for His intermediary as a personal insult. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When you have one, you will likely mistake it for a personal failure, which it is not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The assets that rich individuals and families own are seldom liquid, nor are they of purely personal significance or value. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am not permitted to give out personal information,” he replies blandly, as he jabs at the screen in front of him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Then, after four weeks of near silence, Park surprised Shin with a personal question. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Your class had a lot of private and personal battles. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This was no time to indulge in human concerns or personal questions. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The move brought about big changes in Galileo’s personal life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I stuck in another CD, this time from Gran’s personal stack by the boom box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “It’s no personal favor to you—or to any publisher!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the reason we didn’t have our first name on our tags—only an initial—and didn’t reveal other personal information. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the Nation’s most closely kept scandals was that a succession of the personal secretaries of Mr. Muhammad had become pregnant. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Nancy's bedroom was the smallest, most personal room in the house—girlish, and as frothy as a ballerina’s tutu. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z And him showing up is all I hope for tonight—a clue, a starting point, a narrower direction, something personal about this boy criminal. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He was accompanied by his personal robot, a model Tendai hadn’t seen in years. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The old man had a small, personal hovercar, and it took a while for him to coax it into the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “People have a higher percentage of Spanic in their personal ratios.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Just a few years before he was born, in 1983, Time magazine did a twist on its person of the year feature and instead named the personal computer its “Machine of the Year.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “What can I do to improve my personal appearance.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She’d said it wasn’t anything personal and after I had proved myself for two or three months I could get a proper cloth sheet, but until then she had to protect her mattress. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z For the rest of the day she remained in the kitchen, unable to watch the miscellaneous horde of yard sale scavengers pick over her personal possessions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It felt as if we were one, but also that each of us had a personal communion with God. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z At that moment we decided to share some of our personal experiences with the kids. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Forks was literally my personal hell on Earth. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Otherwise, she speaks of her personal life only at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z While Hermann Muller’s scientific work was ascending to its zenith in Texas, his personal life was falling apart. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I’ve been watching you from my window,” he said in his hooting voice with a rare trace of personal interest. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It had become disturbingly clear that in the supercharged political atmosphere of the time, scientists could be placed on trial for their personal views, with their careers and reputations hanging in the balance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “One of the first things I put on my personal, augmented reality view was an unobstructed night sky,” Hideo says. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No suitcases, no extra clothes, no food, no personal belongings. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She liked Islam’s sense of personal responsibility, its bent toward social justice. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Quinn’s lips tightened slightly, “This call is shielded—thoroughly. I’m making it at a certain personal risk.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The bagel data also reflect how much personal mood seems to affect honesty. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I work at the university in Nsukka and I am on my way there. My houseboy is there. I have to get my manuscript and some personal belongings.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Racial hygiene,” as Ploetz described it, was the genetic cleansing of the race, just as personal hygiene was the physical cleaning of the self. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The white girl never bothered her again, but Joycelyn would always consider the incident a personal defeat, saying, “I felt I should have been stronger; I should have been above that.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The courtyard was littered with clothing, broken crockery, shoes, books, and various personal items. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But Frank decided he’d gone as far as he dared with the personal questions. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “We don’t keep personal possessions in the house,” Mrs. Moss said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Running system agent software was a little like having a virtual personal assistant—one that also functioned as a voice-activated interface with your computer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Loyal Muslims could be taught that a man’s accomplishments in his life outweigh his personal, human weaknesses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “If that’s too personal you don’t have to tell me. My family getting their call was a nightmare and I’m not a big fan of talking about that either.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In some instances, the SS told the boys to sign papers to verify personal information. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But the reasons we’re so swept up, researchers began to understand, is because personal communications devices are unprecedented at capturing both our top-down and bottom- up attention systems, even without our awareness. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Moreover, his attitude toward the crime made it, as he later said, “a personal proposition.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll tell you something. Nothing’s personal here in The Vigils. No secrets here, understand.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I brought some energy to it, of course, but it was the energy that accompanies almost any abstract endeavor; I felt no personal danger; I felt no sense of an impending crisis in my life. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I stayed away from anything too personal, and eventually we got to discussing favorite boxers. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Perhaps it had been quite personal after all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z More immediately, in New York City, where I would naturally base any operation, I had a large, direct personal following of non-Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled out from a dusty corner my personal jar of peaches in syrup. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “How do you feel about us coming to your home? I think it would add a personal dimension if we could include your family in the story.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z But now I'm getting my own personal introduction to what can happen. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Mostly the kids here don’t seem to notice anything unless it intrudes on their idea of personal space. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z "It is a difficult place, this country, before you get used to it. You have to not take things personal." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They often depend on the South Korean government to solve their problems, and fail to take personal responsibility for poor work habits or for showing up late on the job. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s hard to tell without breaking into all of their info—personal emails, private messages, stored Memories—encrypted things even Henka Games isn’t allowed to have access to. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This wasn’t a grudge, but it was personal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I just knew that my doggedness and personal motivation would trump any training these guys had. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “That guy is staring over here,” I say, sucking then blowing out minty air for my personal pleasure. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I knew Hattie didn’t mean to show off, but sometimes her flawlessness felt like a personal attack. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z We put his personal effects in a plastic bag and tied the bag to his arm. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z White had to constantly fill out Efficiency Rating sheets, grading agents, on a scale of 0 to 100, in such categories as “knowledge,” “judgment,” “personal appearance,” “paper work,” and “loyalty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Put simply,Jefferson could not abide personal conflict. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We were standing on the sidewalk, next to a sort of busy road, where I was having one of the most personal conversations I’d ever had with a boy. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z On the surface, the warmth of their friendship endured well into the 1940s, surviving the kinds of changes in personal lives and careers that can drive a rift between the closest of friends. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsume themselves in child care? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His answer to every problem, every setback, was “I will work harder!”—which he had adopted as his personal motto. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They were light on what you’d now call “career skills” and heavy on ‘ ‘personal development. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Back at the apartment, Heather takes some premade pizza dough out of her fridge and explains how to make personal pies. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The song was obviously of his own devising, a rather candid revelation about the personal habits of a local nobleman. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Now he regarded Lawrence as a scientist on the make for government largess and personal glory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But why should so many of us cherish the illusion of having made a personal choice in art when in fact we have not? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I repeat my personal assurances to you that the United States will react very strongly and rapidly to any violation of the agreement.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z My father’s life and its stages of personal metamorphosis and enlightenment documented in this text stand as a confirmation of how one can, through witness and transformation, ultimately claim one’s own divine path. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite his personal pain and decay, this little old man listened the way they always wanted someone to listen. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sachs was a former aide to President Roosevelt, and a personal friend. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z How are the kids?—both of us accustomed now to not speaking of fatigue or our personal needs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Because there’s nothing more exciting for them than the moment the world becomes their own personal video game. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He’s definitely glad he’s not at home in James Robert Lamar Jr.’s personal version of house arrest. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z The arm muscles would begin to hurt, but it was the personal denuding he experienced under the many-eyed gaze of the class that was the prime cause of his discomfiture and embarrassment. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nuh-uh. Stuff from other companies. Some of it goes way back to the 1890s. I think it’s Mr. Lemoncello’s personal collection. It’s like a museum up there.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z "I'm sorry and you must dismiss it, like one of those annoying personal questions you find so often nowadays on supposedly impersonal forms." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z While personal accounts of the fair were enthusiastic, Olmsted wrote, “nearly always incompletenesses are referred to, favoring the idea that much remains to be done, and that the show will be better later.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "Too thin, and the hair needs a cut. Nothing personal." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “It sounds like something personal, Moss, and I’m sure your mom has her reasons for not sharing.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z So whenever I write down something personal, I let it stay written for the rest of the day, like savoring a piece of hard candy before biting down on it. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “We just clean the house and go, like the air-conditioning man. I never bother personal things. I never answer the telephone. I don’t like being there when they get there.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “It’s personal,” he said finally, feeling like a loser, knowing he couldn’t win. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was better to go alone on such a personal errand. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “My boy Jimmy don’t got no manners. Don’t take it personal. Right, Jimmy?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It's customary for Iranians to greet each other with a kiss on both cheeks, but American six-year-olds thought no one had taught me about "personal space." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It was a criminal conspiracy devoted to theft of property, and Ridgeway suffered their brazenness as a personal slur. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Oliver gave Angie another cookie from his personal supply, leaving him with only two. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It would have taken a personal loss to penetrate my sense of well-being. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I explained that I did not want to be at home for personal reasons. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It smelled as close as it ever did, but her son’s curious personal odor, which always reminded her of the scent of old tea bags, seemed to have lifted. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no picture on the wall, no photograph or personal thing of any kind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When judges have discretion, they may consider a defendant’s background and impose a lighter penalty if the defendant’s personal circumstances—extreme poverty or experience of abuse, for example—warrant it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The same year, a restaurant in the South banned Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi’s personal doctor from its premises because of his dark skin. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Adams-Jefferson rivalry and friendship is the outstanding example here, though there are several crucial moments when critical compromises were brokered because personal trust made it possible. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He, she thought as she packed the few personal items that she had. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Miscellaneous other expenses, including clothes, shoes, and personal items such as toothpaste, quickly exhausted what was left. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And in case the pressure wasn’t intense enough, President Roosevelt spelled it out in a personal note. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He used each treatment to regale me with his personal theory about how to rid the country—and if possible, the world—of Communism. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In conspiratorial whispers, with shocking details to back up his claim, he assured us that the French had very low standards of personal hygiene. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Laney was having a wonderful time examining each item and organizing the supplies for her own personal “store.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was his own sun and darkness, a private and personal sun and darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “This is one of my personal favorites. You pick a girl up. Right?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually she made him open a separate checking account for the lab, and kept him away from their personal money as much as she could. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z "I'm going to ask you a lot of personal questions," he said, leaning forward. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He took a personal interest in her, because some of his friends were collaborating in experiments to measure her diameter by Michelson’s interferometer. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t tell if it felt any pain, but its ruby eyes seemed to glare at me like I’d just made things personal. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Their discussions were long and close and personal. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Around the little fires where communal stew bubbled there was all manner of talk and only the personal was unmentionable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If Hamilton had presented his distinction between personal and political criticism earlier, the affair would most probably have ended before it began. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I have never cared very much for personal prizes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Over each bunk there was nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But oddly enough, this laptop seemed more personal, more “him,” than any of those more classic items might. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Maybe you’ve begun to question our officials’ disregard for court rulings, their prying into our personal activities. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He ultimately achieves a personal and moral victory by finding the bad guy and throwing him in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My relationship with God is personal and has nothing to do with you. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z This violated my personal sense of justice and, in my opinion, American values. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z “Percy requires my personal attention. He needs much more work than you.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He earned about $125,000 from Harvard and the Brigham; out of that he paid his personal bills as well the mortgage on his mother’s house, channeling any leftover funds to PIH. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Then there were rackets like the Klan’s Death Benefit Association, which sold insurance policies to Klan members and accepted only cash or personal checks made out to the Grand Dragon himself. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They were reminded of their personal sorrows; and perhaps felt themselves to share in a sorrow that was universal. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He wondered how police would be able to prove what someone was doing on their phone—texting, talking, emailing, what?—without being intrusive into the motorist’s personal business. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The rickety partitions shook, their bolts rattled, and he invaded my personal space. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But then—boom! — the personal computer revolution happened, and they had their ten thousand hours in. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But for President Johnson, it was a profound personal and political failure. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z After one exasperating day, Garfield said to his personal secretary, Joseph Stanley Brown, “These people are merciless; they demand blood, flesh, and brains.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Despite our audience, this moment feels starkly personal. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I'll ask him questions, personal ones such as he is always asking. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Arthur, whose corner of the triangle was the least fortunate from a personal point of view, was not entirely wretched. