That is what is truly amazing about the modern system – the way that it appropriates everything with ease.
Skiing has appropriated everything from snowboarding's swagger to its trendy clothing to technology like fat skis.
He hoarded power like Scrooge; as no one knew where the mayor's new powers were supposed to start or stop, he appropriated everything.
He concluded that wealthy Paris was dominated by "frauds", and "only the cynics and grovellers can get a place at the banquet... [The rich have] appropriated everything, robbing the other class not just of the sustenance of the body but also the sustenance of the mind".
At the time I was touring and doing interviews for the graduation speech I put out a few years ago, which was on the subject of kindness, and I was noticing, in myself and in some of the questions I was getting, a certain ego-based New Age stance — that way of thinking that appropriates everything under the rubric "I Am So Right it Just Kills Me".
And its adaptable nature makes it appropriate for everything from a picnic to an elaborate dinner.
Surgical instruments can be heat-sterilised or treated with ultraviolet light, but that is not appropriate for everything.
"At the time it seemed appropriate given everything that was going on". 4.24pm: Del Missier instructed Barclays' submitters to cut the interest rate.
"We'll do that when it's appropriate and everything's been completed," he said, adding that the woman would remain under police guard.
When world events seem the marionettes of the "powers that be" (read: a cabal of Bilderburg, Zionist, Masonic, CIA, Mossad, government, Bond villain superplotters – delete as appropriate), when everything is connected, nothing is as it seems and interest reigns supreme, this is a logic that seems the most sensible, the most relevant.
