First shows can make a vivid impression by dint of a never-before-encountered charisma alone – and when the novelty of that wears off, it leaves a big gap for material to fill.
In others' words "He was not born a king of men... but a child of the people, who made himself a great persuader, therefore a leader, by dint of firm resolve, patient effort and dogged perseverance".
Some are wealthy, some not, but all can get an average of $5,300 a family by dint of geography alone.
Still, several voters thought that "Real Thing" might have a slight edge by dint of an even more powerful phenomenon: O'Neill fatigue.
But I'm not sure people understand that this particular Kinsley Gaffe deserves an asterisk -- it's only a gaffe by dint of the fact that so much has changed between 2008 and 2012.
A scarf, by dint of just being one long line, is a fantastically easy and useful thing to knit.
But this ostensibly depressing story becomes, in Yamanaka's hands, a scrappy, scathingly funny, openhearted tale of a pigheaded heroine who asks only for a glimmer of grace, and — once in a while, through dint of hard work — gets it.
It's a fantasy to think she'll get us that table with a view by dint of her impressive qualifications, unless the view we're talking about is of a deadly tidal wave headed our way.
However, one Australian from an earlier cricketing generation, Ernie Jones, dismissed Larwood: "He wouldn't knock a dint in a pound of butter on a hot day".
They also say she has improved as a politician by dint of the scrutiny she has endured over the last year.
