But there is no time pressure, the sun is beating down through the hole in the Ozone layer, and the Essex batsmen led by Cook made the pitch look eminently playable.
The puffin seems eminently suitable to be our national bird: a dapper little character who is equally at home on sea or land, given to hedonistic feasting when the seasons allow, but also capable of austere self-denial (they spend their winters out in the North Atlantic).
Nevertheless, attempting to engage ordinary citizens en masse directly on issues such as these is almost unique and eminently laudable.
White has retired from that role, but the BIS continues to produce an eminently readable report, if to my mind it is too dismissive of the risks of deflation, most notably in the eurozone.
It followed a tweet (pre-reshuffle) from Tory peer Lord Ashcroft that the changes would be more about "optics" than "ability" – an annoying intervention because the new ministers are eminently able.
Per Mertesacker is lecturing and he is eminently qualified to do so.
It's eminently accessible by train – from the starting point of Great Yarmouth, across the Broads from Norfolk; then Oulton Broads and Beccles, both on the line to Lowestoft from Ipswich; Bungay and Harlesden by number 80 bus from Diss, then Diss itself, on the London-Norwich mainline; and Thetford, on the Ely-Norwich train.
But you shouldn't expect too much from the member for Kingsford-Smith – don't expect too much, because back when he was in government he was telling us that he was eminently qualified to be the parliamentary secretary – this is assertion – the parliamentary secretary for Pacific Island affairs – because he regularly swims at Sydney's beaches.
My political views are strong, and needless to say, eminently sound.
But taken cumulatively, they have resulted in the emergence of a very different city; one that is eminently more liveable.
María del Pilar Blanco is a lecturer in Spanish American literature at the University of Oxford I haven't seen a ghost myself, but my mother – an eminently practical, straightforward and unsuperstitious woman – once did.
