There are poignant bits — little declarations of submission ("I'm bare-boned, and crazy / for you") that, I suppose, could be read as romantic.
The photos and video clips to be contributed by consumers are like "little declarations of independence," Ms. Ferszt said, adding, " 'Never hide' is almost a provocation, to be bold, to say, 'This is me; this is who I am.' " Ms. Ferszt added that "it seems so powerful because it's a sunglasses company that knows you usually use sunglasses to hide behind".
Several years ago, he said in a little-known declaration that he was willing to testify under oath in a court of law that top Bush administration officials knew the vast majority of detainees at Guantanamo, "children as young as 12 and 13 and elderly as 92 or 93," were innocent and were sold to the US for bounties, "sometimes as much as $5,000 per head".
Yet despite all of them issuing a grand-sounding "Berlin declaration", little of substance seems to have actually been settled.
In the end, the leaders produced a largely boilerplate declaration little different from the one they signed in 2001, at the last such meeting.
And after Jon S. Corzine's declaration little more than a week ago that he intends to seek the party's nomination, it is necessary for Mr. Codey to squash the notion that rank-and-file Democrats were lining up behind the popular senator.
If I was feeling generous, though, I could always diffuse the tension at the end of the day by offering that same little dance and declaration.
For the people of San Pedro and other villages, however, such declarations offer little in the way of consolation.
Two months on from the referendum, however, little has happened beyond declarations of commitment to the future of the European project.
And like her first album, "Voyage" combines songs of self-encouragement ("Little Things," "Slow Down"), declarations of faith ("God Is Real") and sensitive explorations of the bonds between men and women ("Talk to Her," "Can I Walk With You," "Complicated Melody").
Mr President, great declarations and little progress, summits come and go and they are all the same.
