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  • This was a great revelation—not that I was white but that it seemed like June might not want me here because of my skin color.†   (source)
  • And then the cascade of revelations began, just as it had for Edgar.†   (source)
  • I have a sudden revelation.†   (source)
  • Given the morning's revelations, it seemed only appropriate.†   (source)
  • In those first days as a marine—all spent in Middletown—every interaction was a revelation.†   (source)
  • On entering the room where the meeting was to be held, we were shocked to discover that far from being shaken by the revelations of our daughters' friendship, Mona's parents were openly hostile toward us.†   (source)
  • It was as revelatory, exciting, intense, and surreal as Mayor Schmoke promised.†   (source)
  • This was an alarming revelation.†   (source)
  • Those were drooling epileptic fits brought on by the swaying of his camel, not divine revelation.†   (source)
  • He realized he was standing at a dead stop on the stairs, paralyzed by sudden revelation.†   (source)
  • But David's revelation had suddenly made everything much more complicated.†   (source)
  • Brought up by the Dursleys, there were many things that wizards took for granted that were revelations to Harry, but these surprises had become fewer with each successive year.†   (source)
  • Once he got past the dense language, the books Jen had loaned him were full of revelations.†   (source)
  • As he had already admitted, Sticky often got mixed up when he was excited, and in this frenzy of mysteries and revelations, he could hardly think straight.†   (source)
  • Maybe he's had some revelations lately, too.†   (source)
  • The revelations about the jail seemed to raise the stakes in this trial.†   (source)
  • In Camazotz everybody is the same as everybody else," but he gave her no argument, provided no answer, and she held on to her moment of revelation.†   (source)
  • 14 I BECOME A KNOWN FUGITIVE I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.†   (source)
  • I realize how thin this revelation must sound to her.†   (source)
  • I didn't tell him about my revelation when I lay down on the very bed he was sleeping in every night, even though I couldn't think of his sleeping in my old room without thinking of it.†   (source)
  • She could practically see the revelations as they bloomed in his mind.†   (source)
  • Too many memories, too many revelations.†   (source)
  • It was a Russell's viper and it bit him while he was peeing under a tree; a later revelation was that the tree stood outside a whorehouse, where Harry had been waiting his turn.†   (source)
  • They are visceral revelations about her pre-life.†   (source)
  • However, she could not betray herself completely; there could be no doubt that some kind of revelation occurred.†   (source)
  • I remember the day I started thinking this, it was such a revelation to me.†   (source)
  • I find it hard to believe in these whisperings, these revelations, though I always do at the time.†   (source)
  • And when I begin to wear makeup, I have a revelation.†   (source)
  • This revelation sent her reeling.†   (source)
  • That session ended up being one of many that brought about several revelations about me and how I viewed the world for so many years.†   (source)
  • He finally stood, letting his mind work through the new revelations, hoping they'd sort themselves into nice little stacks for later analysis.†   (source)
  • To the readers of Popular Electronics, in those days the bible of the fledgling software and computer world, that headline was a revelation.†   (source)
  • Iko's fan was whirring like mad as if her processor could barely keep up with all these revelations.†   (source)
  • In order that some sense of mystery should still be preserved, no revelation will yet be made concerning whose upper arm sustains the bruise.†   (source)
  • I'm emotionally spent and have had all the revelations I can take for one night.†   (source)
  • Holly was silent for a moment, processing this momentous revelation.†   (source)
  • Well, this is quite a revelation.†   (source)
  • A revelation stopped him.†   (source)
  • Lock-picking was a revelation.†   (source)
  • The tendon of his jaw was working, so I knew he was preparing a revelation.†   (source)
  • The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.†   (source)
  • There were tiny revelations that had Leigh Anne upset for days, for what they implied about his childhood.†   (source)
  • Worse had occurred too, although these revelations emerged only slowly.†   (source)
  • It can be revelatory of virtually any element in the work.†   (source)
  • She wasn't angry at the revelation of her allergies.†   (source)
  • He had insisted on privacy during the revelation at the slaughter yard--now he wondered whom he was protecting.†   (source)
  • One night, when I was having one of these visions, I had the startling revelation that plane geometry was, in fact, a message from God.†   (source)
  • Testimony in the London courtroom, however, provided new revelations about the company's attitude toward civil liberties and freedom of speech.†   (source)
  • The words were a fascinating revelation for me.†   (source)
