Dear friends, dear lawgivers, dear parliamentarians, you are picking up a thread of pride and self-esteem that has been almost but not quite, oh no not quite, not ever broken or forgotten.
It's not surprising that there is no one else quite like him in the West, because there was no one else in Japan either.
The other is that no one was willing to sign off on something that might not be quite right.
FORBES: Links 31 Oct: Yes, the iTunes Release Delay Is About Scott Forstall
However, poor farmers frequently cannot afford to buy new seed each season, so they take their chances and replant the best of their seed from year to year in the belief that a new plant that is not quite as good as its parent is better than no plant at all.
Their future may not be quite what was once envisaged, but it will be no less remarkable for that.
It is a six-monthly handing over of the baton that elicits no excitement at all in normal circumstances, but these days the circumstances are not quite normal.
It is not so much that nothing was achieved - it is more that no one is quite certain what will sustain.
No strange cars in the driveway, and my wife at her dressing table, not quite naked in her negligible concession to winter.
"I'm not going to resign, I'm quite calm, I committed no crime, " he told reporters as the Congress' ethics council began its hearing.
"There is quite literally no decision that, in the natural course of events, does not have an economic impact of some sort, " he wrote.
WSJ: Barnett and Foley: The Nuts and Bolts of the ObamaCare Ruling
As for world No. 1 Woods, he never quite seems to show up at the Players not the way he would if it counted as an actual major.
Mel Gibson, who has not taken a leading role not in the movies, anyway for quite some time, returns looking older but no less determined, with an uncomfortable hint of despair.
But some brand owners will no doubt wake up to the fact that the love they thought they were getting from Facebook users is not quite as heartfelt as it appeared.
My ailment is just another ambient backdrop now, another machine falling apart with no parts to replace the scrapped ones, another grim dispatch from the quadrants of the deadly dull but not yet quite deadly enough condition our condition is in.
应用推荐