When Labour loses an election there is a tendency on the left to first indulge in the wisdom of hindsight, and then to project the party's failures eternally into the future.
On Thursday night there was a perfectly sane-sounding former trade minister on Channel 4 news explaining what amazing soft power the Duke wields, and how immensely valuable his activities are to that eternally vague-sounding entity UK plc.
We are eternally in his debt for his wonderful ongoing support".
Eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, because [my music's] not the culture.
So the eternally boyish Belgian (24) experienced what might have been in store for Andy Murray had the Scot not withdrawn from their third-round match on Thursday to give him a walkover.
Shirt dresses are eternally chic, sexy, smart and stylish.
If Kim Jong Il and his princeling son had been calculating the force and timing of their recent military aggressions with an assumption that Beijing regards them as being eternally useful, they may now have a rethink coming.Not all of the WikiLeaks trove is so useful, however.
Mr Osborne's statement shattered and reversed the orthodoxy, which took hold in the last decade, that public spending must grow eternally.
In even the clearest ocean, below 1,000 metres it is eternally night.For the animals in the deep (there are no plants and, oddly perhaps, no insects, the most successful land animals), everything comes from the surface.
Turkey is now anxious to discuss water with the American-backed government of Iraq; cynics discern an effort to lock in some deals favourable to the Turks while the Iraqis may be amenable.What about Israel, a country that (in matters aquatic, as in much else) views itself as eternally vulnerable while its neighbours often regard it as a hard-nosed bully?
Mr Moore played the eternally affable, backslapping politician, who smoothed feathers and brokered deals in a haze of cigarette smoke.