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Only in a culture of honor would it have occurred to the irascible gentleman that shooting someone was an appropriate response to a personal insult. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I’d spoken to this kid for a total of maybe an hour and suddenly his presence was in my bedroom, in my personal space, stressing me out. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Only now do I see that each piece, although geometric and abstract, seems representative of their personal lives. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We don't need to pack up the bigger furniture. Mayor said just their personal items need to be collected. Now, what are we going to do with the rest of this stuff? Sell it?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Ralph dismissed Simon and returned to his personal hell They would reach the castle some time; and the chief would have to go forward. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In any case, her mood seemed to change at that point, and our conversation rapidly lost the rather personal tone it had begun to adopt. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Now look,” Mother says, “I have some personal errands to run and I just don’t think it’s a good time to have you tagging along.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There was no reason for him to; he knew nothing of Charlie Bombay s personal life, had never even seen his wife. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z My heart reacts quicker than my brain—because if my brain were faster, I would know better than to tell Mom anything this personal. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Along with housing a kingdom of rats and roaches, the walls between tenements were paper-thin, so I was constantly involved in the personal lives of my neighbors, whether I wanted to be or not. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But this case was different, more personal to the cops assigned to it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I've been unable to escape since the Hunger Games began, but this feels different, much more personal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z This inmate had transferred a couple of weeks before to R-gallery from the Box, but they had not yet returned his personal property. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Baggage and personal articles towered on top of the seats. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “That was more of a personal matter,” Ridgeway conceded, “and not what I’m talking about here. You and your friend killed a boy. You have your justifications.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, this period from 11/9 to the mid-1990s led to a huge advance in personal empowerment. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In the second half of the 1590s, his personal commitments had increased when he established a stable relationship with Marina Gamba, a local Paduan woman from a lower social class. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z When the train rolled out of Camp 18, so did Kim, who knew the countryside well and used his personal contacts at the border to find a safe way to cross into China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Only someone thoroughly familiar with the political history of the 1790s could recognize what a major concession and personal confession of regret Jefferson was making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At university, he had been brilliant with electronics, he fixed CD players that were considered lost causes, and his was the first personal computer Obinze had ever seen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “She means to use her for a personal maid.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to have taken Scabbers’s true identity as a personal insult. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Shin viewed the warning as a personal insult. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Besides, like C.P., she had a personal stake in the issue. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “At great personal sacrifice. I would be very careful about making any accusations along those lines about her.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Mary made every effort to bring students from Hamptons public schools and from Hampton Institute into the Langley facilities for tours, to get an up-close and personal look at engineers at work. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In one of my few exchanges with an owner, a pert muscular woman whose desk reveals that she works part-time as a personal trainer, I am vacuuming and she notices the sweat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Most ignored him and kept going, some laughed at him, but a few were intimidated by his rank and had stopped, though he lacked any personal authority. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “You were supposed to write a research paper, not a personal essay,” he says, handing me back the homework. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “That bandage is filthy,” she said, as if it was a personal offense. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And we assume that it is those personal qualities that explain how that individual reached the top. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Soon Hylla and Hazel were alone except for the queen’s personal guards. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Jason had secretly hoped to visit the ancient site of Apollo’s Oracle, maybe get some insight into his personal future, but if the place had been overrun by monsters . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “This is nothing personal, Mr. Squirrel,” said Flora's mother. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Since that time there had not been a single breach of personal information. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Inside is my own personal copy of One Thousand and One Careers, Protected Edition. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I am not suggesting that a man become a robot and rid himself of all personal feelings and motivations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her personal library contained thousands of rare manuscripts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A relative would know personal names and secrets about husbands, babies, renegades and decide which ones were lucky in a chant, but these outside women had to build a path from scraps. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, then, something a little more personal. I have it!” she said, beaming at Taran. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Once Burr extended his demands to cover their entire public careers, and then also refused to recognize the traditional distinction between personal and political criticism, Hamilton was truly trapped. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I am certainly old enough to hold up my head and have my own personal adventures in life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I sent a letter to your princeling, asking for permission to borrow books from the library. He granted my wish, and sent seven books from his personal library that I’m commanded to read.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We had developed a certain affection for our opponent, for despite Pirow’s noxious political views, he was a humane man without the virulent personal racism of the government he was acting for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So the problem goes beyond my personal failings and miscalculations. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was now clear why the doctors had summoned not the sheriff or a prosecutor but Bill Smith’s personal attorney. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Or be deceived by those sharp characters who know how to turn this kind of situation into personal profit, something that’s already happening. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Added to this misery there’s another, but of a more personal nature, and it pales in comparison to the suffering I’ve just told you about. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When Peeta and I made it into the final eight in the Hunger Games, they sent reporters to do personal stories about us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z After exchanging personal news and talking about the war, Ellsberg asked about prison life. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I wanted you all to connect to these words in personal ways, not just the scientific ways that we read about.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The questions fall into three categories, each more personal than the previous. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z This ain’t no personal thing ’bout you or any other white person. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Architecture becomes memorable only when it expresses a transcendent vision, whether personal, social, or spiritual. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Burn wanted to explain his change of heart, so the next day he inserted a personal statement into the House Journal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But this took place against a background of change in Galileo’s personal life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z And talking about anything too personal feels like we're opening doors we shouldn't. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Now events were running away with them, trampling over her personal griefs, her budding hopes, her sprouting wings. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In another class, he asks students to bring in an object of some personal meaning and say something about it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Still, although Stone dedicated the rest of her life to working for women’s rights, Anthony never forgave her for what she considered a personal betrayal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Never smiling, never flexing, never sharing anything personal. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z What happened as a result was highly improvisational and deeply personal. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Not having any idea what it might contain, I opened it and, to my amazement, found an autographed photograph of Dr. Wernher von Braun with a personal note in his own handwriting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Though be careful. Zu’s so starved for girl time that she might turn you into her own personal dress-up doll.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, but the original owner of that photograph wished to remain anonymous. For personal reasons. I’m not at liberty to give the seller’s name.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But we all watched as her personal coach, Yury, insisted she be given a chance to fence, in this our final match. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I took this as a personal insult and challenge. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Could you take it if you had another serious personal loss? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Stated another way, we Muslims regarded ourselves as moral and mental and spiritual examples for other black Americans, because we followed the personal example of Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He apologized for letting his personal life affect his teaching, and I accepted because I didn’t know what else to do. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Rifling through it, I found a protein bar and a personal USB, probably full of music to listen to on the drive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Their personal papers were even harder to collate. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And I say, "Nothing personal, Tiny, but I don't really go in for alliances. Anyway, you know my policy on extracurricular activities." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The small personal satisfaction he felt came from his having passed one of the most grueling tests of his career by showing the courage “to ‘stand up in meeting’ and say ‘No’ to a steamroller. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now, up close and personal, it looked even bigger. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z All of us, I suppose, like to believe that in a moral emergency we will behave like the heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thought of personal loss or discredit. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a relief knowing that everyone could put their personal feelings that had defined our squad for the last several years aside for this one day. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z After that night, he never again hesitated to tell me even the most intimate details of his personal life, over the next two years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He combs through his rooms, removing every personal belonging from the space. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Her main interests are baking and church. She thinks her piecrust recipe is a personal gift from Jesus himself. If you ask me, the crust is the worst part of a pie. Nan cook much?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z "And I could tell you that politicians are not personal persons," Brother Jack said, "but I won't. How could we use it more profitably?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Dell then changed the font color on his personal files in his computer to correspond with his categorization. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z And here’s the turning point. ... if any of that $18,000 went to Senator Nixon, for my personal use. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It would be no less true to say that Estraven’s acts had risen out of pure personal loyalty, a sense of responsibility and friendship towards one single human being, myself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He's bent, with a wild thicket of white hair that looks constantly buffeted by his own personal gale-force winds. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Born in 384 bc, he was the son of the personal physician to the king of Macedonia. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Ho ho! No, it wasn’t the wine, and it wasn’t my many personal attractions. She wanted to consult the alethiometer about her daughter, Mr. Van Texel.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t have mentioned it except that after what he had said he had to say something very personal, something deeply held. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only did a song’s rhythm and tone affect one’s mood, but it really came down to personal taste. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It infiltrated Xerox machines and worked its way inside personal computers and inside the cushions of chairs and fingered down into the floor drains until it touched pools of lingering bleach in the water traps. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At great personal risk, many Indian leaders attended the conference even after they knew that influenza was in Montreal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Around noon, he walked over to nearby Ford’s Theatre, a block from Pennsylvania Avenue, to pick up his mail: Ford’s customarily accepted personal mail as a courtesy to actors. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Scoob rushes to the kitchen to check his personal pantry shelf. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z But I knew if I didn’t eat anything, Dadi would take it as a personal insult. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z As for money, he assured me that he wouldn’t need to touch our personal finances. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But classroom learning just don’t work the same as when something happens to you personal. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Howard contacted his personal physicians, who scheduled Pollard for X rays on April 13. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But if April had imagined that it would be easy to have a quiet personal interview with the Professor in his lonely store, she was mistaken. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The files contained personal information, making life dangerous for these young people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At thirty-eight, Swann ranked as one of the nation’s leading experts in the theory of relativity, a subject on which he had maintained a lengthy personal correspondence with Einstein himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Their manners and miens reflected the Spartan personal discipline the organization demanded, and none of them would utter anything but Nation of Islam cliches. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1939 she was just beginning to use her “My Day” newspaper column as her own political forum, where she could express her personal ideas and convictions. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I felt like I had another personal hurricane swirling around me. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Aside from his personal feelings, it is likely that Mark Antony realized he could never hope to carry out his Parthian campaign strategy without Egypt as his ally. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z As my personal cowboy for the day, he will surely let me ride his horse. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z As those days of May brought more and more physical punishment, for the first time in four months I was assigned a personal bodyguard to follow me from class to class. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Pip,” he returned, “you will be welcome there, in a private and personal capacity.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I am made to see into a small methodical corner of von Linden’s mind, not anything personal, but how he works. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Haymitch has never mentioned his personal experience in the arena to me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The reward of gaining a mistress was evidently outweighed by the risk of having your wife discover your personal ad. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Garzoni’s and della Porta’s facts are based not on a collective knowledge, on a shared understanding, but on direct, personal experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As pharaoh, Cleopatra had a strong personal and historical connection to the Egyptian gods and goddesses. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “Let’s see this bad wound that requires a personal nurse. I think I may want one myself. I need to see what’s required.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Mr. de Winter, painful as it may be, it is my duty to ask you a very personal question.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And in this single look I feel as if I’ve opened his personal .zip file; suddenly years of compressed emotional information comes bursting out, and I’m hit with an overwhelming truth. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I’m not going to type the name into the machine, because it’s personal, but in my mind I’m going to call the Medi- Talker “Elvira,” after that song I like. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z But others preferred to use household knights and men-at-arms for those purposes, whilst keeping their seven as their own personal guard, never far from their sides. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was a guy who’d just spent six days in the hospital because the guy who’d been my personal hero for four years had put him there. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “If you complain that this is personal,” Adams explained to Taylor, “I confess it, and intend it should be personal, that it might be more striking to you.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Welcome to our secret room. Got some nice automatic weapons. Grenades. Some beautiful killing machines, really. Here’s my personal favorite.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But the frown isn’t personal: it’s the red dress she disapproves of, and what it stands for. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Locker doors, socks, athletic supporters, and other various nasty personal belongings rained all over the gym. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Just a collection of some personal items, arrived at slowly, from a distance. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Navid had been infesting my personal space—at home, at school—with his many guy friends since forever, and, generally, I didn’t care for it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I have come to understand better why works of literature—while never intimate, never individually addressed to the reader—are so often among the most personal statements we hear in our lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was, We’ve streamlined the Tesla coil for personal use—you can even wear it in your hair! Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Rudy Noyes, who was still young at thirty-six, had been with the office, had, in fact, been Bookman’s personal sidekick, apprentice, and mouthpiece for eleven of those seventeen years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My career as a personal assistant hit rock bottom one summer morning when Valencia greeted me with a flyer she'd taken from the window of an exotic-bird shop located on the corner. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Even in an era when newspapers often attacked political enemies ruthlessly, Cobbett’s attacks were particularly vicious and personal. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The CIA man who introduced himself as Mr. Hathaway—"thin faced and graying," according to Wolf—announced that he was a personal representative of CIA director William Webster. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to be her personal way of warding off crying. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Third, and finally, Adams derived deep personal satisfaction from singular acts of principle that defied the agendas of both political parties. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z How the curls on her left side were invading his personal space, and how he didn’t mind, not one bit. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Maybe that’s an egotistical thing to say—we are all centers of our personal universes in any event—but it was ironically obvious to me; and my father had told me straight out, anyway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Rush took any challenge, whether from a disease or from a colleague, as a personal attack to be confronted and conquered. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z After a moment’s silence, he added: “Each of us will be allowed to bring his personal belongings. A backpack, some food, a few items of clothing. Nothing else.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In almost all cases, you can use who instead of whom in conversation or in informal writing, like personal letters and casual memos. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only one thing, Madame, a somewhat personal question. The colour of your dressing gown.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose that’s always the goal these days. Everything has to be famous or it doesn’t count. We all need our personal business splashed across the media. There’s no such thing as privacy anymore.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I liked being told these stories, but it was odd hearing such personal information shouted rather than whispered. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z More often than not, I would be the only fencer at a major international competition without a personal coach by her side. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z After all, this is merely our “personal” interpretation, so we turn to the critics for help. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t personal; it wasn’t about his ego. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t trying to get up close and personal with anything in that world, but...there were Pteranodon flying in the sky!” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “But he can’t be that ill if he managed to get up here. “My brother’s Crouch’s personal assistant,” Ron informed Sirius. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He'd raised the bar on his personal hygiene in a lot of areas. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z My not talking to her wouldn’t give her any reason to think anything, since there had never been one personal word spoken between us—even if she had thought anything. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It is tempting to explain the switch in exclusively personal terms: Jefferson returned from France, recalled his old colleague to the colors of the true cause, and together they marched forward into history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He says they certainly didn't poison her, or anything like that, but his personal belief is that there was some funny business—that she died as the result of neglect on their part. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Sam added that nowadays a band or someone would compare themselves to the Beatles after the second album, and their own personal voice would be less from that moment on. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z It was an odd manuscript; in the midst of the profoundest personal tragedy, sinking into economic ruin, he wrote brilliantly funny columns. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That does not mean that there were no personal songs. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Bradley leans in too close to me, since he doesn’t seem to understand personal space. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I found them more formal in manner than their white counterparts; they wore stylish clothes and were finicky about their personal appearance. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In Montaigne’s case this resulted in a peculiar emphasis on the subjectivity of what we know, its dependence on our personal experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Patrick even shoved me in front of the rest of the cast to take my own personal bow. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z If ‘Romantic’ still means anything specific in the history of music, it best refers to a period when the composer’s or performer’s personal emotions, or sentiment, became paramount in the dialogue between music and audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They don’t understand that these are so personal. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I carried two BlackBerrys—one for work, the other for my personal life and political obligations, which were now, for better or worse, deeply entwined. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was beyond his control, and though this was due to the natural parameters of his gift and no personal failing, it didn't spare him Minya’s judgment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z That year, Pauline, an enslaved woman from the Caribbean, arrived in France as the personal servant of her mistress. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It didn’t say much about her personal life and never mentioned a husband. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s not just our personal history that gets mangled. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The second section addresses personal assessment in relation to your professional development and career goals. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z And the stakes, for him now, were personal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The ventilation system was not designed for so many people, and everyone had been working every waking moment without much time for personal hygiene. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The everyday practice of boiling, scrubbing, buffing and wiping became the badge of the students’ professional pride, to which all personal comfort must be sacrificed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z One simple way to think about how much had changed, how much power had come to personal communications, is illustrated by a simple comparison. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Watching even the sorriest of sporting events bears no resemblance to coming upon an accident and hoping to exploit it for your own personal gain. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Sheets are just too personal a thing for folks who aren’t kin to be fooling with. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z "Nothing personal meant,” said Dad, with his most patronizing smile, "my good man.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chian has a personal grudge against Day,” he whispers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It takes relentless, all-consuming training and untold personal sacrifices before any of the glory is seen. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Alex has to admit: Henry really has a solid handle on his personal brand. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Because of the large volume of mail I receive, I am unable to write personal responses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Encouraged by physical isolation to reveal what is most personal; determined at the same time to have my words seen by strangers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The staff is allowed to go inside in shifts to retrieve records and personal items. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents start talking to each other in Urdu, the primary and personal language they share. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z So yeah, of course he got a personal invitation. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Beneath the entangling personal motives, the debate is one of the oldest in the Western philosophical tradition, between nomos and physis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The effort to support Jeremiah Reeves became the first time many black teenagers in Montgomery ever acted to address injustices outside their own personal problems. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z They trooped into Minsky’s Burlesque and came out with wide eyes and sheepish grins, though Johnny White confided his personal opinion in his journal: “It was foul.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Moreover, such a decision would create an awkward personal situation. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But it is one of my personal favorites. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He had, in fact, attended the Nuremberg Rally of 1935 as Hitler’s personal guest. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They brought all the prisoners into the courtyard at dawn and forced them to watch, because this was also a personal matter between the colonel and his prisoner. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t worry about what history would say about my personal morality. I made the only decision I ever knew how to make. I did what I thought was right.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess this personal hide- and-seek is not unusual. And some people are ‘it’ all their lives— hopelessly ‘it.’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Seeing him at Fizz’s again is like involuntarily pressing play on a personal nightmare. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He hired a private investigator to dig into their personal lives. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “It just supports my personal opinion that he’s a wacko,” Kate said with a shrug. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It always had a funny stink in it, because he was so crumby in his personal habits. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She said, “Maybe we keep going then. But you stay out a my personal business, you hear?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Ernest hosted a dinner for them all at Trader Vic’s, featuring his customary personal menu—“a kind of smoked sparerib, eaten ‘by hand,’ and a coffee plus brandy,” David Lilienthal recorded in his personal journal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The period during which these records were being forged was one of deep personal turmoil and pain for me, and for those who surrounded me. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z More than once I found myself hearing something personal or foolish read to this audience. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z On top of the more or less social tangle in which he found himself, there was a personal puzzle—for he put a higher value cm chastity than is fashionable in our century. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She and Molly are about as opposite as it is possible to be, which would be fine if Dina didn’t take Molly’s choices as a personal affront. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Law enforcement officers generally have no personal resources to pay damages to victims of misconduct, so the city, county, or agency that employs them is typically the target of any civil action that seeks compensation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Among my personal highlights is the memory of having my picture taken with Uncle Paul, the legally blind host of a Raleigh children's television show. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But contemplating the flat world also left me filled with dread, professional and personal. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z When there were too many distractions in her personal space, she was never able to focus. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was what I relied on, being that I often didn’t have a personal coach by my side, given Akhi’s increasingly spotty attendance. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I needed to remind myself that the mortal world was still out there, away from all the monsters using me as their personal punching bag. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z That was before Doc sent me a personal bill for five dollars for “sutures and labor.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Her time with Tariq’s family always felt natural to Laila, effortless, uncomplicated by differences in tribe or language, or by the personal spites and grudges that infected the air at her own home. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He pulled the sheet clear of the typewriter, set it aside, and wrote his letter out in longhand, confident that the personal touch fitted the occasion. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Black people choose their traditional names with great care; those are the names that have deeply personal meanings. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons—throw it to some human being or some human idea. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “It can be personal and global,” Bit the dog now says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Nobody knew about it yet—nobody at Bayside Press, and nobody in his personal life. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There were also probably personal or political issues going on that we don’t know about. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Mordred had been left to be dominated by her, with her ancestral grudge against the King and her personal spite. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He displayed the same impatience with Oppenheimer, who expressed his personal torment over the bomb while delivering the Arthur D. Little Memorial Lecture at MIT in 1947. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This does not mean that our inner psychological states and personal histories are not important in explaining our behavior. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite Ernests personal interest in the search for these X-rays, the Rad Lab had no more success finding them than other labs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "This is honestly nothing personal," he said, to the woman and to the grove. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “My older brother served in the tsar’s personal guard.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When we were at Whooton, he'd make you describe the most personal stuff that happened to you, but if you started asking him questions about himself, he got sore. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She's probably made an active effort to pretend I'm not a vegetarian hundreds of times over the last two years, but now that there's company, remembering a personal fact about me makes her look thoughtful. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Howard bailed him out with a reported $190,000 personal loan. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He was Hoede’s personal Squaller and often traveled with the merchant’s most precious cargos, guaranteeing favorable winds to bring the ships safely and quickly to harbor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Samantha Peck, my mother’s kind and beautiful live-in personal assistant, had spent the night in the apartment, behind our locked doors. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Mr. T is looking angry as usual, but Baba grins as he watches, as if the big actor is his personal friend. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Many of the other students were now looking to Wes for help with their GED prep, for assistance with their personal issues, and for friendship. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z During those six years, federal spending was responsible for nearly half of the personal income in southern California. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “He wrote it down in a sealed personal letter he left on your desk.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I telephoned Malcolm X, and expressed my personal concern for him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in there was a lecture on personal hygiene by the head Englishman, and then a free election. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A member of a long-established, wealthy family, he viewed the police department as his personal domain, and he was determined to keep it tightly under his control. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Now, here’s what I think, and I have no personal feelings about this. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a terrible truth, and it didn’t even seem all that personal. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Now, who can give an example of something that would be a personal attack, of what you shouldn’t do?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The kernel of truth in Hamilton’s distinction between personal and political criticism of Burr resides here. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Aleph said, ‘No. All personal things must be set aside, and you must punish or reward only what you yourself witness from this day forth.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This was Yan Chang, my mother’s personal maid, and she knew how to fuss over my mother just the right amount. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Since this is serious personal business and not a wandering, I don’t bring Violet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Noah and the flood was obviously a favorite; I had a personal stake there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The notion of a personal astrology developed in Alexandrian Egypt and spread through the Greek and Roman worlds about 2,000 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking through someone’s home and personal possessions felt not only like trespassing, it felt like a violation. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Because there are no more geta to pay them with. It’s nothing personal—they have their own troubles.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In March of 1864 he felt a glow of personal triumph that his resentment had perhaps been justified. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z My family is thinking of everything but my personal safety. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I also recorded the best craft ideas step-by-step in pencil so I could add illustrations and my own personal touches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Partly because his rancid smell was now up close and personal. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z When questions of analysis and personal choice start to get complicated—when we have to juggle many different variables—then our unconscious thought processes may be superior. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He gave Reggie structure and purpose, and a means to find personal success. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Do you know it wasn’t supposed to be in his personal collection when you found it? Do you have confirmation of that? Or are you making an assumption?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Continually pushing into your personal bubble until you pop. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The two of them had given everything over to this effort, sacrificing their own personal lives so that I could try to preserve some semblance of mine. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Answering questions about her personal history did not jibe with Mommy’s view of parenting twelve curious, wild, brown-skinned children. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She was taller than any woman in my personal world, and her hands were so large they could span my head from ear to ear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This is what I have learned by trying to write this book: There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She had come to see that, without intending to, it delivered a significant personal indictment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z "I'm not dramatizing anything, it's my personal property that happens to be lying on my desk." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The comments upon my personal life were uncalled for and revealed a shocking lack of taste and decency. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z He argued over when the television could be on, when inmates could cook in the kitchen, and whether someone could leave a box of personal stuff in a common area. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A scream not for others, not in sympathy for a burnt child, or a dead father, but a deeply personal cry for one’s own pain. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Two swords, and not a personal armory of spears and halberds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Mr. Kreuk has already checked the pockets and laid her personal effects on top of the coat. