the Votes of the Declinators could not be heard for the noise

The European Union is not an organisation to do things by halves, particularly when it comes to a celebration. This time Europe will party like it's 1999. Or more precisely 1 May, 2004.

He pictured her to himself as a high-nosed, haughty-mannered, handsome, heartless woman, who would try to make him uncomfortable by being cold and distant to him.

1989, John Oliver Killens, Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin