Data's character is a bit of a diva, or "an aspiring robot celebrity, " as Ms. Knight put it.
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Instead, the most you can do when you spot a diva in your midst is to ask them to exit stage left.
When I earlier described her as a diva, I meant in the musical sense, but she appears to take the term quite literally.
Had he skipped out on this bill with his teammates watching, we can only imagine the outcry about him being a diva and a bad teammate.
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Each features a diva like Bertini, Gys, Menichelli and Borelli.
Maddow, by contrast, has never been known as a diva.
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The on-set sequences are savagely satirical, as a diva feeds her dog caviar while Stracci looks on, actors in the Crucifixion scene pick their noses or laugh at inappropriate moments, and crew members call out for the crown of thorns as if it were hardware.
Martin soon found her calling not as a pop diva, but as a voice teacher, founding the Vocal Workout Singing school in 2001.
Now that Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling have been convicted, the parade of well-dressed miscreants--the cable TV pioneers, the telecommunications executives, star brokers and even a housekeeping diva who became the Gordon Gekkos for a whole new generation--is over.
Knut, accustomed to the paparazzi, or rather to the zoo crowds, became a real diva once he was no longer the It Bear, and would take a fit once the autograph hounds went away.
"Being such a fashion diva, I had to make sure I got one to go with my Stella McCartney T-shirt, " she said.
McCain aides refused to go on the record about it, but they groused anonymously that Palin was "going rogue, " that she was a "diva" and "difficult" to work with.
What separates a healthy diva from an unhealthy diva is this: Healthy divas stand up for others, not just themselves, says Ms. Fuller, author of a recent book about overcoming "mean girls" and nastiness at the office.
The New York tabloids follow every step of his love life, which has included a dalliance with pop diva Mariah Carey and a current liaison with Miss Universe Lara Dutta.
The tenor, a journalist who comes to interview the diva, turns out to be a wannabe opera singer himself, and in a fantasy sequence the two tediously execute the love duet of the diva's opera (about Eleanor of Aquitaine, of all things), a ponderous event with not one scintilla of musical heat or passion (that's the bit that ends with the bells).
It's not the first time a Western pop diva has run up against Egyptian conservatism.
It's a reggaeton tune called "Virtual Diva, " and it's by a young Afro-Latino who calls himself Don Omar.
Her public image as a sex symbol and diva conflicted with her religious upbringing, she said.
Joe Dator, a cartoonist for New Yorker magazine, did a variation on the diva joke.
The son asks his father to pose as a straight cultural diplomat, which throws his father and the diva (Nathan Lane) into a panic.
The memorable fashion statement was a fixture of the pop diva's 1990 Blond Ambition Tour.
Teen-agers squealed with delight, adults were awed, and everyone was antsy to catch a glimpse of the pop diva.
Christina Aguilera, the other major pop diva to release a single last week, saw her song Keeps Gettin' Better enter at number 14.
He warned that other European countries would block attempts to get a cattle vaccine and the Diva test to identify vaccinated animals approved for use.
Williams, who is suffering from severe stomach disorder and exhaustion, is defying doctors' orders to rest and instead will perform a duet with Australian disco diva Kylie Minogue, his spokesman says.
Last June, at a 19th century Beirut silk factory beautifully restored into a venue for events, guests dined on mezze, and were treated to a performance by Lebanese pop diva Haifa Wehbe.
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Gazing toward a hazy bank of clouds, her back turned to us in the manner of a Casper David Friedrich daydreamer, this anonymous diva stands surrounded by truncated plaster columns and lights on stands, as well as a view camera on a tripod.
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