And it was this imperfection, his waxing and waning waistline, a face that perpetually suggested a life in transit and a certain cerebral adriftness, which made him so completely adorable.
Even when he plays a big, showy character, such as his Tony Award-winning version of the swashbuckling Pirate King in the Public Theatre's 1980 revival of "The Pirates of Penzance," Kline maintains a certain skepticism; in that role, with his perpetually arched eyebrows a counterpoint to his thigh-high boots and bandanna, he repeatedly let us know that we were in on the joke.
I literally hopped down the perpetually broken Dupont Circle escalator on one leg, dizzy and almost certain I was going to collapse and take a slew of commuters down with me as I slinkied my way to the bottom.
That said, he dislikes the word "integration" because, by definition, it "highlights differences, it defines caricatured entities, and maintains the idea that after several generations certain citizens remain guests, who are too different, who perpetually need to 'adapt'".
In the wake of Schleiermacher and Dilthey, Heidegger realized in the early 1920's that life as concrete, lived immediacy can be interpreted, but that we cannot be certain that what we are interpreting does not move perpetually within the circle of discursive conceptuality.
If Dante had been born today, he certainly would have created a certain circle of hell where Ferrari drivers would be stuck, perpetually, behind slow-moving trucks.
Cognitive computing is already a success primarily because it has NOTHING whatsoever to do with certain lame technologies that have a decades-long, proven track record of achieving perpetually imminent success.
It's a book as much about money as about football, but certain games are described in detail, none more dramatic than the one that the perpetually disappointed supporters of Manchester City assumed was at last ushering in sustained success.
Mendelssohn's ever-famous "Italian" Symphony, Strauss's perpetually endearing "Till Eulenspiegel" and more from "Die Zauberflote" -- its eternally popular Overture -- made certain that attention spans would not be unfairly challenged.
For example, residents in certain regions of New Guinea generally lack the credit to make phone calls; instead, they remain perpetually on call, waiting for job offers from more affluent citizens to complete one chore or another.