  • Intuitively, she does not doubt that whatever revelation this old man—this person from her distant past—has scribbled on paper, halfway across the world, is true.†   (source)
  • But when I say I believe in complete disclosure I don't mean it cheaply, as anecdotal sport or shallow revelation.†   (source)
  • Karna's elation and anger at the revelation.†   (source)
  • Josh attempted a laugh; he was still shaken by the revelation that Scathach was a vampire.†   (source)
  • It is something of a revelation that this memory from over thirty years ago should have remained with Miss Kenton as it has done with me.†   (source)
  • This was something of a revelation to her.†   (source)
  • There is no great revelation: Tom and I argued in the street, I slipped and hurt myself, he stormed off and got into his car with Anna.†   (source)
  • Not after the revelation from Ky.†   (source)
  • The song was obviously of his own devising, a rather candid revelation about the personal habits of a local nobleman.†   (source)
  • The revelations of the past half hour buzz in my mind.†   (source)
  • One night she came back from her daily walk stunned by the revelation that one could be happy not only without love, but despite it.†   (source)
  • He smiled, still blown away by the revelation that water could have a taste.†   (source)
  • He felt some revelation impending.†   (source)
  • You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations.†   (source)
  • By the time we got to Sioux Falls, we were so busy getting to know our cute baby nephew, catching up on family news, and visiting the waterfall that we didn't have a lot of time to discuss Colton's strange revelations.†   (source)
  • The question was whether we must simply believe the Christian revelation or whether we can approach the Christian truths with the help of reason.†   (source)
  • I had thought I would have some revelation of specific evil.†   (source)
  • It was a great concern of Sayuri's that no one be embarrassed by her revelations.†   (source)
  • Thus direct denial, lying and the revelation of personal affairs are avoided.†   (source)
  • Farmer believed, obviously, in the importance of intentions and the power of will, but also in revelation, in "signs."†   (source)
  • Susanne urged him to check with her when he was ready for the real revelations.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were hot, as if she had just sat down and read the Book of Revelations straight through.†   (source)
  • Ruth had said little about my revelation, but when I walked her home I didn't try to kiss her good night.†   (source)
  • Seven years later, spending a hideous, sleepless night tossing in bed next to my daughter and the man I had once loved, hindsight brought revelations.†   (source)
  • It begins with revelations.†   (source)
  • Ch'idzigyaak sat listening, alert to her friend's sudden revelation as to why the younger ones thought it best to leave them behind.†   (source)
  • It was the possible bitterness of revelation.†   (source)
  • The other attorneys also seemed embarrassed, and at that moment, I had something of a revelation.†   (source)
  • And Moshe the Beadle, the poor barefoot of Sighet, talked to me for long hours of the revelations and mysteries of the cabbala.†   (source)
  • The subdued nature of the Commandant's voice is a revelation.†   (source)
  • That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.†   (source)
  • (This is a revelation to her) Where you been, Walter Lee Younger?†   (source)
  • But between Dad's confession that Mom wasn't even supposed to be a choice and Mom's revelation that she didn't want to be a part of the choosing in the first place, I wondered how they had managed to find each other at all.†   (source)
  • That's what I remembered in that before-death instant, when I was supposed to be having some big revelation about my past: the smell of varnish and the squeak of our sneakers on the polished floor; the tightness of my polyester shorts; the laughter echoing around the big, empty space like there were way more than twenty-five people in the gym.†   (source)
  • Your Uncle Pros he got a revelation 'long 'bout midnight as to just whar that thar silver mine is that's been dodgin' him for more'n forty year.†   (source)
  • Among the most interesting revelations in the data is the correlation between a baby's name and the parents' socioeconomic status.†   (source)
  • Christ, such a revelation.†   (source)
  • I was shocked again, both by her casual revelation of her crime and by her sentence.†   (source)
  • Of course, this revelation was sure to end that effort immediately.†   (source)
  • Muhammad sided with her--that's when he had the revelation about needing four witnesses to attest to adultery before punishment could be applied--and ordered that the accusers be flogged with forty lashes.†   (source)
  • Pastor Mike Smith spoke of Adam's dark time and how he had accepted the Lord into his heart while on his knees in the Garland County jail—a shocking revelation to those in the audience who had never heard about those years of struggle.†   (source)
  • Something about what we had in common: a neighborhood, a summer, a revelation about a belief once considered sacred.†   (source)
  • In Pennsylvania, the news of Mike Strank's death was followed quickly by the revelation of his place in the iconic image.†   (source)
