Pulling a short chiffon dress out of a box, Aviva, amply built with long, dyed-blonde hair and a deep laugh, guffawed, "For me, that's a shirt".
Alex Salmond, the Scottish first minister, had promised the ceremony would "show the world the very best of Scotland", and on that count it amply delivered, so long as your definition of the country's greatest output includes pipers, dancing Tunnock's teacakes, Scottie dogs and Susan Boyle singing Mull of Kintyre.
It's a long tradition, amply described.
But as the commission's staff statements during the course of its long proceedings amply demonstrate, the commissioners actually spent most of their time studying what went wrong.
That was amply demonstrated in the long first half of Friday night's concert at Town Hall, "Italian All-Stars," a non-avant-garde triple bill with guest stars organized by the directors of Umbria Jazz, the 23-year-old Italian jazz festival with a reputation as one of the best in the world.
As McGrayne amply shows, orthodox Bayesians have long been opposed, sometimes vehemently, by so-called frequentists, who have objected to their tolerance for subjectivity.
Ewing's sentence is justified by the state's public-safety interest in incapacitating and deterring recidivist felons, and amply supported by his own long, serious criminal record.
"Lord Byron, who has so long and so amply filled the highest place in the public eye, has shared the lot of humanity.
Oil Money From Africa Although the country's dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasago, had a long record of amply documented human rights abuses, he also presided over a wildly lucrative oil boom that Western companies coveted.
Syria's four-year-long descent into hell, amply foretold and arguably the most preventable of the three calamities, has prompted little such soul-searching.
The testimony amply establishes the proposition that banks have long served their customers by developing and making available information regarding the national and international economy, including economic projections useful for investment decisions.
