Mr. Hurley complained that students had become too sheeplike and were treating the area as if it were a mandatory free speech zone.
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"Just to register a faint, sheeplike note of our view on the trade war: we're in favor of trade peace on the whole," he said.
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Nothing is more American than the triumph of man over nature represented by the weirdly sheeplike Bedlington terrier or devilish snout on a Bull terrier.
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Maybe they should stop thinking about how to get access to their sheeplike, gullible candidate, and start thinking about what it would mean if they couldn't.
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The denizens at Harry's bar — a sheeplike herd of enjoyably varied bleats — include an ineffectual policeman (David Lansbury), and three wilting barflies (Billy Carter, Richard Hollis and John Horton) who are drawn to the place by its owner's notoriety.
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"But just to register the faint, sheeplike note of our view on the trade war, we're in favor of trade peace on the whole and dialing it down if we can," Johnson said after congratulating Trump on the achievements of the U.S. economy.
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He was positively sheeplike in his mansuetude, whereas I had intended to make him a stern avenger of virtue.
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The man was blubbering and staring with sheeplike eyes at the lieutenant, who had seized him by the collar and was pommeling him.
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In this compromising life we also tend to fall in love. Not just with people, but with places, philosophies, societies and our picture of what life should be. We stare sheeplike in the direction of this ideal picture. But we'll never get there.
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In earlier plays, controversial elements were important and even pivotal components of the action, but they were on the small scale of individual households. In An Enemy, controversy became the primary focus, and the antagonist was the entire community. One primary message of the play is that the individual, who stands alone, is more often "right" than the mass of people, who are portrayed as ignorant and sheeplike. Contemporary society's belief was that the community was a noble institution that could be trusted, a notion Ibsen challenged.
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The situations are surreal, yet often plausible. Some cartoons involve celebrities, such as Sheryl Crow and Penn Jillette, while others make reference to themselves or characters from comics or animation, such as Superman and Gumby. Comics critic Tom Heintjes described Bizarro's themes, cryptic aspects and expansion into performance art: :Piraro has taken his panel in directions simultaneously surreal and topical. In a comic universe where world-weary talking dogs exist alongside nihilistic housewives, Piraro gives his cartoons heft by skewering his own bêtes noires: wasteful consumerism, environmental destruction, corporate greed and sheeplike people, to name a few.
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