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He loaded the photos from his personal camera to revisit the scene. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For example, the success of Microsoft has surely had something to do with the personal talents of Bill Gates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Everything around me turns black—and an instant later, I’m back in my virtual personal room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Before, they would have celebrated it as if it were a personal triumph. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Now that a few years have gone by, I want to see the city again for myself and come to terms with the site of my personal horror. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His first thought, as always, is of finding a way to spin the tragedy for his own personal gain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z What does all the evidence about the powerful lure of personal communications technology add up to? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Because I had always noticed this house, I found it remarkable when, through the recommendation of a casual acquaintance, the new owner hired me to work three days a week as her personal assistant. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The point of this language of “intention” and “personal responsibility” is broad exoneration. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Grandfather sits a few rows behind the Commandant’s pavilion with a group of his personal guard, his eyes on me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z But there was a more personal mystery confronting him now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But he often did not respond well to advice from these same people, and had trouble distinguishing between constructive criticism and personal betrayal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As I later said at my daughter Zindzi’s wedding, it seems to be the destiny of freedom fighters to have unstable personal lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The intensely personal nature of his business, the subjectivity of taste, the variables of light and curtains and carpets, guaranteed that minds would reevaluate and work would have to be redone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It was a radical shift from the kind of assignment that dominates high school writing instruction today, in which students are asked to write memoirs and personal reflections. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Part of Dasch's job was to go through the files of prospective saboteurs and learn their personal histories. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In the Essays Montaigne was making a fundamental claim about our knowledge of the world, that knowledge is always subjective, personal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Actually, they seemed more interested in me than in anything else; I was not bothered by their attentions and parried all of their questions blithely until the\\' at last grew rather personal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat down outside the band room and took a personal pizza wrapped in napkins from my backpack, where I’d had it since lunch. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Still, his altruism in general toward his fellow man did not deflect him from more personal rivalries. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It's all too personal and it's not about me and what I'm doing is wrong. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I’m so startled by her personal greeting that I fumble all over my answer. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They did not fare very well, though each of them negotiated some skimpily favorable remark before the protesting prosecution, which contended that personal comments of this nature were “incompetent, irrelevant, immaterial,” hushed and banished them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But I don’t see any backup coming from my fellow servers, each of whom has slipped into her own personal funk; Gail, my role model, stares sorrowfully at a point six inches from her nose. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s live music, a pop act that owed June a personal favor, and they’re covering “American Girl” right now, so Alex grabs June’s hand and spins her onto the dance floor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Sporadically, Bobby would select a letter at random and reply with a personal note. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You may attempt to defend your enervating use of the passive voice by pointing out that the only alternative is excessive reliance upon the first person personal pronoun or upon the pontifical We. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The one-armed smith had left few personal effects: the cup, six pennies and a copper star, a niello brooch with a broken clasp, a musty brocade doublet that bore the stag of Storm’s End. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The flames illuminated a small city of wooden crates that had already been packed with personal goods and prepared for shipping. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Gerry then presented his own personal estimate of the revenue required to compensate the slave owners for purchasing their slaves at current market value and came up with the figure of $10 million. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I forgot that I asked Madoc to teach me swordplay and strategy, but after dinner he gives me a stack of military history books from his personal library. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But, curiously, Granovetter found that of those personal connections, the majority were “weak ties.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But the reason I’m studying it is because I have this personal love for it.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I began teaching in New York Mosque Seven that a man’s accomplishments in his life outweighed his personal, human weaknesses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Jewelry was so public . . . and personal, which was why he'd bought it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Even though in ELA, for our personal memoir project, Mr. Finkelman assigned Dante as my critique partner, which meant he had to read my first two paragraphs. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I vowed to Grandma to shut up and to give my personal best in everything I did. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But if Ellsberg’s personal life was finally looking up, the situation in Vietnam was getting worse. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He made it a personal crusade to visit shebeens regularly, and there, amid intense beer-drinking and boisterous talk, denounce Christianity as a “clever ploy through which whites sought to keep blacks forever slaves.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Is one of those things personal communications technology? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The day before departing for Nepal, in one of her first Web postings for NBC Interactive Media, she gushed, All my personal stuff is packed. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z These clerks, as far as she could tell, had an unfortunate habit of departing without warning, sometimes even leaving their personal belongings in their rooms on the second floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Arthur did so; he sent a full refund to each customer who canceled, and a personal note written in a cordial style. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But I know how Four feels about personal questions. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z My mothers letter has served to remind me: I am making my personal life public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Brown sensed that Jesse, in particular, was in distress, but didn’t know exactly what land; Jesse never talked about personal stuff. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He simply did not want contact from anyone he didn’t know, and he made it quite clear, peremptorily, to Jack Collins that no mail—even important, flattering, or personal messages—should be forwarded to him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had successfully created the world’s most dangerous personal helicopter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I open a cabinet and am greeted by a dozen candles, all of them the color of buffed leather and accented with a gold stamp of Balekin’s personal crest—three laughing black birds. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “You offer just one massage? What if you stay on as my personal masseuse for twelve years?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Both Van Gogh and Seurat developed elaborate color systems, one entirely personal in its meaning, the other claiming to be “scientific.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “He seemed to take a personal pride in the fair, as if he had helped in the planning,” she said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He knew the number of German Americans living in the United States and had compiled numerous charts, statistics, and personal information, such as their occupations and if they were Bund members. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z But then the second usher said, “A personal escort is customary for a box seat, miss.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z For the most part, the Nazis didn’t interfere with personal home libraries, but some people took no chances. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He spent a lot of time with the Haudenosaunee, whose insistence on personal liberty fascinated him. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Quakers’ goals were prevention of further harm to society, deterrence, and, by the early nineteenth century, encouragement of prisoners to en-gage in “penitent reflection,” which could result in their personal reformation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We paired each teen with a female mentor who would foster a personal relationship with her, sharing her resources and her life story. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They act as though this is a message black audiences have not heard many times before from their ministers, from their family members, and from politicians who talk about the need for more “personal responsibility.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I did not mean anything personal Mr. Burt, but that is just a little unusual.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One can use spoken words to reveal one’s personal self to strangers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an odd slant, since at that point Bobby had no intention of isolating himself or turning down money; he was just tending to personal matters that he’d neglected for years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It is possible that Minnie in her role as Holmes’s personal secretary did the typing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z All personal articles left behind will be incinerated in the lava pit. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z "I mean, like I'm not trying to get personal, but I just wondered ... because I really don't know anyone who's blind, and I was just—" "Curious?" she says, and her right eyebrow lifts up. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Olivia has colored tabs dividing every class notebook in some personal system of priorities, and she plays Minecraft like a demon. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Estraven had done a great deal for me in the last six or eight months, but I did not expect or desire such a show of personal favor as an invitation to his house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z While we were never close personal friends I can remember you a lot more clearly than most fellows I met in the Army. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no true personal life in those years. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z By any measure this is a lot of money—it equals the mortgage on my Seattle home—and the quoted price did not include airfare to Nepal or personal equipment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Any reference to her personal eccentricities, even from Henry, made her shy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I also noticed AnnaBeth hadn’t said much about the personal things she would change—like getting her parents back together, or saving Luke. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Reading through letters that probably contained personal conversations. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He recognized his old desperation coming around, a personal comet. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But that is mere child’s play compared to the way personal communications devices can commandeer those systems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And the letter is more personal than most, delving into thoughts on his own writings, observations about his Wunschtraum clock containing a level of detail that would require observing it for hours on end. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Madison, who knew him better than any man alive, fully realized that there was an invisible line somewhere in Jefferson’s mind above which lay his most cherished personal and political ideals. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z So, too, our personal communications can, if out of control, turn a powerful survival tool into one that works against us. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What we have together is business, not personal. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I am aware of Presence, not personal the way we usually feel presence, but something larger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Ernest had pressed Oppie to return to Berkeley after the war, but their wartime experiences had widened their personal differences into a gulf. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Joining us this morning is someone who has a personal investment in this terrible tragedy: our special guest, presidential hopeful Ladybird Hope. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Consider my bookshelf your personal library,” she says, bowing as if I’m a British royal. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z They would quit interviewing, quit their work, trying to defend their personal white devil selves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I think to the parts of it that are burning down, and although arson is not in my personal bag of issues, I have no sympathy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Levy looked at the envelope, on which “personal” had been written three times in red ballpoint. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I have always believed that to be a freedom fighter one must suppress many of the personal feelings that make one feel like a separate individual rather than part of a mass movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The frightened villagers, who depended on one another to maintain the real, went to my aunt to show her a personal, physical representation of the break she had made in the “roundness.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In support of my personal belief that real life doesn’t live up to writing about it, the members of my family seem to have spent most of their time that year engaged in correspondence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I sorted through the personal items in my case, reflecting on how much I had left behind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He had closed the door of her room, glanced around with the quick recording eye of a good policeman—no photographs, none of the personal articles which identify, nothing but clothes and shoes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Education is the great engine of personal development. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t believe I told my personal mess to the whole class. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Her tenacity reinforced my personal respect, love and growing affection. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Aside from me, my brothers Harry and Hugo and my mother’s personal assistant, Samantha, were the only ones home. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z He sensed, in her voice, the sadness of defeat, as though her friends who were leaving for teaching positions in Canada and America had confirmed to her a great personal failure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes it’s hard to speak such personal emotions out loud. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, he’s a courier for Gauleiter Koch. He was wounded and says Koch appointed you as his personal nurse.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I’ll take great personal pleasure in taking your cash and in signing my name to your deed.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But of course it was more personal than that, because Jenny was working there—in my store, for my old boss. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Teachers don’t go for you knowing their personal business. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The year 1943 also marked a milestone in Marian’s personal life. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z In reality, I am an ageless geek, with years of personal experience, a fiercely aggressive intelligence coupled with geek wit, and the education of the best online material in the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of other grave personal problems, Kepler rushed to Wurttemberg to find his seventy-four-year-old mother chained in a Protestant secular dungeon and threatened, like Galileo in a Catholic dungeon, with torture. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This is something I really wanna go to ... for networking reasons and just for personal exposure to fellow human beings who would be mostly friendly. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you like. It’s not my personal tree or anything. I don’t own it.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He wrote many poems, but this one has grown to be my personal favorite. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z From there on the argument began to get louder and more personal. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The questions were personal, as if catching up for the time we let pass. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z So if it did not need it, if the personal garments could be washed along with the rest, True Belle knew why, and Vera Louise knew she knew. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She filled a big Dutch oven with hot water and placed it on a burner, seeming to have set aside all personal topics. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z We make a big group at the local community college, all of us kids, Mr. Hameed, and Dad, who took a personal day off from work. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z An impartial judge will decide which students are most worthy to compete for the Triwizard Cup, the glory of their school, and a thousand Galleons personal prize money.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Pushing through the doors, I see her making her way across the gray tile floor, waving and chatting to just about everyone as she goes, like she’s putting on her own personal Thanksgiving Day Parade. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z A personal answer for all other creations except herself. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The last thing I wanted was for him to find out personal stuff that made us look bad. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He’d eaten whatever he could scrounge—vending machine gummi bears, stale bagels, even a Jack in the Crack burrito, which was a new personal low. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Poor whites suddenly had a direct, personal stake in the existence of a race-based system of slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He started walking around the room, very slow and all, the way he always did, picking up your personal stuff off your desk and chiffonier. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z If a boy didn't care for barbecued chicken or potato chips, people would accept it as a matter of personal taste, saying, "Oh well, I guess it takes all kinds." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Before taking the signatures, the personal delegate of the president of the republic tried to read the act of surrender aloud, but Colonel Aureliano Buendía was against it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Conner was a senior and made it his personal mission to make every freshman in the school terrified to be caught walking alone or near the bathrooms, lockers, or trash cans. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “You gave the Beiderman cookies. From your own personal stash. Willingly. Not under duress.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the sort of individual who is programmed to ignore personal distress and keep pushing for the top is frequently programmed to disregard signs of grave and imminent danger as well. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “The irony of this is so grotesque it is rather charming,” he wrote in his personal journal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For a start, they were our only means, aside from the Sales—the Sales were something else, which I’ll come to later—of building up a collection of personal possessions. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t very well say it’s so I can carry out my own personal vendetta against Snow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “The new government guarantees on its word of honor your personal safety and that of your family.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I was exhausted by the meanness, thrown off by how personal it had become, and feeling, too, as if there were no way I could quit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “We leave all that personal stuff at the door,” she reminded us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I don't want him looking at it—it's personal, and he doesn't get to be a part of what's personal to me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was a bear pit: an endless procession of vexatious litigants and political opportunists settling personal scores in front of a shouting, hooting, uncontrollable rabble of, um, jurors. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z From time to time he came to Burnham for money, although whether he sought outright loans or sold Burnham artwork from his personal collection is unclear. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In great personal danger, she continued to teach and publish, until, in the year 415, on her way to work she was set upon by a fanatical mob of Cyril’s parishioners. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t interested in adding his personal dignity to this week’s losses. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A litany of personal humiliation, outrage, and anger turned sicklelike back to themselves as humor. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z European scientists were sharing more among themselves than were the Americans, albeit through personal contacts, not in the pages of widely published journals. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With Madoc’s endorsement, one of the princes or princesses might choose to grant me knighthood and take me into their personal guard. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They all believe that sometime in the next ten school days, at least one person in the room is going to discover his or her own personal fate: true love or tragic death. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "We went as far as we could . . ." "On your personal re-spon-si-bility," Brother Jack said, bowing his head in time with the words. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Sponsored by a major newspaper, the Johannesburg Sunday Times, their team had inspired effusive national pride and had received a personal blessing from President Nelson Mandela prior to their departure. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Eating, she realized now, was a very personal thing, not something to do with strangers. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just about the number of heartbeats per minute, but about the personal connections. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The eyes that had been on me lifted two by two, and the soldier never came back to finish his personal brand of torment. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But I made a personal statement, too, one that she didn’t make and probably couldn’t have made. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z This writing project feels like the right thing to do, and it will be worth making some personal sacrifices. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z This much is not surprising; the best way to get in the door is through a personal contact. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, Samuel. I was thinking we might be able to help. But your father would not want us interfering in his personal affairs.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, well, I meant, ah, more for personal emergencies,” Gwystyl explained, paling. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The last commencement I attended that spring was personal—Malia's graduation from Sidwell Friends, held on a warm day in June. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Growing up, I was always tickled by this raffish personal connection to history: part of the Puritans, but not actually puritanical. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The divisional SS-HJ commanders were highly experienced soldiers who had proven their personal courage in battle. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Rachel’s parents sat at the patio table while a personal chef fixed them omelets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The ladies ate from a communal bowl of snacks, although they transferred the food to personal plates. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I had always been a team player, but this time I felt so much personal pressure from the president. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You mean that people tell a psychiatrist about their personal lives?’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Female personal assistant for busy sports coach in Ardmore, communication and interpersonal skills required. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The interweaving of the personal and the philosophical in this excerpt is being used as an expository device, to help us understand the issues that Spinoza wrote about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Despite Howard Fuller’s personal commitment to confrontational politics, Operation Breakthrough was limited in many ways as an organization. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They’re simply turning an undesirable situation into their own personal entertainment. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was a personal opponent and one he could lick. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If you talk to veterans of Silicon Valley, they’ll tell you that the most important date in the history of the personal computer revolution was January 1975. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And as for the reward, Drave’s personal fortune wasn’t high on his list of priorities. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Hand over all your notebooks, your address books, your checkbooks, and all your personal documents!” shouted the man who seemed to be in charge. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, my duty in this instance was quite clear, and as I saw it, there was nothing to be gained at all in irresponsibly displaying such personal doubts. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I'd been worried I might get choked up at the Slater funeral, turn it into some sort of personal weep-fest for all the people who’d checked out on me over the last eight months. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It’s also the first truly personal question I’ve been asked all day, and an odd one because Mr. Vedder doesn’t even know my parents. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly he came out with a curious remark: "In any case," he said, "it was just personal." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Nico held back a few personal details from his talk with his father, though he sensed that Reyna knew plenty about wrestling with one’s feelings. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Leonard Hayflick had an especially personal connection with his cell line, WISH, which Gartler had listed as contaminated: he’d grown it using cells from the amniotic sac in which his unborn daughter had once floated. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He’s been hounding June on her personal phone since the minute they landed in New York for a quote about the convention, and now he’s demanding something about Luna. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We don’t know Marina Raskova’s personal take on the Great Terror. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Any Muslim who ever moved for personal reasons from one city to another was of course exhorted to plant seeds for Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "My lord, I have thirty men in my personal guard, and other friends beside, knights and lords. Give me an hour, and I can put a hundred swords in your hand." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But in Fabyan’s view, it was his own personal kingdom—a place where he alone made the rules. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Others are just frigid and a man simply has to take the bull by the horns and almost be rough. That’s why I developed my own personal technique. It’s called the Bohemian Mountain Approach.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z You need to feel that you are getting small-town personal service from someone who has a calling to the profession. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z My pain and sadness no longer feel real or personal—no longer mine—when the blackness swallows my surroundings and me with it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His pack was full but unsecured, and personal effects were still liberally distributed around the room. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “You say your brother’s Crouch’s personal assistant? Any chance you could ask him if he’s seen Crouch lately?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The war had thrust itself upon Lawrence’s consciousness in an especially personal way. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He suggested she come work for him as his personal stenographer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’ve heard that about him, but right now I think it’s the kind of agape you feel for your personal savior. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I want each of you to consider your personal identity as we begin the new year. Each of you is uniquely wonderful. I want you to think about that as you write.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Just after 6:48 a.m., when the 911 call first came in, the dispatcher called out a 10-50 PI, a personal injury accident, and the coordinates. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Scholars debate these estimates, but nobody disputes that the Haudenosaunee exemplified the formidable tradition of limited government and personal autonomy shared by many cultures north of the Rio Grande. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Having an advocate on the inside—someone who had gotten to know me and understood my story on a personal level—had obviously helped. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But now I didn’t think she’d ever tell me anything personal again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The state engineer, Nelson Bookman, and his personal special assistant, Rudy Noyes, knew more water law than the rest of the state put together. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “My personal life is none of your concern.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “It affected you. I would try not to get on a personal basis with people.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Later I would make three photocopies, one to reside permanently next to my body, in my wallet, as a kind of personal asterisk, I thought, in case of accidental death. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted absolute control and ordered his own personal bodyguard unit, the SS, to arrest and execute them without a trial. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z His dedication and faithfulness were due to his own personal loyalty to my parents and his passion for displaying onscreen the integrity and power of my father’s message. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Their happy chatter, cold compresses, spiritual counsel, and personal charm restored the bruised bodies and grieving souls of both mother and daughter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Let me close by saying that I have the personal faith that mankind will somehow rise up to the occasion and give new directions to an age drifting rapidly to its doom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Students didn’t let up for one minute, chirping on about my folks, my mother’s teaching, and things I considered personal and sacred. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Here I added my own personal prayer to the sun. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The observers were looking at the students’ most personal belongings, and our personal belongings contain a wealth of very telling information. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He knows that a good German puts loyalty and self-sacrifice ahead of all personal interests. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z "There are too many people. This is a rather delicate and personal matter." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The war would have to wait for him to come to it in his personal file, an hour, two hours from now. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Simply put, Washington had developed a view of both personal and national independence that was completely immune to sentimental attachments or fleeting ideological enthusiasms. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Do you know it wasn’t supposed to be in his personal collection when you found it? Do you have confirmation of that? Or are you making an assumption?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She swiveled so fast I flinched, expecting her to give me a personal demonstration of her first and third talents, but she only narrowed her eyes at me. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z These were my boosters, my believers, my own personal gospel choir, singing, Yes, kid, you got this! all the way through. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He hated asking questions unless they were personal ones. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hermes crew enjoyed their scant personal time in an area called "the Rec." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The list of guests included WilliamShort, formerly Thomas Jefferson’s personal secretary in Paris and a lifelong Jefferson protege. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She looked almost shocked, as though her own personal pride had received a blow. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “If either of us had joined this caravan based only on personal courage, but without understanding that language, this journey would have been much more difficult.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The chairs are simple straight-backed cane but, inside his special state box, Lincoln likes to sit in the red upholstered rocking chair that Ford’s reserves for his personal use. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z To write about someone is so personal, even in a world with fire-breathing children and flying dragon services, and a lot of the good stuff between me and Hudson is there. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Of course, for some of them, personal space can stretch the distance between the earth and the moon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Another big part of our community—and a personal favorite of mine—was an elaborate dance procession performed by the neighborhood kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t make personal charitable donations,” said the man. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z You can tell this causes him great personal pain. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Working with Karl Brandt, his personal physician, Hitler launched the Scientific Registry of Serious Hereditary and Congenital Illnesses to administer a much larger, nationwide euthanasia program to eradicate genetic “defectives.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Mr. Remora, you might manage his personal collection, but you have no business here. Now, please, don’t make me call security.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Finally, Polynesian material culture varied from the production of no more than personal utensils to the construction of monumental stone architecture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The Negroes were selected on the basis of scholarship, personal conduct, and health. We picked those who had the mental ability to do the job and had used it,” Blossom answered. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "So you exercised your personal responsibility," Jack said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than go downstairs to the instructors’ room for drawing paper, I drew the sketches on my personal notepaper, using both sides of the sheet. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I need personal space, not 50 kilograms of clothing. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Some have to do with the nature of the information the devices deliver—the value, say, of personal information or the value of good news versus bad news. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z With trembling fingers, I scroll through Zero’s personal account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Kathy earns around $4,000 from personal training and fitness instruction and plans to build on that as the children get older. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Towards the evening of that day, he was sitting outside the nest, repairing his torn haversack and taking stock of his personal effects. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Whenever the calls are left to the referees, it is our personal coach who steps in to persuade the refs to call a point one way or the other. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Others felt, rightly or wrongly, that Ebright was bitter about not getting the job at Washington and was bent on evening a personal score. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Afterward they open up the champagne and sit together on the bed, going through a large shopping bag full of cards with personal checks inside them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It would be a poor sort of immortality, however, because any personal concept of time for the astronaut would almost certainly come to an end as he was torn apart inside the black hole! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “He just worries about me for Charlie’s sake. It’s nothing personal.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Back at the base, Allen kept his personal pledge not to get close to any of the other men. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The more junior typesetters leaded and shimmed the classifieds and personals and all the other advertisements that filled the inside pages. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As a high school history teacher, it had been her personal mission to cart Dad and me around to every major historical site in the area. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I learned that the person who saved you, your personal saver, was sent by God to protect you and to help you out. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew immediately what I needed to do, and that was to bench myself—to let Malia go see the next campus without me, sending Kristin Jones, my personal assistant, as her escort instead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Among Chicago’s leading men, profitability was a matter of personal and civic honor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Everybody had told such personal stories about their families, so maybe my family story wouldn't be so bad after all. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z And he is “taking personal charge of the case.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I still often found myself without a personal coach in my corner at competitions, but I almost always had some combination of my mother, Faizah, and Paola as part of my cheering squad. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The school promoted the concept of Anschaung, a personal way of looking at things that was inherent and individual to every child. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Lawrence family was pious in the manner of northern Midwestern Lutherans, religion serving as much as the warp and woof of the community fabric as a source of personal succor or theological speculation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For my mother that which is personal can only be said to a relative—her only intimates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Recordings have made music accessible everywhere: TV, radio, CDs, Internet, video games, personal music players, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The division between the groups was also personal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The light had been on a long list of personal errands Luma had put off to deal with her team and her players’ families. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Rows of oil lamps made the room bright, and each of the men had his personal torch behind him, illuminating stacked and scattered papers that lay on the table. