There are also many portraits of Tudor children, almost all understandably anxious looking: few lived into adulthood, and little John Dunch, whose piercingly blue mournful eyes stare straight at the viewer, never reached his second birthday.
Most were understandably wary.
Upon reminding Mr. Buckley of our first meeting, he offered, in response, that trademark grin and those mischievous, leaping eyebrows — a gesture understandably denied almost twenty years before.
There is something understandably alluring, almost patriotic, in the mating of these two distinctly American birds of prey, and their respective biographers have been at odds over the extent of what went on.
Quite understandably, after almost two decades of showgirls, incompetence and downright corruption, Italians couldn't help feeling a shiver of excitement at seeing Monti – "the professor", as they call him – walk to the parliament and politely recite his first speech.
"Her command of the Democratic machinery, from fundraising to grass-roots organizing, is so extensive that almost everyone else is understandably intimidated about even testing their talents against her," Mr Balz says.Maybe Mrs Clinton has been indeed bigfooting around, scaring off would-be contenders.
There was a brief window of a few months immediately after the war when it was possible for western journalists to travel anywhere and talk openly to almost anyone but Anderson, understandably given he had just covered the war in Iraq, had gone home for most of this period.
"Maybe it was a little bit of my dancing, maybe it was also because I wasn't a good fit, but a lot of that had to do with my skin color," she said, sounding matter-of-fact but understandably hurt almost a decade later.
A battle for Olympic medals is coming up, but there's a party atmosphere among the competitors, who are understandably nervous but almost to a woman smiling broadly.
Faced with a potentially loaded question about why the new man in charge at Old Trafford was not picking him, the midfielder – who rarely appears to enjoy his media engagements but is skilled enough to deal almost purely in textbook clichés – understandably opted to avoid putting words into anyone else's mouth.