  • His wide-eyed attention was an invitation, and his trick of cocking his head to one side while I spoke made me feel that every word was a revelation, although he understood none of it.†   (source)
  • At the moment the postman rang the bell, Litvinoff's pen had been poised above a blank piece of paper, his eyes watery with revelation, filled with the feeling that he was on the verge of understanding the essence of something.†   (source)
  • That little revelation was fun, though it does make me wonder if my observation skills are failing me.†   (source)
  • He paced slowly in front of John and Artus, taking great pleasure in the effects of his revelations.†   (source)
  • When I finished with Merrill Shortley's shocking revelation, Cindy said, "Maybe you should've stayed out there, Lindsay."†   (source)
  • 'No, slave,' she persisted in her grave monotone, as though thinking aloud, the words revelations, pieces of a puzzle.†   (source)
  • Or had it been a true revelation?†   (source)
  • She missed a Bible study class on Revelations that she planned to attend at Scripture Cathedral early yesterday evening.†   (source)
  • About halfway into the first episode, I had this weird revelation.†   (source)
  • The weight of the jackets was making me sweat, and the revelation of Horse's confession and the way the kids were acting was making me sick.†   (source)
  • She was a revelation.†   (source)
  • His fierce passion had been a revelation to her.†   (source)
  • Tom wasn't sure why he found the revelation surprising.†   (source)
  • In Revelations, we're told of a beast that uses miracles to fool men into worshipping it.†   (source)
  • The word had meant, originally, a Jew educated in Judaism who denied basic tenets of his faith, like the existence of God, the revelation, the resurrection of the dead.†   (source)
  • Such a revelation would not affect the trial.†   (source)
  • And your reactions won't be the ones of the person sitting next to you; one man's cliche is another man's revelation.†   (source)
  • I wondered how far the effect reached, and which Mianaai had triggered it, trying, too late, to hide my revelation from herself.†   (source)
  • He was looking me in the eye now, his voice charged and sincere, as though uttering a confession, a fantastic revelation which I could neither believe nor deny.†   (source)
  • Another letter, written by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison of Washington's staff, provided the far more important revelation that Washington was dividing his army.†   (source)
  • It was a revelation to find that she could laugh and wrestle over the bed like a child.†   (source)
  • With several nods, Carlos acknowledged the impact of his revelation and continued.†   (source)
  • Perhaps I spoke too frankly at this, for his next revelation about the works of the king's favorite poet, the Earl of Rochester, did shock me, so much so that I remember yet the main part of the lines he declaimed.†   (source)
  • As much as I was astounded by my revelation right in front of her, I felt cleansed even more.†   (source)
  • It was a revelation, like coming back to a land loved long ago.†   (source)
  • I'll be back when it's time, she promised, as though she had revelations to make, truths to reveal.†   (source)
  • It struck me with a slap, a horrid revelation of something hitherto unknown, and hideous; it stamped itself on my mind so that I never forgot it…… Then my father, still looking as though he were ill, put out his good hand to steady himself against the door-post, and turned back into the house.†   (source)
  • Malcolm was idly wandering around the station, stopping to stare at things Maia thought of as everyday—a banister railing, a cracked tile in the wall, a pane of window glass—as if they were revelatory.†   (source)
  • It was a disturbing revelation, but it also echoed and reinforced Max's own hazy misgivings.†   (source)
  • JFK has long been aware that revelations about his philandering would ruin not only that carefully burnished image of him as a family man but also his political future.†   (source)
  • A fearless revelation of man's depravity.†   (source)
  • And then—a revelation that dawns like the still quiet of sunrise.†   (source)
  • The first sergeant moaned as he watched the thin leaves burn in sequence from Genesis to Kings, from Revelations toward Mark.†   (source)
  • Major revelation, huh?†   (source)
  • That subconscious revelation added a lot of thicker lavers to the embarrassment.†   (source)
  • Revelations are not to be found in the far bend of the river, darkly hidden in the trees.†   (source)
  • February 11, Sunday (a revelation) My dad never did come home last night, and this morning we didn't even go to church (which didn't bother me in the least).†   (source)
  • It is a matter of faith and revelation, not reason.†   (source)
  • Angered by the revelations he had been forced to see in his discussion with Catti-brie, he had returned to his work with fervor.†   (source)
  • But then I had a revelation: Hey, wait a minute!†   (source)
  • Her first airborne glimpse of the island, with its sharp demonic peaks rising from the rim of a flooded caldera, was a revelation.†   (source)
  • The truth is that my first sight of the wolf's paw-prints was a revelation for which I was quite unprepared.†   (source)