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Royal Brougham, despite his earlier gloomy assessment, had already announced his personal prognostication: Washington to win, Cornell in second, California third. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I couldn’t let my personal feelings get in the way of my art. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z For the next ten days, I serve as August’s personal Polish coach. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “What happened is called destruction of personal property. And it is unacceptable at Seaward Pines.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “I had a personal desire to beat the Communists,” he explained later. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There is a pointed parallel to personal communications technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was not by chance that Lawrence’s personal recollection of the Trinity test was the only one Groves selected for direct transmission to the Pentagon on the day after the blast. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Because the two post- Games interviews with Caesar Flickerman were shot in President Snow’s personal quarters. Plutarch thinks Peeta may be of some use as a guide in a location we have little knowledge of.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z By the time they finished discussing the label for the vinegar, Chacko and Comrade Pillai had each acquired personal mosquito funnels. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not that I’m the only one...just that it’s a personal thing.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The power of music: Its impact on the intellectual, personal and social development of children and young people. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z His eyes had narrowed into starpoints of cold, the killing edge of a personal fury that marked a crossing of the line which Lillian recognized immediately. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Interspersed with plundered foil bags that once contained frozen seeds, personal belonging bags hang from metal brackets like a file cabinet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Something visceral and less tangential than, say, statistics, laws, police enforcement, or television commercials: The issue had to be made personal. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When he had finished, he gave Joe a copy, just to check over the personal data, and Joe said: “Right here, in this little box, you got it I’m white. 1 ain’t white, I’m brown.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like cruel fate that we’d come to Hoover Dam, one of Annabeth’s personal favorites, and she wasn’t here to see it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z High school English teachers encouraged me to describe very personal feelings in words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t that personal? Isn’t that private? Why is that everybody’s business?” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The most prestigious division was the SS, which was originally created as Hitler’s personal bodyguard but grew into a terrifying and brutal military force. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Even the Olympians were never worthy of my personal attention. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The racial situation had now become very real and very personal. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Animals in the wild are, in practice, free neither in space nor in time, nor in their personal relations. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you’d kill me in a more personal way. Silk pillow over my face, slow and gentle suffocation. Just you and me. Sensual.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Those “bad decisions,” Obama has acknowledged, could have led him to a personal dead end. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She told me about how he and his fellow soldiers were intimidated, arrested, and beaten for failing to comply with government rules about carrying personal identification cards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Without missing a beat, Rose answered, “When you’ve got a scalp full of head lice! Yeeww. Do you know that from personal experience?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “What are you doing, looking at my personal things?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Mostly, he wanted John Quincy located in one of the diplomatic capitals of Europe as his own personal listening post. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Affairs of honor were supposed to involve only personal charges. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But he was slacking off and took no personal interest in me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Gets better results when they think it's personal. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The radio crackled intermittently, he paid no attention; if his personal call number, or a ten-code related to the shooting, came up, he would automatically tune in. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, he was excessively trusting of some of his speculator friends; and he only fired his assistant in the Treasury Department, William Duer, after Duer’s mixing of personal and public funds reached criminal proportions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He had not been back to Nigeria in years and perhaps he needed the consolation of those online groups, where small observations flared and blazed into attacks, personal insults flung back and forth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Under Desdemona’s direction, the two drab girls multiplied themselves into a small city of women, each with a signature laugh, a personal gemstone, a favorite song she hummed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There were photos of girls and women of all different ages, professional websites, personal blogs, social media pages, and more. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He started walking around the room again, picking up all my personal stuff, and Stradlater's. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Three weeks after he took command, he had talked to every man in his squadron and knew something personal about each one. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It must be true; this little prince has been living on his own personal planet since the Tap-Out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Other men tried to retrieve some of their own personal items abandoned in the rush, particularly books. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z For Elizebeth, the impact of Pearl Harbor was immediate and personal. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z At first it feels weird, but then nice, even if I’m wrong, because it feels like I have a personal guardian looking out for my time. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But as it was a personal choice between learning cudgel and wrestling from Constance or quarter staff from Matthias, to a mouse they had opted for the latter. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Officially, he was still my personal coach at the foundation, but his work ethic and interest in pushing our training to the next level had slowly dissipated. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He had staked out a personal fiefdom on campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For the first time, she drew power from her personal experiences; she’d hidden and run from her home life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The more he scolded them for personal technical issues, even as he preached teamsmanship, the more the boys seemed to sink into their own separate and sometimes defiant little worlds. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Whoever he was, he almost certainly had an office somewhere in here, and in that office would be his personal papers. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “But John’s smart. He wanted something else, something personal out of your dad. Your dad’s smart too. He knew it.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z If she had to pick a personal motto, it would be “Bring it!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She knew from personal experience how crime existed only to the degree that the law cooperated with it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now that our new brother has been educated as to the meaning of self-criticism, perhaps he’d like to share his personal shortcomings.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was of incalculable value! Not to mention it contained years of my personal notes and annotations!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Perhaps the greatest lesson to be learned from all these issues is that as a nation we must make certain that in our desire for progress, personal rights and liberties are not denied. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He wanted a record of each person and his or her concerns, and afterward I had to quickly interview them myself for their personal and biographical information. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. I didn’t. I wish I had. He loved a celebration of the human soul. Such things were like a personal triumph to him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I took out the disk and got into Dads personal library, looking for another information service. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn’t look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Planchette has a control named Merrigot,” she explained, “and Merrigot takes a genuine personal interest in Arthur; brings him word from relatives, and so on.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z People who organize a revolution usually take over the government and personal ambition cannot be excluded as a motive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no personal grudge against the children that she knew of, but, after all, he was a very enigmatic coachman. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Phineas felt a personal and sincere grudge against Caesar, and he was outraged most by his conviction that Caesar and Rome and Latin had never been alive at all . A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z You have my personal assurance that Mother Paula’s is working closely with local authorities, in full compliance with all laws, codes, and regulations. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Morrison leaned on his elbows and smoked, gazing at the fields and woods as if they were his own personal estate. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z In 1996 Mr. Moore came to Birmingham and presented me with a personal copy of his book. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I sat down immediately and wrote the two personal essays required as part of the application. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Indian insistence on personal liberty was accompanied by an equal insistence on social equality. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Bull was fidgeting as he always did when someone stripped away an outer layer of himself and revealed something intensely personal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He thinks it came down to the personal whim of the teacher, who was consistently unreadable. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Pietism laid great store by helping congregations find God themselves, through personal acquaintance and knowledge of the scriptures, through humility, non-confrontation and piety, through an ethos of hard work, and through education. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the hallway, Chase is on the line with his agent, the speakerphone blaring his personal business to anyone who cares. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I prefer the shedding and disorder and personal dirt of people like myself, people like Jon. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Unlike Burr’s distinguished bloodline, which gave his aristocratic bearing its roots and biological rationale, Hamilton’s more dashing and consistently audacious style developed as a willful personal wager against the odds of his impoverished origins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I had editors—more teachers—and these were the first white people I’d ever really known on any personal level. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I hiss before he gets a chance, which seems to annoy him a little, since he considers hissing his own personal sound of contempt. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z To hear Teller talk, it was only because of his personal efforts that there was any program at all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some of us had other theories, but only Miranda seemed to take Naomi’s happiness as a personal affront. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In every letter of yours I seem to find some reference to the sleaziness of your personal life. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled out his own personal camera and began shooting pictures before anything got moved. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I had seen it thousands of times, but suddenly what I had considered an empty imitation of a Hollywood fad was flooded with personal significance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed inconceivable that such a personal and historic document could be bartered away so carelessly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I become their personal in- dfgena expert, their window into a foreign world. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z God, replied Hatsue, was personal; only she could know what Cod wanted from her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He claimed in the diary to have established a daily schedule aimed at personal betterment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “You know how poets sneeze? Haiku! Our next act is one of my personal favorites. Give it up for the magical stylings of the one and only, the Great Timdini!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “Patience! Have patience, or you will make yourself nuts. You can become really unhappy or you can go deep inside yourself and know God loves you as you do your personal best.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My staff thought it would be a good idea, but we're smack in the middle of the campaign, so not even my personal assistant came with me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “I missed you. I really wanted you to be there. I was so happy Shan came,” he said, a little emotional, as though it had been a personal triumph of his. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Nothing too personal or too bright or too different that might make it stand out in any way. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z There were many letters in the Odessa American, but none made a more personal attack than this one. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the most unquestionably hot-button issues dealing with the balance of common good and personal freedom in America is gun control. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Mr. Moore didn’t approve of personal phone calls. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “If it isn’t too personal or too painful—what did you do in the theater?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the same provocations are applied to nation states, they too sometimes fly into murderous rages, egged on often enough by those seeking personal power or profit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was carried by a man, a volunteer, riding on a cold night with no personal agenda other than a concern for the liberty of his peers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no more talk of the alcohol in his blood- surrogate, no gibes at his personal appearance. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “My personal opinion,” she once admitted, “...is that Safford is a nincompoop.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s personal secretary and trusted friend Meriwether Lewis was chosen co-leader and chief naturalist for the expedition. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In its more extreme forms it relegates personal rights and liberties to the higher authority of the state, which is “us” and not “them,” and it therefore has both communal and despotic implications. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z During my thirty-four-year tenure as a climber, I’d found that the most rewarding aspects of mountaineering derive from the sport’s emphasis on self-reliance, on making critical decisions and dealing with the consequences, on personal responsibility. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It seemed hard to believe that he was a lonely person, searching relentlessly in bottles, under women’s skirts, in church work and lofty job titles for his “personal niche,” lost before birth and unrecovered since. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of his personal treasure chest, which is full of his action figures, Lego sets, and collection of obsolete computer parts Dad has given him, there’s a fancy-looking high-backed chair and ottoman. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Not saying a word, Smith moved closer and closer, acting as a party to the conversation and entering the inmate’s personal space until he stepped back in frustration. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "I have the right to check the personal property of any of the detainees. How do I know there aren't drugs or weapons in there? He stole a car, too! I've got witnesses!" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “Why are you so personal, Mrs. Pontellier? Why do you force me to idiotic subterfuges?” he exclaimed with sudden warmth. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z And Mr. Muhammad with his personal jet plane from Chicago. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Be that as it may, we are proceeding with this strategy. The Council has appointed me Acting Commander, so if you can’t put our personal history aside, get the hell out of my way.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Someday I’ll repay you by telling your personal business to every passing hobo. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “I have assumed personal control of the active work within the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Just about every Marine could be seen picking up equipment and personal items left behind by the enemy as they pulled back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z About her personal life Mrs. Richardson could find very little, only a brief mention that she had maintained an apartment on the Upper East Side. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But the participant’s view is that winning is an unpredictable achievement, a personal triumph. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It seemed to me to be personal,” he recollected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When Secretary Riley told my students “everybody deserves a college education,” I interpreted it as a personal challenge to make sure that all the Freedom Writers would go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He spoke to most of them and was at pains to show that he had some knowledge of their personal lives. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Once class ended, after about an hour and a half, we would have open or free fencing, during which time everyone would also take individual lessons with their personal coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Time to eat, work on personal projects, conference—Rae’s big on that. You can do whatever you want.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Based on hearsay rather than personal experience? What if it’s purely fictional? Novel travelogues were quite a fashion in Modeg a couple hundred years ago.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Prior to that, it seems to me, we thought about being well off or not well off in terms of personal comfort or distress. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Your Highness,” Dorian said, motioning to her personal guard to join them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I rifled through Commander Lewis's stuff until I found her personal data-stick. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't come back for his funeral because I'd made my mind up to never go home again...and because he never understood my need to move away, and took it as a personal affront. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Then, abruptly, I got up and brought over a quantity of my personal notepaper and wrote a second letter to Sister Irma, using the floor as a desk. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z As his practice faltered, Sullivan found himself forced to leave his office in the Auditorium and to sell his personal belongings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There was a great contrast between his world pessimism and personal cheeriness. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Bringing Lawrence back to New York, he exploited his personal business contacts to secure tons of copper and iron for the giant machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was both painful and personal, and it had to do with William. