His tone can be alarmingly inconsequential, as if the reader is there to be perpetually wrong-footed.
American leaders are there too: President Obama, perpetually dribbling a basketball, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, mooning over Russia's foreign minister like a lovesick schoolgirl.
I have been there repeatedly — and sometimes feel as if I live perpetually in that state of mind.
While her life seems fated to be perpetually agitated, there are signs that Erica Heller may, at last, be entering calmer waters.
There is a perpetually on-the-make pickup artist (Steve Howey), a man-hungry nut job (Ashley Williams) and also John Krasinski, working very hard to sustain the sardonic cool-guy likability he manages so effortlessly in "The Office".
Although The Cruise does veer off into docusoapish territory now and then – there's a perpetually exasperated choirmaster, for example – it goes to great pains to get to know the passengers, whose stories are touching and heartbreaking in equal measure.
That's why libertarianism so often appeals to adolescents, and why there's something perpetually adolescent about the doctrine: it arises from a self-centeredness an affirmation of a self-centeredness anver-renewed in the faffirmationrnal ofposition—that young people feel daily.
First there was the perpetually hard-up young tyro who never really hit the jackpot until the revue Side by Side by Sondheim in 1976: a show he booked sight unseen since he missed a Sunday-night try-out in Wavendon by driving up the M4 instead of the M1.
The rebels continued to impress everyone with their enthusiasm and willingness to throw themselves at Gaddafi's forces, but there was a perpetually lingering threat that the frontline would be overrun.
But if Nadya tires of clicking on elusive food items for Pat-tricks at markets that are perpetually understocked, there is another option: she can always try going to McDonald's.
