Out there, he seemed to be oblivious to the frantic pressures that usually overwhelm key figures in an imminent big-time movie production, like the one awaiting him in Boston.
Many use them so much for mobile online gaming that some 50 parental associations have called for an imminent night-time curfew for under-16s playing online computer games to be extended to mobile phones.Concern over computer games is nothing new.
The song notes the relationship between booze and gambling, and the gambler's fallacy (that a series of losses boosts the chances of an imminent win): "Third time I lose I drink anything/ 'cos I think I'm gonna win".
Daniel Ellsberg, the celebrated American whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers about the build-up to the war in Vietnam, described it as "the most important and courageous leak I have ever seen".He added: "No one else – including myself – has ever done what Katharine Gun did: tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it".
The only other venues where this sense of freedom, of a satisfyingly wicked abandonment of social mores, really takes hold is in airports, where a beer may be taken at any hour though typically under the cover of an imminent switch of time zones.And, unlike at most other sporting venues, bringing along a drink or two to cricket, while not exactly encouraged, is hardly frowned upon.
A source close to Lyft, who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak for the company, emphasized to The Huffington Post that the program is at a theoretical stage, rather than an imminent reality, at this time.
Never mind that the president had another pressing matter on his agenda, an imminent election, and had no time for extensive conversations with any of the visiting leaders.
A strong voice at the centre might strengthen the court at a time when an "imminent" inquiry into a British bill of rights threatens to undermine the UK's commitment to the European convention.
There has been talk for some time of an imminent red-carpet revolution, including, I'm proud to say, in this very column, which last year promised a full-on massacre of entertainment journalists.
"The United States cannot simply execute people, including its own citizens, anywhere in the world based on its own say-so," said Vince Warren, executive director of CCR: "The law prohibits the government from killing without trial or conviction other than in the face of an imminent threat that leaves no time for deliberation or due process.
We presumed that they would quickly get a proposed €45 billion ($60 billion) deal to stave off an imminent and chaotic Greek default, buying time for an orderly rescheduling and for the other weak economies to begin overdue structural reforms.
