The city shimmered slightly, a side effect of me heat, and assumed a miragelike quality.

But these assumed an almost mythic quality from that vantage.

His expression assumed a martyred quality that caused her to lose control completely.

"You have round ears," she said, her voice assuming a soft, strange quality.

This world, during the last few days, had seemed to assume a phantom quality, with him walking through a vacuum.

The soft, Southern tones assumed an almost mechanical quality.

Beyond these accounts, reports of where America's quarry might be have assumed a speculative and at times almost fantastic quality.

Events thereafter assumed a nightmarish quality, with a great deal of noise.

Since early last year, their role in the market has assumed an almost mythical quality.

The night around them assumed an eerie quality, as if some momentous decision was about to be made.