All 21 Uses of
however
in
Franny and Zooey
- We will, however, leave this Buddy Glass in the third person from here on in.†
Chpt 2.1
- The remaining five, however, the senior five, will be stalking in and out of the plot with considerable frequency, like so many Banquo's ghosts.†
Chpt 2.1
- However Oriental the wrapper had originally been designed to look, it didn't detract an iota from the single, impactful impression that Mrs. Glass, chez elle, made on a certain type of observer.†
Chpt 2.2
- However, she was almost immediately back on the defensive: "What's the matter with that title?†
Chpt 2.2
- Mrs. Glass, however, didn't choose to reply.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- 'However innumerable beings are, I vow to save them; however inexhaustible the passions are, I vow to extinguish them; however immeasurable the Dharmas are, I vow to master them; however incomparable the Buddha-truth is, I vow to attain it.'†
Chpt 2.2 *
- 'However innumerable beings are, I vow to save them; however inexhaustible the passions are, I vow to extinguish them; however immeasurable the Dharmas are, I vow to master them; however incomparable the Buddha-truth is, I vow to attain it.'†
Chpt 2.2
- 'However innumerable beings are, I vow to save them; however inexhaustible the passions are, I vow to extinguish them; however immeasurable the Dharmas are, I vow to master them; however incomparable the Buddha-truth is, I vow to attain it.'†
Chpt 2.2
- 'However innumerable beings are, I vow to save them; however inexhaustible the passions are, I vow to extinguish them; however immeasurable the Dharmas are, I vow to master them; however incomparable the Buddha-truth is, I vow to attain it.'†
Chpt 2.2
- This time, it caught Zooey very much off guard, however.†
Chpt 2.2
- She didn't stay for the tying of the lace, however.†
Chpt 2.2
- Sunshine, however, was perhaps most particularly unkind to the carpet.†
Chpt 2.3
- Her right hand, however, on the coverlet, was not merely closed but shut tight; the fingers were clenched, the thumb tucked in—it was as though, at twenty, she had checked back into the mute, fisty defenses of the nursery.†
Chpt 2.3
- Zooey's attention, however, had been diverted.†
Chpt 2.3
- Her lips, however, were still silently forming words.†
Chpt 2.3
- It was his cigar hand, however, and he hesitated a second too long.†
Chpt 2.3
- However, no sooner was he stretched out than he sat bolt upright, his head and shoulders suddenly propelled into view, with somewhat the macabre-comic effect of a corpse falling out of a closet.†
Chpt 2.3
- The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white—unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition.†
Chpt 2.3
- There was, however, a slight but fairly distinct change in his appearance.†
Chpt 2.4
- The instant, however, that Franny was out of sight, she turned her attention to the couch.†
Chpt 2.4
- However, she puffed nervously on her cigarette and, rather bravely, picked up the phone.†
Chpt 2.4
Definitions:
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(however as in: However, complications may...) though (or another expression that connects contrasting ideas)
(Based on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 exists, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrastand but.)
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(however as in: However you do it, get it done!) in whatever way