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Rutherford’s attitude arose not merely from the poor showing the machine’s results made at the Solvay in 1933 but from his personal approach to research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “How can I be wrong about my own favorite? It’s a personal truth.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t expect this girl with spiky hair and no concern for personal space to know about microbiomes. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Since I had been a Muslim, this was the first time any white people really got to me in a personal way. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat on her mother’s lap and said, “My personal seamstress made it for me.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z That’s Dad’s personal life motto, even though he ended up alone and working the night shift, collecting tolls at the bridge, where he needs neither talent nor a good work ethic. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran a hand along the few feet of personal history, her brief chronicle of taste. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I am to follow like a starved dog the entrails of any personal affect. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z All proprietary and financial information regarding HRH Prince Henry’s personal wealth and estate; Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “You are burnt beyond recognition,” he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z As you probably know from personal experience, there are children who love to take baths, and there are children who absolutely do not. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z State legislators did not look kindly on government regulations they felt would impinge on personal freedoms. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z You would have a God who forgives all, but when it comes to your personal whims you seek punishment for your vengeance. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “A detailed analysis of the way the planetary movements in the coming month will affect you, with reference to your personal chart,” she snapped, sounding much more like Professor McGonagall than her usual airy-fairy self. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Exactly. A personal interest. I don’t like to use the word, but it’s almost ghoulish.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But he also gave Gregor a sad smile that felt much more personal. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Remora, you might manage his personal collection, but you have no business here. Now, please, don’t make me call security.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I don’t tell him anything personal except that I’m a senior, and that I think he’s smart for going to community college. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z ‘Your mission to escort the Athena Parthenos - is important. But it’s more than that, too. This is personal for you. And for the Hunters. What’s your game?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Of those matters too jaggedly personal to reveal to intimates, my parents will never speak. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She pauses, the kind of pause you take when you’re deciding whether or not to share something personal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was true that he had never spoken of such personal things to her before but he felt that he could. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Coach has a personal interest in Russ,” I say. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite everything, our merchandise was selling well and a pretty steady stream of customers distracted us from our personal problems for most of the morning. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z "Camellia, the queen has assigned you a personal guard." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Stone was going through a difficult time in her personal life as the women’s movement was fracturing into separate organizations in 1869. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z We do this because, like vervets, we are a lot more attuned to personal cues than contextual cues. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When Kabisa heard my father was in jail awaiting a trial, he paid a personal visit. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z These occurred sporadically in his personal correspondence with Abigail, who remained ensconced at home in Quincy, Massachusetts,and with old revolutionary comrades like Benjamin Rush. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The profusion of metaconcepts in professional writing—all those levels, issues, contexts, frameworks, and perspectives—also makes sense when you consider the personal history of chunking and functional fixity in the writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Based on their personal knowledge of Walter's whereabouts at the time of the Morrison murder, family members, church members, black pastors, and others all pleaded with Sheriff Tate to release McMillian. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The more intimate gatherings are typically accompanied by Chandresh’s personal pianist, a beautiful young woman who plays continuously throughout the entire evening and never speaks a word to anyone. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "To their own personal afterlives, I suspect. Whatever was deepest in their hearts' desire, whether they knew it or not. What else could heaven be, Sik?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z That included personal issues that could be controversial. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “No, why would I want to? And could you now kindly stop making personal remarks? Hasn’t your father ever taught you that it’s bad manners?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When they first arrived, the officers told us, inmates segregated here received no privileges beyond an hour of daily exercise—no reading or writing materials, no personal property. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nah, the hospital just hired a bunch of new security guys and I took a much-needed personal day, thank you very much.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Then he had been sure of his work, only with these personal longings for adventure. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “I have to work on my personal statement. Mom will be mad if she finds out you left without saying.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “What I mean is, we have no right to put this on a personal... emotional level. You have so much to do. I have no right to come into your life at this time.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Once you arrive at a Reception Center or Facility, you will be provided clean basic state-issued clothing and sufficient personal hygiene items. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z By the side of the trail were weapons, clothing, packs, and other personal items that appeared to have been abandoned in haste. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Over time, the Meggers-Roosevelt dispute grew bitter and personal; inevitable in a contemporary academic context, it featured charges of colonialism, elitism, and membership in the CIA. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Furious over what he considered an undeserved personal attack on his integrity, Stith set off alarms about Operation Breakthrough’s misuse of federally funded cars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t good to know their personal lives, because they might try to drag you into them, which would compromise security. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nehemia watched them from the floor, her brows raised, until one of her personal guards appeared at the gate. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He always picked up your personal stuff and looked at it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The problem with Hamilton’s distinction, however, was that the putative barrier between personal and political criticism, or private and public behavior, kept getting overwhelmed by real choices. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This was the personal analogue for Terryl of her zeal at work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His personal charisma and innovative strategies won many battles, but as early as the fall of 1965 Fuller had already realized the need for a new organization, one less hamstrung by federal and local bureaucracies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This wasn’t an official do but something personal. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Oppenheimer’s personal driver and bodyguard—the one Groves insisted he have—was actually an undercover agent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The anger was so sudden I was afraid to make eye contact with anyone for fear they might make something personal of it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z And especially did this personal and human right bear hard upon me, for temperamentally I am inclined to satisfy the claims of my own ideals rather than the expectations of others. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Little did he know that he would shortly be suffering yet another emotional blow in a life already littered with personal loss. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Well, Matt. Do you have any personal shortcomings you’d like to share?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, he thought, as he shoved Scabbers off his pillow, it had been quite a personal question. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z As to Inigo’s personal life, he was always just a trifle hungry, he had no brothers or sisters, and his mother had died in childbirth. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He now brings a particularly personal perspective to the debate about addiction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I also relied on extensive archival photos and documents, scientific and historical research, and the personal journals of Henrietta’s daughter, Deborah Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t care about his personal reputation if I chose to portray him inaccurately, he said, but he did care greatly about the harm any inaccuracy might do to his credibility in the medical world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Any interior architectural details of Royal Residences including Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, etc., and personal effects found therein; Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They’re so broad yet deeply personal, and it’s a private thing I want to share with everyone, and I think this is that feeling we all chase. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Hamilton intended to make the New Army his personal instrument of power. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Give a thank-you speech in return, but only the one the Capitol gave us, never any personal additions now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Have you ever seen any of these ?” Major Major looked with a blank expression at copies of personal correspondence from the hospital on which the censoring officer had written “Washington Irving” or “Irving Washington.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In Outliers, I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don’t work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On the TV, Priscilla is ambushed at school by a tiny yet aggressive woman who turns out to be her personal trainer. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Cecilia is a great competitor and she bested me today. Win or lose, competing here today was bigger than any of my own personal ambitions.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I told him some reason, but not that one notebook was things he said for his book and the other was for my various personal observations about him; very likely he would have become self-conscious. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s personal! It’s none of your business what it says.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Sergeant Simpson was packing up his gear and his personal supply of ammunition. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite Guiteau's personal notes to Garfield, the usher never called his name or gave him a reply from the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But it was becoming such a profound personal experience, it haunted even my dreams. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "Now see here, Tom," said Daisy, turning around from the mirror, "if you're going to make personal remarks I won't stay here a minute. Call up and order some ice for the mint julep." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Brian hated the job of treasurer because it was such a drag but mostly because it brought him into personal contact with Brother Leon. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Most significantly, there are many who are still willing to risk whatever medical consequences might occur by refusing to be vaccinated in order to preserve their personal liberty. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In that single exchange with that young man, I was speaking the personal language of my people. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z As one staffer saw it, the Urban League’s job was to develop “in the worker’s mind her personal responsibility to become a regular and efficient employee.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The papar risked their lives—and lost them in untold droves-r- not in the pursuit of wealth or personal glory or to claim new lands in the name of any despot. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Press coverage hyped the personal nature of the conflict between the offender and specific victim. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I had always been very careful to stay completely clear of any personal closeness with any of the Muslim sisters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don't take this personal, C.P. But her teacher’s been saying her mama’s a fool to be working with a Klansman. Other kids been fighting her over it.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “And they never will learn,” he added and laughed, as though he had somehow scored a personal triumph over the electrocuted animals. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He had personal knowledge of their suffering, having lived and studied in Washington, D.C. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I could be a deaf-mute as far as most of this goes, and despite all the orientation directives to smile and exude personal warmth, autism might be a definite advantage. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It makes fencing on the world circuit really tough, given that our personal coaches act as our advocates and voices on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z To initial training with personal weapons, then more training, school upon technical weapons school when not reassigned, until, finally, and the word was finally, the ultimate and all-consuming horror of nuclear-warhead school. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “That bird was a personal friend of Miss Wren’s. It was hundreds of years old. It was written about in the Tales. And now it’s dead.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He was drinking cold black tea and chewing cardamom seeds, his personal trusted antidote for hangover headaches. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He took it as a personal affront and quarrelled with everyone in the line of hotel command from the bellhop to the manager. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Come on now! Don’t be stupid, kid! We can get out of here. Let’s go! Come on, kid! I didn’t mean it! It’s nothing personal!” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The four oldest children, who wore short pants in spite of the fact that they were on the threshold of adolescence, busied themselves with José Arcadio's personal appearance. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As he opened up a little, I found his personal life equally interesting. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was embarrassing, in so many ways, to imagine him reading my personal thoughts. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He found Alec in a different cabin, leaning over a personal trunk, cursing as he tried to break into it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Everyone, except the foreigners, was willing to risk half his personal fortune in the endeavor, but only old Trueba was also willing to give his life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ummm, by year, and then by personal preference within that frame,” he said absently. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z "He is to serve as your personal squire. His father would like to see him knighted, in good time." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But they weren’t making parallel progress in their personal lives. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, so you need me to give you their personal information, in order for you to alert their families.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “This was my personal clipper. What do you think?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “For me, they’re like the most sacred kind of mural. My personal source of power—ancestry.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The growing popularity of still-life painting reflected an increased emphasis on the home and personal possessions in Europe at the time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Time, so personal yet belonging to no one. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so evident that Mrs. Turner took black folk as a personal affront to herself. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Was he motivated by a promise of immunity, or was it a personal vendetta against Faraday? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z After all, I don’t know those Bostonians or San Franciscans or Kansans who have taken ill; the numbers, though alarming, held no personal arithmetic. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But on this particular Friday afternoon, January 22, 1965, Selma’s black schoolteachers were about to risk their jobs, their freedom and their personal safety. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Later in the week he would write a long personal letter to the guy’s sister, who would not write back, but for now it was a question of pain. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I was unable then to use the skill for deeply personal purposes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote messages in words and personal hieroglyphics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This kind of hostility bewildered them; they saw it not as an inevitable part of urban life, but as something personal and hurtful. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So for your next composition, I want you to write about a personal experience, something that happened to you.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Of the money which, on his first arrival, John had received for his personal expenses, most had been spent on his equipment. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A kind, good-hearted person might be touched that people are being so empathetic to the personal weather condition of others, but the more I hear it, the more I fume. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It’s how they were treated, on a personal level, by their doctor. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Because of the large volume of mail I receive, I am unable to write personal responses. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They wanted better pay, and they wanted Fabyan to stop interfering with their personal lives. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z During competitions our personal coaches gave us lessons to keep us in the best shape while competing, so with no Akhi, I was left to my own devices. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Disregarding his faults in personal hygiene,” Miles interrupted, “I still think he needs his head shoved into a wood chipper.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z But when your hand starts aching in the middle of such a personal piece, there’s no telling what you might think about. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She also felt this was personal— she had lost her daughter, and she wanted to grieve in a less public way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was terrifying to share such a personal truth, much more frightening than the dead themselves. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I was to use my name in the wrong order, putting my family name after my personal name as the demons did. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He even lets me borrow some from his personal collection and gives me a list of schools he thinks I should apply to, which is why he’s my favorite teacher. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z "So we went ahead on my personal responsibility." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z That part of this magnificent day was her personal secret. