Denzel Washington

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

American Actor

John Lewis

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

American Politician

Zinedine Zidane

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

French Athlete

Gilbert Hernandez

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

American Artist

Hilary Mason

I think e-mail should be sorted by importance, not by time.

English Actress

Karolina Kurkova

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

Czechoslovakian Model

Haile Gebrselassie

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

Athlete

Katharine Gun

Cheering crowds have never been my sort of thing.

British Activist

Kane

Kane has always been sort of a dark character.

American Athlete

Jeff Van Gundy

Life sort of works out the way it works out.

American Coach

Use 'sort of' when asking for specifics to understand better.

Clarifying Questions

'Sort' can refer to abstract ideas, not only physical items.

Not Just Objects

Use 'sort of' to make general statements when details are unknown.

Generalizing

Understanding 'sort' as a verb helps recognize it's about organizing.

Organizational Skill

'Sort out' often implies actively resolving a complication.

Problem-Solving

'Sort of' indicates you're not fully committed to your statement.

Tentative Opinion

It can downplay the extent or intensity of something.

Understating

Use 'sort' to describe someone's nature or typical behavior in a subtle way.

Assessing Traits

In literature, 'sort' can enrich characterization and themes.

Literary Device

The 'sort' here emphasizes shared characteristics within a group.

Common Ground

This use of 'sort' may carry a judgment or stereotype.

Judgment Implications

'Sort out' is a casual way to talk about fixing disputes or problems.

Conflict Resolution

It conveys a sense of taking initiative to deal with a situation.

Taking Action

 really coming into the room, they get right into the middle of the room before class even starts, like they really want to occupy space. When they sit down, they're sort of spread out. They raise their hands like this. You have other people who are virtually collapsing when they come in. As soon they come in, you see it.

Your body language may...

 and over that time have coevolved with all sorts of species, including our own. There are actually thousands of species of mosquitos in the world, but they all share one insidious they suck blood, and they're really, really good at sucking blood. Here's how they do it. After landing, a mosquito will slather

The loathsome, lethal...

 Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering. Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire

Why do we love? A...

 To help you focus, norepinephrine creates a sort of tunnel vision, blocking out surrounding distractions, possibly even warping your sense of time, and enhancing your memory. This might explain why people never forget their first kiss. The idea of so much of our attraction

The science of...

 How can you get them all sorted in time? One way would be to start at one end of the line with the first pair of books. If the first two books are in order, then leave them as they are. Otherwise, swap them. Then, look at the second and third books, repeat the process,

What's the fastest way...

 K, the protagonist, is arrested out of nowhere and made to go through a bewildering process where neither the cause of his arrest, nor the nature of the judicial proceedings are made clear to him. This sort of scenario is considered so characteristic of Kafka's work

What makes something...

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What does an alien look...

 For me, there are so many moments in the world that are so loud and you come here and you can feel Yeah. You can feel a little more human. Yeah, exactly right. You get all sorts of visitors, when they're going on a guided tour and then they go,

Exploring the Bay of...

 expecting anything in return. So you might even risk your life and so it started sort of all sort of flooding in about. how this was an experience of perhaps the whale displaying

A whale saved my life PIPE...

 First, Psyche was told to sort a huge, messy pile of seeds in a single night. Just as she was abandoning hope, an ant colony took pity on her and helped with the work.