"Things that happen in an instant are mostly bad," says Max Roser, an economist at Oxford University.
It's been a week of mostly bad news for the planet but there may be a small glimmer of hope as new research shows the growth of emissions from China, the world's biggest emitter, may be slowing due to its efforts to clean up the air pollution problem in many of its cities.
What he describes as "a night of mostly bad dreams", starting with his mother's death in 1935, ended with his marriage in 1947 to Catherine Verney, which he calls "the best thing I ever did, and a source of lasting happiness" (2002: 272 & 292).
But there's a lot of painting here, mostly bad, or straining for an individuality it doesn't possess.
The news that came to the board last fall was mostly bad: a direct-mail campaign for donations was disappointing; "Angels in America," which had seemed headed for the Public, went directly to Broadway instead; no Shakespeare production was scheduled for the Public that season; many board members felt that Akalaitis's program was restricted to her own artsy downtown taste.
Most of the Eisler songs had texts by Brecht, and the exile Brecht and Eisler write about is both specific and historically close at hand: their songs touch on their exile from Germany during World War II, with the recurring image of a radio bringing news (mostly bad) from their former homeland.
"What we have in terms of Mexican food — other than Rosio Sanchez and a few places — is mostly bad, bad versions of Tex-Mex," Redzepi said of his European audience. .
His general economic and budget policies will be a contradictory mess of mostly bad things; rampant corruption and cronyism that we are already seeing will corrode markets; and the likely deregulation of the financial industry will result in more risk than we have seen since the financial panic of 2008-9.
If you're watching live, Namath's point comes home; on television you see free will instead of a series of forced choices, mostly bad.
