Nor are the Scots, or, heaven forfend, the Irish (saying "heaven forfend" is definitely twee).
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They want to avoid giving the impression that they're chasing impeachment — heaven forfend!
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And of course the president says oh, my gosh, heaven forfend that poor Omarosa would have to go.
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One oft-heard fear is that, Heaven forfend, America might try to gain recognition for its own inferior pizza.
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So much so, that posh Brits are up in arms that the sartorial staple has been hijacked by — heaven forfend — hipsters.
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Yet, despite the hue and cry, we are unwilling to regulate, support, or Heaven forfend, socialize that which we consider a human right.
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Teens abide by some pretty strict rules when it comes to social media, lest they be deemed uncool, or — heaven forfend — a loser.
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In the end, at my end, it is not the doctors or the family or, heaven forfend, the lawyers who should decide for me.
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They are perfectly at one with the wearer (heaven forfend a wig upstages a performer!), folding seamlessly and whisper-soft into the landscape of their universe.
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And most important of all, can they stay on the diet indefinitely and live happily without a piece of bread, cracker or, heaven forfend, a serving of ice cream?
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Imagine if Apple or — heaven forfend — Google just casually proposed a new wireless protocol that had the side benefit of providing that company a map of every connected device's location.
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There are, to name a few, the Two Centenaries, the Three Represents and the Four Comprehensives (not to be confused with the Four Modernisations or, heaven forfend, the Four Olds).
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John Kelly, America's homeland-security secretary, had suggestions for business executives and families on how to cope with a laptop ban: read a book or magazine or, heaven forfend, talk to the kids.
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"If one of these service satellites gets close to a Chinese satellite without warning, or heaven forfend, accidentally runs into one during a time of high tensions, that would obviously not be a good thing," Hitchens warned.
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For female artists — in particular, female queer artists — working under that label of "other" or even (heaven forfend!) being thrust into the realm of "craft" can be inhibiting, but also often the impetus needed to create their work.
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So heaven forfend there should ever be another economy where women have no power, and we know that in lots of places in the world, those economies still exist in exactly the same way as they did in 18th-century London.
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He was at once a towering talent and a brown man who sequaciously prostrated himself before his former colonial masters, quipping that those of us who had darker skin and those of us who were women—heaven forfend we be both!
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Boston, Massachusetts. p. 373. Adams voiced concern that a country outside of North America would attempt to occupy Cuba upon its separation from Spain. He wrote, "The question both of our right and our power to prevent it, if necessary, by force, already obtrudes itself upon our councils, and the administration is called upon, in the performance of its duties to the nation, at least to use all the means with the competency to guard against and forfend it".Worthington, Chauncey Ford (2001).
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Darwin became a close friend of the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, and on 11 January 1844 wrote to with melodramatic humour that he was "almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a "tendency to progression" “adaptations from the slow willing of animals" &c;,—but the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his—though the means of change are wholly so— I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends." Hooker's reply was cautious but friendly, saying that "There may in my opinion have been a series of productions on different spots, & also a gradual change of species. I shall be delighted to hear how you think that this change may have taken place, as no presently conceived opinions satisfy me on the subject.
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