But fortunately there are the odd exceptions, who take their sweet tooth rather seriously.
Critics, by and large, (there will always be the odd exception) say what they think of a book.
For much of the Ottoman Empire there were tight restrictions, though there was the odd exception – the son of Suleiman the Magnificent was known as "Selim the Sot".
Of course there will be the odd exception, such as the hardworking, fun-loving and sexy Miss Horrocks, but I have noticed many times over the past decade that chav-baiters are often joyless, sex-starved skinflints who envy chavs more than they despise them.
There has been the odd exception, like Iker Casillas.
There's the odd exception of course, and to my mind the most obvious of these is Luomo's Vocalcity.
Their fiction reassures us, drawing us to a time when life was simple – when, give or take the odd exception, people accepted their place in society, and when our isles were homogeneous and hermetically sealed, as one Lord Fellowes of West Stafford would have us believe.
Though he spoke in Icelandic, the content of his speech was transparent, the choreography of candidacy in modern democracies being, with the odd exception, universal.
There's just the odd exception.
Hibernian's defensive make-over neither strengthened nor weakened the home side, as the visitors remained, until those late interventions, as unthreatening as they had been, with the odd exception, from the start.
