Woods looked skyward as if to complain about the disruption.
He can't bear, he says, to look as if he might have a chip on his shoulder – "cos that's what gets thrown at you – as if to complain about your position is somehow not allowed.
She was cawing at him as if to complain, "Wrong size!" But like humans, the eyes and instinct for survival of ospreys are often bigger then their stomachs.
It's always tempting at times like this, when bombarded with news such as the recent reports on depression, and another story, saying Facebook is a risk to young girls' mental health, and these piles of anecdotes about people scrabbling to charge their phones as if on fire, to complain about the technology itself.
In "Oh Yes," built around a sped-up snippet of the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman," he shadowboxes with the old Motown hit, letting the sampled singers fill in the gaps: "I'm back/ I'm crack/ Sorry about the (wai-ai-ait)/ Sorry I made you (wai-ai-ait)." He loves rhyming words and even phrases with themselves, as if daring listeners to complain.
"Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?" asks Wells.
Try to complain as little as possible.
But if ordinary citizens begin to complain, as many may with the health-service cuts, nonchalance will become less easy.
So he'll have no reason to complain if, as seems likely, the economy costs him the election.
It's perfectly legitimate to complain if your dish is inedible as prepared or seasoned, just as you can complain if your steak is overcooked or the coffee is cold.
Sometimes, as soon as I got home, my parents started to complain about him, and he complained about them.
