"They're for a very certain demographic".
Hopkins, a psychologist and psychoanalyst, has written the story of his life with the kind of generous forgiveness, insistent evenhandedness, patient understanding and restrained judgment one might hope for in a very good analyst of a certain kind, or a wise, exceptionally forbearing and insightful mother.
Gotye (who was born Wouter De Backer, in Belgium, in 1980) has yet to repeat the single's international success, but I've always thought it exhibited a surprising emotional sophistication, or at least a very sharp ear for a certain kind of nostalgia.
"Clara was very determined that a certain kind of father, a certain kind of Mark Twain, be remembered," said Laura Skandera Trombley, a vice president and professor of English at Coe College, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who made a copy of the letter available to The New York Times.
French duo Daft Punk, aka Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, attract a certain kind of very, very dedicated fan whose passion extends far beyond mere record collecting.
Maybe that very littleness is why there's a market for a certain kind of nostalgic folie de grandeur.
"I think today people are very suspicious of a certain kind of ornament," he said.
I don't think English is very good for a certain kind of inventioning.
However obliquely, this novel demonstrates the way in which guilt resides in the very fabric of a certain kind of small-town culture.