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “I was never gratified with a personal introduction,” said Dr. Trefusis. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z After all, the doctor is a personal friend. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Clearly the entries were a personal record and not meant to be read by other people. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He nodded so sagely that everyone suspected a personal experience of his own. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The following year, he was appointed as the personal physician of the Queen, Elizabeth I, and later knighted by her. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Then, in September and October, there were more developments on the legal and personal front that underscored the numbing effect, the purgatory. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “It’s nothing personal, really. Enough girls leave you for dudes, and you learn to keep your distance,” she goes on. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z We need someone to write a personal statement. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And if that didn’t work, you got your own personal peace officer 24/7. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z To her right, her personal computer is running three news aggregators at the same time. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z For many young men accustomed to a civilian life with freedom and personal privacy, military life was tough and there was a lot of grumbling. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Washington also rejected this request, explaining that Andre, regardless of his personal attractiveness, was no more and no less than a spy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was also incumbent upon them to attend to his personal wants. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Terryl connected to people who suffered tragedy, in a very personal way. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Any reluctance to answering personal or embarrassing questions always yielded to the lure of appearing on TV. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Peachy Helen, on the other hand, crouched over the newspaper on her kitchen table, moaning over kidnappings, hijackings, and hurricanes as if each one were personal. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “And,” he tells Theo, “if I manage to do this entire family even better, I’ll have done at least one thing to my taste and personal.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Let her see me up close and personal and hear me loud and clear. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tree and Zheegwon, they were held by a colony of townspeople who tried different ways to extract their dreams, figuring they’d found some kinda personal reservoir with Indian twins.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z No nice lady would pick a fuss in public like that, much less tell anybody and everybody her personal business. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Not sharing something so personal to me with the guy I was dating should’ve been a red flag about how positive I felt about our future. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z They never admitted personal failure or cowardice; to do so might be used against them in coming elections. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z ‘Well,’ said the young man pleasantly, ‘even if it is personal, you’d better tell me what it is.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And my personal favorite, “Do we need to have the talk?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Hamilton’s distinction between personal and political criticism was designed to change the dispute with Burr from an affair of honor to a political difference of opinion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then I looked down, and I realized I was standing in the middle of my own personal hurricane. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z How can I explain to them that it’s not personal, that I’m not talking to anyone? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The trip was also a chance to explore the family’s new sense of personal liberty. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Because of this, it’s unclear to me why a collection of intimate profiles or personal stories is so frequently termed a poll. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He also built each of us a wooden box with sliding doors for personal stuff. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Beneath my moral outrage was a strong sense of possessiveness, a fury that other people were sinking their hooks into my own personal midget. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z While Galileo was contemplating major changes in his personal life, and also gathering together the material from his years of experimental work for a planned book, the political situation in Italy changed dramatically. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Now I’m not so sure that I want to tell Mami something that personal. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z At the same time she placed a high premium on personal privacy, respected it in others and insisted upon it for herself. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z During the weeks to follow, the divide between members of the College would grow wider and the arguments more heated and personal. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Bobby initially agreed to cooperate, but with the explicit caveat that the film was to be a dissertation on the evils of the United States, not about his personal life or about chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z While conditions varied from plantation to plantation, the majority of slaves lived a twilight existence in which no area of human relations or personal dignity was sacred. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Drawing style can be as personal as handwriting. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she tries to get chummy and ask me a lot of personal questions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Who, over the course of a hundred and fifty years of life, not to mention nearly two years of my personal tutelage, has managed to avoid learning a few important facts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “It seemed to me,” Brady reflected, “to be almost personal.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I am unaware, of course, how much time they give you for your personal drawing at your Convent and hope you will advise me. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z And the best part of the market—and I know this personal—is there ain’t no lords nor priests as to tell you what to do. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “And now you see why I don’t mind eavesdropping on people’s personal lives.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z She was in love with the sound of her own name and seemed to view my speech impediment as a personal assault. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I took a deep personal pride in having had something to do with that—at least in some cases, years before. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stand by and watch a horse colic or a cow labor with a breech calf even though it meant personal ruin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z His friend is also upset that he got a printed notice of Dorus’s death, not a personal letter. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This felt personal, and in some ways the studio was an accomplice, or at the very least, a witness. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Of course that is now my legal title, but for personal reasons I prefer to be addressed in the usual way.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I’m not trying to be mean, but Kevon’s not Sneaky, and this stuff is personal. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z We threw a couple names around, discussed pros and cons, and our personal opinions started to emerge. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z These men were desperate to have something personal in their cells and could not help themselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Use the construction paper to create personal touches, like eyelashes, beauty marks, even a bow tie. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Their attitude toward me made me feel even more at ease, self-confident; it made me bolder in asking personal questions and at the same time reveal my innermost feelings. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever his personal feelings on race, one thing was clear: Butler was a Langley man through and through, loyal to the laboratory, to its mission, to its worldview, and to its charge during the war. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I was thrilled by the mere fact of his speaking to me in this gentle, somewhat personal way. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t close enough to really see him, but I didn’t want to interfere with his personal time, so I didn’t walk up to him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Now that his personal demons were out in the open and Abigail was on board, the collaboration moved into high gear. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I believe we forgot everything except, of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the slate clean and give us a fresh start. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Jacqui has her elbows out, trying to keep her personal space. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Hamilton requested a brief delay so that he could complete some pending legal business and put his personal affairs in order. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Adah would, of course, say something more droll, such as “Why, Rachel, your interest in personal hygiene has truly become a higher calling.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They require the criminal to do something that puts himself at great personal peril. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to close my mind to Grandmother’s words: “The only thing a white man ever wants with one of our women is personal favors.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s kind of like driving on the freeway, except that your personal space is only half an inch from your clothes, if that. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Mommy knows this and despite her personal differences with the new minister, she didn’t want to see what amounted to my father’s and her life’s work disappear. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z People of color are often reluctant to challenge institutions led by people who look like them, as they feel a personal stake in the individual’s success. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If a victor had any special allies among the dead tributes, it is considered good form to add a few personal comments as well. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I felt an acute conflict between duty and personal loyalty, between my obligations to my organization and to my friend. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next eight hours, I run after the agile Gail, absorbing bits of instruction along with fragments of personal tragedy. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact no personal articles: what greeted him consisted of unclaimed debris which Polokov had inherited when he took the apartment and which in leaving he had abandoned to the next—if any—tenant. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She said the most difficult part of Candor initiation was being given truth serum and answering personal questions in front of everyone in the faction. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Did they see religion as a means for personal and spiritual fulfillment? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Saunders gives me a hard look and goes on about how important it is for a teacher to not have her personal business out among students. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z “Lindy’s drawing up articles of incorporation, which will protect your personal assets from any real or perceived vulnerabilities or liabilities of a professional nature.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not...she’s never asked me to. It’s a personal choice, and she’s always told me I can choose to wear it, or not, when I’m older.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Cluny’s personal armorer put the final touches to his Chief’s war apparel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Turns out, we also get important neurochemical releases when we disclose personal information, something enabled greatly by email, texts, or status updates on various sites. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He was the kind of man who subscribed to that old-fashioned idea of nation as personal test—and by extension, a test of family—and not only because he was an immigrant. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And wherever it seems appropriate, we differentiate national or local styles within a period, until we arrive at the personal styles of individual artists. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s my personal tale of mystery and misgivings, hatred and heroism, scandal and sacrifice. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He knew instantly that he held in his hand Vola’s personal truths, the ones she kept hidden. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Kara wasn’t Muslim or a woman of color, yet she still felt an appreciation for my personal experiences, though our lives were seemingly worlds apart. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was during this period that Ernest acquired the reputation of a relentless taskmaster in command of a growing brigade; the recurring term in personal reminiscences of the Rad Lab is “slave driver.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “And you are the lucky few who got picked for a personal introduction to the school’s dress code. I need everyone to take a few minutes to read over the list on page two.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z There are stories within each of these stories, but this book is also a very personal story—an intimate history. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He said to a little group of his assistants that he wasn’t going to talk about his personal troubles, “I don’t want that to be the reason for anyone to come to hear me.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite Lawrence’s reputation for personal integrity, an unaudited private fund controlled by a faculty member eventually made university accountants uneasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the true measure of upper class today is in the personal services indulged in. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z While Stanton accepted her husband’s right to his own opinion, his lack of support felt like a personal rejection. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z No teacher had ever confided in me about anything to do with her personal life the way Miss Riley had just done, almost as if I were her equal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The truth was I was safe and free to dream and work so that I could demonstrate my own personal best. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z You remember I said before that Ackley was a slob in his personal habits? The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z All the letters contained brochures about the school, an application form and a personal letter from the tennis coach. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Rosenbluth led me to believe that you were having difficulties of a...personal nature.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He’s always going on about TokNation like it’s his personal CIA. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Revenues from what the bureau described as “other personal services” increased 74 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After Barack’s election, I was able to persuade her to move to Washington and work with me as a personal aide and wardrobe stylist. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I guess I had my own personal television in my brain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z For two thousand years, religious and personal prejudices against Jews have been vented and exercised, as strong as white prejudices against the non-white. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Angela carefully dug through the embroidery, personal items, and other paraphernalia in her tapestry bag and pulled out the newspaper folded to the Westing obituary. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Gandhi insisted that every person weigh the commitment and make a personal choice.“Every individual,” he explained, must make the oath him- or herself, facing not to his neighbor, but his God. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Not the history my parents were having an affair with, but personal histories. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He did not like anyone to breathe too close to him, shake his hand, ask him personal questions, ask to borrow books, or write him letters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the fog that appealed to those sailors because it lent the city the shifting, anonymous feeling of the sea, and in such anonymity personal change was that much easier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Oh my God, Coz, people take this stuff really personal!” he said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Everyone keeps to themselves, fearing that if they share personal thoughts or feelings someone will report them to the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And that so deeply pleased Mr. Muhammad that he paid us the honor of a personal visit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z At this time molecular work on DNA in England was, for all practical purposes, the personal property of Maurice Wilkins, a bachelor who worked in London at King’s College.* Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z While the official center of the government remained in the executive and congressional offices at Philadelphia, the truly effective centers of power were located in two political partnerships based on personal trust. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But The Giver had encouraged all of his questions, not seeming to be embarrassed or offended by even the most personal. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z It was only a matter of time until they took to their personal language. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Those of famous people have a special appeal, for they seem to bridge a gap of time and place and to establish a personal link. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mendel, despite his odd scientific lineage, and de Vries, despite his dubious personal hygiene, were right. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is extremely important, I know, and one ought to feel elated by the prospect of taking personal charge, calling the shots, running one’s cells around like toy trains. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s like an assault. Someone ripping into your personal space, taking it away from you. It’s assault. That video is an assault on you and Max.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Flying out to make a personal appeal might make him take notice. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion had made him a gift of it when he named him captain of his personal guard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It has radical and, in modern terms, libertarian implications, because it regards any accommodation of personal freedom to governmental discipline as dangerous. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Though they were nice, my immigrant neighbors could see no connection between their personal habits and the armies of mice and roaches aggressively occupying the building. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She doesn’t even know about my own personal brand of weirdness. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He seemed sad when he said it, too, but I decided not to pry because I thought that would be too personal. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Most of the time our personal monsters stayed submerged, even though the constantly undulating water kept us on edge. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z And for the first time, I distance myself from the personal tragedy that has consumed me since they announced the Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z This last entry was written in red ink and decorated with a border of green-ink stars; the anthologist wished to emphasize its “personal significance.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In the course of a few years della Porta’s personal experience came to be shared with the whole of educated Europe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Maybe it was my own personal hang-up, but I felt like both girls were waiting to see if I would flip out or something. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z |
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