It's also the time when commentators come forward to tell us (with maybe a touch of sad disapproval) that the outcomes of these debates are likely to turn more on the appearance of the candidates than it does on any serious intellectual clash over policies or proposals.
Even when the fighting was toughest, a time when many commentators were raising questions about the military strategy and predicting a long, difficult war, Mr. Bush said his faith in the war plan never wavered.
In a time when most commentators appear to have considerable problems with this concept, we must take care that the challenge to fiction-as-journalism doesn't morph into a challenge to fiction-as-fiction.
There was a time when German political commentators loved to compare Angela Merkel to Margaret Thatcher.
At a time when many regional commentators have charted America's relative decline, this was soft power delivered with shock and awe.
At a time when columnists and commentators pontificate about the investigative tools used by Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich and about the role of rape in human evolution, is it any wonder that the culture of science remains a difficult place for women?
It is being formed at a time when a growing chorus of commentators -- from David Brooks to Fareed Zakaria to Robert Samuelson -- are connecting the yawning budget deficit to the nearly 40percentt of the federal budget that goes to Social Security and Medicare.
At a time when Hillary Clinton and countless political commentators are telling us that this country is incapable of fundamental change it's great to see Michael Moore pointing the way forward through another excellent and provocative film.
There was a time when the after-action takes of big commentators were sought out by Americans trying to assess the latest news coming out of the capital.
Patel is looking after British jobs at a time when automation is on the rise and commentators are warning of the threat of mass unemployment.