  • Also she liked the insights into American home life — the revelation that most Americans showered every day, first thing in the morning, for example.†   (source)
  • Or the white horse in Revelations.†   (source)
  • The incident was important only because it was self-revelatory.†   (source)
  • It came as a new revelation to me: the simple ability to enjoy the pleasures of one's home, to relax and feel at ease.†   (source)
  • The creeds that had been based upon miracles and revelations had collapsed utterly.†   (source)
  • As things developed, she was to have all manner of revelations.†   (source)
  • Although I'm certain I kept my composure, I was really vastly surprised at this revelation: Sophie was not Jewish!†   (source)
  • They changed something in my life: each trip made its particular revelation, though I could not have found words for it.†   (source)
  • Revelations—period!†   (source)
  • The idea that a real girl of my own age, a girl I'd always admired, might actually want to make love—that was a revelation hard to absorb.†   (source)
  • The body on the bed was to me like the revelation of woman's form.†   (source)
  • Revelations II:25 I did Basic at Camp Arthur Currie on the northern prairies, along with a couple of thousand other victims — and I do mean "Camp," as the only permanent buildings there were to shelter equipment.†   (source)
  • But that was wrong, he knew; her French was bookish, and what gave him pain was not the memory of Stony Hill but the revelation of her alter-soul's entombment: She came alive, speaking French; all her humor irony and wrath came suddenly together like fire and powder, and the Millie who'd survived went dark and fell away, and the woman she'd once meant to be rose out of the grave of abandoned hopes, came striding forth, as confident as a smiling ghost at dusk.†   (source)
  • I apologize, dear Ratri, but the revelation came so sudden-†   (source)
  • His wounded imagination could not keep up with her revelations.†   (source)
  • His brother received a letter offering $20,000 for revelation of the Senator's intentions.†   (source)
  • And it's under the weight of this revelation that I truly begin to break.†   (source)
  • Preoccupied with that revelation, she trips on the sidewalk crack.†   (source)
  • The fact that Islam acknowledged these books was revelatory for her.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon stood in horrified revelation.†   (source)
  • Then a sudden revelation stopped him in his tracks.†   (source)
  • C#24 CHAPTER 24 The revelation crashed over Langdon like a wave.†   (source)
  • Every controversial revelation he published before was always well documented.†   (source)
  • "Now let's talk about the second revelation you made after this episode.†   (source)
  • Fearing a revelation that would shake his very life, he hurried to a cautious defense.†   (source)
  • But there were several, and this was the most revelatory.†   (source)
  • An unforeseen revelation of shocking truth.†   (source)
  • She trailed away, doubtful whether she should confide her recent revelation.†   (source)
  • I had grinned, surprised by the sudden revelation that I was going to like Sad King Billy.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was similar to the way Papa had his Mein Kampf revelation.†   (source)
  • Reynie wasn't sure whether to be comforted or depressed by this revelation.†   (source)
  • This revelation caused an army lieutenant, Alexander Ross, to proclaim, "Gentlemen.†   (source)
  • "The code," Sophie blurted, in sudden revelation.†   (source)
  • The revelation shook him, and Jessica thought: If only he knew the tricks we use!†   (source)
  • Aristotle goes only part of the way because he didn't know of the Christian revelation.†   (source)
  • Yeah, Croy told me about his big revelation.†   (source)
  • And more—this revelation pricked his memories.†   (source)
  • Such a public revelation only brought about irritating questions.†   (source)
  • All the events since he had found Saphira's egg came to him in the cold light of revelation.†   (source)
  • What a revelation, that I could carry my own parcel like any woman here!†   (source)
  • The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.†   (source)
  • IN THE WAKE OF the Josh revelation, I'd forgotten all about Kitty.†   (source)
  • Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me.†   (source)
  • I wish I knew what revelations she'd had.†   (source)
  • I shivered to think how that revelation would add to her iceberg of hate for me.†   (source)
  • Yet, they had escaped, and Paul sensed himself trembling on the verge of a revelation.†   (source)
  • The revelations were coming now in waves.†   (source)
  • He felt the breath go out of his lungs as a new revelation struck him.†   (source)
  • The camerlegno's revelation was correct.†   (source)
  • Oh," he said, turning over, brightening, "I did have a couple revelations.†   (source)
  • An idea, a revelation, slowly wormed its way through his mind.†   (source)
  • Day 104 Each new revelation adds to my confusion.†   (source)
  • But after her own revelations, this seemed the wrong kind of secret to be keeping.†   (source)
  • When Walt's double life came to light, the revelations inflicted deep wounds.†   (source)
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