| Unable to summon up the courage to venture inside and make myself a cup of tea, I returned to the lounge where Amy was still preening herself. |
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| Now that Riffs is on the shop racks, he cannot bring himself to summon up any more enthusiasm. |
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| At 21-14 it looked as if Ashton's drop goal could be vital, but the Dragons could not summon up the energy for the final effort. |
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| Quite how they could summon up the energy for their second half display will remain a mystery but summon up the energy they did. |
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| There were times in that second half though when it seemed neither team would summon up the collective nerve to win. |
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| Practical solutions lie well within our grasp if we can summon up the political will to act. |
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| I wonder if the same parties will summon up an equal amount of dudgeon now. |
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| A mobile phone was used to summon up assistance, and the next-door keeper turned out to help. |
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| A few people worked out what was going on, but couldn't summon up the interest to write in. |
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| To a modern audience pewter and brass collections traditionally summon up images of the country pub. |
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| I know men who when facing difficulty summon up images of themselves as Russell Crowe in Gladiator. |
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| Neither of us could summon up the interest even to attempt concocting a cunning plan for our next assault on a region of France. |
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| These two words summon up a whole feeling of connectedness to the landscape. |
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| One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties. |
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| Paunchy, miserable, humourless, he'd be dour if he weren't too depressed to summon up the energy. |
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| The effect of the drug is to summon up people's happiest memories as a means of keeping them in a blissful state. |
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| Within this context, it is difficult to summon up sympathy for any of the men who have been asked to vacate their positions. |
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| Before anyone got wet, there would be the ritual war cry, just to stir the blood and summon up the spirits of champions past. |
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| As the World Cup lunacy begins, I intend to summon up my two cheers for anyone who has a hope of beating our English friends. |
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| I know it constitutes an effort to summon up a sense of everyday life in a small town that is not precisely like every other in Germany. |
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| She has attached herself to it by a long-handled pruner and is trying to summon up enough leverage to cut the recalcitrant branch, while chatting non-stop. |
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| Here, the Commission must summon up the courage to state the reasons for this. |
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| I implore you, ladies and gentlemen, in the interests of the peoples of Europe, those whom we serve, to summon up that political courage! |
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| But it has to be said that some of the volunteers could not summon up the courage to drink alcohol the next day! |
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| I would like to call upon all responsible politicians in Macedonia to summon up sufficient courage to implement the necessary reforms. |
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| Not all his colleagues in the European Council can manage to summon up the nerve to come here and affirm their belief in Europe. |
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| We urge the Yugoslav leadership under President Milosevic to summon up the courage at this juncture to change radically its own policy. |
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| What will be crucial is that we summon up the shared political will to achieve an agreement. |
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| Must Canadians too experience a disaster to summon up equivalent creativity, co-operation, and courage? |
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| How I envy my Other Half, who can not only boast a fine whistling technique, but who can summon up a veritable oompah band whenever he's got a tune on the brain. |
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| To summon up some pre-broadcast interest, Starkey's been banging his tambourine for England at the expense of the Scots, which shows the desperate dullness of his subject. |
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| Not for a further 25 years did Dallapiccola summon up the courage to write to Schoenberg and explain how that evening had been a defining moment in his life. |
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| It was also courageous, and I hope that this House will summon up the courage to accept its political responsibility. |
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| Even when she was ill and tired she could summon up enough strength and liveliness of manner to entertain the few visitors she thought worth receiving. |
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| I recall wondering if the Sons of the Confederacy or some such organization might summon up similar chutzpah to package a Jim Crow tour of the Old South. |
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| What a shame I couldn't summon up a pithy soundbite to precis that. |
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| In idle moments I liked to summon up an image of her naked feet, long and intelligent, aglitter with down, toenails painted red as the leather of her boots. |
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| I call on both Commissioners to summon up all their courage to deal with this topic, and to combat the faint-heartedness of the Council. |
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| As a performer, in order to get that across, you have to summon up a certain bloodthirstiness. |
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| Let me give two reasons why I think it essential that you summon up the courage to do this. |
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| If this was the right way to go, why do you not summon up the courage to say that the war is the wrong way? |
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| And I'll be staggered if Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber could summon up even less chemistry than Pat Morita and Jay Leno managed in their godawful 1989 action comedy Collision Course. |
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| The details of this property summon up a Dickensian gloom. |
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| For each of these, Conservatives summon up Jesuitical justifications. |
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| First: we must summon up the courage to separate the three main groups, i.e. asylum, on the one hand, and the temporary admission of refugees from crisis regions and immigration policy, on the other. |
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| Our Member States and not just the accession states must individually and collectively summon up the necessary political will to overcome the last remaining obstacles. |
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| By looking no further than the wrapper of the turkey, she can ascertain how long it should be roasted at what temperature, and, with a twist of a dial, she can summon up precisely that temperature. |
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| We should summon up the nerve to scrutinise the ways in which social security systems are funded, for the demographic reality is drawing nearer at ever-increasing speed. |
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| Safety belts will enable us to tackle this, and I hope that both the Commission and the Council of Governments will summon up the energy to do something about this. |
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| But Carter can't summon up the nerve and instead turns the gun on KC and Shark. |
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| Steve Devlin's subsequent penalty was brilliantly blocked by Breedon but undermanned Brakes couldn't summon up an equaliser. |
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| The word might summon up images of stiff English butlers delivering stiff scotches to stiff-backed retired colonels with stiff mustaches protruding over very stiff upper lips. |
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| It's a pity that those who fulminate against the protesters can't summon up the same fury for those who landed us in this dire mess. |
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| The Fijian was also unable to summon up any inspiration. |
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| The Method encouraged actors to improvise, to summon up childhood memories and inner feelings, often at the expense of what a playwright or screenwriter intended. |
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| My group therefore expresses the hope that the Council and Parliament will summon up the political courage to follow the tenor of this initiative. |
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| The decision as to whether or not to adopt the euro is one requiring strength, and on this point I would call upon my own country, Sweden, to try to summon up the strength to take this decision as quickly as possible. |
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| We still have to summon up our patience and determination, however, so it is a good thing that, as combat engineers, we keep plenty of those resources in stock. |
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| He couldn't even summon up the courage to ask her name... what a drip! |
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