Her posthumous fate, suggests Reid (who has no religious faith), seemed preferable to heaven or hell: My wife is in there, somewhere, doing practical work: her organs and tissues are educating young doctors or helping researchers outwit the disease that outwitted her.
It is equally clear: evolution is definitely preferable if it is attainable.
Or, as would often be preferable, I can connect remotely to my home machine when I'm traveling in order watch live programming or pre-recorded shows from a distant hotel room.
Gautier was impressed by Moreau's theories, especially perhaps his description of cannabis as "an intellectual intoxication", preferable to the "ignoble heavy drunkenness" of alcohol.
Which was bizarre to witness, admittedly, but still preferable to Kay Burley.
The majority of respondents felt that a better programme of training and support was necessary in order to fight this bias, with 55% favouring leadership training and development, while 43% believed that mentoring programmes were a preferable alternative.
"Finding the right word is tricky but as users are increasingly referring to the products as 'vapourisers' and the act of using them as 'vaping', this may be preferable", she added.
I kid myself that this is preferable to what I heard in my teens.
Hockney supplies an idiosyncratic commentary, expounding his forthright views on everything from the state of modern art to why crinkled chips are preferable, because there's more surface area.
He parries any attempt to paint his life as dark or dangerous, insisting his moneyed life in London is preferable to life in the town in which he grew up, where the only thing to do is work in Tesco.
A recent Vox article makes the obvious point that a carbon price would be preferable to the energy regulations Obama has introduced.
